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Domain Name Wire
Using data to improve domain investing – DNW Podcast #406
How data can help you become a better domain investor. On today’s show, I talk with Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal. You’ll learn: What signals predict someone might by a domain name (and which ones do no predict it) How adding language t...
Discussion
Using data to improve domain investing – DNW Podcast #406
How data can help you become a better domain investor. On today’s show, I talk with Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal. You’ll learn: What signals predict someone might by a domain name (and which ones do no predict it) How adding language t...
Discussion
September 26, 2022, 3:30 pm
The Domains
Security Week “Hundreds of eCommerce Domains Infected With Google Tag Manager-Based Skimmers”
SecurityWeek.com published a piece on hackers abusing Google Tag Manager by injecting HTML or JavaScript code into websites using GTM. These were all ecommerce websites From the article: A legitimate Google service typically used for marketing and us...
Discussion
Security Week “Hundreds of eCommerce Domains Infected With Google Tag Manager-Based Skimmers”
SecurityWeek.com published a piece on hackers abusing Google Tag Manager by injecting HTML or JavaScript code into websites using GTM. These were all ecommerce websites From the article: A legitimate Google service typically used for marketing and us...
Discussion
September 25, 2022, 6:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Unstoppable Domains and .wallet Handshake owner file dueling lawsuits
Fight escalates between Unstoppable Domains and Handshake. Blockchain domain name company Unstoppable Domains and the owner of .wallet in the rival Handshake system have sued each other. The lawsuits come on the heels of Unstoppable Domains’ la...
Discussion
Unstoppable Domains and .wallet Handshake owner file dueling lawsuits
Fight escalates between Unstoppable Domains and Handshake. Blockchain domain name company Unstoppable Domains and the owner of .wallet in the rival Handshake system have sued each other. The lawsuits come on the heels of Unstoppable Domains’ la...
Discussion
September 23, 2022, 4:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
After $100 million in funding, DoiT International secures doit.com
This large company upgraded from a hyphenated domain name. Cloud computing is commonplace today, with on-demand, distributed systems used by most of the top firms around the world. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure lead an indust...
Discussion
After $100 million in funding, DoiT International secures doit.com
This large company upgraded from a hyphenated domain name. Cloud computing is commonplace today, with on-demand, distributed systems used by most of the top firms around the world. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure lead an indust...
Discussion
September 23, 2022, 2:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Here’s what likely happened with eth.link
No one played dirty, but the expiration process can appear that way. Ethereum Name Service and Virgil Griffith, the registrant of eth.link, recently filed a lawsuit against GoDaddy, Dynadot, and a company that “bought” eth.link in a domai...
Discussion
Here’s what likely happened with eth.link
No one played dirty, but the expiration process can appear that way. Ethereum Name Service and Virgil Griffith, the registrant of eth.link, recently filed a lawsuit against GoDaddy, Dynadot, and a company that “bought” eth.link in a domai...
Discussion
September 23, 2022, 12:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawsuit alleges zow.com is a stolen domain name
Person who registered the domain in 1996 says it’s stolen. A California resident has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that the valuable domain name zow.com is stolen. Yesterday, Marci Seely filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern ...
Discussion
Lawsuit alleges zow.com is a stolen domain name
Person who registered the domain in 1996 says it’s stolen. A California resident has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that the valuable domain name zow.com is stolen. Yesterday, Marci Seely filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the Eastern ...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 6:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawmakers push for Whois privacy on .us domains
10 Democrats ask NTIA to add Whois privacy to .us domain names. While Whois records in most top level domains are now private, .us remains an outlier: the U.S. government specifically forbids Whois privacy on .us domain registrations. It has enforced...
Discussion
Lawmakers push for Whois privacy on .us domains
10 Democrats ask NTIA to add Whois privacy to .us domain names. While Whois records in most top level domains are now private, .us remains an outlier: the U.S. government specifically forbids Whois privacy on .us domain registrations. It has enforced...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 5:41 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa – Off The Market Forever – September 22, 2022: Everybody Wins: Strive.com, Fetch.com, and Crunchbase Unicorns
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And this is a new show related to domains called "Off The Market Forever", starring Chris Zuiker and James Iles! In this show we focus on the domain space from the lens of end-user ac...
Discussion
DomainSherpa – Off The Market Forever – September 22, 2022: Everybody Wins: Strive.com, Fetch.com, and Crunchbase Unicorns
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And this is a new show related to domains called "Off The Market Forever", starring Chris Zuiker and James Iles! In this show we focus on the domain space from the lens of end-user ac...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 5:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Which top level domains are truly popular, part two
Which domains get used the most? Last week I wrote about DataProvider.com’s analysis of new top level domains and which ones are popular. As I mentioned in that post, there are lots of ways to measure new TLD popularity and none of them are per...
Discussion
Which top level domains are truly popular, part two
Which domains get used the most? Last week I wrote about DataProvider.com’s analysis of new top level domains and which ones are popular. As I mentioned in that post, there are lots of ways to measure new TLD popularity and none of them are per...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 4:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
What’s wrong with this UDRP?
If you think something is fishy about the dates cited in the decision, you’re right. I was reading through a UDRP decision (pdf) for snugg.com today when something caught my eye. The first two paragraphs of the “factual background” ...
Discussion
What’s wrong with this UDRP?
If you think something is fishy about the dates cited in the decision, you’re right. I was reading through a UDRP decision (pdf) for snugg.com today when something caught my eye. The first two paragraphs of the “factual background” ...
Discussion
September 22, 2022, 3:45 pm
