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Wholesale price for .com domains could hit $10.29 by 2016
Why should registry costs increase 7% a year? ICANN has published a proposed agreement to renew the .com contract with VeriSign. As expected, the agreement allows VeriSign to hike prices 7% in four of the next six years. This is similar to the curren...
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Wholesale price for .com domains could hit $10.29 by 2016
Why should registry costs increase 7% a year? ICANN has published a proposed agreement to renew the .com contract with VeriSign. As expected, the agreement allows VeriSign to hike prices 7% in four of the next six years. This is similar to the curren...
Discussion
March 28, 2012, 12:09 am
Domain Name Wire
Kevin Ham’s NameView domain registrar now a parked page registered at Moniker
NameView.com transferred to Moniker and forwards to a parked page. A reader notified me of something peculiar the other day. NameView.com, the ICANN accredited domain registrar that Kevin Ham was (is?) involved with, now leads to a parked page. I&rsq...
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Kevin Ham’s NameView domain registrar now a parked page registered at Moniker
NameView.com transferred to Moniker and forwards to a parked page. A reader notified me of something peculiar the other day. NameView.com, the ICANN accredited domain registrar that Kevin Ham was (is?) involved with, now leads to a parked page. I&rsq...
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March 27, 2012, 4:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Austin.com domain name sold
Austin.com domain name sold and will be relaunched. The domain name Austin.com has been purchased by iEstates, LLC for an undisclosed price. As an Austinite, I’ve paid close attention to Austin.com over the years. Previous attempts to develop i...
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Austin.com domain name sold
Austin.com domain name sold and will be relaunched. The domain name Austin.com has been purchased by iEstates, LLC for an undisclosed price. As an Austinite, I’ve paid close attention to Austin.com over the years. Previous attempts to develop i...
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March 27, 2012, 11:43 am
Domain Name Wire
Sedo updates stats and issues credit from DDOS
Domain parking company resolves stats issues. Domain parking company Sedo was hit with a DDOS attack on March 9. This caused a few hours of downtime, and then some difficulties with monetizing “related links” on its parking pages. Today t...
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Sedo updates stats and issues credit from DDOS
Domain parking company resolves stats issues. Domain parking company Sedo was hit with a DDOS attack on March 9. This caused a few hours of downtime, and then some difficulties with monetizing “related links” on its parking pages. Today t...
Discussion
March 27, 2012, 10:17 am
Domain Name Wire
Apple files complaint over iTunes.net
Company requests transfer of domain name. Apple has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over the iTunes.net domain name. The domain has long been a parked domain name with links related to downloading music, so it’s ...
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Apple files complaint over iTunes.net
Company requests transfer of domain name. Apple has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over the iTunes.net domain name. The domain has long been a parked domain name with links related to downloading music, so it’s ...
Discussion
March 27, 2012, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
Two Texas universities win .xxx domain disputes
Triple-X domains to be transferred to Texas universities in two separate arbitration proceedings. Two Texas universities have won arbitration disputes over the new .xxx domain names. The University of Texas System won a case for UTsystem.xxx and Bayl...
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Two Texas universities win .xxx domain disputes
Triple-X domains to be transferred to Texas universities in two separate arbitration proceedings. Two Texas universities have won arbitration disputes over the new .xxx domain names. The University of Texas System won a case for UTsystem.xxx and Bayl...
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March 27, 2012, 8:46 am
Domain Name Wire
Hot.net is hot! Gets $75,000 bid at Sedo
Hot.net gets a nice bid at Sedo and is now up for auction. The domain name Hot.net has landed a 56,700 EUR bid at Sedo — or about $75,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The owner of the domain has pushed it to auction with this starting p...
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Hot.net is hot! Gets $75,000 bid at Sedo
Hot.net gets a nice bid at Sedo and is now up for auction. The domain name Hot.net has landed a 56,700 EUR bid at Sedo — or about $75,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The owner of the domain has pushed it to auction with this starting p...
Discussion
March 26, 2012, 10:57 am
Domain Name Wire
“Really cool” guys at Digimedia sold Box.com for about $1 million
Box.com sold for about $1 million. Last year file sharing service Box.net bought the Box.com domain name from Scott Day at Digimedia. The purchase price was not disclosed. But now it has — just shy of a million bucks. CNET writer Rafe Needleman...
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“Really cool” guys at Digimedia sold Box.com for about $1 million
Box.com sold for about $1 million. Last year file sharing service Box.net bought the Box.com domain name from Scott Day at Digimedia. The purchase price was not disclosed. But now it has — just shy of a million bucks. CNET writer Rafe Needleman...
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March 25, 2012, 11:23 am
Domain Name Wire
As new domains like .nyc get announced, watch out for bogus web sites like this one
Be careful about sites for new TLDs. Yesterday Information Week reported that Neustar will be running the .nyc domain name when it launches. As definitive news about new top level domains starts hitting the web, people should be careful about mislead...
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As new domains like .nyc get announced, watch out for bogus web sites like this one
Be careful about sites for new TLDs. Yesterday Information Week reported that Neustar will be running the .nyc domain name when it launches. As definitive news about new top level domains starts hitting the web, people should be careful about mislead...
Discussion
March 23, 2012, 11:47 am
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft’s latest ad campaign? Find your 25th hour.
Microsoft registers domains that could be used in marketing next major software release. Don’t we all wish we had an extra hour in a day? That might be the idea behind a possible new marketing campaign from Microsoft. Earlier this week it regis...
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Microsoft’s latest ad campaign? Find your 25th hour.
Microsoft registers domains that could be used in marketing next major software release. Don’t we all wish we had an extra hour in a day? That might be the idea behind a possible new marketing campaign from Microsoft. Earlier this week it regis...
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March 23, 2012, 10:46 am
