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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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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...
Discussion
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, ...
Discussion
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...
Discussion
.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...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
A first hand account of being forced to change your domain name
An example of why you shouldn’t register “psuedo” domain names. Last year CentralNic announced it was closing down certain third level domain names that it allowed people to register. It sold these domains similar to how you can buy...
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A first hand account of being forced to change your domain name
An example of why you shouldn’t register “psuedo” domain names. Last year CentralNic announced it was closing down certain third level domain names that it allowed people to register. It sold these domains similar to how you can buy...
Discussion
February 1, 2017, 10:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
23 end user domain name sales up to $179,000
Here are 23 domain names that were purchased by end users over the past two weeks. I was so busy during NamesCon last week that I didn’t run my usual end user sales column, so this week you get two weeks worth of Sedo end user sales to peruse. ...
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23 end user domain name sales up to $179,000
Here are 23 domain names that were purchased by end users over the past two weeks. I was so busy during NamesCon last week that I didn’t run my usual end user sales column, so this week you get two weeks worth of Sedo end user sales to peruse. ...
Discussion
February 1, 2017, 3:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Video: GoDaddy 2017 Super Bowl Commercial
Here’s GoDaddy’s Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy debuted its 2017 Super Bowl ad last night on CBS’s Greatest Super Bowl Commercials Ever. Here it is: The Super Bowl commercial promotes GoDaddy’s new site builder called GoCentral. Accor...
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Video: GoDaddy 2017 Super Bowl Commercial
Here’s GoDaddy’s Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy debuted its 2017 Super Bowl ad last night on CBS’s Greatest Super Bowl Commercials Ever. Here it is: The Super Bowl commercial promotes GoDaddy’s new site builder called GoCentral. Accor...
Discussion
February 1, 2017, 2:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 3: the Geos)
This is the third part of Joseph Peterson’s analysis of new TLD registrations by geography. In 2 previous articles (here and here), we scrutinized nTLD registration volume by country, asking which nations are most / least engaged overall w...
Discussion
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 3: the Geos)
This is the third part of Joseph Peterson’s analysis of new TLD registrations by geography. In 2 previous articles (here and here), we scrutinized nTLD registration volume by country, asking which nations are most / least engaged overall w...
Discussion
January 31, 2017, 6:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Don’t ignore that “Buyers identified” email from Sedo
Sedo’s partners will promote your domain names to targeted prospects. Earlier this week some domain name investors received an email from Sedo with “Buyers identified” in the subject line. Here’s what it looked like: The email...
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Don’t ignore that “Buyers identified” email from Sedo
Sedo’s partners will promote your domain names to targeted prospects. Earlier this week some domain name investors received an email from Sedo with “Buyers identified” in the subject line. Here’s what it looked like: The email...
Discussion
January 31, 2017, 3:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
FIFA wins FIFA.net cybersquatting claim
Soccer’s governing body gets FIFA.net to use along with its FIFA.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded soccer’s (sorry, football) governing body the domain name FIFA.net. Fédération In...
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FIFA wins FIFA.net cybersquatting claim
Soccer’s governing body gets FIFA.net to use along with its FIFA.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded soccer’s (sorry, football) governing body the domain name FIFA.net. Fédération In...
Discussion
January 31, 2017, 2:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Todococheweb SL hit for reverse domain name hijacking
Company makes unsubstantiated claim in its dead-on-arrival UDRP. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Todococheweb SL to have filed a UDRP in bad faith against the owner of TodoCoches.com. “Todo coches” is Spanish fo...
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Todococheweb SL hit for reverse domain name hijacking
Company makes unsubstantiated claim in its dead-on-arrival UDRP. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Todococheweb SL to have filed a UDRP in bad faith against the owner of TodoCoches.com. “Todo coches” is Spanish fo...
Discussion
January 30, 2017, 5:02 pm
