Reserve Price Ranges For TRAFFIC Domain Name Auction Released
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference which will be held in Las Vegas next week just published the reserve price ranges for the domain names at the TRAFFIC auction. 70% of domain names in the auction have NO RESERVE and will ...
Over 1000 XBox One domains registered yesterday
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Microsoft’s big product launch followed by a flurry of domain registration activity. Yesterday Microsoft announced its latest video game console called XBox One. Immediately, cybersquatters went to work. Over 1,000 XBox One related domain names were registered in ...
Intellectual property lawyer guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Los Angeles attorney who practices trademark law found guilty of abusing UDRP proceedings. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found an intellectual property lawyer guilty of attempting to engage in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking ...
Half of Small Business Owners are Dissatisfied With Their Web Presence, According to National Survey
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- With hundreds of millions of websites already online, chances are great that someone else has already snapped up a small business owner’s first ...
Here’s what ICANN’s board decided on Saturday
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Board passes resolution that might delay certain new TLDs and approves a new UDRP provider. While most of us were hanging with our families or on the golf course this weekend, ICANN’s board was approving a number ...
Small Businesses Lack Education on Domain Name Decisions
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The majority of small businesses lack critical knowledge necessary to make informed domain name buying decisions. ...
About.me Goes Premium: $4/Month to Use Your Own Domain
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »More than three months after About.me ‘bought itself back’ from AOL, spinning itself out as an independent company once again, the San Francisco-based startup is now ramping things up a notch by introducing personalized domain names for its online identity ...
GoDaddy gets two patents for domain appraisal
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Paul Nicks’ inventions related to name spinning and appraisals get patent protection. The United States Patent and Trademark Office today issued two patents to GoDaddy related to name spinning and appraisal. U.S. Patent number 8,447,701 is titled ...
XBoxOne.com domain name was registered in 2002
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »XBoxOne.com, the matching domain for Microsoft’s new video game system, was originally registered more than 10 years ago. Microsoft today unveiled its new XBox video game system called XBox One. Microsoft does not own the domain name ...
Domain Mediaries Announces Its Offering of MyAlgo.com, FundMoi.com, and HologramCelebs.com
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - May 21, 2013) - Domain Mediaries, a domain name brokerage specializing in high-end domain acquisitions and sales for select clients, today announced the availability of the valuable brands MyAlgo.com, HologramCelebs.com, and FundMoi.com. The asking price ...
You decide: which of these should be Domain Name Wire’s new logo?
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Help pick the next logo for Domain Name Wire. Click the image to see the full size version.I ran a logo contest on 99Designs and now need to select which logos go on to the final round. I’ve ...
Verisign questions ICANN’s letter posting policies
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Company suggests ICANN is only posting letters that “will advance its positions”. Verisign has sent a letter to ICANN questioning why it isn’t publishing certain correspondence on the ICANN.org web site. ICANN has a section on its web ...
ETM.com bid to over $15000 at Hilco auction
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »ETM.com sees early bidding action, but Bargain.com is the headline domain. ETM.com has attracted three bidders and 12 bids at the Hilco Streambank auction that ends tomorrow. As of now the domain has been bid up to ...
K.im domain name gets $20000 bid at Sedo
Monday, May 20th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »One letter Isle of Man domain may sell for $20,000 at Sedo. The domain name K.im has a $20,000 offer at Sedo, and an “auction” for the domain name ends tomorrow. .IM is the country code top level ...
McAuliffe launches Women for Terry, forgets to buy domain name
Monday, May 20th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »posted at 12:54 pm on May 20, 2013 by Mary Katharine Ham It was supposed to be a warm, fuzzy women’s coalition site for Virginia ...
Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name
Monday, May 20th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Domain bench, engraved with country domain names such as .uk, .us, .nz, etc., on Cathedral Lawn. (credit: Wikipedia) This is part two of a ...
Three Character Domain Name to Be Auctioned at TRAFFIC Domain Auction in Las Vegas
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Build Your Startup On A Vacant Domain Name
Monday, May 20th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Domain bench, engraved with country domain names such as .uk, .us, .nz, etc., on Cathedral Lawn. (credit: Wikipedia) This is part two of a ...
