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Domain Name Wire
Interesting: Regional breakdown of .de domain registrations
.De data is a good PR and marketing tool. I must admit that I don’t follow the .de domain market much. I should, since Germany’s ccTLD is the largest country code domain name in existence with over 15 million domain registrations. There a...
Discussion
Interesting: Regional breakdown of .de domain registrations
.De data is a good PR and marketing tool. I must admit that I don’t follow the .de domain market much. I should, since Germany’s ccTLD is the largest country code domain name in existence with over 15 million domain registrations. There a...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 2:02 pm

The Domains
.PW To Release Two Letter/Character Domains On First Come, First Served Basis
According to DomainMonster.com the .PW registry has released making hundreds of 2-character domain names including many two letter .PW domains to be registered on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 10:00 UTC 28th March 2013. Dom...
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.PW To Release Two Letter/Character Domains On First Come, First Served Basis
According to DomainMonster.com the .PW registry has released making hundreds of 2-character domain names including many two letter .PW domains to be registered on a first-come, first-served basis starting at 10:00 UTC 28th March 2013. Dom...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 2:01 pm

Elliot's Blog
Gmail Can Help You Identify a Buyer
I use Gmail for a number of reasons, primarily because it stores all of my email and is simple to search through tens of thousands of emails nearly instantly. It’s inexpensive to use, and setting up it on various domain names is a cinch. Did yo...
Discussion
Gmail Can Help You Identify a Buyer
I use Gmail for a number of reasons, primarily because it stores all of my email and is simple to search through tens of thousands of emails nearly instantly. It’s inexpensive to use, and setting up it on various domain names is a cinch. Did yo...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 1:45 pm

The Domains
Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest?
Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see the Veri...
Discussion
Should Verisign’s Attempt To Get .Co Bar Its Objections To .Cam & The Rest?
Now that we published the objection filed by Verisign to .Cam as being to similar to .Com, along with the supporting documents, I have been asked what my opinion is on the objection, which is likely to be duplicated in large part when we see the Veri...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 1:10 pm

Domain Name Wire
The coming change in domain name search
Registrars are preparing domain search for new top level domain names. Sometime this year a key element of the domain search box at GoDaddy.com will disappear: the drop down box containing top level domains such as .com. It may seem like a subtle cha...
Discussion
The coming change in domain name search
Registrars are preparing domain search for new top level domain names. Sometime this year a key element of the domain search box at GoDaddy.com will disappear: the drop down box containing top level domains such as .com. It may seem like a subtle cha...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 12:50 pm

Elliot's Blog
Rook Media Offering Cash Advance
When Rook Media changed out its banner on my blog yesterday, I noticed it was advertising a special service offer to clients, and I thought it was interesting enough to call out in a blog post. “DomainAdvance” is a new service from the co...
Discussion
Rook Media Offering Cash Advance
When Rook Media changed out its banner on my blog yesterday, I noticed it was advertising a special service offer to clients, and I thought it was interesting enough to call out in a blog post. “DomainAdvance” is a new service from the co...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 11:08 am

Domain Name Wire
.Co domain tops 1.5 million domains
.Co now has over 1.5 million domains registered. The .co domain namespace has hit a new milestone: 1.5 million domain names. The .co domain name ticker rolled over a big digit overnight: This is a pretty huge number of domain names within 3 years of ...
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.Co domain tops 1.5 million domains
.Co now has over 1.5 million domains registered. The .co domain namespace has hit a new milestone: 1.5 million domain names. The .co domain name ticker rolled over a big digit overnight: This is a pretty huge number of domain names within 3 years of ...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 10:16 am

The Domains
Return of the Mini-Site? Google Stops Its Domain Blocking Tool
Google has discontinued its domain blocking tool (known as The Blocked Sites feature”) i The tool would allow internet users could elect not to see results of say parked pages or content farm pages in their search results when logged into Googl...
Discussion
Return of the Mini-Site? Google Stops Its Domain Blocking Tool
Google has discontinued its domain blocking tool (known as The Blocked Sites feature”) i The tool would allow internet users could elect not to see results of say parked pages or content farm pages in their search results when logged into Googl...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 9:42 am

The Domains
Here Are the Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam:
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign had filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. Last nig...
Discussion
Here Are the Affidavits & Study Verisign Used In Support Of Its Objection To .Cam:
A couple of weeks ago we told you we were hearing that Verisign had filed objections to new gTLD strings that they believe are confusing to .com or .net for which Verisign is the registry including .Cam, .Bom, .Vet, .Company, .Network. Last nig...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 8:42 am

Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 26th
Shorter list today. I am all about routine and I am out of it. Will try and get back in today. I stayed up for 36 hours straight because of the snowstorm and threw everything out of whack. I was too tired to bill out yesterday but I...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 26th
Shorter list today. I am all about routine and I am out of it. Will try and get back in today. I stayed up for 36 hours straight because of the snowstorm and threw everything out of whack. I was too tired to bill out yesterday but I...
Discussion
March 26, 2013, 7:45 am