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Domain Name Wire
Companies help people stop wasting money on COVID-19 domain names
Companies are making it harder to register and sell crisis-related domains. You should thank them. Domain name registrar Namecheap has stopped allowing domain names including the words coronavirus, covid, and vaccine from being registered through its...
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Companies help people stop wasting money on COVID-19 domain names
Companies are making it harder to register and sell crisis-related domains. You should thank them. Domain name registrar Namecheap has stopped allowing domain names including the words coronavirus, covid, and vaccine from being registered through its...
Discussion
March 26, 2020, 4:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
How 151.com could be used
151.com, which recently sold for $415,000, could have a lot of uses in China. A couple of days ago I read in Namebio that the numeric domain 151.com sold for $415,000. While I have not come across any business in the west using a numeric domain, it i...
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How 151.com could be used
151.com, which recently sold for $415,000, could have a lot of uses in China. A couple of days ago I read in Namebio that the numeric domain 151.com sold for $415,000. While I have not come across any business in the west using a numeric domain, it i...
Discussion
March 26, 2020, 1:02 pm
The Domains
NameJet/Snapnames February sales led by HNtv.com
NameJet/Snapnames released their February sales and HNtv.com was the top sale at $21,529 just edging out UMO.com at $21,200. 82 of the 94 reported sales were .com. Database.net is already up on GoDaddy looking for a flip after selling for $3,056. hnt...
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NameJet/Snapnames February sales led by HNtv.com
NameJet/Snapnames released their February sales and HNtv.com was the top sale at $21,529 just edging out UMO.com at $21,200. 82 of the 94 reported sales were .com. Database.net is already up on GoDaddy looking for a flip after selling for $3,056. hnt...
Discussion
March 25, 2020, 5:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
COVID-19 drives end user domain name sales
Companies are buying domains in response to the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving end user domain name sales, it’s just not for garbage domain names people have registered in recent weeks. Consider SchoolToGo.com, a domain purchased by...
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COVID-19 drives end user domain name sales
Companies are buying domains in response to the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is driving end user domain name sales, it’s just not for garbage domain names people have registered in recent weeks. Consider SchoolToGo.com, a domain purchased by...
Discussion
March 25, 2020, 5:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese registrars are very active in new top level domains
Kassey Lee analyzes how Chinese registrars account for a large portion of new top level domain registrations. New top level domain names, such as .best, .rich, and .guru, began rolling out at the end of 2013. According to nTLDstats.com, there are abo...
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Chinese registrars are very active in new top level domains
Kassey Lee analyzes how Chinese registrars account for a large portion of new top level domain registrations. New top level domain names, such as .best, .rich, and .guru, began rolling out at the end of 2013. According to nTLDstats.com, there are abo...
Discussion
March 25, 2020, 4:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: Verisign won’t raise .com prices this year
Even if ICANN gives the company the nod, it won’t raise prices this year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, won’t raise prices for its domain names this year. In an announcement on its blog, the company...
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Breaking: Verisign won’t raise .com prices this year
Even if ICANN gives the company the nod, it won’t raise prices this year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, won’t raise prices for its domain names this year. In an announcement on its blog, the company...
Discussion
March 25, 2020, 2:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets IDN homograph detection patent
System would help detect homograph attacks shortly after domains are registered. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,599,836 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Identification of visual international domain name ...
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Verisign gets IDN homograph detection patent
System would help detect homograph attacks shortly after domains are registered. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,599,836 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Identification of visual international domain name ...
Discussion
March 24, 2020, 8:41 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by Cico.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Cico.com led the way at 45,000 Euro, ($48,472). Giftee.com was second at $20,000. Vmeet.com was third at $17,995. 35 .com sales 9 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COMs cico.com 03/18/...
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Sedo weekly sales led by Cico.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Cico.com led the way at 45,000 Euro, ($48,472). Giftee.com was second at $20,000. Vmeet.com was third at $17,995. 35 .com sales 9 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Domain name Date Price Currency .COMs cico.com 03/18/...
Discussion
March 24, 2020, 8:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
MMX swings to profit in 2019, 25% revenue growth
MMX (Minds + Machines) had a good year in 2019, and 2020 looks solid barring COVID-19 impact. Accounting wise, 2018 was a bad year for new top level domain name company MMX (London AIM: MMX). It wrote off $11.3 million related to a contract to run .L...
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MMX swings to profit in 2019, 25% revenue growth
MMX (Minds + Machines) had a good year in 2019, and 2020 looks solid barring COVID-19 impact. Accounting wise, 2018 was a bad year for new top level domain name company MMX (London AIM: MMX). It wrote off $11.3 million related to a contract to run .L...
Discussion
March 24, 2020, 6:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Let’s add these 2 questions to UDRP complaints
It would avoid a lot of reverse domain name hijacking findings. There are two common things I see in UDRP filings that trip up Complainants and often end in findings of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH). The Complainant files a UDRP against a doma...
Discussion
Let’s add these 2 questions to UDRP complaints
It would avoid a lot of reverse domain name hijacking findings. There are two common things I see in UDRP filings that trip up Complainants and often end in findings of reverse domain name hijacking (RDNH). The Complainant files a UDRP against a doma...
Discussion
March 24, 2020, 3:48 pm
