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Domain Name Wire
Chinese regulations shut down DN.com domain name escrow service
“Requirements of the government” lead to sudden blackout at escrow company. Last week domain name escrow service DN.com suddenly went dark. The company sent out an explanation yesterday, which is copied in its entirety below. The company ...
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Chinese regulations shut down DN.com domain name escrow service
“Requirements of the government” lead to sudden blackout at escrow company. Last week domain name escrow service DN.com suddenly went dark. The company sent out an explanation yesterday, which is copied in its entirety below. The company ...
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March 14, 2016, 1:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
eNom lays out 2016 roadmap
Company plans to improve and modernize API. The user interfaces at eNom and Namejet look and feel clumsy and stale. Looking past the main page of NAME’s sites, the logged-in front-end infrastructure is untouched and acts like time capsule to wh...
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eNom lays out 2016 roadmap
Company plans to improve and modernize API. The user interfaces at eNom and Namejet look and feel clumsy and stale. Looking past the main page of NAME’s sites, the logged-in front-end infrastructure is untouched and acts like time capsule to wh...
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March 11, 2016, 6:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Interesting domain name search stats
2/3rds of searches include a TLD, 44% of searches for new TLDs came back unavailable. eNom revealed some interested stats about domain name searches in its most recent newsletter: Users performed an average of 2.6 searches per session. One-third of a...
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Interesting domain name search stats
2/3rds of searches include a TLD, 44% of searches for new TLDs came back unavailable. eNom revealed some interested stats about domain name searches in its most recent newsletter: Users performed an average of 2.6 searches per session. One-third of a...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 2:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Co gears up for another SXSW
Company returns to Austin for sixth year. The .Co registry, now part of Neustar, is returning to Austin for its sixth straight appearance during SXSW. It all kicks off with the .CO official SXSW happy hour this Friday night at The Backspace from 5-7....
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.Co gears up for another SXSW
Company returns to Austin for sixth year. The .Co registry, now part of Neustar, is returning to Austin for its sixth straight appearance during SXSW. It all kicks off with the .CO official SXSW happy hour this Friday night at The Backspace from 5-7....
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March 10, 2016, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples joins GoDaddy Board
Co-founder of vacation rentals site joins GoDaddy’s board and audit committee. HomeAway co-founder and CEO Brian Sharples has been elected to GoDaddy’s (NYSE:GDDY) Board of Directors. Sharples term will run through the annual meeting of s...
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HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples joins GoDaddy Board
Co-founder of vacation rentals site joins GoDaddy’s board and audit committee. HomeAway co-founder and CEO Brian Sharples has been elected to GoDaddy’s (NYSE:GDDY) Board of Directors. Sharples term will run through the annual meeting of s...
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March 10, 2016, 2:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Happy Birthday: Domain Name Wire Turns 11 Today
This one goes to eleven. Today is Domain Name Wire’s 11th birthday. It might be a cliche to say a lot has happened since Domain Name Wire published its first post on March 9, 2005. But it’s true on a couple fronts: changes in the domain n...
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Happy Birthday: Domain Name Wire Turns 11 Today
This one goes to eleven. Today is Domain Name Wire’s 11th birthday. It might be a cliche to say a lot has happened since Domain Name Wire published its first post on March 9, 2005. But it’s true on a couple fronts: changes in the domain n...
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March 9, 2016, 7:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report: Wupload.com, LastSupper.com and more
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in the expired domain name markets. Early in 2012, the file-sharing website MegaUpload was shut down, its domains seized by the feds, and its owners arrested for copyright infringement. Almost immediately, s...
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Expired Domain Report: Wupload.com, LastSupper.com and more
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in the expired domain name markets. Early in 2012, the file-sharing website MegaUpload was shut down, its domains seized by the feds, and its owners arrested for copyright infringement. Almost immediately, s...
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March 9, 2016, 4:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Video: .Club at Launch Hackathon
How .Club got 79 people to develop projects on .Club domains in a matter of a couple days. Yesterday I wrote about Radix and .Club participating in the Launch Hackathon in San Francisco. I also commented about how Hackathons are a great way for new t...
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Video: .Club at Launch Hackathon
How .Club got 79 people to develop projects on .Club domains in a matter of a couple days. Yesterday I wrote about Radix and .Club participating in the Launch Hackathon in San Francisco. I also commented about how Hackathons are a great way for new t...
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March 9, 2016, 3:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawsuit filed to recover stolen domains: 5678.com, 26266.com and Manhua.com
Suit by domain investor in China alleges domains stolen from eNom account. A Chinese domain name investor has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that three domain names were stolen from her eNom account. Qianqian Jin filed the suit in U.S. District Court...
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Lawsuit filed to recover stolen domains: 5678.com, 26266.com and Manhua.com
Suit by domain investor in China alleges domains stolen from eNom account. A Chinese domain name investor has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that three domain names were stolen from her eNom account. Qianqian Jin filed the suit in U.S. District Court...
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March 9, 2016, 2:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donald Trump is #1 in .Com
Trump trumps .com list. Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to comedians, news anchors and .com registry Verisign. “Trump” was the number one trending word in .com domain name registrations last month. This means the number of d...
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Donald Trump is #1 in .Com
Trump trumps .com list. Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to comedians, news anchors and .com registry Verisign. “Trump” was the number one trending word in .com domain name registrations last month. This means the number of d...
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March 8, 2016, 9:17 pm
