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Headliners added to NamesCon: Atallah, Alexander
Akram Atallah and Fiona Alexander have been added to the NamesCon agenda. NamesCon, taking place in Las Vegas January 11-14, has added a couple big names to its agenda for the first full day of the conference. On Monday, July 12, I will have a firesi...
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Headliners added to NamesCon: Atallah, Alexander
Akram Atallah and Fiona Alexander have been added to the NamesCon agenda. NamesCon, taking place in Las Vegas January 11-14, has added a couple big names to its agenda for the first full day of the conference. On Monday, July 12, I will have a firesi...
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November 25, 2014, 6:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
HomeAdvisor’s costly name change is paying off
HomeAdvisor spent a lot of money on its rebrand, and saw a sharp drop in traffic initially, but it has paid off. A couple weeks ago Quebec announced a decision to opt-out of switching its web presence over to the new .quebec domain name, citing a pri...
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HomeAdvisor’s costly name change is paying off
HomeAdvisor spent a lot of money on its rebrand, and saw a sharp drop in traffic initially, but it has paid off. A couple weeks ago Quebec announced a decision to opt-out of switching its web presence over to the new .quebec domain name, citing a pri...
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November 25, 2014, 2:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Crazy Country Code Domains with Daniel Greenberg – DNW Podcast #8
Learn about domain name registries that charge $4,000+ per domain or require hand delivered registration applications. Can you imagine having to send a Western Union payment in order to register a domain name? How about hand delivering an application...
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Crazy Country Code Domains with Daniel Greenberg – DNW Podcast #8
Learn about domain name registries that charge $4,000+ per domain or require hand delivered registration applications. Can you imagine having to send a Western Union payment in order to register a domain name? How about hand delivering an application...
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November 24, 2014, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new TLDs: 5 from Frank Schilling
Schilling’s company releases another five top level domain names. Apparently only one company thought it wise to release new top level domain names during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday week: Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. Uniregistry is r...
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This week’s new TLDs: 5 from Frank Schilling
Schilling’s company releases another five top level domain names. Apparently only one company thought it wise to release new top level domain names during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday week: Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry. Uniregistry is r...
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November 24, 2014, 2:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy announces Super Bowl ad plans
Danica Patrick to once again star in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. GoDaddy announced plans today for its 11th consecutive appearance in the Super Bowl. GoDaddy’s 2015 Super Bowl ad is called “Journey Home”, and will focus on GoDadd...
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GoDaddy announces Super Bowl ad plans
Danica Patrick to once again star in GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial. GoDaddy announced plans today for its 11th consecutive appearance in the Super Bowl. GoDaddy’s 2015 Super Bowl ad is called “Journey Home”, and will focus on GoDadd...
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November 24, 2014, 2:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Interview: .Cloud top level domain winner Aruba
Aruba, which defeated Google and Amazon to win the .cloud top level domain name, discusses why it applied for the domain name and what it plans to do with it. .Cloud was one of the most applied-for top level domain names, with big names like Amazon.c...
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Interview: .Cloud top level domain winner Aruba
Aruba, which defeated Google and Amazon to win the .cloud top level domain name, discusses why it applied for the domain name and what it plans to do with it. .Cloud was one of the most applied-for top level domain names, with big names like Amazon.c...
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November 21, 2014, 4:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Wow: Nissan sells Z.com domain name to GMO for $6.8 million
GMO Internet, operator of Japan’s largest domain name registrar, has acquired the one letter domain name Z.co for JPY800 million ($6.8 million), the company announced today. Japanese car manufacturer Nissa sold the domain name, which it used to...
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Wow: Nissan sells Z.com domain name to GMO for $6.8 million
GMO Internet, operator of Japan’s largest domain name registrar, has acquired the one letter domain name Z.co for JPY800 million ($6.8 million), the company announced today. Japanese car manufacturer Nissa sold the domain name, which it used to...
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November 21, 2014, 2:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling changes strategy for .Click launch
NothingHeldBack.click. 5 more Uniregistry domain names go into general availability next week. And for one of them, .click, Frank Schilling is taking a different strategy when it comes to holding back domain names. In previous launches, Schilling&rsq...
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Frank Schilling changes strategy for .Click launch
NothingHeldBack.click. 5 more Uniregistry domain names go into general availability next week. And for one of them, .click, Frank Schilling is taking a different strategy when it comes to holding back domain names. In previous launches, Schilling&rsq...
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November 20, 2014, 9:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside shares hit new low
Domain name company isn’t getting much love from Wall Street. Shares of domain name company Rightside have dropped 15% this week, and hit an all time low of $8.33 in trading yesterday. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is trading for $8.55 per share thi...
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Rightside shares hit new low
Domain name company isn’t getting much love from Wall Street. Shares of domain name company Rightside have dropped 15% this week, and hit an all time low of $8.33 in trading yesterday. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is trading for $8.55 per share thi...
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November 20, 2014, 8:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
HuaGao.com at $20k and other expired domain name sales
Once again, China tops our list of last week’s expired domain auctions. This time it’s GoDaddy with HuaGao.com ($20.3k), meaning … you tell me! Various working professionals share that name. (There’s a certified pub...
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HuaGao.com at $20k and other expired domain name sales
Once again, China tops our list of last week’s expired domain auctions. This time it’s GoDaddy with HuaGao.com ($20.3k), meaning … you tell me! Various working professionals share that name. (There’s a certified pub...
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November 20, 2014, 7:56 pm
