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Cloudfest canceled, stock markets fall, Covid-19 and the economy
Event cancellations, supply chain disruptions, and travel restrictions are hitting the economy. Will they hit domains? The organizers of NamesCon hold a big cloud-industry event every March called Cloudfest. It attracts 7,000 people to Germany from a...
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February 28, 2020, 4:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Add.com auction sale falls through
Add.com sale didn’t add up. The $800,000 winning bid for Add.com at last month’s NamesCon live domain name auction won’t be completed, Domain Name Wire has learned. It seems that the winning bidder, who bid online, made an error. Th...
Discussion
February 28, 2020, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
MMX bolsters executive ranks with three roles
Top level domain company adds three people to its C-Suite. MMX (LSE:MMX), also known as Minds + Machines, has added three people to its executive ranks. Vaughn Liley is the new Chief Revenue Officer. It’s somewhat of a roundtrip for Liley. Whil...
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February 27, 2020, 9:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Two insurance companies drop their top level domain names
Neither company extensively used its dot-brand top level domain names. Two more companies have decided to can their dot-brand top level domain names. Both are in the insurance sector. Insurance company Esurance notified ICANN on January 9 that it no ...
Discussion
February 27, 2020, 8:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
What impact will increased .com prices have on domain investing?
Investors would have two ways to cope with rising prices. American Enterprise Institute submitted a comment (pdf) to ICANN about .com pricing during the comment period. Much of it echos Verisign’s own comments on the matter, and that shouldn&rs...
Discussion
February 27, 2020, 5:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
ICANN cancels another event due to Covid-19
Saudi Arabia event postponed over virus fears. ICANN has canceled a second event scheduled for March due to travel restrictions and fears over Covid-19, a coronavirus. The Middle East DNS Forum, scheduled for March 24-25 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is p...
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February 27, 2020, 4:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
I want c-suite domains
“51” domains can be used in many ways. No, it’s not really me wanting to acquire domains related to c-suite (titles starting with “c”) executives. It is about such domains starting with the prefix “51”. I hav...
Discussion
February 27, 2020, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name sales up to $150,000
A chamber of commerce, oil company and cybersecurity company bought domain names this past week. Sedo’s top public domain name sale over the past week was BettingTips .com for $150,000. A Swedish company that sells online traffic bought the dom...
Discussion
February 26, 2020, 5:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Reviewing 4-character domains sold in January
The .CN equivalents of these domains are in use. 4-character domains can be a viable option for startups without much funding because many of them can be acquired for less than $100. With a little bit of creativity, a decent Chinese brand can be crea...
Discussion
February 26, 2020, 2:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Popular YouTuber Stacy Plays files lawsuit to get domain StacyPlays .com
Lawsuit cites Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. Stacy Hinojosa’s company Stacy Plays Brands, LLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to try to get the domain name StacyPlays .com. Hinojosa is known as Stacy Plays. Her YouTube channel has over 2...
Discussion
February 25, 2020, 6:42 pm
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