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CentralNic reports 2016 earnings and growth driven by Instra
Instra acquisition accounts for company’s growth last year. Domain name company CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) reported earnings for 2016 this morning. The company grew its top line and Adjusted EBITDA significantly, with almost all of the growth comin...
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CentralNic reports 2016 earnings and growth driven by Instra
Instra acquisition accounts for company’s growth last year. Domain name company CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) reported earnings for 2016 this morning. The company grew its top line and Adjusted EBITDA significantly, with almost all of the growth comin...
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May 9, 2017, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reverse domain name hijacking in baffling UDRP case
Another WTF UDRP filing. A World Intellectual Property panelist has found Anyclean Premium Limited guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in one of the most baffling and misleading UDRP cases I’ve ever read. Anyclean runs a cleaning service an...
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Reverse domain name hijacking in baffling UDRP case
Another WTF UDRP filing. A World Intellectual Property panelist has found Anyclean Premium Limited guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in one of the most baffling and misleading UDRP cases I’ve ever read. Anyclean runs a cleaning service an...
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May 8, 2017, 5:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Kat.ph gets a TON of traffic, but no monetization on Google
Owner says it received over 700,000 uniques over past month. TorrentFreak has an interesting story about the Philippine country code domain name KAT.ph, which is currently for sale. The U.S. Government attempted to seize the domain name that was used...
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Kat.ph gets a TON of traffic, but no monetization on Google
Owner says it received over 700,000 uniques over past month. TorrentFreak has an interesting story about the Philippine country code domain name KAT.ph, which is currently for sale. The U.S. Government attempted to seize the domain name that was used...
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May 8, 2017, 3:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Boost your domain sales chances – DNW Podcast #135
Get more inbound leads with these tips. Bill Sweetman’s job is to help people buy domain names. He’s also been on the other side of the fence trying to sell domains. Learn how a domain buyer broker thinks in this episode as he explains ho...
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Boost your domain sales chances – DNW Podcast #135
Get more inbound leads with these tips. Bill Sweetman’s job is to help people buy domain names. He’s also been on the other side of the fence trying to sell domains. Learn how a domain buyer broker thinks in this episode as he explains ho...
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May 8, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
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 ...
Discussion
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