Three Character Domain Name to Be Auctioned at TRAFFIC Domain Auction in …
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Every restaurant should get one of these websites
Monday, May 20th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A mobile friendly website for restaurants that doesn’t have any of my pet peeves. On Friday I received a press release from GoDaddy about how its website builder had new functionality and specific templates for restaurants. It was ...
The .lu Domain Name Registry Introduces A Domain Name Freezing Procedure
Monday, May 20th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of ...
DMARC email standards help prevent brand abuse in phishing campaigns
Sunday, May 19th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Network World - When we think of the victim in a phishing attack, we think of the unfortunate email recipient that has fallen for a ruse and has given away their sensitive information or downloaded malware to their ...
Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa, 12-13 …
Sunday, May 19th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »DURBAN, South-Africa, May 13, 2013/ -- The Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum will be held on 12 - 13 July 2013 in Durban, South Africa. The event aims to establish a platform for the DNS community across Africa ...
NFL’s ReggieBush.com Official Site’s Domain Name Drops
Saturday, May 18th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The domain name ReggieBush.com dropped today and was picked up by NameJet.com where it currently at auction. The domain name had 61 backorders placed on it, and as usual in the cases where famous entertainer or athletes domains drop, we do ...
The name of the next Xbox may be Xbox Fusion
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »There has been a lot of speculation about the name of the console that will succeed the Xbox 360. We know the code name is "Durango," but that's just an internal development name--the Xbox 360 carried the code name "Xenon." ...
Domain Due Diligence: Previous Marketing – Elliot’s Blog
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Before buying a domain name, it’s a given that you need to do your due diligence for a variety of reasons. The primary issue I want to discuss today is previous marketing attempts for the domain name. In my opinion, ...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Fewer Results From …
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will ...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Domain Clustering To Change Again; Fewer Results From Same Domain
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a new video about a new change coming to Google’s search results related to the diversity of the results being displayed. Matt said that Google is launching “soon” a new change that will ...
15 end user sales up to $23000
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »iPark.com leads list of Sedo’s end user domain name sales last week. Sedo sold $1.15 million worth of domain names last week, including some good end user sales. There’s a lot of money in NYC parking. Imperial Parking ...
ICANN headcount exploding 50% this fiscal year
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Non-profit plans to continue hiring in all departments. ICANN expects to end FY 2013 this June with nearly 50% more employees than it began the year with. That’s according to the non-profit’s FY 2014 draft operating plan, which ...
ICANN expects 646 new TLD applications to be withdrawn
Friday, May 17th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »ICANN forecasts 646 applications will be withdrawn, mostly after the initial evaluation period. 66 applications for new top level domain names have been withdrawn as of today. For budgeting purposes, ICANN projects that number will explode to ...
Swedish domain admin comes out against Piratebay.se seizure
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Swedish top-level domain administrator .SE has to its surprise become directly involved in the local Prosecution Authority's court case to seize thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se, but it hopes to explain to the court that forcing domain names off the Internet does ...
BuyDomains relaunches site
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »NameMedia refreshes end user sales web site. BuyDomains, the end user domain name sales site owned by NameMedia, relaunched with a completely new look and feel today. The site places a greater focus than the previous one on ...
GoDaddy.com Bowl drops .com for 2014 game
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »In another sign of rebranding, The GoDaddy.com Bowl is now the GoDaddy Bowl. GoDaddy is in the process of rebranding from GoDaddy.com to simply GoDaddy. With the change, the football game formerly known as the GoDaddy.com Bowl ...
How much is a .cm domain worth in 2013?
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »We’ll find out in an auction that ends today. .Cm, the country code for Cameroon, has been on an interesting ride. It previously struck a deal with Kevin Ham to wildcard the DNS and monetize the traffic. Then ...
Durban’s domain name a step closer to reality
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »COMPANIES and individual computer users could soon have their website addresses ending with ".durban" after a .durban domain name bid passed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ...
RIPE: Attacks on domain name systems are on the increase
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »30 million open resolvers in the domain name system and a 200 per cent increase in the number of attacks in 2012 – these alarming figures were discussed by administrators at the 66th meeting of the RIPE IP address registry ...
Mexican contact lenses UDRPs don’t add up
Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Complainant had a weak case but panelist determines it’s not reverse domain name hijacking. WIPO just handed down decisions for two cases involving domains used for selling contact lenses in Mexico. David Guerra Flores filed the cases against ...
