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Judge orders Verisign to transfer CostaRica.com domain name
Valuable CostaRica.com domain name will be transferred to prior registrant. A United States District Judge has ordered Verisign to transfer the domain name CostaRica.com to its previous owners, who allege the domain name was stolen. The plaintiffs in...
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Judge orders Verisign to transfer CostaRica.com domain name
Valuable CostaRica.com domain name will be transferred to prior registrant. A United States District Judge has ordered Verisign to transfer the domain name CostaRica.com to its previous owners, who allege the domain name was stolen. The plaintiffs in...
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April 3, 2017, 9:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy comments on Uniregistry pricing change
Registrar is happy about grandfathering, but still has issues with Uniregistry price hikes. This morning, Uniregistry announced some changes to its planned price hikes that take effect in September. Most notably, existing registrations in nine of the...
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GoDaddy comments on Uniregistry pricing change
Registrar is happy about grandfathering, but still has issues with Uniregistry price hikes. This morning, Uniregistry announced some changes to its planned price hikes that take effect in September. Most notably, existing registrations in nine of the...
Discussion
April 3, 2017, 8:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Teaching domain name investing to the world
Sedo went out of its traditional comfort zone to discuss domain investing. Last week I wrote about how Sedo was exhibiting at the Annual Investor Meeting in Dubai this week. This is an unusual conference for a domain name company. The audience knows ...
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Teaching domain name investing to the world
Sedo went out of its traditional comfort zone to discuss domain investing. Last week I wrote about how Sedo was exhibiting at the Annual Investor Meeting in Dubai this week. This is an unusual conference for a domain name company. The audience knows ...
Discussion
April 3, 2017, 7:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Naming a Business – DNW Podcast #130
Learn from this company’s mistakes coming up with a company name and domain name. Naming your company and finding the right domain name can by tricky. Do it wrong and you’ll end up going through the expense of a rebrand. Willy Ogorzaly kn...
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Naming a Business – DNW Podcast #130
Learn from this company’s mistakes coming up with a company name and domain name. Naming your company and finding the right domain name can by tricky. Do it wrong and you’ll end up going through the expense of a rebrand. Willy Ogorzaly kn...
Discussion
April 3, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Uniregistry backtracks on price hike on existing registrations
Company will grandfather existing registrations in many new TLDs. New top level domain name registry Uniregistry is backtracking on its plans to significantly increase prices on existing registrations this September. Last month, the company announced...
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Uniregistry backtracks on price hike on existing registrations
Company will grandfather existing registrations in many new TLDs. New top level domain name registry Uniregistry is backtracking on its plans to significantly increase prices on existing registrations this September. Last month, the company announced...
Discussion
April 3, 2017, 3:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese buy another 200,000 .VIP domain names
Bulk orders boost .VIP top level domain name. MMX (Minds + Machines) reported today that it has received orders for 200,000 additional .VIP domain name registrations. The sales will generate $1.3 million in income over the life of the contracts, and ...
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Chinese buy another 200,000 .VIP domain names
Bulk orders boost .VIP top level domain name. MMX (Minds + Machines) reported today that it has received orders for 200,000 additional .VIP domain name registrations. The sales will generate $1.3 million in income over the life of the contracts, and ...
Discussion
April 3, 2017, 12:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
URS is fast and cheap, but…
You might not win if the respondent puts up a fight. On the face of it, it seems that the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system was tailor made for cases like this: virgin-atlantic.cloud. But that doesn’t mean you can just phone it in. A Nation...
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URS is fast and cheap, but…
You might not win if the respondent puts up a fight. On the face of it, it seems that the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) system was tailor made for cases like this: virgin-atlantic.cloud. But that doesn’t mean you can just phone it in. A Nation...
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March 31, 2017, 1:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo to pitch domain names to financial investors
Company heads to Dubai to tell financial investors about domain names. If there’s one company in the domain name space that makes an effort to pitch domain names to various industries and people outside the domain business, it’s Sedo. The...
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Sedo to pitch domain names to financial investors
Company heads to Dubai to tell financial investors about domain names. If there’s one company in the domain name space that makes an effort to pitch domain names to various industries and people outside the domain business, it’s Sedo. The...
Discussion
March 31, 2017, 1:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Premium renewals create headaches for domain buyers
Figuring out if a domain has a premium renewal price can be confusing. There’s a bit of a quarrel going on right now between two domain name brokers over the sale of a domain with a premium renewal. One person bought a .TV domain name through t...
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Premium renewals create headaches for domain buyers
Figuring out if a domain has a premium renewal price can be confusing. There’s a bit of a quarrel going on right now between two domain name brokers over the sale of a domain with a premium renewal. One person bought a .TV domain name through t...
Discussion
March 30, 2017, 9:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Do you count your time as part of your domain investments?
Here are two schools of thought. I bet you get a pretty large number when you add up all of the time you spend on domain name investing. There’s sifting through drop lists. Updating nameservers. Responding to inquiries. When you calculate your ...
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Do you count your time as part of your domain investments?
Here are two schools of thought. I bet you get a pretty large number when you add up all of the time you spend on domain name investing. There’s sifting through drop lists. Updating nameservers. Responding to inquiries. When you calculate your ...
Discussion
March 30, 2017, 6:23 pm
