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CentralNic co-founder retires from Board, Instra CEO joins
One of the founders of CentralNic is stepping down for his board duties. Domain name registrar and new top level domain name registry CentralNic announced two changes to its board today. Executive Director Robert Pooke has retired from the Board of D...
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CentralNic co-founder retires from Board, Instra CEO joins
One of the founders of CentralNic is stepping down for his board duties. Domain name registrar and new top level domain name registry CentralNic announced two changes to its board today. Executive Director Robert Pooke has retired from the Board of D...
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February 5, 2016, 2:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Kurt Pritz joins Allegravita
Former ICANN executive teams up with China consultancy. Kurt Pritz has joined Allegravita, a consulting firm led by Simon Cousins that helps companies in the Chinese market. Pritz held a number of positions at ICANN from 2003-2013, including overseei...
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Kurt Pritz joins Allegravita
Former ICANN executive teams up with China consultancy. Kurt Pritz has joined Allegravita, a consulting firm led by Simon Cousins that helps companies in the Chinese market. Pritz held a number of positions at ICANN from 2003-2013, including overseei...
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February 4, 2016, 10:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio get “Domain Name Bump” after Iowa
Interest in domain names related to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio increase after vote in Iowa. Trump domain names are so last year. Following Ted Cruz’s win in the Iowa caucuses and Marco Rubio’s strong finish, both became popular names in new...
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Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio get “Domain Name Bump” after Iowa
Interest in domain names related to Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio increase after vote in Iowa. Trump domain names are so last year. Following Ted Cruz’s win in the Iowa caucuses and Marco Rubio’s strong finish, both became popular names in new...
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February 4, 2016, 7:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
CHIPs, Numbers, and other expired domain name sales
Joseph Peterson analyzes the past week of expired domain name sales. Once again, China tops these charts – but not in the customary way. Rather than numerical domains, 4-letter “CHIPs”, or even Chinese Pinyin, we&rsqu...
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CHIPs, Numbers, and other expired domain name sales
Joseph Peterson analyzes the past week of expired domain name sales. Once again, China tops these charts – but not in the customary way. Rather than numerical domains, 4-letter “CHIPs”, or even Chinese Pinyin, we&rsqu...
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February 4, 2016, 3:03 pm
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Company sues Vox Media, demands TheVerge.com domain name
Indiana company that started as a meetup group says popular media site infringes its trademarks. An Indiana company has sued (pdf) Vox Media, publisher of the popular websites The Verge and Re/Code, claiming that the company is infringing its tradema...
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Company sues Vox Media, demands TheVerge.com domain name
Indiana company that started as a meetup group says popular media site infringes its trademarks. An Indiana company has sued (pdf) Vox Media, publisher of the popular websites The Verge and Re/Code, claiming that the company is infringing its tradema...
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February 4, 2016, 1:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Gay domain name applicant denied again
ICANN Board Governance Committee denies one .gay applicant’s request for reconsideration. dotgay LLC has lost again in its attempt to get community status for its .Gay top level domain name application. The company lost its first bid for commun...
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.Gay domain name applicant denied again
ICANN Board Governance Committee denies one .gay applicant’s request for reconsideration. dotgay LLC has lost again in its attempt to get community status for its .Gay top level domain name application. The company lost its first bid for commun...
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February 3, 2016, 9:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
January’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
From the Golden State Warriors to .Shop, here’s what made news last month. 2016 kicked off in style for the domain name business with NamesCon. Here’s what else happened last month, ranked in order of views on Domain Name Wire: 1. New Gol...
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January’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
From the Golden State Warriors to .Shop, here’s what made news last month. 2016 kicked off in style for the domain name business with NamesCon. Here’s what else happened last month, ranked in order of views on Domain Name Wire: 1. New Gol...
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February 3, 2016, 7:42 pm
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Who bought what? End user domain name purchases
End user buyers include Fluor, which has a $6 billion market cap. Sedo handled 588 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1 million. A number of these domain names were purchased by end users, including the pricey acquisition of Choose.co...
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Who bought what? End user domain name purchases
End user buyers include Fluor, which has a $6 billion market cap. Sedo handled 588 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1 million. A number of these domain names were purchased by end users, including the pricey acquisition of Choose.co...
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February 3, 2016, 4:29 pm
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.Com Winners & Losers: Chinese registrars, Uniregistry continue surge
Chinese surge continues in latest .com reports ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from October, and it shows the continued surge of registrations in China. Last month I wrote about how two Chinese domain name registrars, HiC...
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.Com Winners & Losers: Chinese registrars, Uniregistry continue surge
Chinese surge continues in latest .com reports ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from October, and it shows the continued surge of registrations in China. Last month I wrote about how two Chinese domain name registrars, HiC...
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February 2, 2016, 6:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Huge C-Suite Shakeup at Sedo
Company will have new CMO, CSO and CFO. Sedo announced a slew of changes to its executive offices this morning. Solomon Amoako is stepping down from his role as North American Chief Sales Officer for personal reasons. Dima Beitzke will assume managem...
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Huge C-Suite Shakeup at Sedo
Company will have new CMO, CSO and CFO. Sedo announced a slew of changes to its executive offices this morning. Solomon Amoako is stepping down from his role as North American Chief Sales Officer for personal reasons. Dima Beitzke will assume managem...
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February 2, 2016, 4:30 pm
