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Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on August 27th, 2013
Every day I get emails from people asking me to buy or review their portfolio. Now they can get a real review from professionals over at DomainSherpa.com. It will be interesting to see how many people that email actually take advantage of it. My gues...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on August 27th, 2013
Every day I get emails from people asking me to buy or review their portfolio. Now they can get a real review from professionals over at DomainSherpa.com. It will be interesting to see how many people that email actually take advantage of it. My gues...
Discussion
August 27, 2013, 6:18 am
The Domains
Breaking: .Com Domain Name Regsitration Top 110 Million Mark For The 1st Time
There are now over 110,024,017 active .com domain names. According to Verisign the registry of the .com and .net domain name extensions or Top Level Domains (TLD) the number of active .com registrations passed the 110 Million Mark for the...
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Breaking: .Com Domain Name Regsitration Top 110 Million Mark For The 1st Time
There are now over 110,024,017 active .com domain names. According to Verisign the registry of the .com and .net domain name extensions or Top Level Domains (TLD) the number of active .com registrations passed the 110 Million Mark for the...
Discussion
August 27, 2013, 5:04 am
The Domains
ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS Being Included
According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board, ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) being included. On the issue of not requiring the URS to be added to...
Discussion
ICANN Approves Renewal Of .Info; .Org and .Biz Registry Contracts Without URS Being Included
According to a resolution passed by the ICANN Board, ICANN has renewed the registry contracts for the .info, .biz and .org contracts without the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) being included. On the issue of not requiring the URS to be added to...
Discussion
August 27, 2013, 12:52 am
The Domains
Chanel, Inc. Files Suit Against Cybersquatters over 68 Domain Names
Chanel, Inc has become the latest brand holder to skip the UDRP process and head right for federal court. Chanel filed a federal suit in the Florida Southern District Court seeking $100,000 under the ACPA seeking statutory damages of $100,00 per...
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Chanel, Inc. Files Suit Against Cybersquatters over 68 Domain Names
Chanel, Inc has become the latest brand holder to skip the UDRP process and head right for federal court. Chanel filed a federal suit in the Florida Southern District Court seeking $100,000 under the ACPA seeking statutory damages of $100,00 per...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 11:25 pm
Domain Shane
One of The Best Articles You Will Read All Year
I first met James Altucher when writing my other blog. I wrote a fun and money website and James, while brilliant, likes to have some fun while he’s hard at work. James has started, sold, folded, and been part of more companies than almos...
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One of The Best Articles You Will Read All Year
I first met James Altucher when writing my other blog. I wrote a fun and money website and James, while brilliant, likes to have some fun while he’s hard at work. James has started, sold, folded, and been part of more companies than almos...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 10:07 pm
DomainSherpa
Want 5 Experts to Review Your Domain Name Portfolio?
Want 5 Experts to Review Your Domain Name Portfolio?In each DomainSherpa Review, selected experts review a domain name portfolio and openly share their insights into the value of the portfolio – including which domains are worth holding on to a...
Discussion
Want 5 Experts to Review Your Domain Name Portfolio?
Want 5 Experts to Review Your Domain Name Portfolio?In each DomainSherpa Review, selected experts review a domain name portfolio and openly share their insights into the value of the portfolio – including which domains are worth holding on to a...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 8:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Dish DBS and .Hotel applicant file “appeals” to new TLD objection decisions
Two companies appeal to ICANN’s board for reconsideration of new TLD objections. The first of what are likely many “appeals” of new top level domain name objections have been filed with ICANN’s board in the form of Requests fo...
Discussion
Dish DBS and .Hotel applicant file “appeals” to new TLD objection decisions
Two companies appeal to ICANN’s board for reconsideration of new TLD objections. The first of what are likely many “appeals” of new top level domain name objections have been filed with ICANN’s board in the form of Requests fo...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 5:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Mex.com auction ends tomorrow
Sedo auction for Mex.com ends tomorrow and has just two bidders so far. Here’s an interesting auction for a three letter domain name at Sedo that closes tomorrow: Mex.com. Bidding is currently at 10,100 EUR with just two bidders. It seems that ...
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Mex.com auction ends tomorrow
Sedo auction for Mex.com ends tomorrow and has just two bidders so far. Here’s an interesting auction for a three letter domain name at Sedo that closes tomorrow: Mex.com. Bidding is currently at 10,100 EUR with just two bidders. It seems that ...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 3:24 pm
The Domains
ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei Is Eligible for Extended Evaluation
On Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of .Taipei failed IE and was not eligble for Extended Evaluation. However today ICANN has correct what was an e...
Discussion
ICANN Corrects Friday’s New gTLD Initial Evaluation Posting: Taipei Is Eligible for Extended Evaluation
On Friday in releasing its Initial Evaluation results ICANN mistakenly showed that the new gTLD application for the Geographic area of .Taipei failed IE and was not eligble for Extended Evaluation. However today ICANN has correct what was an e...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 3:14 pm
Elliot's Blog
Yahoo Begins Redistributing Email Addresses & Usernames
In June, I wrote an article about how domain registrars can deal with Yahoo’s decision to recycle email addresses. This decision could prove to be problematic for domain owners whose email addresses that are connected to their domain names are ...
Discussion
Yahoo Begins Redistributing Email Addresses & Usernames
In June, I wrote an article about how domain registrars can deal with Yahoo’s decision to recycle email addresses. This decision could prove to be problematic for domain owners whose email addresses that are connected to their domain names are ...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 2:10 pm
