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ICANN announces 2020 financial results
Pandemic-induced savings helped ICANN’s 2020 financial results. ICANN published (pdf) its financial results for the 2020 financial year today. FY 2020 covered the 12 months ending June 30, 2020. Total funding was $141 million and expenses were ...
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ICANN announces 2020 financial results
Pandemic-induced savings helped ICANN’s 2020 financial results. ICANN published (pdf) its financial results for the 2020 financial year today. FY 2020 covered the 12 months ending June 30, 2020. Total funding was $141 million and expenses were ...
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October 15, 2020, 4:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Nobel Prize winner has connection to new top level domains
Nobel Prize winner in economics helped create the private auction format for new top level domain name contention sets. Did you see that video this week of a man and his wife trying to wake up his neighbor to tell him he won the Nobel Prize in econom...
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Nobel Prize winner has connection to new top level domains
Nobel Prize winner in economics helped create the private auction format for new top level domain name contention sets. Did you see that video this week of a man and his wife trying to wake up his neighbor to tell him he won the Nobel Prize in econom...
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October 15, 2020, 3:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
26 end user domain name sales this week
SmugMug, Pocketbook and other companies bought domains. Sedo had a strong week for end user domain name sales, including some nice low-five-figure transactions. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You ...
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26 end user domain name sales this week
SmugMug, Pocketbook and other companies bought domains. Sedo had a strong week for end user domain name sales, including some nice low-five-figure transactions. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You ...
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October 15, 2020, 1:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Org registry names finalists for Impact Awards
Kiva, a local chapter of The Salvation Army, and Rainforest Alliance are among this year’s finalists. Public Interest Registry has named the finalists for this year’s .Org Impact Awards. The winners will be announced over a ten-day period...
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.Org registry names finalists for Impact Awards
Kiva, a local chapter of The Salvation Army, and Rainforest Alliance are among this year’s finalists. Public Interest Registry has named the finalists for this year’s .Org Impact Awards. The winners will be announced over a ten-day period...
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October 14, 2020, 6:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Web.com has strong month for aftermarket sales
93 domains sold for $2,000 or more last month. Web.com’s aftermarket platforms NameJet and SnapNames had a better-than-usual month in September when it comes to selling high dollar domains. The platforms combined for 93 sales of $2,000 or more,...
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Web.com has strong month for aftermarket sales
93 domains sold for $2,000 or more last month. Web.com’s aftermarket platforms NameJet and SnapNames had a better-than-usual month in September when it comes to selling high dollar domains. The platforms combined for 93 sales of $2,000 or more,...
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October 14, 2020, 4:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
IPinfo launches domain data service Host.io
Service can be used to pull d0main data into applications. Seattle-based IPinfo has launched Host.io, an API and website offering domain name data. Users can quickly get domain data such as host, backlinks, outlinks, redirects, and DNS info including...
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IPinfo launches domain data service Host.io
Service can be used to pull d0main data into applications. Seattle-based IPinfo has launched Host.io, an API and website offering domain name data. Users can quickly get domain data such as host, backlinks, outlinks, redirects, and DNS info including...
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October 14, 2020, 4:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
3 companies paid $100k+ for domain forwards
Companies paid big bucks for domains that they are forwarding to other websites. GoDaddy published its first set of domain name sales data in many years today. The company is publishing 20 of its top sales each month, but four months in arrears to ac...
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3 companies paid $100k+ for domain forwards
Companies paid big bucks for domains that they are forwarding to other websites. GoDaddy published its first set of domain name sales data in many years today. The company is publishing 20 of its top sales each month, but four months in arrears to ac...
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October 13, 2020, 8:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sav’s no-fee domain backorder service comes out of beta
Domain name registrar only charges customers the registration cost for dropping domains. Domain name registrar Sav has taken the beta label off of its domain name backordering service. Sav doesn’t charge anything to place backorders and doesn&r...
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Sav’s no-fee domain backorder service comes out of beta
Domain name registrar only charges customers the registration cost for dropping domains. Domain name registrar Sav has taken the beta label off of its domain name backordering service. Sav doesn’t charge anything to place backorders and doesn&r...
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October 13, 2020, 7:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Art domain registry gets patent for using Whois to store artwork information
Patent is related to .Art’s “Digital Twin” offering. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,805,263 (pdf) to UKCI Holdings Limited, operator of the .art domain name registry, for Domain name regis...
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.Art domain registry gets patent for using Whois to store artwork information
Patent is related to .Art’s “Digital Twin” offering. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,805,263 (pdf) to UKCI Holdings Limited, operator of the .art domain name registry, for Domain name regis...
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October 13, 2020, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reverse domain name hijacking in CreditHero.com dispute
Misleading citations used as part of a domain name hijacking attempt. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has found Daniel A. Rosen, Inc. d/b/a Credit Repair Cloud, to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name CreditHero.com. Credit ...
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Reverse domain name hijacking in CreditHero.com dispute
Misleading citations used as part of a domain name hijacking attempt. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has found Daniel A. Rosen, Inc. d/b/a Credit Repair Cloud, to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name CreditHero.com. Credit ...
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October 13, 2020, 3:22 pm
