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2012 Domain Dunce: new TLD applicants
Many companies made big screw-ups on their $185k TLD applications. New top level domain applications are long. They are tedious. They are (mostly) boring. Still, some applicants made some huge errors on their applications. Consider VeriSign, which me...
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2012 Domain Dunce: new TLD applicants
Many companies made big screw-ups on their $185k TLD applications. New top level domain applications are long. They are tedious. They are (mostly) boring. Still, some applicants made some huge errors on their applications. Consider VeriSign, which me...
Discussion
January 3, 2013, 9:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy Auctions sold 32,767 in December, led by $50k Marchex deal
Travel domain sells for $50,000 to lead Go Daddy sales last month. Go Daddy Auctions is reporting 32,767 domain names sold in December. The top sale was VisitSanFrancisco.com, a domain sold by Marchex. The $50,000 purchase was made by San Francisco T...
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Go Daddy Auctions sold 32,767 in December, led by $50k Marchex deal
Travel domain sells for $50,000 to lead Go Daddy sales last month. Go Daddy Auctions is reporting 32,767 domain names sold in December. The top sale was VisitSanFrancisco.com, a domain sold by Marchex. The $50,000 purchase was made by San Francisco T...
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January 2, 2013, 12:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
L’Oreal Chief Digital Officer to keynote new TLD conference
L’Oreal to discuss its new TLD plans at conference. L’Oreal Chief Digital Officer Georges-Edouard Dias will be a keynote speaker at the Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress in March. The even takes place March 11-12 at the Dream...
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L’Oreal Chief Digital Officer to keynote new TLD conference
L’Oreal to discuss its new TLD plans at conference. L’Oreal Chief Digital Officer Georges-Edouard Dias will be a keynote speaker at the Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress in March. The even takes place March 11-12 at the Dream...
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January 2, 2013, 11:09 am
Domain Name Wire
HSC.com domain name stolen
Technology company lost its domain name in the middle of December. Someone at communication technology company Hughes Systique Corporation must have had a rough holiday. The company, which is part of satellite company Hughes Communications, says its ...
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HSC.com domain name stolen
Technology company lost its domain name in the middle of December. Someone at communication technology company Hughes Systique Corporation must have had a rough holiday. The company, which is part of satellite company Hughes Communications, says its ...
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January 2, 2013, 10:57 am
Domain Name Wire
2012 in review: Top 10 Domain Name Wire stories
From airline mergers to politics to new TLDs, 2012 was an eventful year. There are two types of stories that catch fire on Domain Name Wire: ones relevant to domain investing and those relevant to the world at large. All of my posts have to do with d...
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2012 in review: Top 10 Domain Name Wire stories
From airline mergers to politics to new TLDs, 2012 was an eventful year. There are two types of stories that catch fire on Domain Name Wire: ones relevant to domain investing and those relevant to the world at large. All of my posts have to do with d...
Discussion
January 2, 2013, 10:49 am
Domain Name Wire
2012 Domain Dunce: The .com contract renewal
Verisign lost an awful lot of market cap but consumers won. It’s difficult to say who exactly is the deserving subject of this Domain Dunce Award. It goes way back. In 2006 ICANN settled a long running dispute with Verisign by giving it a very ...
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2012 Domain Dunce: The .com contract renewal
Verisign lost an awful lot of market cap but consumers won. It’s difficult to say who exactly is the deserving subject of this Domain Dunce Award. It goes way back. In 2006 ICANN settled a long running dispute with Verisign by giving it a very ...
Discussion
December 31, 2012, 9:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Merry Christmas: Go Daddy Groupon deal up to 67% off
Go Daddy offers a Groupon that might be hard to pass up. Back in October Go Daddy ran a deal with Google Offers for $20 in credit for only $10. Now it is running a Groupon that’s even better: $10 for $30 or $25 for $70. It appears the deal is r...
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Merry Christmas: Go Daddy Groupon deal up to 67% off
Go Daddy offers a Groupon that might be hard to pass up. Back in October Go Daddy ran a deal with Google Offers for $20 in credit for only $10. Now it is running a Groupon that’s even better: $10 for $30 or $25 for $70. It appears the deal is r...
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December 29, 2012, 9:31 am
Domain Name Wire
2012 Domain Dunce: TAS and Digital Archery
“Glitch” filled system gets Domain Dunce honors in 2012. ICANN’s new top level domain program is the most watched initiative in the non-profit’s entire history. So you’d think ICANN would have double and triple checked a...
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2012 Domain Dunce: TAS and Digital Archery
“Glitch” filled system gets Domain Dunce honors in 2012. ICANN’s new top level domain program is the most watched initiative in the non-profit’s entire history. So you’d think ICANN would have double and triple checked a...
Discussion
December 28, 2012, 10:18 am
Domain Name Wire
My first (much) faster payments with Go Daddy Premium Listings
Go Daddy is paying for domain sales even faster than promised. It had been a couple months since I sold a Go Daddy Premium Listing, but over the past couple weeks I’ve sold two domains. These were the first domains I’ve sold with Go Daddy...
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My first (much) faster payments with Go Daddy Premium Listings
Go Daddy is paying for domain sales even faster than promised. It had been a couple months since I sold a Go Daddy Premium Listing, but over the past couple weeks I’ve sold two domains. These were the first domains I’ve sold with Go Daddy...
Discussion
December 27, 2012, 12:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
FreshDirect.com latest company to go down thanks to expired domain
Company forgot to renew its domain name, which expired December 23. Add FreshDirect.com to a long list of companies that suffered downtime thanks to not renewing their domain names. The company suffered an “outage” (a.k.a. registrar renew...
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FreshDirect.com latest company to go down thanks to expired domain
Company forgot to renew its domain name, which expired December 23. Add FreshDirect.com to a long list of companies that suffered downtime thanks to not renewing their domain names. The company suffered an “outage” (a.k.a. registrar renew...
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December 27, 2012, 10:48 am
