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Domain Name Wire
Facebook now owns a domain name registrar
Company acquires existing domain name registrar. Facebook now owns a domain name registrar. As spotted by Pinky Brand today, the company has acquired RegistrarSec. Weekly email report from #ICANN indicates that #FaceBook has acquired a registrar http...
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Facebook now owns a domain name registrar
Company acquires existing domain name registrar. Facebook now owns a domain name registrar. As spotted by Pinky Brand today, the company has acquired RegistrarSec. Weekly email report from #ICANN indicates that #FaceBook has acquired a registrar http...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 10:48 pm
The Domains
Market Recap 4/14/16
Market Recap 4/14/16 Tucows (TCX) was up over 3.5% on the day and Rightside (NAME) closed up 1.7% approaching $9. Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 1.2% on the day after being up 4% yesterday. GOOGL 775.39 +3.48 (0.45%) GDDY 31.03 -0.39 (-1.24%) NAME 8.90 +0.1...
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Market Recap 4/14/16
Market Recap 4/14/16 Tucows (TCX) was up over 3.5% on the day and Rightside (NAME) closed up 1.7% approaching $9. Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 1.2% on the day after being up 4% yesterday. GOOGL 775.39 +3.48 (0.45%) GDDY 31.03 -0.39 (-1.24%) NAME 8.90 +0.1...
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April 14, 2016, 8:28 pm
The Domains
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-l...
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Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-l...
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April 14, 2016, 8:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
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“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
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April 14, 2016, 7:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Man files UDRP against his ex-wife
Maybe you shouldn’t let your spouse register domain names for you. I’m sure there are a lot of allegations made against ex-spouses. But calling your ex-wife a cybersquatter? An Ontario man filed a UDRP against his ex-wife over the domain ...
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Man files UDRP against his ex-wife
Maybe you shouldn’t let your spouse register domain names for you. I’m sure there are a lot of allegations made against ex-spouses. But calling your ex-wife a cybersquatter? An Ontario man filed a UDRP against his ex-wife over the domain ...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 7:20 pm
Domain Shane
CHINESE SALES TRENDS FOR APRIL 14, 2016
The 4L number includes a sale with no seller ID listed. I haven’t seen this before, and it was a higher dollar sale that drove the average up some. Without that sale, the average price for 4L was $326. Volumes are down a lot p...
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CHINESE SALES TRENDS FOR APRIL 14, 2016
The 4L number includes a sale with no seller ID listed. I haven’t seen this before, and it was a higher dollar sale that drove the average up some. Without that sale, the average price for 4L was $326. Volumes are down a lot p...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 7:11 pm
Domain Shane
Thank you for responding Joe Styler. Here’s my response.
Joe Styler from Godaddy responded to my post from yesterday. “We did have an issue yesterday where the domain registration path was impacted briefly. It probably doesn’t look like it to a casual observer but we are always releasing new ch...
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Thank you for responding Joe Styler. Here’s my response.
Joe Styler from Godaddy responded to my post from yesterday. “We did have an issue yesterday where the domain registration path was impacted briefly. It probably doesn’t look like it to a casual observer but we are always releasing new ch...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 6:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
“That’s radio with five o’s…”
This company has a horrible name. It was painful to my ears. NPR aired a story last Friday about music discovery service Radiooooo. When the correspondent mentioned the name, it went something like this “It’s a service called Radio. That&...
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“That’s radio with five o’s…”
This company has a horrible name. It was painful to my ears. NPR aired a story last Friday about music discovery service Radiooooo. When the correspondent mentioned the name, it went something like this “It’s a service called Radio. That&...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 3:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lending Club buys Lending.Club domain name
Big company in marketplace/peer-to-peer lending business buys .club domain name. Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. Th...
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Lending Club buys Lending.Club domain name
Big company in marketplace/peer-to-peer lending business buys .club domain name. Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. Th...
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April 14, 2016, 2:26 pm
The Domains
Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Found on 23 Year Old Domain MasterCall.com
Master Call Connections, LLC (represented by Mikhail Lezhnev, New York, USA has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Mastercall.com. The one member UDRP panel of David J. Steele found the domain name that was register...
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Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Found on 23 Year Old Domain MasterCall.com
Master Call Connections, LLC (represented by Mikhail Lezhnev, New York, USA has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Mastercall.com. The one member UDRP panel of David J. Steele found the domain name that was register...
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April 14, 2016, 2:00 pm