Durban’s domain name a step closer to reality
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »COMPANIES and individual computer users could soon have their website addresses ending with ".durban" after a .durban domain name bid passed the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (Icann’s) first evaluation stage. It is expected that Johannesburg and Cape Town ...
That's My Idea! How To Deal With Competition As An Entrepreneur
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ICANN publishes 2012 tax return
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Tax return unveils compensation, legal costs. ICANN just published its FY 2012 tax return online (pdf). The form tax return covers the year ending June 30, 2012. Much of the information, including financials, had previously been published by ...
ICANN publishes 2012 tax return
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Tax return unveils compensation, legal costs. ICANN just published its FY 2012 tax return online (pdf). The form tax return covers the year ending June 30, 2012. Much of the information, including financials, had previously been published by ...
Some rays of hope at Sedo?
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »While Sedo’s earnings continue on a downward path, some metrics point to improvements. In a lot of ways, Sedo Holding’s quarterly financial report (pdf) published yesterday was more of the same. The company saw its performance at Sedo ...
Some rays of hope at Sedo?
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »While Sedo’s earnings continue on a downward path, some metrics point to improvements. In a lot of ways, Sedo Holding’s quarterly financial report (pdf) published yesterday was more of the same. The company saw its performance at Sedo ...
Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, July 2013
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »You Are Here: Home » Africa/International, ICT » Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, July 2013 Dubbed the Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum, the Internet Society, African Top Level Domain (AfTLD) and Internet ...
Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, July 2013
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »You Are Here: Home » Africa/International, ICT » Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, July 2013 Dubbed the Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum, the Internet Society, African Top Level Domain (AfTLD) and Internet ...
Just one in 10 businesses preparing for overhaul of the internet addressing system
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »By Simon Jackson NetNames, the leading online brand protection and domain name management specialist, has released new research demonstrating that the majority of UK businesses are failing to prepare for the changing nature of the internet and the introduction of ...
Melbourne to get own domain name
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Now we know why Levi’s registered stadium names as it inks deal with 49ers …
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Company registered domains for new stadium in April. Back in March Domain Name Wire’s crystal ball picked up on Levi Strauss’ plans to buy naming rights to a stadium. But which stadium? Domain Name Wire’s crystal ball couldn’t figure ...
Angry Birds maker files its first UDRP
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Company goes after site selling Angry Birds merchandise. Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the wildly popular Angry Birds franchise, has filed its first ever domain dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The company is ...
Security Advisory SA53268 – NetApp OnCommand System Manager "domain-name" and "value" Cross
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »DescriptionSEC Consult has reported two vulnerabilities in NetApp OnCommand System Manager, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Input passed via the "domain-name" and "value" POST parameters to zapiServlet is not properly sanitised before being returned ...
Eligibility requirements vital to obtain transfer of ‘.fr’ domain name
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Please complete the form ...
Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Durban, South Africa, 12-13 …
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »DURBAN, South-Africa, May 13, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Africa Domain Name System (DNS) Forum will be held on 12 – 13 July 2013 in Durban, South Africa. The event aims to establish a platform ...
Responsive design is another blow to .mobi
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Responsive web design is a much more efficient approach to mobile browsing than a separate domain name. I really liked the idea of .mobi before it was launched. It was the only “new” top level domain that ...
.Melbourne domain name set for 2014 release after ICANN approval
Monday, May 13th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Australia stacks up very well when it comes to attractiveness of PV development, according to the European Photovoltaic Industry Association. The EPIA has also taken a stab at forecasting global solar demand through 2017, and it looks promising.
Melbourne to get own domain name – Ninemsn
Monday, May 13th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The global governing body for domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the .melbourne domain name after a year-long evaluation, says technology provider ARI Registry Services.The state government, city of Melbourne and ARI Registry ...
Armani loses domain dispute for EA7.com
Monday, May 13th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Respondent argued EA was short for Education Assistance. Fashion brand Giorgio Armani has lost a domain name dispute with a South Korean group over the domain name EA7.com. Armani sells a line of sports clothing under the EA7 ...
