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Which eCommerce Platform Best Suits Your Needs?
Ready to build one of your domain names into a full-fledged website? Adding eCommerce functionality is easier than ever. You just need to decide which eCommerce platform to use. Unfortunately, with so many available options, you may not know which eC...
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Which eCommerce Platform Best Suits Your Needs?
Ready to build one of your domain names into a full-fledged website? Adding eCommerce functionality is easier than ever. You just need to decide which eCommerce platform to use. Unfortunately, with so many available options, you may not know which eC...
Discussion
August 1, 2017, 1:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verizon Center in Washington DC likely to become Capital One Center
The Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals will soon play at the Capital One Center. The Verizon Center in Washington DC, home to the Washington Wizard NBA team and Washington Capitals NHL team, is likely to be renamed the Capital One Center. Ver...
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Verizon Center in Washington DC likely to become Capital One Center
The Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals will soon play at the Capital One Center. The Verizon Center in Washington DC, home to the Washington Wizard NBA team and Washington Capitals NHL team, is likely to be renamed the Capital One Center. Ver...
Discussion
July 31, 2017, 5:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Takeaways from Donuts’ new website
Matt Overman and Matt Delgado join Donuts. Donuts has updated its website after acquiring Rightside (it looks like they mostly ported Rightside’s site), and there are a couple interesting things to note. First of all, Matt Overman and Matt Delg...
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Takeaways from Donuts’ new website
Matt Overman and Matt Delgado join Donuts. Donuts has updated its website after acquiring Rightside (it looks like they mostly ported Rightside’s site), and there are a couple interesting things to note. First of all, Matt Overman and Matt Delg...
Discussion
July 31, 2017, 4:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
European Domain Market + BrandIT – DNW Podcast #146
Understanding the European domain market and corporate domain management. This week I chat with Jesper Knudsen and Jochen Kieler of BrandIT. BrandIT is a corporate domain and brand management company that bought domain brokerage Igloo.com earlier thi...
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European Domain Market + BrandIT – DNW Podcast #146
Understanding the European domain market and corporate domain management. This week I chat with Jesper Knudsen and Jochen Kieler of BrandIT. BrandIT is a corporate domain and brand management company that bought domain brokerage Igloo.com earlier thi...
Discussion
July 31, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
EFF whitepaper compares registry policies, disses new TLDs
Paper points to questionable rights protection mechanisms in new TLDs. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge have released a whitepaper comparing policies across various domain name registries, and warning domain registrants to be...
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EFF whitepaper compares registry policies, disses new TLDs
Paper points to questionable rights protection mechanisms in new TLDs. Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge have released a whitepaper comparing policies across various domain name registries, and warning domain registrants to be...
Discussion
July 28, 2017, 3:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign announces 10% .net price hike, could hit $14.52 in 2023
Prices keep going up. Verisign (VRSN) announced yesterday that it is increasing the price of .net domain names by 10% on February 1, 2018. The wholesale price of a one-year registration or renewal will jump from $8.20 to $9.02 on that day. The move d...
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Verisign announces 10% .net price hike, could hit $14.52 in 2023
Prices keep going up. Verisign (VRSN) announced yesterday that it is increasing the price of .net domain names by 10% on February 1, 2018. The wholesale price of a one-year registration or renewal will jump from $8.20 to $9.02 on that day. The move d...
Discussion
July 28, 2017, 11:01 am
Domain Name Wire
.Com/.Net domain base increases just 0.68 million in second quarter
Base barely budges but beats Verisign’s expecations. Verisign (VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, released results after the closing bell today. The base of registered domains in .com and .net barely budged, increasing 0.68 mil...
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.Com/.Net domain base increases just 0.68 million in second quarter
Base barely budges but beats Verisign’s expecations. Verisign (VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, released results after the closing bell today. The base of registered domains in .com and .net barely budged, increasing 0.68 mil...
Discussion
July 27, 2017, 8:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XYZ working to make domains available in China again
Domains haven’t been available at Chinese domain registrars since early May. Many Chinese domain name registrars stopped offering .xyz domain names back in May at the behest of China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). At th...
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.XYZ working to make domains available in China again
Domains haven’t been available at Chinese domain registrars since early May. Many Chinese domain name registrars stopped offering .xyz domain names back in May at the behest of China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). At th...
Discussion
July 27, 2017, 4:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts acquisition of Rightside to happen overnight
Rightside should no longer exist as a public company tomorrow morning. The sun has gone into hiding and a mist is falling in Seattle this morning, but executives at Rightside and Donuts won’t be getting much time outside anyway. They’ll b...
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Donuts acquisition of Rightside to happen overnight
Rightside should no longer exist as a public company tomorrow morning. The sun has gone into hiding and a mist is falling in Seattle this morning, but executives at Rightside and Donuts won’t be getting much time outside anyway. They’ll b...
Discussion
July 27, 2017, 4:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Track your outbound domain sales with PipeDrive
PipeDrive is a great tool for managing outbound sales efforts. There are lots of tools for managing inbound domain sales leads, such as Uniregistry Market and Efty. But there aren’t any that make it easy to handle outbound sales efforts, and mo...
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Track your outbound domain sales with PipeDrive
PipeDrive is a great tool for managing outbound sales efforts. There are lots of tools for managing inbound domain sales leads, such as Uniregistry Market and Efty. But there aren’t any that make it easy to handle outbound sales efforts, and mo...
Discussion
July 27, 2017, 12:28 pm