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The most surprising new TLDs so far
Which domains have outperformed and underperformed my expectations? It’s been nearly three years since new top level domain names started rolling off of the DNS printing press. A lot of people made bad predictions about how TLDs would do in gen...
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The most surprising new TLDs so far
Which domains have outperformed and underperformed my expectations? It’s been nearly three years since new top level domain names started rolling off of the DNS printing press. A lot of people made bad predictions about how TLDs would do in gen...
Discussion
December 1, 2016, 8:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
The latest .Com Winners & Losers
Here’s how registrars fared in the latest Verisign report. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from August. Other than a bit of shakeup in the net inbound transfers category, ...
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The latest .Com Winners & Losers
Here’s how registrars fared in the latest Verisign report. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from August. Other than a bit of shakeup in the net inbound transfers category, ...
Discussion
December 1, 2016, 4:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
The new domain transfer policy goes into effect today. Here’s what you need to know.
Certain changes to whois will require more work and may result in your domain being locked. Don’t say you weren’t warned. The new ICANN domain name transfer policy goes into effect today, and the key difference between it and the old poli...
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The new domain transfer policy goes into effect today. Here’s what you need to know.
Certain changes to whois will require more work and may result in your domain being locked. Don’t say you weren’t warned. The new ICANN domain name transfer policy goes into effect today, and the key difference between it and the old poli...
Discussion
December 1, 2016, 3:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
The tables are turned: now Donuts can delay Verisign
Waiting for the .Web. Many curse words were muttered about Verisign during the process of designing the new top level domain name program. Verisign spread plenty of FUD to delay the program. Now, the biggest new TLD company gets to take a turn at del...
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The tables are turned: now Donuts can delay Verisign
Waiting for the .Web. Many curse words were muttered about Verisign during the process of designing the new top level domain name program. Verisign spread plenty of FUD to delay the program. Now, the biggest new TLD company gets to take a turn at del...
Discussion
November 30, 2016, 7:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Tencent beats back cybersquatting complaint over its Joox.com domain name
Big Chinese internet company forced to defend its Joox.com domain name. Tencent, the $250 billion company behind QQ, has successfully defended the domain name it uses for its music service Joox. A Brazilian company that uses the domain name Joox.io f...
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Tencent beats back cybersquatting complaint over its Joox.com domain name
Big Chinese internet company forced to defend its Joox.com domain name. Tencent, the $250 billion company behind QQ, has successfully defended the domain name it uses for its music service Joox. A Brazilian company that uses the domain name Joox.io f...
Discussion
November 30, 2016, 5:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com upgraders lead the end user sales list
Sanwa.com leads the pack at over $30,000. If I could summarize Sedo’s end user sales during the holiday week, it would be a lot of companies buying the .com domain to match their country code domain names. Even though ccTLDs are more popular th...
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.Com upgraders lead the end user sales list
Sanwa.com leads the pack at over $30,000. If I could summarize Sedo’s end user sales during the holiday week, it would be a lot of companies buying the .com domain to match their country code domain names. Even though ccTLDs are more popular th...
Discussion
November 30, 2016, 3:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Court tosses Donuts’ .Web lawsuit because Donuts promised not to sue
Judge says agreement not to sue is enforceable. Judge Percy Anderson of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California has granted (pdf) ICANN’s motion to dismiss in a lawsuit brought by a subsidiary of new TLD company Donuts. Donuts f...
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Court tosses Donuts’ .Web lawsuit because Donuts promised not to sue
Judge says agreement not to sue is enforceable. Judge Percy Anderson of the U.S. District Court, Central District of California has granted (pdf) ICANN’s motion to dismiss in a lawsuit brought by a subsidiary of new TLD company Donuts. Donuts f...
Discussion
November 29, 2016, 8:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo sells more than $1 million of .AT domains in auction
I didn’t have this seven-figure auction on my radar. Is this the sleeper auction of the year? I certainly didn’t expect an Austrian ccTLD auction to be one of the biggest of the year. But it certainly turned out that way. Sedo auctioned o...
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Sedo sells more than $1 million of .AT domains in auction
I didn’t have this seven-figure auction on my radar. Is this the sleeper auction of the year? I certainly didn’t expect an Austrian ccTLD auction to be one of the biggest of the year. But it certainly turned out that way. Sedo auctioned o...
Discussion
November 29, 2016, 5:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Completing a transaction on Uniregistry Market
It was fast and easy, but pay attention to fees to withdraw your funds. I use a number of marketplaces to sell domain names. About a third of my portfolio is listed with landing pages on Uniregistry Market, formerly known as Domain Name Sales. I self...
Discussion
Completing a transaction on Uniregistry Market
It was fast and easy, but pay attention to fees to withdraw your funds. I use a number of marketplaces to sell domain names. About a third of my portfolio is listed with landing pages on Uniregistry Market, formerly known as Domain Name Sales. I self...
Discussion
November 29, 2016, 3:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Asset management firm Tobam is a reverse domain name hijacker
French company filed UDRP after failing to acquire domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) UDRP panel has found Paris asset management firm Tobam to have attempted reverse domain name hijacking. Tobam filed a cybersquatting com...
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Asset management firm Tobam is a reverse domain name hijacker
French company filed UDRP after failing to acquire domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) UDRP panel has found Paris asset management firm Tobam to have attempted reverse domain name hijacking. Tobam filed a cybersquatting com...
Discussion
November 28, 2016, 5:42 pm
