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Monetize Your Email – DNW Podcast #123
How to make money from emails sent to your domain names. Domainers already monetize web traffic to their domain names. But what about email sent to their parked domains? Today’s guest, Greg Kraios, runs an email analytics company that will pay ...
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Monetize Your Email – DNW Podcast #123
How to make money from emails sent to your domain names. Domainers already monetize web traffic to their domain names. But what about email sent to their parked domains? Today’s guest, Greg Kraios, runs an email analytics company that will pay ...
Discussion
February 13, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese TLDs get Chinese approval
Finally! Two Chinese IDNs get welcome news from China’s regulators. After a long wait, two Chinese internationalized domain names have been accredited by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). TLD Registry’s...
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Chinese TLDs get Chinese approval
Finally! Two Chinese IDNs get welcome news from China’s regulators. After a long wait, two Chinese internationalized domain names have been accredited by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). TLD Registry’s...
Discussion
February 13, 2017, 2:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Delayed.art: .Art domain name launch shuts down over technical difficulties
Registry blames overwhelming demand and searches for .art domains. The .Art domain name was supposed to launch a qualified launch phase earlier this week, but it has been shut down for technical reasons. This phase of .art’s launch is for peopl...
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Delayed.art: .Art domain name launch shuts down over technical difficulties
Registry blames overwhelming demand and searches for .art domains. The .Art domain name was supposed to launch a qualified launch phase earlier this week, but it has been shut down for technical reasons. This phase of .art’s launch is for peopl...
Discussion
February 10, 2017, 5:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
PayPal increases fees for international transactions
PayPal is increasing two transaction fees next month. Are you a U.S. resident selling a domain name to someone overseas? PayPal is about to be a more expensive option to receive payment. PayPal has updated its user agreement and is raising fees in tw...
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PayPal increases fees for international transactions
PayPal is increasing two transaction fees next month. Are you a U.S. resident selling a domain name to someone overseas? PayPal is about to be a more expensive option to receive payment. PayPal has updated its user agreement and is raising fees in tw...
Discussion
February 10, 2017, 1:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
As expected, .Com/.Net shed 1.9 million domains last quarter
Deletions greater than new registrations thanks to Chinese purge. The great Chinese domain name investment surge of Q4 2015 led to the great Chinese domain name purge of Q4 2016. The combined .com and .net namespace shrunk by 1.9 million domain names...
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As expected, .Com/.Net shed 1.9 million domains last quarter
Deletions greater than new registrations thanks to Chinese purge. The great Chinese domain name investment surge of Q4 2015 led to the great Chinese domain name purge of Q4 2016. The combined .com and .net namespace shrunk by 1.9 million domain names...
Discussion
February 10, 2017, 12:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
U.S. Antitrust Division investigating Verisign running .Web
U.S. government makes Civil Investigative Demand about .web. The long-running fight for the .web top level domain name has taken another turn as the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation. Verisign CEO James ...
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U.S. Antitrust Division investigating Verisign running .Web
U.S. government makes Civil Investigative Demand about .web. The long-running fight for the .web top level domain name has taken another turn as the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation. Verisign CEO James ...
Discussion
February 10, 2017, 2:05 am
Domain Name Wire
10 notable sales on NameJet last month: SelfieStick.com, Handango.com and more
SelfieStick.com, Handango.com and other notable sales at NameJet in January. Excluding domain names sold in the ROTD/NameJet auction last month, NameJet reported 128 sales of $2,000 or more. This totaled nearly $800,000 in domain sales. This was led ...
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10 notable sales on NameJet last month: SelfieStick.com, Handango.com and more
SelfieStick.com, Handango.com and other notable sales at NameJet in January. Excluding domain names sold in the ROTD/NameJet auction last month, NameJet reported 128 sales of $2,000 or more. This totaled nearly $800,000 in domain sales. This was led ...
Discussion
February 9, 2017, 6:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
KeyDrive gobbles up Open Registry
KSregistry and Open Registry are now one. Domain name company KeyDrive has acquired backend registry provider Open Registry, the company announced today. KeyDrive is the holding company that owns Key-Systems and Moniker. Part of its business is KSreg...
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KeyDrive gobbles up Open Registry
KSregistry and Open Registry are now one. Domain name company KeyDrive has acquired backend registry provider Open Registry, the company announced today. KeyDrive is the holding company that owns Key-Systems and Moniker. Part of its business is KSreg...
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February 9, 2017, 4:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 end user domain name sales up to $115,000
A six figure domain name leads the end user domain name sales list this week. Sedo’s big end user sale over the past week was OCS.com, which sold for $115,000. This shows the difference between an end user buying a three letter domain name vers...
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14 end user domain name sales up to $115,000
A six figure domain name leads the end user domain name sales list this week. Sedo’s big end user sale over the past week was OCS.com, which sold for $115,000. This shows the difference between an end user buying a three letter domain name vers...
Discussion
February 9, 2017, 1:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sean Spicer brings more attention to Whois privacy
He didn’t use whois privacy. Most people don’t. Sean Spicer has made plenty of enemies in his short time as White House Press Secretary. And now, thanks to some domain names he registered long ago, people have a way to contact him about i...
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Sean Spicer brings more attention to Whois privacy
He didn’t use whois privacy. Most people don’t. Sean Spicer has made plenty of enemies in his short time as White House Press Secretary. And now, thanks to some domain names he registered long ago, people have a way to contact him about i...
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February 8, 2017, 5:10 pm
