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ICANN publishes .com price hike report
Staff justification report echoes its previous comments, as well as Verisign’s. ICANN has published a review of comments submitted about its proposed contract amendment with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for .com. The most controversial aspect of the...
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ICANN publishes .com price hike report
Staff justification report echoes its previous comments, as well as Verisign’s. ICANN has published a review of comments submitted about its proposed contract amendment with Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for .com. The most controversial aspect of the...
Discussion
March 27, 2020, 5:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Traffic up, domain inquiries down at Efty in wake of pandemic
Efty reports that domain name purchase inquiries were down last month. What’s happening to aftermarket domain name inquiries in the wake of the pandemic and asset market plunge? For most people, it’s hard to look at their portfolio and dr...
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Traffic up, domain inquiries down at Efty in wake of pandemic
Efty reports that domain name purchase inquiries were down last month. What’s happening to aftermarket domain name inquiries in the wake of the pandemic and asset market plunge? For most people, it’s hard to look at their portfolio and dr...
Discussion
March 27, 2020, 2:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Shop.app domain name sells for $200,000
Shop.app, a domain on Google’s .app top level domain, sold for $200,000. Sedo has brokered the sale of shop.app for $200,000. This is the highest sale ever reported for a .app domain name, which is a domain name extension introduced by Google i...
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Shop.app domain name sells for $200,000
Shop.app, a domain on Google’s .app top level domain, sold for $200,000. Sedo has brokered the sale of shop.app for $200,000. This is the highest sale ever reported for a .app domain name, which is a domain name extension introduced by Google i...
Discussion
March 26, 2020, 10:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Namecheap integrates Sedo MLS fast transfer
Sedo MLS expands reach with Namecheap integration. Domain name registrar Namecheap has integrated with Sedo’s fast transfer system, making it easier for Namecheap customers to buy domains listed on Sedo. Namecheap already listed Sedo domains fo...
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Namecheap integrates Sedo MLS fast transfer
Sedo MLS expands reach with Namecheap integration. Domain name registrar Namecheap has integrated with Sedo’s fast transfer system, making it easier for Namecheap customers to buy domains listed on Sedo. Namecheap already listed Sedo domains fo...
Discussion
March 26, 2020, 3:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Companies help people stop wasting money on COVID-19 domain names
Companies are making it harder to register and sell crisis-related domains. You should thank them. Domain name registrar Namecheap has stopped allowing domain names including the words coronavirus, covid, and vaccine from being registered through its...
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Companies help people stop wasting money on COVID-19 domain names
Companies are making it harder to register and sell crisis-related domains. You should thank them. Domain name registrar Namecheap has stopped allowing domain names including the words coronavirus, covid, and vaccine from being registered through its...
Discussion
March 26, 2020, 3:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
How 151.com could be used
151.com, which recently sold for $415,000, could have a lot of uses in China. A couple of days ago I read in Namebio that the numeric domain 151.com sold for $415,000. While I have not come across any business in the west using a numeric domain, it i...
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How 151.com could be used
151.com, which recently sold for $415,000, could have a lot of uses in China. A couple of days ago I read in Namebio that the numeric domain 151.com sold for $415,000. While I have not come across any business in the west using a numeric domain, it i...
Discussion
March 26, 2020, 12:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
COVID-19 drives end user domain name sales
Companies are buying domains in response to the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving end user domain name sales, it’s just not for garbage domain names people have registered in recent weeks. Consider SchoolToGo.com, a domain purchased by...
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COVID-19 drives end user domain name sales
Companies are buying domains in response to the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving end user domain name sales, it’s just not for garbage domain names people have registered in recent weeks. Consider SchoolToGo.com, a domain purchased by...
Discussion
March 25, 2020, 4:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese registrars are very active in new top level domains
Kassey Lee analyzes how Chinese registrars account for a large portion of new top level domain registrations. New top level domain names, such as .best, .rich, and .guru, began rolling out at the end of 2013. According to nTLDstats.com, there are abo...
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Chinese registrars are very active in new top level domains
Kassey Lee analyzes how Chinese registrars account for a large portion of new top level domain registrations. New top level domain names, such as .best, .rich, and .guru, began rolling out at the end of 2013. According to nTLDstats.com, there are abo...
Discussion
March 25, 2020, 3:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: Verisign won’t raise .com prices this year
Even if ICANN gives the company the nod, it won’t raise prices this year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, won’t raise prices for its domain names this year. In an announcement on its blog, the company...
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Breaking: Verisign won’t raise .com prices this year
Even if ICANN gives the company the nod, it won’t raise prices this year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, won’t raise prices for its domain names this year. In an announcement on its blog, the company...
Discussion
March 25, 2020, 1:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets IDN homograph detection patent
System would help detect homograph attacks shortly after domains are registered. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,599,836 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Identification of visual international domain name ...
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Verisign gets IDN homograph detection patent
System would help detect homograph attacks shortly after domains are registered. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,599,836 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Identification of visual international domain name ...
Discussion
March 24, 2020, 7:41 pm
