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Domain Name Wire
Roland LaPlante and NamesCon recap – DNW Podcast #121
A recap from NamesCon plus Roland LaPlante of Afilias. This week I have a wide-ranging discussion with Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias. We discuss new top level domain names and why Afilias’ past experience with launching TL...
Discussion
Roland LaPlante and NamesCon recap – DNW Podcast #121
A recap from NamesCon plus Roland LaPlante of Afilias. This week I have a wide-ranging discussion with Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias. We discuss new top level domain names and why Afilias’ past experience with launching TL...
Discussion
January 30, 2017, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why you might not be getting many Uniregistry Market offers
You need to take this added step. I’ve added a lot of domains I won in expired auctions to Uniregistry over the past few months. I added the names and changed the nameservers. Done, right? Wrong. It turns out that adding domains to Uniregistry ...
Discussion
Why you might not be getting many Uniregistry Market offers
You need to take this added step. I’ve added a lot of domains I won in expired auctions to Uniregistry over the past few months. I added the names and changed the nameservers. Done, right? Wrong. It turns out that adding domains to Uniregistry ...
Discussion
January 30, 2017, 3:07 pm
Sully's Blog
Tough Domains
Tim Koutroubas is the founder of ToughDomains.com. Tim and I have been exchanging emails for a couple of months as we’ve discussed the ToughDomains platform. ToughDomains.com offers Domain Parking, Sales Pages, Portfolio Management ...
Discussion
Tough Domains
Tim Koutroubas is the founder of ToughDomains.com. Tim and I have been exchanging emails for a couple of months as we’ve discussed the ToughDomains platform. ToughDomains.com offers Domain Parking, Sales Pages, Portfolio Management ...
Discussion
January 30, 2017, 1:02 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review, Live from NamesCon 2017: ClosetDesign.com, Rat.com, PublicEye.com, 2.cool
The DomainSherpa Review, Live from NamesCon 2017! ClosetDesign.com, Rat.com, PublicEye.com, 2.coolIn this show:• Domains from the audience at NamesCon are reviewed and appraised...• Find out which reserve or reserve-met auctions at NameJet ...
Discussion
DomainSherpa Review, Live from NamesCon 2017: ClosetDesign.com, Rat.com, PublicEye.com, 2.cool
The DomainSherpa Review, Live from NamesCon 2017! ClosetDesign.com, Rat.com, PublicEye.com, 2.coolIn this show:• Domains from the audience at NamesCon are reviewed and appraised...• Find out which reserve or reserve-met auctions at NameJet ...
Discussion
January 30, 2017, 8:02 am
The Domains
One Week Before The Super Bowl; Wow Check Out What’s On Houston.com
Super Bowl 51 is being played in Houston Texas a week from today and just went to Houston.com to see what was going on in town around the game and found a pretty big surprise: So the biggest sporting event in the country is coming next week with all ...
Discussion
One Week Before The Super Bowl; Wow Check Out What’s On Houston.com
Super Bowl 51 is being played in Houston Texas a week from today and just went to Houston.com to see what was going on in town around the game and found a pretty big surprise: So the biggest sporting event in the country is coming next week with all ...
Discussion
January 29, 2017, 8:40 pm
The Domains
CENTR Report 309.4 Million Domains At End of 2016
DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report published its CENTR’s quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). At the end of Q4 2016 there were 309.4 ...
Discussion
CENTR Report 309.4 Million Domains At End of 2016
DomainWire Global TLD Stat Report published its CENTR’s quarterly publication covering status and trends in global top-level domains with a focus on European ccTLDs (country code top-level domains). At the end of Q4 2016 there were 309.4 ...
Discussion
January 28, 2017, 9:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
SnapNames scores DomCollect plus .NYC auction
SnapNames to help Sedo and .NYC sell domain names. SnapNames announced late last week that it will be helping Sedo sell some of its DomCollect domain name portfolio. DomCollect domains will be auctioned off with new inventory added intermittently. Al...
Discussion
SnapNames scores DomCollect plus .NYC auction
SnapNames to help Sedo and .NYC sell domain names. SnapNames announced late last week that it will be helping Sedo sell some of its DomCollect domain name portfolio. DomCollect domains will be auctioned off with new inventory added intermittently. Al...
Discussion
January 28, 2017, 5:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Shoes.com shuts down
Canadian shoe seller shutters online stores including Shoes.com. It takes more than a good domain name. Shoes.com, part of a company that also operates OnlineShoes.com and ShoeME.ca, has gone out of business. All three sites shut down today. The Cana...
Discussion
Shoes.com shuts down
Canadian shoe seller shutters online stores including Shoes.com. It takes more than a good domain name. Shoes.com, part of a company that also operates OnlineShoes.com and ShoeME.ca, has gone out of business. All three sites shut down today. The Cana...
Discussion
January 28, 2017, 2:32 am
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving defends domain investors
Domain sharks? Not so fast. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving held a chat on Product Hunt Live this morning. A person asked him if domain resellers or “sharks” were a problem and what should be done about it. Here’s the exchange: Q: Bharath ...
Discussion
GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving defends domain investors
Domain sharks? Not so fast. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving held a chat on Product Hunt Live this morning. A person asked him if domain resellers or “sharks” were a problem and what should be done about it. Here’s the exchange: Q: Bharath ...
Discussion
January 27, 2017, 8:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Another domain-registration-date-for-security patent is filed
Company proposes blocking newly-registered domain names for security purposes. Security firm Rapid7, Inc has filed a patent application (pdf) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Domain age registration alert”. Application 14/80...
Discussion
Another domain-registration-date-for-security patent is filed
Company proposes blocking newly-registered domain names for security purposes. Security firm Rapid7, Inc has filed a patent application (pdf) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “Domain age registration alert”. Application 14/80...
Discussion
January 27, 2017, 7:33 pm
