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Thursday is deadline to comment on VeriSign .com renewal
Time running out to comment on .com contract. Thursday, April 26 is the last day to comment to ICANN about its proposed contract renewal with VeriSign. The terms of the agreement are very similar to ICANN’s last .com contract. It allows VeriSig...
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Thursday is deadline to comment on VeriSign .com renewal
Time running out to comment on .com contract. Thursday, April 26 is the last day to comment to ICANN about its proposed contract renewal with VeriSign. The terms of the agreement are very similar to ICANN’s last .com contract. It allows VeriSig...
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April 23, 2012, 12:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Paris still running away from reverse domain hijacking claim
Paris’ motto in domain disputes: fire an attack, then run away. The city of Paris — officially Ville de Paris — apparently likes to lob attacks and then run away when it has to defend itself. Back in 2009 the city filed a UDRP again...
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Paris still running away from reverse domain hijacking claim
Paris’ motto in domain disputes: fire an attack, then run away. The city of Paris — officially Ville de Paris — apparently likes to lob attacks and then run away when it has to defend itself. Back in 2009 the city filed a UDRP again...
Discussion
April 23, 2012, 10:43 am
Domain Name Wire
Amazon unveils AmazonSupply.com, which I wrote about last month
Domain registrations hinted at Amazon’s plans. Today Amazon.com officially unveiled AmazonSupply.com, billed as “the hardware store for researchers and developers”. Last month I caught wind of this new shop from an inside connection...
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Amazon unveils AmazonSupply.com, which I wrote about last month
Domain registrations hinted at Amazon’s plans. Today Amazon.com officially unveiled AmazonSupply.com, billed as “the hardware store for researchers and developers”. Last month I caught wind of this new shop from an inside connection...
Discussion
April 23, 2012, 10:27 am
Domain Name Wire
How NOT to promote your domains for sale via email
Sending an unsolicited email to 25,000 people is NOT ok. I got an email over the weekend promoting a couple domains for sale over at Flippa. It was a nicely formatted HTML email that referred to a similar domain name I own. Then, at the bottom, the e...
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How NOT to promote your domains for sale via email
Sending an unsolicited email to 25,000 people is NOT ok. I got an email over the weekend promoting a couple domains for sale over at Flippa. It was a nicely formatted HTML email that referred to a similar domain name I own. Then, at the bottom, the e...
Discussion
April 23, 2012, 9:45 am
Domain Name Wire
Sunday evening domain reading
A ridiculous lawsuit, company naming, ICANN, and more. I was going to write an entire snarky post about this lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy. It’s alternately hilarious and, and the end of the day, sad. Basically this former employee sued with a ...
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Sunday evening domain reading
A ridiculous lawsuit, company naming, ICANN, and more. I was going to write an entire snarky post about this lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy. It’s alternately hilarious and, and the end of the day, sad. Basically this former employee sued with a ...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 9:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Site covering Bo Xilai scandal led to Name.com DDoS, eNom rejects domain as well
Name.com and eNom play hot potato with domain name. Name.com got hit with a massive distributed denial of service attack at the end of last week, and it appears this is because a site covering the downfall of Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai...
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Site covering Bo Xilai scandal led to Name.com DDoS, eNom rejects domain as well
Name.com and eNom play hot potato with domain name. Name.com got hit with a massive distributed denial of service attack at the end of last week, and it appears this is because a site covering the downfall of Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 10:45 am
Domain Name Wire
CNET editor Paul Sloan profiles Mike Mann
Sloan profiles a colorful character in the domain industry. CNET executive editor Paul Sloan has a history of writing about the domain industry. His Business 2.0 cover story about Kevin Ham back in 2007 is still talked about in the industry. More rec...
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CNET editor Paul Sloan profiles Mike Mann
Sloan profiles a colorful character in the domain industry. CNET executive editor Paul Sloan has a history of writing about the domain industry. His Business 2.0 cover story about Kevin Ham back in 2007 is still talked about in the industry. More rec...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 12:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Perhaps ICANN should have accepted new TLD applications via FedEx
Another delay in reopening TAS. Last night ICANN provided an update on when it plans to reopen TAS, the tool that new top level domain name applicants use to submit applications. The update basically says it will be another week before there’s ...
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Perhaps ICANN should have accepted new TLD applications via FedEx
Another delay in reopening TAS. Last night ICANN provided an update on when it plans to reopen TAS, the tool that new top level domain name applicants use to submit applications. The update basically says it will be another week before there’s ...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 10:07 am
Domain Name Wire
My own little version of “Best of DomainTools” support
Guy mistakenly thinks I’m associated with expired domain spam. DomainTools has an occasional feature on its blog about people mistakenly thinking the company is associated with other web sites. Someone searches for a company, finds the whois re...
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My own little version of “Best of DomainTools” support
Guy mistakenly thinks I’m associated with expired domain spam. DomainTools has an occasional feature on its blog about people mistakenly thinking the company is associated with other web sites. Someone searches for a company, finds the whois re...
Discussion
April 20, 2012, 2:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Fascinating: top domain prefixes and suffixes
Oh My, a lot of people use these words to get online. Lean Domain Search has analyzed the top prefixes and suffixes to domain names. Using a methodology that covered over 50 million domain names, the site compiled a list of the top 5,000 prefixes and...
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Fascinating: top domain prefixes and suffixes
Oh My, a lot of people use these words to get online. Lean Domain Search has analyzed the top prefixes and suffixes to domain names. Using a methodology that covered over 50 million domain names, the site compiled a list of the top 5,000 prefixes and...
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April 20, 2012, 10:35 am
