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Donuts Makes Lotsof.Money in Early Access: .Money Has 327 Registrations, Launches Wed
Donuts seems to have made lots of money In the Early Access Program (EAP) grabbing 327 registrations including a handful of trademark registrations made in Sunrise. In the EAP people pay extra.money to gain early access to register domain names...
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Donuts Makes Lotsof.Money in Early Access: .Money Has 327 Registrations, Launches Wed
Donuts seems to have made lots of money In the Early Access Program (EAP) grabbing 327 registrations including a handful of trademark registrations made in Sunrise. In the EAP people pay extra.money to gain early access to register domain names...
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March 9, 2015, 12:54 pm

The Domains
The Registrar Reports: Enom Suffers Huge DNS Outage, Taking Down Sites
TheRegister.co.uk, is reporting that Domain Name registrar enom appears to be having a huge DNS outage citing quite a few tweets from people who say service has been down for hours. The story says: “”Domain name registrar eNom appea...
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The Registrar Reports: Enom Suffers Huge DNS Outage, Taking Down Sites
TheRegister.co.uk, is reporting that Domain Name registrar enom appears to be having a huge DNS outage citing quite a few tweets from people who say service has been down for hours. The story says: “”Domain name registrar eNom appea...
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March 9, 2015, 12:05 pm

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Will The Namespace Be Shaken Up By Live Registry Buys ?
Kieren Mc Carthy wrote an article on TheRegister.co.uk relating to Donuts winning the rights to .reise. Now .reise is already live, so Donuts picked up a registry with existing registrations and websites. Mc Carthy ponders what these types of deals c...
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Will The Namespace Be Shaken Up By Live Registry Buys ?
Kieren Mc Carthy wrote an article on TheRegister.co.uk relating to Donuts winning the rights to .reise. Now .reise is already live, so Donuts picked up a registry with existing registrations and websites. Mc Carthy ponders what these types of deals c...
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March 8, 2015, 7:01 am

The Domains
Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD’s; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins .Hockey & .Run Too
Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what ...
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Donuts Wins Three Sports New gTLD’s; .Soccer Beating Out MLS & Wins .Hockey & .Run Too
Donuts has won the right to three sports related new gTLD’s. Donuts won the right to operate the .Hockey and .Run new domain extensions, beating the only other applicant in both cases Famous Four Media. Separately Donuts won the rights to what ...
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March 7, 2015, 4:31 pm

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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons
Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machi...
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Donuts Beats Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons
Donuts has won yet another new gTLD beatings Coupons.com to the new gTLD .Coupons The new gTLD was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. If your wondering, yes there is also a .Coupon new gTLD Amazon beat out Minds + Machi...
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March 7, 2015, 3:38 pm

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I said it before Canada is not messing around when it comes to Spam – $1.1 million fine handed down
Back in September of 2014 I wrote an article on DomainCrunch.com that Canada was not playing around when it comes to spam. A Canadian law that targets spam email could have a big impact on Boston-area companies that use email marketing. Starting July...
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I said it before Canada is not messing around when it comes to Spam – $1.1 million fine handed down
Back in September of 2014 I wrote an article on DomainCrunch.com that Canada was not playing around when it comes to spam. A Canadian law that targets spam email could have a big impact on Boston-area companies that use email marketing. Starting July...
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March 7, 2015, 8:59 am

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Who Has the Most Valuable Search Traffic ?
Matt Southern wrote an article on Search Engine Journal that included an infographic on who has the most valuable search traffic. His takeaway from the data was: It’s interesting to note that the site with the most valuable search traffic, Wiki...
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Who Has the Most Valuable Search Traffic ?
Matt Southern wrote an article on Search Engine Journal that included an infographic on who has the most valuable search traffic. His takeaway from the data was: It’s interesting to note that the site with the most valuable search traffic, Wiki...
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March 6, 2015, 5:56 pm

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Facebook Warns Page Owners Their Number of Likes May Drop on March 12
Venture Beat post an article that Facebook will be removing inactive accounts from a Facebook pages’ like stats and that page owners will see a dip in the number of likes on their page. From the article: In a blog post this morning, Facebook sa...
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Facebook Warns Page Owners Their Number of Likes May Drop on March 12
Venture Beat post an article that Facebook will be removing inactive accounts from a Facebook pages’ like stats and that page owners will see a dip in the number of likes on their page. From the article: In a blog post this morning, Facebook sa...
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March 5, 2015, 10:29 pm

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OpenDNS Working On A System To Quickly Detect Cyber Crime
Interesting article on ComputerWorld.com about a new system for detecting domain names and websites used for cyber crime. The company OpenDNS has been around since 2005 and has created something they call Natural Processing Language. From the article...
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OpenDNS Working On A System To Quickly Detect Cyber Crime
Interesting article on ComputerWorld.com about a new system for detecting domain names and websites used for cyber crime. The company OpenDNS has been around since 2005 and has created something they call Natural Processing Language. From the article...
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March 5, 2015, 6:13 pm

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After Almost 8 Years Twitter.com Finally Files UDRP To Get Typo Domain Twiiter.com
I have no idea why, but it took Twitter.com almost 8 years to file a UDRP over a very popular misspelling of its domain name. The domain name Twiiter.co...
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After Almost 8 Years Twitter.com Finally Files UDRP To Get Typo Domain Twiiter.com
I have no idea why, but it took Twitter.com almost 8 years to file a UDRP over a very popular misspelling of its domain name. The domain name Twiiter.co...
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March 5, 2015, 1:50 pm