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The .Com Cliff is .Coming
Is .com’s growing base of registrations about to go negative? Jim Bidzos was wrong. Bidzos, the CEO of .com registry Verisign, was celebrating a better-than-expected third quarter last year. Domain name registrations were higher than normal tha...
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The .Com Cliff is .Coming
Is .com’s growing base of registrations about to go negative? Jim Bidzos was wrong. Bidzos, the CEO of .com registry Verisign, was celebrating a better-than-expected third quarter last year. Domain name registrations were higher than normal tha...
Discussion
October 11, 2016, 2:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
The .Com Cliff is .Coming
Is .com’s growing base of registrations about to go negative? Jim Bidzos was wrong. Bidzos, the CEO of .com registry Verisign, was celebrating a better-than-expected third quarter last year. Domain name registrations were higher than normal tha...
Discussion
The .Com Cliff is .Coming
Is .com’s growing base of registrations about to go negative? Jim Bidzos was wrong. Bidzos, the CEO of .com registry Verisign, was celebrating a better-than-expected third quarter last year. Domain name registrations were higher than normal tha...
Discussion
October 11, 2016, 1:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Selling more domain names (with Bob Mountain) – DNW Podcast #105
Bob Mountain outlines tweaks to your selling strategy that will help you sell more domain names. Bob Mountain, Chief Revenue Officer of Afternic, reveals insight derived from data on millions of domain names that will help you sell more domains. From...
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Selling more domain names (with Bob Mountain) – DNW Podcast #105
Bob Mountain outlines tweaks to your selling strategy that will help you sell more domain names. Bob Mountain, Chief Revenue Officer of Afternic, reveals insight derived from data on millions of domain names that will help you sell more domains. From...
Discussion
October 10, 2016, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
September’s Top 5 Stories and Podcasts
A look back at September in the domain name industry. I had a dream last night. I was sitting on a bench in the city and a couple trucks rolled by. Both of them had web addresses on them, and both ended in new top level domain names. Alas, it was jus...
Discussion
September’s Top 5 Stories and Podcasts
A look back at September in the domain name industry. I had a dream last night. I was sitting on a bench in the city and a couple trucks rolled by. Both of them had web addresses on them, and both ended in new top level domain names. Alas, it was jus...
Discussion
October 10, 2016, 1:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
A .com price freeze through 2024 more likely?
More likely, but not guaranteed. When ICANN published its proposed contract extension with Verisign for the .com contract, it didn’t discuss the question of pricing. .Com prices are currently capped at $7.85 wholesale. The extension, from 2018 ...
Discussion
A .com price freeze through 2024 more likely?
More likely, but not guaranteed. When ICANN published its proposed contract extension with Verisign for the .com contract, it didn’t discuss the question of pricing. .Com prices are currently capped at $7.85 wholesale. The extension, from 2018 ...
Discussion
October 7, 2016, 11:54 am
Domain Name Wire
Fashion Company Brave Soul is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
Company filed cybersquatting complaint in abuse of the UDRP. A fashion clothing company has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name BraveSoul.com. Complainant Whispering Smith Limited is affiliated with the fa...
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Fashion Company Brave Soul is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
Company filed cybersquatting complaint in abuse of the UDRP. A fashion clothing company has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name BraveSoul.com. Complainant Whispering Smith Limited is affiliated with the fa...
Discussion
October 6, 2016, 4:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Efty releases “UDRP-safe” landing pages
New options make it harder for potential complainants to show you were trying to sell a domain name. Domain name selling platform Efty has launched new landing page designs that the company says will help prevent UDRP and INDRP (India) losses. While ...
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Efty releases “UDRP-safe” landing pages
New options make it harder for potential complainants to show you were trying to sell a domain name. Domain name selling platform Efty has launched new landing page designs that the company says will help prevent UDRP and INDRP (India) losses. While ...
Discussion
October 6, 2016, 11:59 am
Domain Name Wire
From 10-cent domains to revved up marketing and policy changes, .US might finally go somewhere
The .Us domain name is finally getting some marketing muscle. Hang around American domainers long enough and you’re sure to hear them gripe about .Us. What could the United States’ country code domain name have been had Neustar actually m...
Discussion
From 10-cent domains to revved up marketing and policy changes, .US might finally go somewhere
The .Us domain name is finally getting some marketing muscle. Hang around American domainers long enough and you’re sure to hear them gripe about .Us. What could the United States’ country code domain name have been had Neustar actually m...
Discussion
October 5, 2016, 3:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 end user domain name sales including a new TLD for $18,000
A megachurch in Texas and Halliburton both bought domain names last week. Sedo’s biggest public sale over the past week was HotBot.com for $155,000. I wrote about it yesterday, so for this post I’ll focus on another big sale: Celebration....
Discussion
14 end user domain name sales including a new TLD for $18,000
A megachurch in Texas and Halliburton both bought domain names last week. Sedo’s biggest public sale over the past week was HotBot.com for $155,000. I wrote about it yesterday, so for this post I’ll focus on another big sale: Celebration....
Discussion
October 5, 2016, 3:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lycos sells HotBot.com for $155,000
Remember HotBot.com? Someone wants to breathe new life into it. Feeling Nostalgic? Lycos has sold the domain name HotBot.com, which has a long and storied history. HotBot has gone through a number of iterations but started as a meta search engine tha...
Discussion
Lycos sells HotBot.com for $155,000
Remember HotBot.com? Someone wants to breathe new life into it. Feeling Nostalgic? Lycos has sold the domain name HotBot.com, which has a long and storied history. HotBot has gone through a number of iterations but started as a meta search engine tha...
Discussion
October 4, 2016, 8:58 pm
