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Radix gets .site as Google participates in a private auction
Radix tops Google and three others to win .site domain name. New top level domain name company Radix has secured the .site domain name, the company announced on social media this morning. That means the company has .website, .site and is still in the...
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Radix gets .site as Google participates in a private auction
Radix tops Google and three others to win .site domain name. New top level domain name company Radix has secured the .site domain name, the company announced on social media this morning. That means the company has .website, .site and is still in the...
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October 28, 2014, 1:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Turkish restaurant chain guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Develi Restaurant chain guilty of abusing UDRP. A restaurant in Turkey has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name develi.com. The complainant runs a restaurant chain called Develi and uses the domain name DeveliKebap....
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Turkish restaurant chain guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Develi Restaurant chain guilty of abusing UDRP. A restaurant in Turkey has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name develi.com. The complainant runs a restaurant chain called Develi and uses the domain name DeveliKebap....
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October 27, 2014, 5:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire Podcast #4: Ron Jackson recaps this year’s domain name sales
Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #4. What impact has the launch of hundreds of new top level domain names had on the domain name market? In this episode of the Domain Name Wire podcast, DNJournal editor Ron Jackson recaps year-to-date domain name s...
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Domain Name Wire Podcast #4: Ron Jackson recaps this year’s domain name sales
Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #4. What impact has the launch of hundreds of new top level domain names had on the domain name market? In this episode of the Domain Name Wire podcast, DNJournal editor Ron Jackson recaps year-to-date domain name s...
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October 27, 2014, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new TLD launch
Slim pickings for new top level domain names this week. You might notice something subtle in the title of this post. It’s singular. That’s because, as best I can tell, just one publicly available domain name is entering general availabili...
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This week’s new TLD launch
Slim pickings for new top level domain names this week. You might notice something subtle in the title of this post. It’s singular. That’s because, as best I can tell, just one publicly available domain name is entering general availabili...
Discussion
October 27, 2014, 2:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XYZ harnesses the power of .Com to promote its domain names
Company uses com.com to market .xyz domain names. Regardless of what you think about its approach, I’ve got to hand it to .xyz. The top level domain is trying a bunch of creative marketing and sales tactics. Here’s one a reader just tippe...
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.XYZ harnesses the power of .Com to promote its domain names
Company uses com.com to market .xyz domain names. Regardless of what you think about its approach, I’ve got to hand it to .xyz. The top level domain is trying a bunch of creative marketing and sales tactics. Here’s one a reader just tippe...
Discussion
October 27, 2014, 1:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN: no decision yet on Morocco meeting
Organization is considering its options due to possible travel restrictions. ICANN today responded to rumors about postponing next February’s meeting in Morocco by saying it has not yet made a decision. However, it confirmed that it is consider...
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ICANN: no decision yet on Morocco meeting
Organization is considering its options due to possible travel restrictions. ICANN today responded to rumors about postponing next February’s meeting in Morocco by saying it has not yet made a decision. However, it confirmed that it is consider...
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October 26, 2014, 11:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
Over 200 expired domain name sales [results]
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name auctions. It will surprise some people that the country responsible for last week’s #2 Namejet expired auction is Turkey. Kemer.com ($11.4k) describes a seaside re...
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Over 200 expired domain name sales [results]
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name auctions. It will surprise some people that the country responsible for last week’s #2 Namejet expired auction is Turkey. Kemer.com ($11.4k) describes a seaside re...
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October 24, 2014, 6:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Analyst ups forecast for new TLDs, $900MM bookings by 2016
Analyst becomes more bullish on new top level domain name potential. B. Riley analyst Sameet Sinha has increased his forecast for new top level domain name registrations after attending last week’s ICANN conference in Los Angeles. Previously, h...
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Analyst ups forecast for new TLDs, $900MM bookings by 2016
Analyst becomes more bullish on new top level domain name potential. B. Riley analyst Sameet Sinha has increased his forecast for new top level domain name registrations after attending last week’s ICANN conference in Los Angeles. Previously, h...
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October 24, 2014, 5:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why .com had a good quarter (and .net didn’t )
Thank the Chinese and discount pricing for continued demand for .com domain names. Verisign handled 8.7 million new registrations in .com and .net in the third quarter this year, the most ever in a third quarter. That amounted to 1.15 million domain ...
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Why .com had a good quarter (and .net didn’t )
Thank the Chinese and discount pricing for continued demand for .com domain names. Verisign handled 8.7 million new registrations in .com and .net in the third quarter this year, the most ever in a third quarter. That amounted to 1.15 million domain ...
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October 24, 2014, 2:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bad news for IDN.com investors
Verisign still negotiating with ICANN over .com transliteration domain names. Owners of IDN.com domain names that are patiently waiting for .com transliterations are going to have to keep waiting. In an SEC filing today, and on its investor conferenc...
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Bad news for IDN.com investors
Verisign still negotiating with ICANN over .com transliteration domain names. Owners of IDN.com domain names that are patiently waiting for .com transliterations are going to have to keep waiting. In an SEC filing today, and on its investor conferenc...
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October 24, 2014, 12:19 am
