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New TLDs: is it an awareness, acceptance or demand issue?
Are domain registrants not aware of new TLD options or do they just not accept them? Or is there just low demand for each .com alternative? My initial reaction to the underwhelming “out of the gate” registration numbers for new top level ...
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New TLDs: is it an awareness, acceptance or demand issue?
Are domain registrants not aware of new TLD options or do they just not accept them? Or is there just low demand for each .com alternative? My initial reaction to the underwhelming “out of the gate” registration numbers for new top level ...
Discussion
August 22, 2014, 3:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why Frank Schilling’s new bus ad uses http://
Otherwise, lots of people might not get to the website. Yesterday Frank Schilling tweeted this picture of a bus ad for his .sexy top level domain name: Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry, responded asking about why the ad includes https://, and Fra...
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Why Frank Schilling’s new bus ad uses http://
Otherwise, lots of people might not get to the website. Yesterday Frank Schilling tweeted this picture of a bus ad for his .sexy top level domain name: Adrian Kinderis, CEO of ARI Registry, responded asking about why the ad includes https://, and Fra...
Discussion
August 22, 2014, 1:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain name search is much improved (at some registrars)
A look at how major domain registrars are handling domain search in the wake of new TLDs. I’ve written a couple times about the state of registrar search as registrars grapple with an onslaught of new TLDs, most recently at the end of February....
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Domain name search is much improved (at some registrars)
A look at how major domain registrars are handling domain search in the wake of new TLDs. I’ve written a couple times about the state of registrar search as registrars grapple with an onslaught of new TLDs, most recently at the end of February....
Discussion
August 21, 2014, 8:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s expired domain report: Got .info?
“Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.” That would be Coleridge — his ill fated sailor thirstily contemplating the vast seawater. But I doubt “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was the Rime.com that just sold ...
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This week’s expired domain report: Got .info?
“Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.” That would be Coleridge — his ill fated sailor thirstily contemplating the vast seawater. But I doubt “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was the Rime.com that just sold ...
Discussion
August 21, 2014, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Cash and .Fund each get fewer than 1,000 registrations
Slow start for the two new TLDs that launched yesterday (for which we have data.) Five top level domain names launched yesterday. Unfortunately, ICANN’s centralized zone file system only has updated zone files for two of them. .Cash gained 725 ...
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.Cash and .Fund each get fewer than 1,000 registrations
Slow start for the two new TLDs that launched yesterday (for which we have data.) Five top level domain names launched yesterday. Unfortunately, ICANN’s centralized zone file system only has updated zone files for two of them. .Cash gained 725 ...
Discussion
August 21, 2014, 1:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Registry launches “Chinese Domain Ambassador Program”
Registry engages with customers with ambassador program. Here’s another example of a registry reaching out directly to its registrants to help promote their new top level domain name. TLD Registry, the company behind Dot Chinese Online (.在线...
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Registry launches “Chinese Domain Ambassador Program”
Registry engages with customers with ambassador program. Here’s another example of a registry reaching out directly to its registrants to help promote their new top level domain name. TLD Registry, the company behind Dot Chinese Online (.在线...
Discussion
August 20, 2014, 5:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reverse domain name hijacking ruling over SaintLazarusUSA.com
WIPO panelist hands down RDNH ruling. Every once in a while I read a UDRP involving organizations in a world I simply didn’t know existed. Such is the case in The American Association of the Order of St. Lazarus, Inc. v. Thierry Villejust over ...
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Reverse domain name hijacking ruling over SaintLazarusUSA.com
WIPO panelist hands down RDNH ruling. Every once in a while I read a UDRP involving organizations in a world I simply didn’t know existed. Such is the case in The American Association of the Order of St. Lazarus, Inc. v. Thierry Villejust over ...
Discussion
August 20, 2014, 4:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names NASCAR and others bought at Sedo last week
NASCAR among end users buying domain names last week. Sedo sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week, including one to NASCAR. Details of these end user domain name sales are below. You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d l...
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What domain names NASCAR and others bought at Sedo last week
NASCAR among end users buying domain names last week. Sedo sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week, including one to NASCAR. Details of these end user domain name sales are below. You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d l...
Discussion
August 20, 2014, 3:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
The state of the domain name industry
My views on domain parking, domain sales, registrars and registries. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the domain name business over the past month, and it’s time to put them down in writing. Here’s what I think about the state of...
Discussion
The state of the domain name industry
My views on domain parking, domain sales, registrars and registries. I’ve been collecting my thoughts on the domain name business over the past month, and it’s time to put them down in writing. Here’s what I think about the state of...
Discussion
August 19, 2014, 7:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Registrant of 4,000+ .email domain names faces mounting legal problems
Yoyo.email claims it registered trademark-matching .email domain names for a legitimate fair use. Most National Arbitration Forum panels have disagreed. You’ve probably never heard of Yoyo.email before, but it is one of the biggest individual r...
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Registrant of 4,000+ .email domain names faces mounting legal problems
Yoyo.email claims it registered trademark-matching .email domain names for a legitimate fair use. Most National Arbitration Forum panels have disagreed. You’ve probably never heard of Yoyo.email before, but it is one of the biggest individual r...
Discussion
August 19, 2014, 3:50 pm
