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Domain registration agreements are getting longer thanks to new TLDs
There are a bunch of added terms specific to each new domain name. With the creation of dozens of new registries offering top level domain names, each of them having different rules (some of them even having different rules for each of their TLDs), d...
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Domain registration agreements are getting longer thanks to new TLDs
There are a bunch of added terms specific to each new domain name. With the creation of dozens of new registries offering top level domain names, each of them having different rules (some of them even having different rules for each of their TLDs), d...
Discussion
February 3, 2014, 3:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
How GoDaddy found Gwen, the woman who quit her job in a Super Bowl Commercial
How GoDaddy found is puppet master. GoDaddy’s first half Super Bowl Commercial tonight featured Gwen Dean, who announced in the commercial that she was quitting her job to follow her dreams of running a puppeteer business. That’s a heck o...
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How GoDaddy found Gwen, the woman who quit her job in a Super Bowl Commercial
How GoDaddy found is puppet master. GoDaddy’s first half Super Bowl Commercial tonight featured Gwen Dean, who announced in the commercial that she was quitting her job to follow her dreams of running a puppeteer business. That’s a heck o...
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February 3, 2014, 2:21 am
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy Super Bowl ads once against put domain biz in the spotlight
GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercials are very different this year. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and that means the domain name industry will be getting some broad attention this evening. GoDaddy has been advertising in the Super Bowl since 2005, a...
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GoDaddy Super Bowl ads once against put domain biz in the spotlight
GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercials are very different this year. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and that means the domain name industry will be getting some broad attention this evening. GoDaddy has been advertising in the Super Bowl since 2005, a...
Discussion
February 2, 2014, 11:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
NC State University loses domain name dispute for Wolfpack.com
Arbitration panel rules that NC State shouldn’t get Wolfpack.com domain name. North Carolina State University, whose athletic teams are called the Wolfpack, has lost a domain name arbitration case for the domain Wolfpack.com. The university fil...
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NC State University loses domain name dispute for Wolfpack.com
Arbitration panel rules that NC State shouldn’t get Wolfpack.com domain name. North Carolina State University, whose athletic teams are called the Wolfpack, has lost a domain name arbitration case for the domain Wolfpack.com. The university fil...
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January 31, 2014, 11:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Digging in on Donuts’ Sunrise: Amazon tops the list, gaming, and top registrars
Here’s a look at the top registrants and registrars, plus details on possible gaming and EAP day one registrations. Last night I published initial data about Donuts’ sunrise period on its first seven domain names. This was based on names ...
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Digging in on Donuts’ Sunrise: Amazon tops the list, gaming, and top registrars
Here’s a look at the top registrants and registrars, plus details on possible gaming and EAP day one registrations. Last night I published initial data about Donuts’ sunrise period on its first seven domain names. This was based on names ...
Discussion
January 31, 2014, 5:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why cybersquatting won’t be a big deal in new TLDs
Cybersquatting is motivated by profit, and it will be difficult to make money cybersquatting on new TLDs. Much of the talk and consternation over introducing new top level domain names has focused on protections for intellectual property owners. Trad...
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Why cybersquatting won’t be a big deal in new TLDs
Cybersquatting is motivated by profit, and it will be difficult to make money cybersquatting on new TLDs. Much of the talk and consternation over introducing new top level domain names has focused on protections for intellectual property owners. Trad...
Discussion
January 31, 2014, 4:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
TLDH raises $33.6 million for new top level domain name auctions
New TLD applicant building war chest to resolve contention sets. Top Level Domain Holdings, a publicly trade portfolio applicant for new TLDs, has conditionally raised £21 million (approximately US $33.6 million) to help it resolve new TLD cont...
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TLDH raises $33.6 million for new top level domain name auctions
New TLD applicant building war chest to resolve contention sets. Top Level Domain Holdings, a publicly trade portfolio applicant for new TLDs, has conditionally raised £21 million (approximately US $33.6 million) to help it resolve new TLD cont...
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January 31, 2014, 2:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
The numbers are in! Donuts sunrises typically get 100+ domains, but they also got gamed
Most of Donuts domain names received at least 100 sunrise registrations, and some of them are of questionable merit. Donuts has just published its zone files for the seven domain names that recently exited sunrise. Most of the domains have at least 1...
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The numbers are in! Donuts sunrises typically get 100+ domains, but they also got gamed
Most of Donuts domain names received at least 100 sunrise registrations, and some of them are of questionable merit. Donuts has just published its zone files for the seven domain names that recently exited sunrise. Most of the domains have at least 1...
Discussion
January 31, 2014, 3:44 am
Domain Name Wire
What domain names IdeaLab and other end users bought last week
IdeaLab among buyers at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell nearly $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some that were sold to end users. (If you like to read about end user domain name sales, you can s...
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What domain names IdeaLab and other end users bought last week
IdeaLab among buyers at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell nearly $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some that were sold to end users. (If you like to read about end user domain name sales, you can s...
Discussion
January 30, 2014, 5:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Here’s what I honestly think about new top level domain names
I don’t think they’ll change the world, but I don’t wish for them to fail. I write a lot of stories about new top level domain names. Some are about the good and some are about the bad. Sometimes people read one of my positive stori...
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Here’s what I honestly think about new top level domain names
I don’t think they’ll change the world, but I don’t wish for them to fail. I write a lot of stories about new top level domain names. Some are about the good and some are about the bad. Sometimes people read one of my positive stori...
Discussion
January 30, 2014, 3:50 pm
