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Sedo is #1 registrant of .Berlin domains
.Berlin’s second day of free domains is a lot slower, but German domain seller is a big boost to the TLD’s numbers. .Berlin received a lot fewer registrations on the second day of its free domain giveaway. DomainIncite Pro reports 5,227 n...
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Sedo is #1 registrant of .Berlin domains
.Berlin’s second day of free domains is a lot slower, but German domain seller is a big boost to the TLD’s numbers. .Berlin received a lot fewer registrations on the second day of its free domain giveaway. DomainIncite Pro reports 5,227 n...
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June 18, 2014, 12:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside releases Premium Domains at reg fee for .Pub
Thousands of domains that would normally carry a premium are being offered at registration fee. Rightside, backer of an increasingly large pool of new TLDs, is trying something different with its upcoming launch of .Pub. The company’s previous ...
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Rightside releases Premium Domains at reg fee for .Pub
Thousands of domains that would normally carry a premium are being offered at registration fee. Rightside, backer of an increasingly large pool of new TLDs, is trying something different with its upcoming launch of .Pub. The company’s previous ...
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June 17, 2014, 9:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Over 2,200 registered for 50th ICANN meeting in London next week
Over 2,200 people have registered for next week’s ICANN meeting. Next week’s ICANN meeting in London is sure to be big. And not just because it’s the big 5-0. The 50th ICANN meeting, which officially kicks off on Sunday, June 22, al...
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Over 2,200 registered for 50th ICANN meeting in London next week
Over 2,200 people have registered for next week’s ICANN meeting. Next week’s ICANN meeting in London is sure to be big. And not just because it’s the big 5-0. The 50th ICANN meeting, which officially kicks off on Sunday, June 22, al...
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June 17, 2014, 6:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Bid/.Trade domain name auction closes with no sales
Auction attracts bidders, but none are willing to pay the reserve prices. A domain name auction on Sedo for registry-reserved .bid and .trade domain names has closed with no sales. The auction included 35 domain names, 10 of which received bids. The ...
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.Bid/.Trade domain name auction closes with no sales
Auction attracts bidders, but none are willing to pay the reserve prices. A domain name auction on Sedo for registry-reserved .bid and .trade domain names has closed with no sales. The auction included 35 domain names, 10 of which received bids. The ...
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June 17, 2014, 4:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XYZ 1-ups .Berlin in free domain giveaways
.Berlin more than doubles it registrations overnight. .XYZ calls. Starting yesterday, certain registrars started offering free .Berlin domain names to customers in a promotion that will run through the end of the work week. I posed the question if th...
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.XYZ 1-ups .Berlin in free domain giveaways
.Berlin more than doubles it registrations overnight. .XYZ calls. Starting yesterday, certain registrars started offering free .Berlin domain names to customers in a promotion that will run through the end of the work week. I posed the question if th...
Discussion
June 17, 2014, 12:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines pays dearly for .Fashion top level domain name
Company essentially swaps five new TLD applications for .fashion. Minds + Machines has paid a significant sum to win a four way auction for the .fashion top level domain name. Although the company did not disclose the actual price, it disclosed this ...
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Minds + Machines pays dearly for .Fashion top level domain name
Company essentially swaps five new TLD applications for .fashion. Minds + Machines has paid a significant sum to win a four way auction for the .fashion top level domain name. Although the company did not disclose the actual price, it disclosed this ...
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June 17, 2014, 12:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic buys domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS)
CentralNic gobbles of up large domain name registrar. Publicly traded CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) has purchased Bahamian domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS). The move gives CentralNic, currently positioned as a registry, a strong entry in the retail r...
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CentralNic buys domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS)
CentralNic gobbles of up large domain name registrar. Publicly traded CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) has purchased Bahamian domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS). The move gives CentralNic, currently positioned as a registry, a strong entry in the retail r...
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June 16, 2014, 11:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names
Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and...
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Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names
Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and...
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June 16, 2014, 9:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
HP employees threatened competitor Splunk?
Competitor says HP employees and consultant set up websites and social media accounts to disparage it…and then crossed the line with physical threats. I’ve read a lot of bizarre domain name disputes, but two recent ones involving an HP e...
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HP employees threatened competitor Splunk?
Competitor says HP employees and consultant set up websites and social media accounts to disparage it…and then crossed the line with physical threats. I’ve read a lot of bizarre domain name disputes, but two recent ones involving an HP e...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
.CEO marketing goes from silly to…
New TLD not doing so well? It doesn’t suck, it’s just “limited release”. By all measures, PeopleBrowsr’s two top level domain name launches have been flops. .CEO has 1,244 domains in the zone file. .Best has 434. This is...
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.CEO marketing goes from silly to…
New TLD not doing so well? It doesn’t suck, it’s just “limited release”. By all measures, PeopleBrowsr’s two top level domain name launches have been flops. .CEO has 1,244 domains in the zone file. .Best has 434. This is...
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June 16, 2014, 2:52 pm
