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Donuts chooses Rightside over Google Nomulus
New top level domain name company extends contract with Rightside. Donuts has extended its contract with Rightside for the latter to provide backend registry services for Donuts’ top level domain names, the two companies announced today. Rights...
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Donuts chooses Rightside over Google Nomulus
New top level domain name company extends contract with Rightside. Donuts has extended its contract with Rightside for the latter to provide backend registry services for Donuts’ top level domain names, the two companies announced today. Rights...
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February 7, 2017, 2:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy enables app-based 2FA and more control
Google Authenticator can now be used to securely log in to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has enhanced its two-factor authentication (2FA) to make it easier to use, especially for people outside of the United States. Effective immediately, customers can use an app...
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GoDaddy enables app-based 2FA and more control
Google Authenticator can now be used to securely log in to GoDaddy. GoDaddy has enhanced its two-factor authentication (2FA) to make it easier to use, especially for people outside of the United States. Effective immediately, customers can use an app...
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February 6, 2017, 11:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Union Square Ventures invests in Tucows
Investor makes its first-ever investment in a public company. Venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) has made a “substantial investment” in publicly traded Tucows, the company revealed today. This marks USV’s first investm...
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Union Square Ventures invests in Tucows
Investor makes its first-ever investment in a public company. Venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) has made a “substantial investment” in publicly traded Tucows, the company revealed today. This marks USV’s first investm...
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February 6, 2017, 11:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bags.com, Folders.com and Envelopes.com now under one roof
Envelopes.com owner is expanding its empire based on category-defining domain names. BigName Commerce has acquired the business that owns Folders.com, and has separately acquired the domain name Bags.com, the company announced today. The two business...
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Bags.com, Folders.com and Envelopes.com now under one roof
Envelopes.com owner is expanding its empire based on category-defining domain names. BigName Commerce has acquired the business that owns Folders.com, and has separately acquired the domain name Bags.com, the company announced today. The two business...
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February 6, 2017, 9:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Battling the Bots – DNW Podcast #122
A recap from NamesCon plus Roland LaPlante of Afilias. Has you website ever been attacked by nefarious bots? Bots do everything from scrape data to try password combos to hack into websites. Edward Roberts works for Distil Networks, a company that fi...
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Battling the Bots – DNW Podcast #122
A recap from NamesCon plus Roland LaPlante of Afilias. Has you website ever been attacked by nefarious bots? Bots do everything from scrape data to try password combos to hack into websites. Edward Roberts works for Distil Networks, a company that fi...
Discussion
February 6, 2017, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Super Bowl ad propels GoDaddy to best Sunday ever for new customers
World’s largest domain name registrar claims victory with Super Bowl commercial for new website builder. GoDaddy says it signed up more new customers yesterday following its Super Bowl ad than it’s ever signed up on a Sunday in its 20-yea...
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Super Bowl ad propels GoDaddy to best Sunday ever for new customers
World’s largest domain name registrar claims victory with Super Bowl commercial for new website builder. GoDaddy says it signed up more new customers yesterday following its Super Bowl ad than it’s ever signed up on a Sunday in its 20-yea...
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February 6, 2017, 4:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Snapchat’s first investor connected with it through Whois search
Investor used Whois search to connect the dots. Snapchat (or just Snap) has filed to go public and its IPO is sure to make its early investors a nice return. Lightspeed Ventures was the first venture capital firm to invest in the company. And how the...
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Snapchat’s first investor connected with it through Whois search
Investor used Whois search to connect the dots. Snapchat (or just Snap) has filed to go public and its IPO is sure to make its early investors a nice return. Lightspeed Ventures was the first venture capital firm to invest in the company. And how the...
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February 3, 2017, 2:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 4)
This is the fourth Joseph Peterson’s series examining new TLDs by country. Read parts one, two and three. This article continues our examination of GEO nTLDs – new domain suffixes, released since 2014, that describe a city, region, nation...
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Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 4)
This is the fourth Joseph Peterson’s series examining new TLDs by country. Read parts one, two and three. This article continues our examination of GEO nTLDs – new domain suffixes, released since 2014, that describe a city, region, nation...
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February 2, 2017, 4:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Company lets domain name expire, files UDRP 10 years later
Yo, where have you been? A Brazilian company has lost a UDRP it filed against a domain name it let expire a decade ago. CIA. Industrial H. Carlos Schneider registered the domain name Ciser.com in 2003 but it expired in 2006. 10 years later, in 2016, ...
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Company lets domain name expire, files UDRP 10 years later
Yo, where have you been? A Brazilian company has lost a UDRP it filed against a domain name it let expire a decade ago. CIA. Industrial H. Carlos Schneider registered the domain name Ciser.com in 2003 but it expired in 2006. 10 years later, in 2016, ...
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February 2, 2017, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers: Big changes ahead
The Winners & Losers chart will be undergoing some shakeup. Every month I publish my .Com Winners & Losers report based on the most recent data Verisign has submitted to ICANN. This data is made public three months after the end of the releva...
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.Com Winners & Losers: Big changes ahead
The Winners & Losers chart will be undergoing some shakeup. Every month I publish my .Com Winners & Losers report based on the most recent data Verisign has submitted to ICANN. This data is made public three months after the end of the releva...
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February 2, 2017, 2:44 pm
