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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories in April
From domain hijacking to new TLDs, these were the top stories last month. As I do every month, let’s kick May off with a look at the top stories in the domain name business from the past month. These are ranked in the order of pageviews on Doma...
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories in April
From domain hijacking to new TLDs, these were the top stories last month. As I do every month, let’s kick May off with a look at the top stories in the domain name business from the past month. These are ranked in the order of pageviews on Doma...
Discussion
May 5, 2017, 4:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
And the Most Biased New TLD Is …
For several articles now, we’ve been talking about national bias in Country / nTLD pairs. It’s no surprise that .WIEN skews toward Austria, since Wien (a.k.a. Vienna) is the country’s capital. And we’d expect .IMMOBILIEN ...
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And the Most Biased New TLD Is …
For several articles now, we’ve been talking about national bias in Country / nTLD pairs. It’s no surprise that .WIEN skews toward Austria, since Wien (a.k.a. Vienna) is the country’s capital. And we’d expect .IMMOBILIEN ...
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May 5, 2017, 2:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
The Chinese trademark domain name scam in its entirety
An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your exist...
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The Chinese trademark domain name scam in its entirety
An email-by-email look at this common scam. By now you are probably familiar with the trademark domain name scam. A company sends an email informing you that someone is trying to register domain names containing your trademark (or matching your exist...
Discussion
May 4, 2017, 5:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Countries with Weird TLD Habits
Every country registers nTLDs according to its own taste – whether that’s .PARIS in France, .TIENDA in Spain, or .CLUB in Canada. Many nations take part in global trends; so their TLD habits might be similar. Yet some countries are v...
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Countries with Weird TLD Habits
Every country registers nTLDs according to its own taste – whether that’s .PARIS in France, .TIENDA in Spain, or .CLUB in Canada. Many nations take part in global trends; so their TLD habits might be similar. Yet some countries are v...
Discussion
May 4, 2017, 3:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Goldman Sachs and others bought this week
Goldman Sachs among companies that bought domain names through Sedo over the past week. The top public sale at domain name marketplace Sedo over the past week was for Piech.com. The buyer is using whois privacy but has already uploaded a logo for its...
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What domain names Goldman Sachs and others bought this week
Goldman Sachs among companies that bought domain names through Sedo over the past week. The top public sale at domain name marketplace Sedo over the past week was for Piech.com. The buyer is using whois privacy but has already uploaded a logo for its...
Discussion
May 4, 2017, 2:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
XYZ buys .Storage top level domain name
XYZ gets its tenth top level domain name XYZ, the company that runs the .xyz domain name, has added a tenth top level domain name to its stable. The company announced this morning that it has acquired the .storage top level domain name. Self Storage ...
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XYZ buys .Storage top level domain name
XYZ gets its tenth top level domain name XYZ, the company that runs the .xyz domain name, has added a tenth top level domain name to its stable. The company announced this morning that it has acquired the .storage top level domain name. Self Storage ...
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May 3, 2017, 5:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Stolen LDW.com domain name returned in UDRP
Original registrant discovered theft late last year. Game developer LDW Software, LLC has successfully recovered the stolen domain name LDW.com through a UDRP. The alleged theft appears to have happened in 2015, but the company didn’t become aw...
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Stolen LDW.com domain name returned in UDRP
Original registrant discovered theft late last year. Game developer LDW Software, LLC has successfully recovered the stolen domain name LDW.com through a UDRP. The alleged theft appears to have happened in 2015, but the company didn’t become aw...
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May 3, 2017, 3:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XYZ domains can’t be registered in China, Negari says it’s temporary
XYZ CEO Daniel Negari says the company is working to resolve issues selling domains in China. China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has instructed domain name registrars in China to stop selling .xyz domain names as of May 4, D...
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.XYZ domains can’t be registered in China, Negari says it’s temporary
XYZ CEO Daniel Negari says the company is working to resolve issues selling domains in China. China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has instructed domain name registrars in China to stop selling .xyz domain names as of May 4, D...
Discussion
May 3, 2017, 3:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Richard Tindal leaves Donuts
Exit follows Stahura’s role change. Half of new top level domain name company Donuts’ founding team is no longer in their original day-to-day roles. The company announced that Richard Tindal, COO and one of four co-founders of the company...
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Richard Tindal leaves Donuts
Exit follows Stahura’s role change. Half of new top level domain name company Donuts’ founding team is no longer in their original day-to-day roles. The company announced that Richard Tindal, COO and one of four co-founders of the company...
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May 3, 2017, 1:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy reports earnings, Domain revenue dips from Q4 but up YoY
Domain revenue slips compared to Q4. GoDaddy (NASDAQ:GDDY) reported Q1 2017 earnings after the bell today. Topline revenue was $489.7 million, up 12.9% year over year. Bookings hit $624.8 million, up 12.0% year over year. The domain name business pul...
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GoDaddy reports earnings, Domain revenue dips from Q4 but up YoY
Domain revenue slips compared to Q4. GoDaddy (NASDAQ:GDDY) reported Q1 2017 earnings after the bell today. Topline revenue was $489.7 million, up 12.9% year over year. Bookings hit $624.8 million, up 12.0% year over year. The domain name business pul...
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May 2, 2017, 8:35 pm
