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Laws forcing Google to pay for news “content” hurt small publishers
Google is the lifeblood of small publishers. Australia is the latest country to consider mandating that Google pay news publishers for “content,” even if this content is just a headline and short snippet. Google and Google News have becom...
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April 20, 2020, 5:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Domains in Hollywood – DNW Podcast #282
Why movies have such crappy domain names. There was a time, not so long ago, when people went to movie theaters to watch movies. They were subjected to 30 minutes of previews before the movie began. And these previews included domain names for each m...
Discussion
April 20, 2020, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Answering some reader questions
Kassey Lee answers some of the questions readers have asked him about their domains, as they relate to China. In this article, I would like to answer some questions readers have posed to me. Does AR27 have any particular meanings in Chinese? AR is an...
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April 17, 2020, 2:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
ICANN postpones .org decision after California AG says sale shouldn’t happen
Deadline pushed back two weeks to May 4. ICANN’s due date to decide if it should allow Public Interest Registry (PIR), the company that runs the .org domain, to be sold to a private equity company has been delayed again. ICANN and PIR agreed to...
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April 17, 2020, 1:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
What domains GoodRx and other end users bought
GoodRx and several manufacturing companies bought domain names. GoodRx has become a popular app because of the rising cost of prescription drugs. The company purchased GDRX.com through Sedo this past week. Sure seems like it would make a good stock t...
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April 16, 2020, 5:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Domains that will appeal to this Chinese end user
This company is ripe for a domain upgrade. I was reading VC news a few days ago and came across an interesting company that may need to upgrade its corporate domain. Shi Ji Kai Yuan (世纪开元) is a Chinese printing company with lots of awards rec...
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April 16, 2020, 1:26 pm
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Domain Name Wire
Amazon plans AI integration for one of its top level domains
Company eyes artificial intelligence engineers for one of its 52 domains. Amazon is trying to hire software engineers to work on one of its new top level domains, with a focus on artificial intelligence and chatbots. The job listing states: We are lo...
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April 15, 2020, 4:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
The 2 remaining issues on .Org’s sale
ICANN wants more information about ownership and debt. ICANN has asked (pdf) Public Interest Registry (PIR), which manages .org, for more information about its proposed acquisition by Ethos Capital. PIR has responded to one of the requests by updatin...
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April 15, 2020, 4:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Upside of the downturn: Ad networks are on sale
Advertising through networks is now more affordable. Online advertising networks are reporting a slump due to the pandemic. Companies that are closed have no reason to advertise! This is impacting major ad platforms such as Google and Facebook. Ad ra...
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April 15, 2020, 4:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
National Arbitration Forum phones its in on WellPath.com
Panel returns a terse decision. At least it correctly denied the case. Perhaps the panel though it was deciding a Uniform Rapid Suspension case, not a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy case. That’s the only explanation I can come up...
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April 15, 2020, 2:55 pm
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