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This week’s end user domain name sales
Several tech companies, a simulation engineering firm and an online cosmetics retailer bought domain names. Sedo’s top public domain name sale of the past week was Chauffage.fr at €62,500. Chauffage means “heater” in French so ...
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This week’s end user domain name sales
Several tech companies, a simulation engineering firm and an online cosmetics retailer bought domain names. Sedo’s top public domain name sale of the past week was Chauffage.fr at €62,500. Chauffage means “heater” in French so ...
Discussion
February 6, 2020, 4:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest .com rankings
Here’s how registrars performed in the latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2019. There was a bit of shakeup...
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Latest .com rankings
Here’s how registrars performed in the latest monthly report. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers October 2019. There was a bit of shakeup...
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February 6, 2020, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
This domain name forms a picture
There’s more to this name than first meets the eye. In 2014, Wei DAI (戴威) and his student friends at Peking University were thinking of a way to solve the so-called “last mile” problem of commuters — the final leg of a per...
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This domain name forms a picture
There’s more to this name than first meets the eye. In 2014, Wei DAI (戴威) and his student friends at Peking University were thinking of a way to solve the so-called “last mile” problem of commuters — the final leg of a per...
Discussion
February 6, 2020, 1:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Xtream .com hit with UDRP after domain name auction
UDRP filed shortly after auction concluded. The domain name Xtream.com sold for $26,000 in last week’s live domain name auction at NamesCon, and the buyer might have a headache on their hands. Someone filed a UDRP against the domain name yester...
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Xtream .com hit with UDRP after domain name auction
UDRP filed shortly after auction concluded. The domain name Xtream.com sold for $26,000 in last week’s live domain name auction at NamesCon, and the buyer might have a headache on their hands. Someone filed a UDRP against the domain name yester...
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February 5, 2020, 5:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic reports $109 million revenue in 2019
CentralNic joins the nine-figure revenue club. CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC), a rollup of domain name companies, announced today that its unaudited 2019 revenue was $109 million. That’s up 95% year-over-year, buoyed by a full year of KeyDrive r...
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CentralNic reports $109 million revenue in 2019
CentralNic joins the nine-figure revenue club. CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC), a rollup of domain name companies, announced today that its unaudited 2019 revenue was $109 million. That’s up 95% year-over-year, buoyed by a full year of KeyDrive r...
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February 5, 2020, 3:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
L’Oreal sells four top level domains to XYZ
Cosmetics company gets out of generic domain business. Top level domain registry XYZ has acquired four domain names from L’Oreal, according to ICANN records. The company acquired .beauty, .makeup, .hair and .skin on January 10, 2020. L’Or...
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L’Oreal sells four top level domains to XYZ
Cosmetics company gets out of generic domain business. Top level domain registry XYZ has acquired four domain names from L’Oreal, according to ICANN records. The company acquired .beauty, .makeup, .hair and .skin on January 10, 2020. L’Or...
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February 5, 2020, 1:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
Spanish fashion company tries to scalp Scalpers.com
Company tries to get domain through UDRP after failing to buy it. A Spanish fashion company has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after trying to obtain the domain name Scalpers.com in a UDRP. Scalpers Fashion, S.L. filed a cybersqua...
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Spanish fashion company tries to scalp Scalpers.com
Company tries to get domain through UDRP after failing to buy it. A Spanish fashion company has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after trying to obtain the domain name Scalpers.com in a UDRP. Scalpers Fashion, S.L. filed a cybersqua...
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February 5, 2020, 12:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
PIR pushes back on ICANN after California AG gets involved
PIR says “enough is enough” after ICANN asks to extend deadline. The California Attorney General has opened an investigation into ICANN and the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates .org, from non-profit Internet Society ...
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PIR pushes back on ICANN after California AG gets involved
PIR says “enough is enough” after ICANN asks to extend deadline. The California Attorney General has opened an investigation into ICANN and the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates .org, from non-profit Internet Society ...
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February 4, 2020, 4:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Those favicons in Google search results? Maybe not forever
Google backtracks and tests favicon-less search results pages. Last month, Google changed its desktop search results to look more like its mobile search results. The big difference was adding favicons to the results. (The desktop results also include...
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Those favicons in Google search results? Maybe not forever
Google backtracks and tests favicon-less search results pages. Last month, Google changed its desktop search results to look more like its mobile search results. The big difference was adding favicons to the results. (The desktop results also include...
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February 4, 2020, 3:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
$1.8 million in domains sold in live domain name auction
Auction led by Add.com. This year’s Right of the Dot domain name auction at NamesCon concluded with $1.8 million in sales. An extended online auction ends on February 14, 2020. The top sale was ADD.com for $800,000. Many people have commented o...
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$1.8 million in domains sold in live domain name auction
Auction led by Add.com. This year’s Right of the Dot domain name auction at NamesCon concluded with $1.8 million in sales. An extended online auction ends on February 14, 2020. The top sale was ADD.com for $800,000. Many people have commented o...
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February 4, 2020, 1:58 pm
