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Domain Name Wire
Ethos paid $1.135 billion for .Org
Internet Society reveals the price it is selling out for. On a webinar today, Internet Society has purportedly disclosed that Ethos Capital will pay $1.135 billion to acquire the .org registry from it: #Internetsociety offered 1b and 135mil$USD for #...
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Ethos paid $1.135 billion for .Org
Internet Society reveals the price it is selling out for. On a webinar today, Internet Society has purportedly disclosed that Ethos Capital will pay $1.135 billion to acquire the .org registry from it: #Internetsociety offered 1b and 135mil$USD for #...
Discussion
November 29, 2019, 6:56 pm
The Domains
Emerging trends that have sparked cultural shifts
David Cohen wrote an interesting piece on AdWeek about data/trends related to Twitter. Twitter Reveals 18 Emerging Trends That Marked U.S. Cultural Shifts Since 2016 Cohen breaks down the billions of tweet data that Twitter unveiled. Why I think this...
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Emerging trends that have sparked cultural shifts
David Cohen wrote an interesting piece on AdWeek about data/trends related to Twitter. Twitter Reveals 18 Emerging Trends That Marked U.S. Cultural Shifts Since 2016 Cohen breaks down the billions of tweet data that Twitter unveiled. Why I think this...
Discussion
November 28, 2019, 6:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Man drags Qatar Tourism Council to U.S. Court in domain dispute
Qatar’s Tourism Council launched a fight over a domain name, and now it needs to defend itself in U.S. Court. A man from Azerbaijan is suing the Qatar National Tourism Council—in Colorado. Teymur Mehdiyev filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. Dis...
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Man drags Qatar Tourism Council to U.S. Court in domain dispute
Qatar’s Tourism Council launched a fight over a domain name, and now it needs to defend itself in U.S. Court. A man from Azerbaijan is suing the Qatar National Tourism Council—in Colorado. Teymur Mehdiyev filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. Dis...
Discussion
November 28, 2019, 12:07 am
The Domains
Hold up on that whole Twitter deleting inactive accounts
Yesterday Twitter announced they would be deleting inactive accounts. Today they said no so fast. So it turns out that this was really going to be EU centric on the deleting of accounts and now they need to come up with a plan to memorialize accounts...
Discussion
Hold up on that whole Twitter deleting inactive accounts
Yesterday Twitter announced they would be deleting inactive accounts. Today they said no so fast. So it turns out that this was really going to be EU centric on the deleting of accounts and now they need to come up with a plan to memorialize accounts...
Discussion
November 27, 2019, 8:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Tutorial: How to register and purchase a domain using GoDaddy API
Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use GoDaddy’s API to register and purchase domains. Today’s tutorial aims to help many domain investors with a desire to harness the power of technology to streamline the registration and purchasi...
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Tutorial: How to register and purchase a domain using GoDaddy API
Alvin Brown provides a tutorial on how to use GoDaddy’s API to register and purchase domains. Today’s tutorial aims to help many domain investors with a desire to harness the power of technology to streamline the registration and purchasi...
Discussion
November 27, 2019, 8:16 pm
The Domains
An update on Pheenix
JudgeMind started a warning thread on Namepros with regards to domain registrar and former drop catcher Pheenix. Apparently he was having a hard time getting authcodes and needed one quick because he had a sale and needed to give it to the buyer. Now...
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An update on Pheenix
JudgeMind started a warning thread on Namepros with regards to domain registrar and former drop catcher Pheenix. Apparently he was having a hard time getting authcodes and needed one quick because he had a sale and needed to give it to the buyer. Now...
Discussion
November 27, 2019, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
ISOC chapter breaks ranks, criticizes deal to sell .Org
Netherlands chapter calls on others to join it in denouncing sale. Shortly after Internet Society (ISOC) announced a deal to sell Public Interest Registry (which runs .org) to a private equity company, ISOC sent a notice to its local chapters telling...
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ISOC chapter breaks ranks, criticizes deal to sell .Org
Netherlands chapter calls on others to join it in denouncing sale. Shortly after Internet Society (ISOC) announced a deal to sell Public Interest Registry (which runs .org) to a private equity company, ISOC sent a notice to its local chapters telling...
Discussion
November 27, 2019, 3:59 pm
The Domains
Apparently it’s not hard to get a .gov domain
Would you like a .gov address? It might be easier than you think to secure one, and that’s not a good thing. KrebsonSecurity.com published an article about how a researcher filled out a form, grabbed some letterhead and impersonated a mayor of ...
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Apparently it’s not hard to get a .gov domain
Would you like a .gov address? It might be easier than you think to secure one, and that’s not a good thing. KrebsonSecurity.com published an article about how a researcher filled out a form, grabbed some letterhead and impersonated a mayor of ...
Discussion
November 27, 2019, 3:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
CBD company pays $160,000 for GreenRoads.com after losing UDRP
Florida company buys domain that it tried to get through UDRP. Green Roads of Florida, LLC has purchased the domain name GreenRoads.com for $160,000 after failing to win it in a cybersquatting dispute. The CBD company filed a UDRP with World Intellec...
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CBD company pays $160,000 for GreenRoads.com after losing UDRP
Florida company buys domain that it tried to get through UDRP. Green Roads of Florida, LLC has purchased the domain name GreenRoads.com for $160,000 after failing to win it in a cybersquatting dispute. The CBD company filed a UDRP with World Intellec...
Discussion
November 27, 2019, 1:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
ISOC CEO repeats the registry competition fallacy
There is no competition for domain renewals. Internet Society CEO Andrew Sullivan has responded to some of the uproar about his non-profit selling Public Interest Registry to a for-profit private equity company. In his response, he repeats the ICANN-...
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ISOC CEO repeats the registry competition fallacy
There is no competition for domain renewals. Internet Society CEO Andrew Sullivan has responded to some of the uproar about his non-profit selling Public Interest Registry to a for-profit private equity company. In his response, he repeats the ICANN-...
Discussion
November 26, 2019, 9:38 pm