New domain name broker site A2Z.co.uk launched today
Monday, May 13th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The UK’s first online domain name broker has been launched today in the form of A2Z.co.uk. The brand new site is the first of its kind in that it’s not just purely web-based, boasting a dedicated full-time, in-house sales team, who ...
While you were registering Boston Bombings domains, smart people were …
Monday, May 13th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Current trends can make for good domain registrations. Just not all of them. I’m always baffled by the number of people that rush to register domains related to current (and horrific) events such as the Boston marathon ...
HP (sort of) protects domains for new TwoSmiles.com site
Monday, May 13th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Company buys 2Smiles.com domain, but leaves some other obvious ones unregistered. Earlier this month HP launched Two Smiles, a service that combines custom greeting cards with gift cards. In advance of the launch HP bought two key domain ...
Melbourne to get own domain name
Sunday, May 12th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 7, 8 9 Open the Internet Browser Click Tools Internet OptionsPrivacyAdvanced Check Override automatic cookie handling For First-party Cookies and Third-party Cookies click Accept ...
UDRP Files Against Two Letter Domain Name SM.net
Sunday, May 12th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A UDRP was just filed yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name SM.net The domain name is owned by a M.A. Stenzel (info@topname.com) of Kahului, Hawaii and has been owned by him since at least 2003 but ...
Melbourne to get own domain name – The Age
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Melbourne to get own domain name
Saturday, May 11th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »MELBOURNE is set to get its own internet domain name with the global web address regulator ticking off on the change. The global governing body for domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the .melbourne ...
How Your Domain Name Will Impact SEO & Social Media Marketing
Saturday, May 11th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »When starting a new website, one of the first and most important decisions you have to make is choosing a domain name. That choice will impact the website’s success in nearly every area, included search engine optimization (SEO) and social ...
An explanation of Demand Media’s deal with Donuts
Saturday, May 11th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »SEC filing sheds (some) light on relationship for new top level domains. A lot of fuss has been made about the connection between Demand Media and Donuts and the new TLD program. What exactly is the relationship between ...
How Your Domain Name Will Impact SEO & Social Media Marketing
Saturday, May 11th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »When starting a new website, one of the first and most important decisions you have to make is choosing a domain name. That choice will impact the website’s success in nearly every area, included search engine optimization (SEO) and social ...
Legal essentials for doing business online | Online business
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WaterNight becomes official TRAFFIC party
Friday, May 10th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Party moved back one night and becomes official sponsored event. The WaterNight event to take place in Las Vegas during this month’s TRAFFIC show is now the conference’s official Thursday night party. The event was going to be ...
A look at micro TLDs
Friday, May 10th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The world’s smallest active top level domain has seven second level domains. In the world of micro TLDs, .coop looks like a giant. As of January there were 14,990 registered .coop domains.ICANN recently published the latest batch ...
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Friday, May 10th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Office of Medical Scientific Justice, Inc. represented by Matthew H. Swyers of The Trademark Company, LLC, Virginia, USA. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in attempted theft of the domain names hivinnocencegrouptruth.com and hivinnocenceprojecttruth.com by ...
Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks
Friday, May 10th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) advised academic institutions this week to review their DNS ...
Moniker.com and Name.com Respond to Hack Claims
Friday, May 10th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Wednesday DNN ran an article about a purported hack of several domain name registrars by HTP (Hack the Planet). While HTP claimed that the hosting company Linode.com was the intended target, the group ...
Domain Registrar Name.com Suffers Data Breach
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887000 .vn IDN domains registered
Friday, May 10th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Vietnam sees rapid IDN registration growth. There were 887,000 .vn internationalized domain names registered as of the end of March, Dot VN, Inc. disclosed this month. Dot VN, Inc. markets Vietnam’s .vn namespace in an agreement with Vietnamese ...
Online Businesses For Sale Can Go for Less Than a Hundred Dollars as VRE Direct Unveils New 148 Mature Domains at …
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Stupid, incompetent, or both?
Thursday, May 9th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A Generally Atrocious Communiqué. I’ve learned a lot over the years while writing about the domain industry. In the past three years I’ve learned that if there’s a laborious article I need to research and write that ...
