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Lice, Chinese words trending in .com
Lots of lice in .com last month. Verisign has published its monthly trending keywords report, showing the keywords making the biggest jump in domain name registrations compared to the prior month. Clinic came in at #1 on the list and Lice is #4. This...
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Lice, Chinese words trending in .com
Lots of lice in .com last month. Verisign has published its monthly trending keywords report, showing the keywords making the biggest jump in domain name registrations compared to the prior month. Clinic came in at #1 on the list and Lice is #4. This...
Discussion
January 13, 2016, 4:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
How big is China? Big.
57% of Domain Name Sales’ revenue coming from China. This morning at NamesCon, Domain Name Sales VP of Sales Jeffrey Gabriel showed a slide with sales data from the past year: Wow. 2% of leads generating 57% of the dollar volume of sales. That&...
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How big is China? Big.
57% of Domain Name Sales’ revenue coming from China. This morning at NamesCon, Domain Name Sales VP of Sales Jeffrey Gabriel showed a slide with sales data from the past year: Wow. 2% of leads generating 57% of the dollar volume of sales. That&...
Discussion
January 12, 2016, 8:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Uniregistry digs into details of new Market
Uniregistry team explains how the new Market system will work. This morning at NamesCon in Las Vegas, Uniregistry unveiled more details about its new marketplace that will be integrated with the Uniregistry registrar. John Smrekar, VP of Product of U...
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Uniregistry digs into details of new Market
Uniregistry team explains how the new Market system will work. This morning at NamesCon in Las Vegas, Uniregistry unveiled more details about its new marketplace that will be integrated with the Uniregistry registrar. John Smrekar, VP of Product of U...
Discussion
January 12, 2016, 8:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lighting company Interlight is a reverse domain name hijacker
Poorly formed case was dead on arrival. Indiana company International Lighting Corporation has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Interlight.com. The company uses the domain Interlight.biz, and wanted to upgrade t...
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Lighting company Interlight is a reverse domain name hijacker
Poorly formed case was dead on arrival. Indiana company International Lighting Corporation has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Interlight.com. The company uses the domain Interlight.biz, and wanted to upgrade t...
Discussion
January 12, 2016, 7:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
This is what it looks like when Frank Schilling throws a party in Vegas
Frank Schilling and Uniregistry hosted a party at Hakkasan in Las Vegas last night for NamesCon 2016 attendees. Sandeep Ramchandani of Radix and Statton Hammock of Rightside were guest DJs. There’s another big party for conference goers tonight...
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This is what it looks like when Frank Schilling throws a party in Vegas
Frank Schilling and Uniregistry hosted a party at Hakkasan in Las Vegas last night for NamesCon 2016 attendees. Sandeep Ramchandani of Radix and Statton Hammock of Rightside were guest DJs. There’s another big party for conference goers tonight...
Discussion
January 12, 2016, 5:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Boston Globe sells .Boston domain name to Minds + Machines
Boston Globe sells .boston rights to new TLD company. Minds + Machines has acquired the .Boston top level domain name from Boston Globe Media, the company announced today. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The Boston Globe retains a 1% interes...
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Boston Globe sells .Boston domain name to Minds + Machines
Boston Globe sells .boston rights to new TLD company. Minds + Machines has acquired the .Boston top level domain name from Boston Globe Media, the company announced today. The acquisition price was not disclosed. The Boston Globe retains a 1% interes...
Discussion
January 12, 2016, 4:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling unveils marketplace during keynote
Marketplace to replace Domain Name Sales solution. Frank Schilling unveiled the new Uniregistry marketplace during his keynote at Namescon today. Uniregistry users will be able to to manage sales of their domain names from within their Uniregistry ac...
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Frank Schilling unveils marketplace during keynote
Marketplace to replace Domain Name Sales solution. Frank Schilling unveiled the new Uniregistry marketplace during his keynote at Namescon today. Uniregistry users will be able to to manage sales of their domain names from within their Uniregistry ac...
Discussion
January 11, 2016, 8:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
How will the Right of the Dot auction go?
Big live domain name auction takes place this afternoon in Las Vegas. Right of the Dot’s live domain name auction is finally here. The auction will take place this afternoon at 2 PM PST at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Online bidding is available...
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How will the Right of the Dot auction go?
Big live domain name auction takes place this afternoon in Las Vegas. Right of the Dot’s live domain name auction is finally here. The auction will take place this afternoon at 2 PM PST at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. Online bidding is available...
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January 11, 2016, 6:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Board shakeup at Minds + Machines
Major board changes and executive appointments at new TLD company. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines announced major changes to its Board of Directors today. Non-executive directors Keith Teare, Elliot Noss (CEO of Tucows) and David ...
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Board shakeup at Minds + Machines
Major board changes and executive appointments at new TLD company. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines announced major changes to its Board of Directors today. Non-executive directors Keith Teare, Elliot Noss (CEO of Tucows) and David ...
Discussion
January 11, 2016, 6:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Building Buzz with Bill Doshier – DNW Podcast #66
How Bill Doshier built buzz around .buzz. How do you build buzz for a top level domain name .buzz? Bill Doshier has done a remarkable job as a mostly one-man show, building the domain name up and finding a loyal following of registrants. One user has...
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Building Buzz with Bill Doshier – DNW Podcast #66
How Bill Doshier built buzz around .buzz. How do you build buzz for a top level domain name .buzz? Bill Doshier has done a remarkable job as a mostly one-man show, building the domain name up and finding a loyal following of registrants. One user has...
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January 11, 2016, 4:30 pm
