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Sully's Blog
“All the good names are taken…” or are they?
I recently came across a box of 5.25 inch floppy disks that contain all…
Discussion
“All the good names are taken…” or are they?
I recently came across a box of 5.25 inch floppy disks that contain all…
Discussion
March 28, 2022, 2:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Just orders OnlineNic to pay Facebook over $3 million for cybersquatting
The judgment could exceed $5 million, including legal fees. A U.S. District Judge has ordered (pdf) OnlineNic and its Whois privacy service Domain ID Shield to pay Meta Platforms (Facebook) over $3 million for cybersquatting. Facebook sued the r...
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Just orders OnlineNic to pay Facebook over $3 million for cybersquatting
The judgment could exceed $5 million, including legal fees. A U.S. District Judge has ordered (pdf) OnlineNic and its Whois privacy service Domain ID Shield to pay Meta Platforms (Facebook) over $3 million for cybersquatting. Facebook sued the r...
Discussion
March 28, 2022, 12:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
How to secure your domain names
Use these tools to prevent domain theft and unwanted changes. Your domain names are valuable. The more valuable your domains, the more likely they’ll be targeted by thieves. What can you do to protect these assets? Domain registrars offer varyi...
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How to secure your domain names
Use these tools to prevent domain theft and unwanted changes. Your domain names are valuable. The more valuable your domains, the more likely they’ll be targeted by thieves. What can you do to protect these assets? Domain registrars offer varyi...
Discussion
March 25, 2022, 4:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Internet Archive races to save Ukrainian web content
Web content could be destroyed during the war. Internet Archive, the non-profit that manages the Wayback Machine for archiving websites, says it is racing to archive as much online content in Ukraine as possible. While web content doesn’t degra...
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Internet Archive races to save Ukrainian web content
Web content could be destroyed during the war. Internet Archive, the non-profit that manages the Wayback Machine for archiving websites, says it is racing to archive as much online content in Ukraine as possible. While web content doesn’t degra...
Discussion
March 24, 2022, 5:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Using a three letter .com domain for an unsavory business practice
I’m surprised someone would use a three letter .com domain to do this. This week I received a snail-mail notice that one of my domains is about to expire and I should renew it. You can view it here (pdf). If you aren’t familiar with these...
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Using a three letter .com domain for an unsavory business practice
I’m surprised someone would use a three letter .com domain to do this. This week I received a snail-mail notice that one of my domains is about to expire and I should renew it. You can view it here (pdf). If you aren’t familiar with these...
Discussion
March 24, 2022, 1:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy acquires DNAcademy
Company hopes to teach more people about domain name investing. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired DNAcademy, an education platform for domain name investing. Michael Cyger founded DNAcademy seven years ago. What started as a basic education platform ...
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GoDaddy acquires DNAcademy
Company hopes to teach more people about domain name investing. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired DNAcademy, an education platform for domain name investing. Michael Cyger founded DNAcademy seven years ago. What started as a basic education platform ...
Discussion
March 23, 2022, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Is this scam DNS abuse?
Does a sophisticated scam that includes using a domain name count as DNS abuse? Yesterday, I wrote about how data suggest DNS abuse has decreased over the past few years. A key question about all DNS abuse data is how you define it. What exactly is D...
Discussion
Is this scam DNS abuse?
Does a sophisticated scam that includes using a domain name count as DNS abuse? Yesterday, I wrote about how data suggest DNS abuse has decreased over the past few years. A key question about all DNS abuse data is how you define it. What exactly is D...
Discussion
March 23, 2022, 4:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
New end user domain sales up to $50,000
A University, an NFT project and a grocer bought domain names. Over the past week, Sedo’s top public sale was exports.com for $60,000. It’s unclear who bought it and if it’s an end user. Beyond that, the top three sales were non-.co...
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New end user domain sales up to $50,000
A University, an NFT project and a grocer bought domain names. Over the past week, Sedo’s top public sale was exports.com for $60,000. It’s unclear who bought it and if it’s an end user. Beyond that, the top three sales were non-.co...
Discussion
March 23, 2022, 1:01 pm
The Domains
Mauritius challenges UK rights over Indian Ocean domain name
The Guardian published an article on .io and how the government of Mauritius wants control of .io. I first wrote about it back in 2015, and then again in July of 2020. Fortune cane out with another article, the provocative title of, ‘Colonialis...
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Mauritius challenges UK rights over Indian Ocean domain name
The Guardian published an article on .io and how the government of Mauritius wants control of .io. I first wrote about it back in 2015, and then again in July of 2020. Fortune cane out with another article, the provocative title of, ‘Colonialis...
Discussion
March 23, 2022, 5:06 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN: DNS abuse is going…down?
ICANN’s analysis suggests that DNS abuse might not be spiraling out of control after all. ICANN published a report today summarizing DNS abuse in recent years. Given all of the focus on DNS abuse recently (including multiple new organizations c...
Discussion
ICANN: DNS abuse is going…down?
ICANN’s analysis suggests that DNS abuse might not be spiraling out of control after all. ICANN published a report today summarizing DNS abuse in recent years. Given all of the focus on DNS abuse recently (including multiple new organizations c...
Discussion
March 22, 2022, 5:16 pm
