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GoDaddy auctions maintenance will be starting on Sunday, November 13, 2016, 1:00 AM Eastern
Go Daddy posted a notice at the top of the auctions.godaddy.com page. They will be performing maintenance on Sunday at 1 am Eastern. This should just affect public auctions, so if you have any closing, know that they will be extended. Message posted:...
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GoDaddy auctions maintenance will be starting on Sunday, November 13, 2016, 1:00 AM Eastern
Go Daddy posted a notice at the top of the auctions.godaddy.com page. They will be performing maintenance on Sunday at 1 am Eastern. This should just affect public auctions, so if you have any closing, know that they will be extended. Message posted:...
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November 12, 2016, 10:05 am
The Domains
3,500 Trump .Com & .Net Domains Registered in Last 48 Hours
According to Verisign, the registry for the .Com and .Net domain names, since election day November 8th almost 3,200 .Com and 330 .net domains containing the word Trump have been registered. A lot of domains already are calling for Trump’...
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3,500 Trump .Com & .Net Domains Registered in Last 48 Hours
According to Verisign, the registry for the .Com and .Net domain names, since election day November 8th almost 3,200 .Com and 330 .net domains containing the word Trump have been registered. A lot of domains already are calling for Trump’...
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November 10, 2016, 6:17 pm
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Wins UDRP on a Bunch of Personal Domains
The CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer won a UDRP on a bunch of domain names that contained her name: sheryl-sandberg-sucks.com sheryl-sandberg-sucks.me sheryl-sandberg.com sherylsandberg.bio sherylsandberg.biz sherylsandberg.ceo sherylsandberg.co sherylsand...
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Wins UDRP on a Bunch of Personal Domains
The CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer won a UDRP on a bunch of domain names that contained her name: sheryl-sandberg-sucks.com sheryl-sandberg-sucks.me sheryl-sandberg.com sherylsandberg.bio sherylsandberg.biz sherylsandberg.ceo sherylsandberg.co sherylsand...
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November 8, 2016, 10:16 pm
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Sedo weekly sales led by Sleek.com at $30,000
Sedo reported their weekly sales and sleek.com was the top sale at $30,000. Registered in 1996 and dropped two times previously. Currently under privacy at Uniregistry. There was a handful of sales $20,000 or higher: WorkApp.com sold for $20,000 I wa...
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Sedo weekly sales led by Sleek.com at $30,000
Sedo reported their weekly sales and sleek.com was the top sale at $30,000. Registered in 1996 and dropped two times previously. Currently under privacy at Uniregistry. There was a handful of sales $20,000 or higher: WorkApp.com sold for $20,000 I wa...
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November 8, 2016, 9:10 pm
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Google Capital changes name to CapitalG, they did purchase CapitalG.com
Google has changed the name from Google Capital to CapitalG and this time they did get the domain name capitalg.com. The domain name looks to have been acquired a few weeks ago. The domain was owned by an organization called GDiapers back in 2014 and...
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Google Capital changes name to CapitalG, they did purchase CapitalG.com
Google has changed the name from Google Capital to CapitalG and this time they did get the domain name capitalg.com. The domain name looks to have been acquired a few weeks ago. The domain was owned by an organization called GDiapers back in 2014 and...
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November 5, 2016, 7:51 am
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AU Publication Says Trump Is the World’s Largest Domain Holder with 3,600 Domains
The Australian publication Channelnews.com.au, just declared Donald Trump as the “World’s Biggest Owner Of Domain Names”. Yes according to the story, The Donald only has over 3,600 domain names. My God how did no one in the do...
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AU Publication Says Trump Is the World’s Largest Domain Holder with 3,600 Domains
The Australian publication Channelnews.com.au, just declared Donald Trump as the “World’s Biggest Owner Of Domain Names”. Yes according to the story, The Donald only has over 3,600 domain names. My God how did no one in the do...
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November 4, 2016, 5:44 pm
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Green Bay Packers Loses UDRP on 8 Year Old Site TotalPackers.com Citing Laches
Green Bay Packers, Inc. of Green Bay, Wisconsin, just its bid to grab the domain name TotalPackers.com in a three member UDRP decision by Christopher S. Gibson, Matthew S. Harris and W. Scott Blackmer. The Domain Name was registered by Respondent on ...
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Green Bay Packers Loses UDRP on 8 Year Old Site TotalPackers.com Citing Laches
Green Bay Packers, Inc. of Green Bay, Wisconsin, just its bid to grab the domain name TotalPackers.com in a three member UDRP decision by Christopher S. Gibson, Matthew S. Harris and W. Scott Blackmer. The Domain Name was registered by Respondent on ...
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November 3, 2016, 8:29 pm
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.Doctor Winds up With Over 1,400 Domains After First Day of Availability
The new domain extension .Doctor launched yesterday into general availability where domains could be registered on a first come first served basis. The zone file now reflects 1,421 domain registration which includes those domain names registered in S...
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.Doctor Winds up With Over 1,400 Domains After First Day of Availability
The new domain extension .Doctor launched yesterday into general availability where domains could be registered on a first come first served basis. The zone file now reflects 1,421 domain registration which includes those domain names registered in S...
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November 3, 2016, 3:39 pm
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Percentage of Parked New gTLD Zoom Up Over 65% As Over 3 Million Added in A Week
According to ntldstats.com, the number of “Parked” new gTLD domain names as defined by ntldstats.com has increased by over 3 Million domain names just since October 25th 2016. On October 25th, the number of Parked domains was...
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Percentage of Parked New gTLD Zoom Up Over 65% As Over 3 Million Added in A Week
According to ntldstats.com, the number of “Parked” new gTLD domain names as defined by ntldstats.com has increased by over 3 Million domain names just since October 25th 2016. On October 25th, the number of Parked domains was...
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November 3, 2016, 3:06 pm
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DomainTools Launches PhiseEye to Prevent Phishing Attacks Before They Happen
DomainTools, today announced the launch of PhishEye, asimple yet effective new security solution that helps to prevent phishing attacks before they happen. According to press release out today; “Powered by DomainTools’ market-leading doma...
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DomainTools Launches PhiseEye to Prevent Phishing Attacks Before They Happen
DomainTools, today announced the launch of PhishEye, asimple yet effective new security solution that helps to prevent phishing attacks before they happen. According to press release out today; “Powered by DomainTools’ market-leading doma...
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November 3, 2016, 2:32 pm
