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Domain Name Wire
PIR pushes back on ICANN after California AG gets involved
PIR says “enough is enough” after ICANN asks to extend deadline. The California Attorney General has opened an investigation into ICANN and the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates .org, from non-profit Internet Society ...
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PIR pushes back on ICANN after California AG gets involved
PIR says “enough is enough” after ICANN asks to extend deadline. The California Attorney General has opened an investigation into ICANN and the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), which operates .org, from non-profit Internet Society ...
Discussion
February 4, 2020, 5:22 pm
The Domains
New York times covers the .Ai extension
Steve Lohr of the New York Times published a piece on the .AI extension. .Ai has become a windfall for Anguilla. It was once just a side job for the man running the extension, Vincent Cate, a computer scientist who settled in Anguilla and later becam...
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New York times covers the .Ai extension
Steve Lohr of the New York Times published a piece on the .AI extension. .Ai has become a windfall for Anguilla. It was once just a side job for the man running the extension, Vincent Cate, a computer scientist who settled in Anguilla and later becam...
Discussion
February 4, 2020, 4:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Those favicons in Google search results? Maybe not forever
Google backtracks and tests favicon-less search results pages. Last month, Google changed its desktop search results to look more like its mobile search results. The big difference was adding favicons to the results. (The desktop results also include...
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Those favicons in Google search results? Maybe not forever
Google backtracks and tests favicon-less search results pages. Last month, Google changed its desktop search results to look more like its mobile search results. The big difference was adding favicons to the results. (The desktop results also include...
Discussion
February 4, 2020, 4:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
$1.8 million in domains sold in live domain name auction
Auction led by Add.com. This year’s Right of the Dot domain name auction at NamesCon concluded with $1.8 million in sales. An extended online auction ends on February 14, 2020. The top sale was ADD.com for $800,000. Many people have commented o...
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$1.8 million in domains sold in live domain name auction
Auction led by Add.com. This year’s Right of the Dot domain name auction at NamesCon concluded with $1.8 million in sales. An extended online auction ends on February 14, 2020. The top sale was ADD.com for $800,000. Many people have commented o...
Discussion
February 4, 2020, 2:58 pm
The Domains
ICYMI: January 2020 – Top stories
The top posts of January 2020 on TheDomains January saw Rat.com launch, Adam Dicker back out of an appearance on You Tube and the NamesCon Live Auction. Our top story traffic wise was on the founder of Xiaomi discussing the importance of domain names...
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ICYMI: January 2020 – Top stories
The top posts of January 2020 on TheDomains January saw Rat.com launch, Adam Dicker back out of an appearance on You Tube and the NamesCon Live Auction. Our top story traffic wise was on the founder of Xiaomi discussing the importance of domain names...
Discussion
February 4, 2020, 4:39 am
Domain Name Wire
NamesCon 2020 was a hit but could be even better next year
Moving to Austin was a smart move, and next year could be even better. NamesCon Global 2020 is in the books. The conference took place last Wednesday through Saturday in Austin, Texas. The move to Austin after many years in Las Vegas was a significan...
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NamesCon 2020 was a hit but could be even better next year
Moving to Austin was a smart move, and next year could be even better. NamesCon Global 2020 is in the books. The conference took place last Wednesday through Saturday in Austin, Texas. The move to Austin after many years in Las Vegas was a significan...
Discussion
February 3, 2020, 9:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
NamesCon Roundup – DNW Podcast #271
10 interviews from people at NamesCon. NamesCon was last week in Austin, Texas. On this week’s show, you’ll hear from 10 people at NamesCon: Aman Bhutani, CEO of GoDaddy Peter Askew, Domain investor/business builder Christina Beavis, Vox ...
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NamesCon Roundup – DNW Podcast #271
10 interviews from people at NamesCon. NamesCon was last week in Austin, Texas. On this week’s show, you’ll hear from 10 people at NamesCon: Aman Bhutani, CEO of GoDaddy Peter Askew, Domain investor/business builder Christina Beavis, Vox ...
Discussion
February 3, 2020, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
The beauty of dual personality domains
This domain is both English and Pinyin. When you look at the domain OK.cn, what do you see? Many domain investors may see an English word that means agreement or acceptance. But it is also an acronym for two Pinyin words. On November 28, 2019, billio...
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The beauty of dual personality domains
This domain is both English and Pinyin. When you look at the domain OK.cn, what do you see? Many domain investors may see an English word that means agreement or acceptance. But it is also an acronym for two Pinyin words. On November 28, 2019, billio...
Discussion
February 3, 2020, 2:23 pm
The Domains
Report: 28.99% of domains are re-registered by other users
Who Is Hosting This took a deep dive into the world of domain registrations and domain name renewal rates. They enlisted the services of Whois XML API, and put together their report. From the article: The Sample Whois XML API collected data on one mi...
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Report: 28.99% of domains are re-registered by other users
Who Is Hosting This took a deep dive into the world of domain registrations and domain name renewal rates. They enlisted the services of Whois XML API, and put together their report. From the article: The Sample Whois XML API collected data on one mi...
Discussion
February 2, 2020, 3:40 am
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: California Attorney General delays .org sale
Office that oversees California non-profits demands extensive documentation. The California Attorney general has likely delayed approval of the .org sale to Ethos Capital by two months, if not more, after demanding extensive documentation from ICANN....
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Breaking: California Attorney General delays .org sale
Office that oversees California non-profits demands extensive documentation. The California Attorney general has likely delayed approval of the .org sale to Ethos Capital by two months, if not more, after demanding extensive documentation from ICANN....
Discussion
January 31, 2020, 2:23 pm
