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How to manage your feeds on Domaining.com
Customize Domaining.com for a better experience. Ever since Google took away the best RSS reader, I’ve started to rely more on Domaining.com to see what other bloggers are writing about. And, although not everyone is aware of this, you can cust...
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How to manage your feeds on Domaining.com
Customize Domaining.com for a better experience. Ever since Google took away the best RSS reader, I’ve started to rely more on Domaining.com to see what other bloggers are writing about. And, although not everyone is aware of this, you can cust...
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June 28, 2016, 3:05 pm

Domain Name Wire
FFM launches .Stream domain this week, and you can get them cheap
.Stream is inexpensive if you know where to look. Famous Four Media is launching the .stream top level domain name on Wednesday. The company makes it a practice of offering domain names cheap for the first year. And indeed, 101Domain is charging only...
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FFM launches .Stream domain this week, and you can get them cheap
.Stream is inexpensive if you know where to look. Famous Four Media is launching the .stream top level domain name on Wednesday. The company makes it a practice of offering domain names cheap for the first year. And indeed, 101Domain is charging only...
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June 28, 2016, 2:45 pm

Domain Name Wire
Backpack Girl makes appearance in hilarious UDRP
This company thinks the eNom backpack girl looks similar to its CEO. At what point does a cybersquatting complaint filed under UDRP become laugh-out-loud funny? I think we have now have the answer, although the respondent in this case probably isn&rs...
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Backpack Girl makes appearance in hilarious UDRP
This company thinks the eNom backpack girl looks similar to its CEO. At what point does a cybersquatting complaint filed under UDRP become laugh-out-loud funny? I think we have now have the answer, although the respondent in this case probably isn&rs...
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June 27, 2016, 9:52 pm

Domain Name Wire
Is Sedo slowly dying? Let’s look at the numbers.
A look at Sedo’s sales, week-by-week. Today Konstantinos Zournas over at Online Domain published an article with the provocative headline “Is Sedo Dying”? Konstantinos published data from the most recent Sedo sales report and compar...
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Is Sedo slowly dying? Let’s look at the numbers.
A look at Sedo’s sales, week-by-week. Today Konstantinos Zournas over at Online Domain published an article with the provocative headline “Is Sedo Dying”? Konstantinos published data from the most recent Sedo sales report and compar...
Discussion
June 27, 2016, 8:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
A frank conversation with Colin Campbell – DNW Podcast #90
It takes a lot of money to build a TLD into a brand, explains Colin Campbell. Colin Campbell’s .Club generated $7 million in sales of new TLDs last year, but lost $1 million overall. What does this mean for .club and other TLDs? How much do you...
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A frank conversation with Colin Campbell – DNW Podcast #90
It takes a lot of money to build a TLD into a brand, explains Colin Campbell. Colin Campbell’s .Club generated $7 million in sales of new TLDs last year, but lost $1 million overall. What does this mean for .club and other TLDs? How much do you...
Discussion
June 27, 2016, 3:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
Ted Cruz ups the ante with scary video
IN A WORLD…where basic facts don’t get in the way of a good narrative. Ted Cruz has been on a campaign to block the U.S. government from ending its contract related to IANA (domain names and numbers) functions. He has even introduced a b...
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Ted Cruz ups the ante with scary video
IN A WORLD…where basic facts don’t get in the way of a good narrative. Ted Cruz has been on a campaign to block the U.S. government from ending its contract related to IANA (domain names and numbers) functions. He has even introduced a b...
Discussion
June 27, 2016, 12:29 pm

Domain Name Wire
Parking dooms owner of F5.net in UDRP
Why would you park a domain like this one? There are several reasons that the Chinese owner of F5.net just lost the domain name in a UDRP to F5 Networks, Inc. But one of them should be a warning for owners of short domains: the ads on the parked page...
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Parking dooms owner of F5.net in UDRP
Why would you park a domain like this one? There are several reasons that the Chinese owner of F5.net just lost the domain name in a UDRP to F5 Networks, Inc. But one of them should be a warning for owners of short domains: the ads on the parked page...
Discussion
June 24, 2016, 3:28 pm

Domain Name Wire
Donuts makes $70 million unsolicited offer for Rightside’s new TLD business
Public offer comes after Rightside declined earlier offers. Donuts announced today that it’s making a $70 million offer to acquire Rightside’s (NASDAQ:NAME) new top level domain name business. The company is making the offer public after ...
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Donuts makes $70 million unsolicited offer for Rightside’s new TLD business
Public offer comes after Rightside declined earlier offers. Donuts announced today that it’s making a $70 million offer to acquire Rightside’s (NASDAQ:NAME) new top level domain name business. The company is making the offer public after ...
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June 24, 2016, 2:37 pm

Domain Name Wire
Brexit spells…opportunity?
Lots of people are registering Brexit domain names. UK voters have said they want to leave the European Union. Stocks are in freefall. The pound is sinking. UK’s prime minister is quitting. All of which means…opportunity? That’s ce...
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Brexit spells…opportunity?
Lots of people are registering Brexit domain names. UK voters have said they want to leave the European Union. Stocks are in freefall. The pound is sinking. UK’s prime minister is quitting. All of which means…opportunity? That’s ce...
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June 24, 2016, 12:57 pm

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Lawsuit ensnares innocent domain name investors
Valuable domain names are at stake. A lawsuit related to one of the longest running and most expensive legal battles in the history of domain names has now ensnared some well-known domain name investors. Their alleged fault: buying domain names from ...
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Lawsuit ensnares innocent domain name investors
Valuable domain names are at stake. A lawsuit related to one of the longest running and most expensive legal battles in the history of domain names has now ensnared some well-known domain name investors. Their alleged fault: buying domain names from ...
Discussion
June 23, 2016, 3:19 pm