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How spammers find new domain registrations
Spammers use a two-step process to learn about new domains and get the registrant’s contact details. My phone number has been abused over the past week. I’ve received dozens of spam text messages, robocalls, and telemarketing solicitation...
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How spammers find new domain registrations
Spammers use a two-step process to learn about new domains and get the registrant’s contact details. My phone number has been abused over the past week. I’ve received dozens of spam text messages, robocalls, and telemarketing solicitation...
Discussion
June 10, 2020, 9:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Canada’s .ca domains have record month
Pandemic pushes Canadians to register domain names in record numbers. More people registered .ca domain names last month than any month since Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) was founded in 1998. According to CIRA, 54,129 .ca domain na...
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Canada’s .ca domains have record month
Pandemic pushes Canadians to register domain names in record numbers. More people registered .ca domain names last month than any month since Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) was founded in 1998. According to CIRA, 54,129 .ca domain na...
Discussion
June 10, 2020, 3:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
$70K .net sale leads end user domain sales
An IT company, French education business, and Train driver test prep provider bought domain names. When is the last time that a .net domain led Sedo’s weekly sales? That was the case this past week with FM.net. A Texas IT company bought the dom...
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$70K .net sale leads end user domain sales
An IT company, French education business, and Train driver test prep provider bought domain names. When is the last time that a .net domain led Sedo’s weekly sales? That was the case this past week with FM.net. A Texas IT company bought the dom...
Discussion
June 9, 2020, 9:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling and XYZ to sell .car, cars and .auto registries
Three low-volume, high-price domain registries go on the auction block. A partnership between Frank Schilling’s UNR and XYZ is auctioning off three domain name registries: .car, .cars and .auto. The two companies partnered five years ago to bri...
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Frank Schilling and XYZ to sell .car, cars and .auto registries
Three low-volume, high-price domain registries go on the auction block. A partnership between Frank Schilling’s UNR and XYZ is auctioning off three domain name registries: .car, .cars and .auto. The two companies partnered five years ago to bri...
Discussion
June 9, 2020, 1:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Big news: GoDaddy starts redacting Whois information
GoDaddy has redacted personal information in Whois records for all customers. Effective today, GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has begun redacting personal information in Whois records for customers worldwide for eligible top level domains. The move makes Whois...
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Big news: GoDaddy starts redacting Whois information
GoDaddy has redacted personal information in Whois records for all customers. Effective today, GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has begun redacting personal information in Whois records for customers worldwide for eligible top level domains. The move makes Whois...
Discussion
June 8, 2020, 9:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pilot program to crack down on online opioid sales to begin
Registries for .com, .net, .org and .us may suspend domains under program. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is active with domains again. Over one year after announcing plans to crack down on websites selling illegal ...
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Pilot program to crack down on online opioid sales to begin
Registries for .com, .net, .org and .us may suspend domains under program. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is active with domains again. Over one year after announcing plans to crack down on websites selling illegal ...
Discussion
June 8, 2020, 7:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
How to automatically verify your Dan.com listings
Add a third nameserver to make sure your domains are approved. I’ve added a couple of hundred domains to Dan.com in recent months. One frustrating thing is that some of the domains get rejected because someone else previously added the domains ...
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How to automatically verify your Dan.com listings
Add a third nameserver to make sure your domains are approved. I’ve added a couple of hundred domains to Dan.com in recent months. One frustrating thing is that some of the domains get rejected because someone else previously added the domains ...
Discussion
June 8, 2020, 6:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
The Great Domain Theft – DNW Podcast #289
How Michael Fischer recovered his domain name from a theft. Owning a great domain is like owning a fine piece of art. It’s one of a kind and given the right opportunity, thieves would love to get their hands on it. My guest on today’s sho...
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The Great Domain Theft – DNW Podcast #289
How Michael Fischer recovered his domain name from a theft. Owning a great domain is like owning a fine piece of art. It’s one of a kind and given the right opportunity, thieves would love to get their hands on it. My guest on today’s sho...
Discussion
June 8, 2020, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
California restaurant chain fights over domain name
Cafe fights marketing firm for domain name. A California restaurant chain has gone to court to try to recover a domain name that it says it rightfully owns. West Coast Sourdough filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) in Federal District Court in Virginia on T...
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California restaurant chain fights over domain name
Cafe fights marketing firm for domain name. A California restaurant chain has gone to court to try to recover a domain name that it says it rightfully owns. West Coast Sourdough filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) in Federal District Court in Virginia on T...
Discussion
June 8, 2020, 1:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Registrars: remove phone numbers from Whois
You can no longer justify the harm it causes consumers. GoDaddy is making long-overdue changes to Whois records sometime soon. As much as I’ll hate missing the data, this is going to significantly improve the customer experience due to t...
Discussion
Registrars: remove phone numbers from Whois
You can no longer justify the harm it causes consumers. GoDaddy is making long-overdue changes to Whois records sometime soon. As much as I’ll hate missing the data, this is going to significantly improve the customer experience due to t...
Discussion
June 5, 2020, 8:09 pm