Domain name change leads to 20% drop at HomeAdvisor
Thursday, May 9th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Switch from ServiceMagic.com to HomeAdvisor.com leads to organic search traffic drop. IAC’s HomeAdvisor business saw a 20% drop in leads after switching domain names.IAC underestimated the challenge from switching its ServiceMagic business to a new domain name, ...
Want to design Domain Name Wire’s new logo?
Thursday, May 9th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Submit a design at 99Designs. I’m working on a redesign of Domain Name Wire, and part of that is a refreshed logo. The logo is essentially unchanged since I started this site in 2005. I designed the ...
Domain.l.lc Announces Unconventional Way to express Company’s Name or Product by Using Domain Extensions
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Top Domain Name ALL.com Now On The Market For Immediate Sale – PRWeb
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Domain.l.lc Announces Unconventional Way to express Company’s Name or …
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Intellectual property and domain name disputes – a case for ADR?
Thursday, May 9th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Intellectual property (“IP”) rights are valuable business assets and can be licensed and/or assigned. Commercial transactions frequently involve cross-border parties and different national laws. The complex nature of such transactions often results in multi-jurisdictional disputes involving parties from different countries ...
22 end user sales last week
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A pharmacy chain, cybersecurity company, and a baseball glove company made domain purchases last week. Afternic sold just over $1 million worth of domains last week. Here are 22 of the purchases that were clearly to end ...
ICANN sends breach notice to large Argentinian domain registrar
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Dattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a ...
Scott Wagner takes COO and CFO positions at Go Daddy
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Scott Wagner goes from interim to permanent at GoDaddy. Domain name registrar GoDaddy today announced that Scott Wagner is its new COO and CFO. Wagner took over as interim CEO of the company last summer when Warren Adelman ...
Top Domain Name ALL.com Now On The Market For Immediate Sale
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Hackers Break in to Prominent Domain Registrars, Moniker, Melbourne IT, Name …
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A story on Hacker News from earlier Tuesday mentions that a group of hackers , Hack The Planet (HTP), was able to hack in to several domain name registrars late last year . ...
Frank Schilling: could be 20000 or 30000 TLDs in 20 years
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Says “these are not pie-in-the-sky” numbers and second level domains could be seen as “antiquated”. Domain name investor Frank Schilling applied for 54 top level domains via his new TLD company Uniregistry. I remember asking him before the ...
Very active Moniker Spring Auction ends tomorrow
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Domain name auction that ends tomorrow has lots of activity. The Moniker Spring Auction on SnapNames doesn’t end until tomorrow, but bidding is already very active. The auction features 199 domain names and 33 of them already ...
The Big Domain Name Shake-Up. Are You Prepared?
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of ...
Escrow.com tops $1.5 billion in transactions
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Milestone shows that Escrow.com is growing very fast. I seems like just last year that I was writing about Escrow.com topping the $1 billion mark. And that’s because it was just last year that the company announced ...
How Demand Media sees its domain name business
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Domain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs. The company is working to spin out its domain ...
ICANN launches Trademark Clearinghouse protection for trade mark holders …
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »On 26 March 2013, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). It is envisaged that the Trademark Clearinghouse will provide a database for individuals and businesses to register their brands, ahead of the ...
My first domain sale through DomainNameSales.com
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »I sold my first domain through DNS. What have your experiences been? Last week I completed my first domain sale using the Internet Traffic/DomainNameSales.com platform. One thing that is a bit confusing at first is how the communications ...
Dot VN, Inc. Announces Plans to Complete a Viable Revenue Producing Platform and with a Reasonable Work out of …
Monday, May 6th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »SAN DIEGO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dot VN, Inc., (http://www.dotvn.com) (OTC Trading Symbol: DTVI), an Internet and Telecommunications Company (“the Company” or “Dot VN”) and ...
.Secure applicants take note: company isn’t giving up trademark battle yet
Monday, May 6th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Company that filed .secure trademark application appeals USPTO ruling. The Wisconsin company that wants to trademark .secure hasn’t given up yet. I first wrote about Asif LLC in 2010 when it filed a trademark application for .secure. It ...
.GD is another wake up call to tech firms about ccTLDs
Monday, May 6th, 2013 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Does the term “shadow registry” concern you? It should if you own a .gd domain name. Over the past few years startups and tech darlings have increasingly embraced “cute” ccTLDs and domain hacks that include ccTLDs. A ...