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By the Numbers: .XYZ, .Reviews lead this week’s new TLD launches
.XYZ clocks in at over 10,000 registrations and results from eight other new TLD launches. I count nine new top level domain names that launched this week, as I previewed on Monday. The top domain in terms of registrations was .xyz, although I’...
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By the Numbers: .XYZ, .Reviews lead this week’s new TLD launches
.XYZ clocks in at over 10,000 registrations and results from eight other new TLD launches. I count nine new top level domain names that launched this week, as I previewed on Monday. The top domain in terms of registrations was .xyz, although I’...
Discussion
June 6, 2014, 2:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories from May
Sex sells. For millions. Here’s a look back at the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Sex.xxx domain name sells as part of $5 million deal – ICM Registry sold Sex.com for $3 million as part of a $5 million package of doma...
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories from May
Sex sells. For millions. Here’s a look back at the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month: 1. Sex.xxx domain name sells as part of $5 million deal – ICM Registry sold Sex.com for $3 million as part of a $5 million package of doma...
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June 6, 2014, 1:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker CEO Bonnie Wittenburg discusses botched transition
Wittenburg discusses what went wrong and what the company is doing to fix it. It’s been a long week for Moniker and its customers. The company transitioned its entire platform over to Key-Systems’ reseller platform over the weekend and it...
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Moniker CEO Bonnie Wittenburg discusses botched transition
Wittenburg discusses what went wrong and what the company is doing to fix it. It’s been a long week for Moniker and its customers. The company transitioned its entire platform over to Key-Systems’ reseller platform over the weekend and it...
Discussion
June 6, 2014, 12:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Del Monte appeals new top level domain name lawsuit
Battle over .delmonte continues. Del Monte International is taking a dispute over new top level domain names to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Del Monte International (DMI) applied for the .delmonte domain name. Del Monte Corporation (DMC)...
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Del Monte appeals new top level domain name lawsuit
Battle over .delmonte continues. Del Monte International is taking a dispute over new top level domain names to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Del Monte International (DMI) applied for the .delmonte domain name. Del Monte Corporation (DMC)...
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June 5, 2014, 5:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
EDR: A look at 150 expired domain name auctions from the past week
This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson has close to 150 expired domain name auctions from last week. As always, some of the prices paid are head-scratchers. One thing organizations are good at … is dropping the ball....
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EDR: A look at 150 expired domain name auctions from the past week
This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson has close to 150 expired domain name auctions from last week. As always, some of the prices paid are head-scratchers. One thing organizations are good at … is dropping the ball....
Discussion
June 5, 2014, 2:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling is the biggest registrant of new TLDs
New registrant report reveals who has the most registrations in new top level domain names. nTLDStats.com published a new “Registrant Breakdown” today. It shows the top registrants of new top level domain names. Coming in at number one on...
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Frank Schilling is the biggest registrant of new TLDs
New registrant report reveals who has the most registrations in new top level domain names. nTLDStats.com published a new “Registrant Breakdown” today. It shows the top registrants of new top level domain names. Coming in at number one on...
Discussion
June 5, 2014, 1:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Company pays $600,000 in auction to run .信息 top level domain name
Rights to IDN domain name sell for $600,000. Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. has won the first ICANN “auction of last resort” to resolve a new top level domain name contention set. It paid $600,000 in an auction for .信息, whic...
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Company pays $600,000 in auction to run .信息 top level domain name
Rights to IDN domain name sell for $600,000. Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. has won the first ICANN “auction of last resort” to resolve a new top level domain name contention set. It paid $600,000 in an auction for .信息, whic...
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June 5, 2014, 1:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Try Uniregistry’s slick bulk domain name search
A simple, yet powerful, bulk searching tool. “Bulk search” for domain names is very useful when you’re scavenging for domain names to hand register. I recently used Uniregistry’s search to look up both individual keywords acro...
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Try Uniregistry’s slick bulk domain name search
A simple, yet powerful, bulk searching tool. “Bulk search” for domain names is very useful when you’re scavenging for domain names to hand register. I recently used Uniregistry’s search to look up both individual keywords acro...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 7:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for company called HealthKit
Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offeri...
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Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for company called HealthKit
Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offeri...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 4:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
New Top Level Domain registration numbers are increasingly misleading
Reporting aggregate numbers for new TLD registrations is misleading. Some day this month one or more companies will proclaim that new top level domain name registrations have topped one million domain names. It will be very misleading when they annou...
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New Top Level Domain registration numbers are increasingly misleading
Reporting aggregate numbers for new TLD registrations is misleading. Some day this month one or more companies will proclaim that new top level domain name registrations have topped one million domain names. It will be very misleading when they annou...
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June 4, 2014, 3:45 pm
