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Verisign: As Of June 30 There Are 334.6 Million Domains In The World; Up 12.9% From Last Year
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 334.6 million ac...
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Verisign: As Of June 30 There Are 334.6 Million Domains In The World; Up 12.9% From Last Year
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that approximately 7.9 million domain name registrations were added to the internet in the second quarter of 2016, bringing the total number of domain name registrations to approximately 334.6 million ac...
Discussion
September 16, 2016, 12:31 am
The Domains
Radix Launches Startup League to help startups
The Startup League (www.startupleague.online) is a unique startup-support program designed to aid early stage startups that use any of Radix’s TLDs to launch their idea or company. This initiative will support startups across several key ...
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Radix Launches Startup League to help startups
The Startup League (www.startupleague.online) is a unique startup-support program designed to aid early stage startups that use any of Radix’s TLDs to launch their idea or company. This initiative will support startups across several key ...
Discussion
September 15, 2016, 5:02 pm
The Domains
UPDATED: Minds + Machines Lost Registrations Result of Registry Deletions Not Non-Renewals
Yesterday we reported that Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) lost on average around 30% of its registrations due to non-renewal. Today we were informed by Minds + Machines that the deleted domain names were not the result of non-renewals; but was the result...
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UPDATED: Minds + Machines Lost Registrations Result of Registry Deletions Not Non-Renewals
Yesterday we reported that Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) lost on average around 30% of its registrations due to non-renewal. Today we were informed by Minds + Machines that the deleted domain names were not the result of non-renewals; but was the result...
Discussion
September 15, 2016, 1:05 pm
The Domains
New gTLD conspiracies may have finally jumped the shark
There is a new thread on Namepros that may have taken the new gtld discussion to another level, a weird level. Although anything is possible it is the Internet. Namepros member GarpTrader posted: One-word and hyper short LL .Com domains are rare and ...
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New gTLD conspiracies may have finally jumped the shark
There is a new thread on Namepros that may have taken the new gtld discussion to another level, a weird level. Although anything is possible it is the Internet. Namepros member GarpTrader posted: One-word and hyper short LL .Com domains are rare and ...
Discussion
September 15, 2016, 1:48 am
The Domains
Minds + Machines Extension Having A Really Bad Day Losing 30% Of Registrations Over 13 Strings
Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is having a bad day as many of its new gTLD’s have come up for renewal and many lost a substantial percentage of its registrations yesterday. According to RegistrarStats.com, 13 new gTLD strings owned and operated by ...
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Minds + Machines Extension Having A Really Bad Day Losing 30% Of Registrations Over 13 Strings
Minds + Machines (LON:MMX) is having a bad day as many of its new gTLD’s have come up for renewal and many lost a substantial percentage of its registrations yesterday. According to RegistrarStats.com, 13 new gTLD strings owned and operated by ...
Discussion
September 14, 2016, 3:10 pm
The Domains
Google May Have To Pay European Publishers For Showing News Clips
The E.U. just wants to keep pushing Google’s buttons Bloomberg is out this morning with a news item that the E.U. is drafting new copyright rules. Publishers would have the right to demand payment for their content being published on site...
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Google May Have To Pay European Publishers For Showing News Clips
The E.U. just wants to keep pushing Google’s buttons Bloomberg is out this morning with a news item that the E.U. is drafting new copyright rules. Publishers would have the right to demand payment for their content being published on site...
Discussion
September 14, 2016, 11:38 am
The Domains
Sedo Weekly Sales Led by WLF.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and WLF.com was the top sale at $35,000. SelfEmployed.com looks to be a solid buy at $18,000 in my opinion. With more and more people working for themselves the name has a lot of possibilities. There was a .forex sale...
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Sedo Weekly Sales Led by WLF.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and WLF.com was the top sale at $35,000. SelfEmployed.com looks to be a solid buy at $18,000 in my opinion. With more and more people working for themselves the name has a lot of possibilities. There was a .forex sale...
Discussion
September 13, 2016, 8:08 pm
The Domains
Can posting a link be a copyright violation ?
There was a very interesting article published by Maud Sacquet of Project Disco on how Europe is viewing links with relation to copyright law. That’s right links, the driving force of the Internet, I don’t think I have ever spoken with an...
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Can posting a link be a copyright violation ?
There was a very interesting article published by Maud Sacquet of Project Disco on how Europe is viewing links with relation to copyright law. That’s right links, the driving force of the Internet, I don’t think I have ever spoken with an...
Discussion
September 12, 2016, 7:10 pm
The Domains
Forget Naming Companies – One Teen Is Getting Paid to Name Babies
There was a really cool story on BBC.com that was sent to me by Adam Yamada from Yamada Media. Domain investors and branding firms spend most of their time selling names or creating names for business, but there is a 16 year old Brit that is making m...
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Forget Naming Companies – One Teen Is Getting Paid to Name Babies
There was a really cool story on BBC.com that was sent to me by Adam Yamada from Yamada Media. Domain investors and branding firms spend most of their time selling names or creating names for business, but there is a 16 year old Brit that is making m...
Discussion
September 11, 2016, 11:20 pm
The Domains
No UDRP on This One, TM holder brings lawsuit instead
There was a post recently on Namepros that a member was not sure what to do about a demand for a domain name they owned. Some of the comments felt the person should keep the domain, and at the end of the day it’s only a UDRP. I posted in the th...
Discussion
No UDRP on This One, TM holder brings lawsuit instead
There was a post recently on Namepros that a member was not sure what to do about a demand for a domain name they owned. Some of the comments felt the person should keep the domain, and at the end of the day it’s only a UDRP. I posted in the th...
Discussion
September 9, 2016, 3:42 pm
