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Domain Name Wire
Sedo’s Top 10 MLS sales this year
Company reveals top (public) sales this year through its distribution network. Domain name marketplace Sedo offers a system called SedoMLS that syndicates domain name listings to partners including domain name registrars. This puts your domain names ...
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Sedo’s Top 10 MLS sales this year
Company reveals top (public) sales this year through its distribution network. Domain name marketplace Sedo offers a system called SedoMLS that syndicates domain name listings to partners including domain name registrars. This puts your domain names ...
Discussion
June 27, 2017, 2:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain registrars hate registry exceptions
Registrars consider the cost of changes and number of customers impacted before implementing registry pricing exceptions. The new top level domain name program has ushered in a new era of complexity for domain pricing. The biggest change has been mul...
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Domain registrars hate registry exceptions
Registrars consider the cost of changes and number of customers impacted before implementing registry pricing exceptions. The new top level domain name program has ushered in a new era of complexity for domain pricing. The biggest change has been mul...
Discussion
June 26, 2017, 5:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
State of the Domain Business – DNW Podcast #142
What the Rightside-Donuts tie up says about the state of new top level domain names. This week I delve into Donuts’ acquisition of Rightside and discuss what it says about the current state of new top level domains. I also run through a bunch o...
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State of the Domain Business – DNW Podcast #142
What the Rightside-Donuts tie up says about the state of new top level domain names. This week I delve into Donuts’ acquisition of Rightside and discuss what it says about the current state of new top level domains. I also run through a bunch o...
Discussion
June 26, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawsuit filed to recover stolen $100,000 domain name
Man says he paid $100,000 for three-letter domain name before it was stolen. A California man has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover the valuable domain name BSH.com. Qiang Du bought the domain name for $100,000 in April 2016. He transferred the domain...
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Lawsuit filed to recover stolen $100,000 domain name
Man says he paid $100,000 for three-letter domain name before it was stolen. A California man has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover the valuable domain name BSH.com. Qiang Du bought the domain name for $100,000 in April 2016. He transferred the domain...
Discussion
June 26, 2017, 3:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Robocalls could get a lot worse…just “ringless”
FCC considering a petition to allow “ringless voicemail”. I’ve written about robocalls a few times on Domain Name Wire. If your phone number is in Whois, you are probably bombarded by these annoying calls. It could get a lot worse v...
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Robocalls could get a lot worse…just “ringless”
FCC considering a petition to allow “ringless voicemail”. I’ve written about robocalls a few times on Domain Name Wire. If your phone number is in Whois, you are probably bombarded by these annoying calls. It could get a lot worse v...
Discussion
June 26, 2017, 1:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Advertising firm thinks BabyBoom.com is cybersquatting
Company files UDRP against common term. You can’t make this stuff up. A marketing firm that helps people target new parents under the name Babyboom has filed a UDRP against the domain name BabyBoom.com. European firm N2COM offers services under...
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Advertising firm thinks BabyBoom.com is cybersquatting
Company files UDRP against common term. You can’t make this stuff up. A marketing firm that helps people target new parents under the name Babyboom has filed a UDRP against the domain name BabyBoom.com. European firm N2COM offers services under...
Discussion
June 24, 2017, 4:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
XYZ asks appeals court to force Verisign to pay legal expenses
Keeping the legal system busy. The long-running court battle initiated by Verisign against .XYZ continues as XYZ has asked an appeals court to help it recover legal expenses. A quick synopsis: Verisign sued XYZ for false advertising. A federal distri...
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XYZ asks appeals court to force Verisign to pay legal expenses
Keeping the legal system busy. The long-running court battle initiated by Verisign against .XYZ continues as XYZ has asked an appeals court to help it recover legal expenses. A quick synopsis: Verisign sued XYZ for false advertising. A federal distri...
Discussion
June 22, 2017, 8:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Track your domains even after you decide not to renew them
You never know when a domain’s chances of selling will increase. I renew many of my domains six months or more in advance. If I know I’m going to renew them, I like to knock them out in bulk so I don’t have to worry about them and d...
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Track your domains even after you decide not to renew them
You never know when a domain’s chances of selling will increase. I renew many of my domains six months or more in advance. If I know I’m going to renew them, I like to knock them out in bulk so I don’t have to worry about them and d...
Discussion
June 22, 2017, 4:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
CrazyDomains owner buys Singapore domain and hosting company
Australian registrar gobbles up Singapore company. Dreamscape Networks, owner of Australian domain name registrar CrazyDomains, has acquired Singapore’s Vodien Group for AUS $30 million (about USD $23 million). Vodien Group has 27,000 customers...
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CrazyDomains owner buys Singapore domain and hosting company
Australian registrar gobbles up Singapore company. Dreamscape Networks, owner of Australian domain name registrar CrazyDomains, has acquired Singapore’s Vodien Group for AUS $30 million (about USD $23 million). Vodien Group has 27,000 customers...
Discussion
June 22, 2017, 2:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rick Schwartz gets RDNH win on Queen.com
Flower company guilty of reserve domain name hijacking over Queen.com domain name. Knud Jepsen A/S has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in the UDRP it brought against Rick Schwartz’s domain name Queen.com. The complainant is k...
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Rick Schwartz gets RDNH win on Queen.com
Flower company guilty of reserve domain name hijacking over Queen.com domain name. Knud Jepsen A/S has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in the UDRP it brought against Rick Schwartz’s domain name Queen.com. The complainant is k...
Discussion
June 22, 2017, 1:33 pm
