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887,000 .vn IDN domains registered
Vietnam sees rapid IDN registration growth. There were 887,000 .vn internationalized domain names registered as of the end of March, Dot VN, Inc. disclosed this month. Dot VN, Inc. markets Vietnam’s .vn namespace in an agreement with Vietnamese...
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887,000 .vn IDN domains registered
Vietnam sees rapid IDN registration growth. There were 887,000 .vn internationalized domain names registered as of the end of March, Dot VN, Inc. disclosed this month. Dot VN, Inc. markets Vietnam’s .vn namespace in an agreement with Vietnamese...
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May 9, 2013, 10:07 am
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Domain name change leads to 20% drop at HomeAdvisor
Switch from ServiceMagic.com to HomeAdvisor.com leads to organic search traffic drop. IAC underestimated the challenge from switching its ServiceMagic business to a new domain name, the company disclosed with its first quarter results. The company re...
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Domain name change leads to 20% drop at HomeAdvisor
Switch from ServiceMagic.com to HomeAdvisor.com leads to organic search traffic drop. IAC underestimated the challenge from switching its ServiceMagic business to a new domain name, the company disclosed with its first quarter results. The company re...
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May 9, 2013, 9:31 am
Domain Name Wire
Scott Wagner takes COO and CFO positions at Go Daddy
Scott Wagner goes from interim to permanent at GoDaddy. Domain name registrar GoDaddy today announced that Scott Wagner is its new COO and CFO. Wagner took over as interim CEO of the company last summer when Warren Adelman stepped down from the CEO p...
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Scott Wagner takes COO and CFO positions at Go Daddy
Scott Wagner goes from interim to permanent at GoDaddy. Domain name registrar GoDaddy today announced that Scott Wagner is its new COO and CFO. Wagner took over as interim CEO of the company last summer when Warren Adelman stepped down from the CEO p...
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May 8, 2013, 4:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
22 end user sales last week
A pharmacy chain, cybersecurity company, and a baseball glove company made domain purchases last week. Afternic sold just over $1 million worth of domains last week. Here are 22 of the purchases that were clearly to end users. Glimmerglass, which off...
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22 end user sales last week
A pharmacy chain, cybersecurity company, and a baseball glove company made domain purchases last week. Afternic sold just over $1 million worth of domains last week. Here are 22 of the purchases that were clearly to end users. Glimmerglass, which off...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 12:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN sends breach notice to large Argentinian domain registrar
Dattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a number of provisions of the ...
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ICANN sends breach notice to large Argentinian domain registrar
Dattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a number of provisions of the ...
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May 8, 2013, 9:15 am
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling: could be 20,000 or 30,000 TLDs in 20 years
Says “these are not pie-in-the-sky” numbers and second level domains could be seen as “antiquated”. Domain name investor Frank Schilling applied for 54 top level domains via his new TLD company Uniregistry. I remember asking h...
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Frank Schilling: could be 20,000 or 30,000 TLDs in 20 years
Says “these are not pie-in-the-sky” numbers and second level domains could be seen as “antiquated”. Domain name investor Frank Schilling applied for 54 top level domains via his new TLD company Uniregistry. I remember asking h...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 8:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Very active Moniker Spring Auction ends tomorrow
Domain name auction that ends tomorrow has lots of activity. The Moniker Spring Auction on SnapNames doesn’t end until tomorrow, but bidding is already very active. The auction features 199 domain names and 33 of them already have bids. 22 have...
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Very active Moniker Spring Auction ends tomorrow
Domain name auction that ends tomorrow has lots of activity. The Moniker Spring Auction on SnapNames doesn’t end until tomorrow, but bidding is already very active. The auction features 199 domain names and 33 of them already have bids. 22 have...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 8:40 am
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Electronic Arts buys BF4.com for Battlefield 4 (and other end user sales)
Electronic Arts among the big name buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo had some big sales last week, including Moms.com for $252,000. The whois record for Moms.com still shows Sedo, so we don’t yet know how bought the domain. Here are some of Sedo&r...
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Electronic Arts buys BF4.com for Battlefield 4 (and other end user sales)
Electronic Arts among the big name buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo had some big sales last week, including Moms.com for $252,000. The whois record for Moms.com still shows Sedo, so we don’t yet know how bought the domain. Here are some of Sedo&r...
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May 8, 2013, 8:26 am
Domain Name Wire
How Demand Media sees its domain name business
Domain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs. The company is working to spin out its domain name busines...
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How Demand Media sees its domain name business
Domain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs. The company is working to spin out its domain name busines...
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May 7, 2013, 4:48 pm
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Demand Media touts new TLDs in latest earnings, domains increase to 14 million
Demand Media puts new TLDs front and center in earnings release. Demand Media just released its first quarter earnings. It reported a slight profit of $0.7M before adjustments. But more interesting to the domain world is the focus the company’s...
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Demand Media touts new TLDs in latest earnings, domains increase to 14 million
Demand Media puts new TLDs front and center in earnings release. Demand Media just released its first quarter earnings. It reported a slight profit of $0.7M before adjustments. But more interesting to the domain world is the focus the company’s...
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May 7, 2013, 3:31 pm
