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Domain Name Wire
Sunday evening domain reading
A ridiculous lawsuit, company naming, ICANN, and more. I was going to write an entire snarky post about this lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy. It’s alternately hilarious and, and the end of the day, sad. Basically this former employee sued with a ...
Discussion
Sunday evening domain reading
A ridiculous lawsuit, company naming, ICANN, and more. I was going to write an entire snarky post about this lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy. It’s alternately hilarious and, and the end of the day, sad. Basically this former employee sued with a ...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 9:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Site covering Bo Xilai scandal led to Name.com DDoS, eNom rejects domain as well
Name.com and eNom play hot potato with domain name. Name.com got hit with a massive distributed denial of service attack at the end of last week, and it appears this is because a site covering the downfall of Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai...
Discussion
Site covering Bo Xilai scandal led to Name.com DDoS, eNom rejects domain as well
Name.com and eNom play hot potato with domain name. Name.com got hit with a massive distributed denial of service attack at the end of last week, and it appears this is because a site covering the downfall of Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 10:45 am
Elliot's Blog
Contest: Where Will Hotspur.com Auction End?
If you aren’t a fan of the English Premier League, you may not know that Hotspur is the nickname of the EPL football (soccer) team from Tottenham. The team website can be found on TottenhamHotspur.com, possibly because they didn’t have th...
Discussion
Contest: Where Will Hotspur.com Auction End?
If you aren’t a fan of the English Premier League, you may not know that Hotspur is the nickname of the EPL football (soccer) team from Tottenham. The team website can be found on TottenhamHotspur.com, possibly because they didn’t have th...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 10:19 am
The Domains
Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearl...
Discussion
Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearl...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 8:45 am
Domain Shane
Sunday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-22-12
I normally don’t do lists on Sunday but I couldn’t find anything to watch on TV and my wife and daughter wanted to watch Glee and Smash. I’m a man so now way I’m watching those girly shows. So after watching both o...
Discussion
Sunday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-22-12
I normally don’t do lists on Sunday but I couldn’t find anything to watch on TV and my wife and daughter wanted to watch Glee and Smash. I’m a man so now way I’m watching those girly shows. So after watching both o...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 7:19 am
Domain Name News
This Week In Domains (week 17/2012)
Want to know what happened in the 17th week of 2012 week in the world of domain names? As reported… Here at DNN Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool ICANN Says ...
Discussion
This Week In Domains (week 17/2012)
Want to know what happened in the 17th week of 2012 week in the world of domain names? As reported… Here at DNN Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool ICANN Says ...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 1:30 pm
Domain Shane
Saturday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-21-12
Sorry about running a little late this morning. I reversed schedule and instead of getting up at 4 am I stayed up until 4am. Old friends, new stories, and a bunch of catching up. Its what life is all about. But you came here for domains not for my sa...
Discussion
Saturday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-21-12
Sorry about running a little late this morning. I reversed schedule and instead of getting up at 4 am I stayed up until 4am. Old friends, new stories, and a bunch of catching up. Its what life is all about. But you came here for domains not for my sa...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 1:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
CNET editor Paul Sloan profiles Mike Mann
Sloan profiles a colorful character in the domain industry. CNET executive editor Paul Sloan has a history of writing about the domain industry. His Business 2.0 cover story about Kevin Ham back in 2007 is still talked about in the industry. More rec...
Discussion
CNET editor Paul Sloan profiles Mike Mann
Sloan profiles a colorful character in the domain industry. CNET executive editor Paul Sloan has a history of writing about the domain industry. His Business 2.0 cover story about Kevin Ham back in 2007 is still talked about in the industry. More rec...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 12:41 pm
Elliot's Blog
Saturday Updates
There was a pretty huge surge of traffic to my blog yesterday after the NameCheap article, and my blog’s server went down for a bit of time. One thing I really like about Liquid Web is that the tech support team worked hard on my behalf to quic...
Discussion
Saturday Updates
There was a pretty huge surge of traffic to my blog yesterday after the NameCheap article, and my blog’s server went down for a bit of time. One thing I really like about Liquid Web is that the tech support team worked hard on my behalf to quic...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 12:04 pm
The Domains
Cnet Does Feature Story On Mike Mann: “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours”
Cnet.comjust published a feature story all about the Mann, Mike Mann. In the story entitled “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours” recounts how Mike Mann started in the domain business, built and sold BuyD...
Discussion
Cnet Does Feature Story On Mike Mann: “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours”
Cnet.comjust published a feature story all about the Mann, Mike Mann. In the story entitled “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours” recounts how Mike Mann started in the domain business, built and sold BuyD...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 10:55 am
