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Sedo adjusts earnings guidance down, but there’s a silver lining for domain parkers
Sedo paying out more to top domain parking clients. Sedo Holding has lowered its earnings forecast for the current year due to “confirming margin development in Domain Marketing in the second quarter 2012.” While this may seem like a bad ...
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Sedo adjusts earnings guidance down, but there’s a silver lining for domain parkers
Sedo paying out more to top domain parking clients. Sedo Holding has lowered its earnings forecast for the current year due to “confirming margin development in Domain Marketing in the second quarter 2012.” While this may seem like a bad ...
Discussion
June 11, 2012, 2:25 pm

Domain Name Wire
Here’s what Mike Mann thinks about new TLDs
He has an opinion on everything. Here’s what he thinks about new TLDs. Last week I published comments from a number of domain industry professionals about what they think new top level domains will mean for domainers. I think I forgot to tell M...
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Here’s what Mike Mann thinks about new TLDs
He has an opinion on everything. Here’s what he thinks about new TLDs. Last week I published comments from a number of domain industry professionals about what they think new top level domains will mean for domainers. I think I forgot to tell M...
Discussion
June 11, 2012, 12:14 pm

Domain Name Wire
New TLD updates: Neustar 358, Key-Systems 31
Neustar signs up boatloads of new TLD applicants and news from Key-Systems. New top level domain news stories are coming fast and furious today. Here are a couple more updates: Nuestar (NYSE: NSR) said it has been selected as the backend registry ser...
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New TLD updates: Neustar 358, Key-Systems 31
Neustar signs up boatloads of new TLD applicants and news from Key-Systems. New top level domain news stories are coming fast and furious today. Here are a couple more updates: Nuestar (NYSE: NSR) said it has been selected as the backend registry ser...
Discussion
June 11, 2012, 11:05 am

Domain Name Wire
TLDH: Digital archery may have technical bugs
Big new top level domain applicant finds odd results with digital archery system. Digital archery, which creates a secondary timestamp for new TLD applications that will determine how they are batched, is run through ICANN’s TLD Application Sys...
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TLDH: Digital archery may have technical bugs
Big new top level domain applicant finds odd results with digital archery system. Digital archery, which creates a secondary timestamp for new TLD applications that will determine how they are batched, is run through ICANN’s TLD Application Sys...
Discussion
June 11, 2012, 10:03 am

Domain Name Wire
Demand Media releases more details about its gTLD plans and deal with Donuts
Demand Media applies for 26 TLDs outright and has rights to up to 107 applied for by partner Donuts, Inc. Demand Media announced today that it has applied for 26 top level domains on its own, and also can obtain rights to 107 gTLDs being applied for ...
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Demand Media releases more details about its gTLD plans and deal with Donuts
Demand Media applies for 26 TLDs outright and has rights to up to 107 applied for by partner Donuts, Inc. Demand Media announced today that it has applied for 26 top level domains on its own, and also can obtain rights to 107 gTLDs being applied for ...
Discussion
June 11, 2012, 9:48 am

Domain Name Wire
ICANN pays close to $1 million for CEO in 2011. Here’s compensation for 18 other ICANN employees.
Rod Beckstrom’s total compensation and benefits nearly $1 million last fiscal year; many other highly paid employees at non-profit. ICANN has published its Form 990 tax return for the financial year ending June, 2011. Here’s what top empl...
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ICANN pays close to $1 million for CEO in 2011. Here’s compensation for 18 other ICANN employees.
Rod Beckstrom’s total compensation and benefits nearly $1 million last fiscal year; many other highly paid employees at non-profit. ICANN has published its Form 990 tax return for the financial year ending June, 2011. Here’s what top empl...
Discussion
June 11, 2012, 8:44 am

Domain Name Wire
Quinstreet acquires OnlineEducation.com
Quinstreet picks up online education lead gen site. Lead generation company Quinstreet (NASDAQ: QNST) has acquired the web site and domain name OnlineEducation.com. I can’t find any mention — nor a price — for the acquisition in Qui...
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Quinstreet acquires OnlineEducation.com
Quinstreet picks up online education lead gen site. Lead generation company Quinstreet (NASDAQ: QNST) has acquired the web site and domain name OnlineEducation.com. I can’t find any mention — nor a price — for the acquisition in Qui...
Discussion
June 10, 2012, 3:59 pm

Domain Name Wire
DataGenetics’ fascinating look at domain name data
Slicing and dicing domain name data. This in-depth post from DataGenetics is a couple months old, but a reader just sent it to me today. It’s a fascinating look at domain names. Some of the findings help you draw conclusions about the domain ma...
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DataGenetics’ fascinating look at domain name data
Slicing and dicing domain name data. This in-depth post from DataGenetics is a couple months old, but a reader just sent it to me today. It’s a fascinating look at domain names. Some of the findings help you draw conclusions about the domain ma...
Discussion
June 8, 2012, 11:59 am

Domain Name Wire
Economist on Digital Archery: “Frankly, anything is better than this”
Thies Lindenthal finds fault with ICANN’s digital archery. Plenty of people have come out against ICANN’s digital archery plan for new top level domains. Digital archery will determine the batch in which a new TLD application is reviewed ...
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Economist on Digital Archery: “Frankly, anything is better than this”
Thies Lindenthal finds fault with ICANN’s digital archery. Plenty of people have come out against ICANN’s digital archery plan for new top level domains. Digital archery will determine the batch in which a new TLD application is reviewed ...
Discussion
June 8, 2012, 11:38 am

Domain Name Wire
Instrumentation Northwest should ask its lawyer for its money back
It just wasted money filing a frivolous complaint over INW.com. The results are in on Instrumentation Northwest’s case against Nat Cohen’s Telepathy for the domain INW.com. No surprise here. With the help of domain attorney Ari Goldberger...
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Instrumentation Northwest should ask its lawyer for its money back
It just wasted money filing a frivolous complaint over INW.com. The results are in on Instrumentation Northwest’s case against Nat Cohen’s Telepathy for the domain INW.com. No surprise here. With the help of domain attorney Ari Goldberger...
Discussion
June 8, 2012, 11:20 am