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Verisign announces another .com price hike
Get ready to pay more for .com domains starting in September. Verisign today announced that it will raise prices on .com domains again this year. Prices will increase from today’s wholesale price of $8.39 to $8.97 on September 1, 2022. (Registr...
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Verisign announces another .com price hike
Get ready to pay more for .com domains starting in September. Verisign today announced that it will raise prices on .com domains again this year. Prices will increase from today’s wholesale price of $8.39 to $8.97 on September 1, 2022. (Registr...
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February 10, 2022, 10:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Get a live look at traffic on .gov domains
The U.S. government provides a live look at traffic on .gov domains. There are lots of sites that estimate traffic to popular websites over time. But did you know you can get verified and real-time data for traffic on .gov sites? Analytics.usa.gov is...
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Get a live look at traffic on .gov domains
The U.S. government provides a live look at traffic on .gov domains. There are lots of sites that estimate traffic to popular websites over time. But did you know you can get verified and real-time data for traffic on .gov sites? Analytics.usa.gov is...
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February 10, 2022, 7:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Mike Mann defends harima.com in UDRP
Chemicals company fails to get .com version of its domain through UDRP…and the price just went up. Domain investor Mike Mann’s company DomainMarket.com has successfully defended the domain name harima.com in a UDRP. Harima Chemicals Grou...
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Mike Mann defends harima.com in UDRP
Chemicals company fails to get .com version of its domain through UDRP…and the price just went up. Domain investor Mike Mann’s company DomainMarket.com has successfully defended the domain name harima.com in a UDRP. Harima Chemicals Grou...
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February 10, 2022, 5:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy gets two more patents
Patents cover a social network and domain suggestions. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted two more patents to GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) yesterday. Patent number 11,244,331 (pdf) is for System and method for domain name community network. The abs...
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GoDaddy gets two more patents
Patents cover a social network and domain suggestions. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted two more patents to GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) yesterday. Patent number 11,244,331 (pdf) is for System and method for domain name community network. The abs...
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February 9, 2022, 5:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Divvy upgrades with Divvy.com
Property tech company beats out other companies with the same name. Proptech had a healthy 2021, with vast amounts of funding flooding into the industry. According to Crunchbase, venture-backed companies in the real estate and proptech space raised n...
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Divvy upgrades with Divvy.com
Property tech company beats out other companies with the same name. Proptech had a healthy 2021, with vast amounts of funding flooding into the industry. According to Crunchbase, venture-backed companies in the real estate and proptech space raised n...
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February 9, 2022, 2:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN’s version of Freedom of Information requests
It’s not easy, but here’s how you can get ICANN to publish information. Whenever I see someone file a request with ICANN under its Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (DIDP), I roll my eyes and try to figure out how ICANN will deny ...
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ICANN’s version of Freedom of Information requests
It’s not easy, but here’s how you can get ICANN to publish information. Whenever I see someone file a request with ICANN under its Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (DIDP), I roll my eyes and try to figure out how ICANN will deny ...
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February 8, 2022, 8:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain name sales, February 8 2022
A payment card company, an Australian television outlet, and a real estate firm bought domain names. This week, Sedo had some great sales, but I can’t figure out who bought the most expensive ones yet. The top public sale this past week was iSi...
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This week’s end user domain name sales, February 8 2022
A payment card company, an Australian television outlet, and a real estate firm bought domain names. This week, Sedo had some great sales, but I can’t figure out who bought the most expensive ones yet. The top public sale this past week was iSi...
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February 8, 2022, 7:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets sweeping patent for dynamic and variable pricing
Patent covers dynamic domain pricing, registration requirements and more. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,244,368 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Adaptive control of domain name registrations via dynamically var...
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Verisign gets sweeping patent for dynamic and variable pricing
Patent covers dynamic domain pricing, registration requirements and more. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,244,368 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Adaptive control of domain name registrations via dynamically var...
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February 8, 2022, 5:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
What a circus! Circus.com court challenge denied
Gambling company fails (again) to get circus.com. The owner of Circus.com has successfully defended its domain for a second time. Online gambling company Circus Belgium SA first tried to obtain the valuable domain name through a UDRP in 2016. It fail...
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What a circus! Circus.com court challenge denied
Gambling company fails (again) to get circus.com. The owner of Circus.com has successfully defended its domain for a second time. Online gambling company Circus Belgium SA first tried to obtain the valuable domain name through a UDRP in 2016. It fail...
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February 7, 2022, 9:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Ethereum Name Service fires director of operations over tweet (and his response)
The organization behind .eth domains and blockchain-based DNS alternative sacks leading team member for comments. The organization behind Ethereum Name Service, a blockchain-based addressing system, has fired its director of operations after a tweet ...
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Ethereum Name Service fires director of operations over tweet (and his response)
The organization behind .eth domains and blockchain-based DNS alternative sacks leading team member for comments. The organization behind Ethereum Name Service, a blockchain-based addressing system, has fired its director of operations after a tweet ...
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February 7, 2022, 7:02 pm
