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Another disturbing Whois data service
Internet marketer selling access to whois data. Many people are selling cheap access to whois information culled from recently registered domain names. Now an internet marketer is getting into the act. A new service called FreshDomainLeads.com promis...
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Another disturbing Whois data service
Internet marketer selling access to whois data. Many people are selling cheap access to whois information culled from recently registered domain names. Now an internet marketer is getting into the act. A new service called FreshDomainLeads.com promis...
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January 8, 2016, 3:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Uniregistry app hits the ball out of the park
Uniregistry app is slick, simple, and comes with an Easter egg. Uniregistry released an iPhone app for its registrar service today. Now, those that have read this blog for a long time know that I’m not a fanboy. I don’t fall in love with ...
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Uniregistry app hits the ball out of the park
Uniregistry app is slick, simple, and comes with an Easter egg. Uniregistry released an iPhone app for its registrar service today. Now, those that have read this blog for a long time know that I’m not a fanboy. I don’t fall in love with ...
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January 7, 2016, 6:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XXX releasing two character domain names
2 letter domains have sold for up to $100,000 in other ICM Registry Extensions. ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain name extension, is releasing two character second level domain names. The names are now available at select reg...
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.XXX releasing two character domain names
2 letter domains have sold for up to $100,000 in other ICM Registry Extensions. ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain name extension, is releasing two character second level domain names. The names are now available at select reg...
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January 7, 2016, 3:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lance Wolak takes CMO role with .Buzz registry
Wolak will help drive .Buzz. Lance Wolak, founder of consulting firm ExcelStrategy and former vice president at Public Interest Registry, is taking a role with .Buzz registry dotStrategy. As Chief Marketing Officer, Wolak will help build new markets ...
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Lance Wolak takes CMO role with .Buzz registry
Wolak will help drive .Buzz. Lance Wolak, founder of consulting firm ExcelStrategy and former vice president at Public Interest Registry, is taking a role with .Buzz registry dotStrategy. As Chief Marketing Officer, Wolak will help build new markets ...
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January 7, 2016, 2:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Time Inc. and others bought at the end of the year
Time Inc. bought a sports domain name and Sears might start a site at Wash.in. Sedo turned in $2 million worth of domain name sales during the last two weeks of the year, a fairly high number of the holiday period. I think it was helped by a couple b...
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What domain names Time Inc. and others bought at the end of the year
Time Inc. bought a sports domain name and Sears might start a site at Wash.in. Sedo turned in $2 million worth of domain name sales during the last two weeks of the year, a fairly high number of the holiday period. I think it was helped by a couple b...
Discussion
January 6, 2016, 3:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers: China Shuffles the Deck
Chinese surge starts to show up in monthy .com reports. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from September, and it’s starting to show the surge of .Com registrations in China. As I do every month, I ran the numbers to s...
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.Com Winners & Losers: China Shuffles the Deck
Chinese surge starts to show up in monthy .com reports. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from September, and it’s starting to show the surge of .Com registrations in China. As I do every month, I ran the numbers to s...
Discussion
January 6, 2016, 2:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
December’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
Here’s how 2016 concluded in the domain name world. It’s 2016 and NamesCon is just around the corner. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves–what big news stories broke last month? From a poor UDRP decision to the acquisition of...
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December’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
Here’s how 2016 concluded in the domain name world. It’s 2016 and NamesCon is just around the corner. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves–what big news stories broke last month? From a poor UDRP decision to the acquisition of...
Discussion
January 5, 2016, 7:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
NamesCon registrations top 1,100
NamesCon will top its own record for attendance at a domain business conference. Next week’s NamesCon conference in Las Vegas will be the biggest yet, by far. As of last Saturday morning, registrations crossed the 1,100 mark. I bet a lot more p...
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NamesCon registrations top 1,100
NamesCon will top its own record for attendance at a domain business conference. Next week’s NamesCon conference in Las Vegas will be the biggest yet, by far. As of last Saturday morning, registrations crossed the 1,100 mark. I bet a lot more p...
Discussion
January 5, 2016, 4:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Kabei.com, JunGong.com lead expired domain report
[Editor’s note: this Expired Domain Report normally would have been published at the end of last week. It was delayed due to the New Year holiday.] After a pair of 5-figure Chinese Pinyin domains topped the previous chart, my first reactio...
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Kabei.com, JunGong.com lead expired domain report
[Editor’s note: this Expired Domain Report normally would have been published at the end of last week. It was delayed due to the New Year holiday.] After a pair of 5-figure Chinese Pinyin domains topped the previous chart, my first reactio...
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January 5, 2016, 3:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
I’ll pay $500k for your domain name. Psych! Here’s a UDRP.
French company files UDRP after offering to buy a domain name for $500,000. Plug “buy followers” into Google and you’ll get 624,000 results. In a rush to look important online, companies spend lots of money buying low-quality social...
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I’ll pay $500k for your domain name. Psych! Here’s a UDRP.
French company files UDRP after offering to buy a domain name for $500,000. Plug “buy followers” into Google and you’ll get 624,000 results. In a rush to look important online, companies spend lots of money buying low-quality social...
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January 5, 2016, 2:30 pm
