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Domain Shane
DN.com Email “Will be back soon” ,Down for Requirements of the Government
I just received this email from DN.com two minutes ago. I talked to a customer service rep 2 weeks ago and she had almost flawless English. This looks like it was computer generated. The email does make reference to “requirements of...
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DN.com Email “Will be back soon” ,Down for Requirements of the Government
I just received this email from DN.com two minutes ago. I talked to a customer service rep 2 weeks ago and she had almost flawless English. This looks like it was computer generated. The email does make reference to “requirements of...
Discussion
March 14, 2016, 6:55 am
The Domains
Right Of The Dot Auction On NameJet Starts Closing Tomorrow
RightoftheDot.com (ROTD) themed auction of domain names that were in the Namescon auction but went unsold, start to close out tomorrow afternoon, Monday March 14th All the auctions are public, meaning you didn’t/don’t have ot pre-order th...
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Right Of The Dot Auction On NameJet Starts Closing Tomorrow
RightoftheDot.com (ROTD) themed auction of domain names that were in the Namescon auction but went unsold, start to close out tomorrow afternoon, Monday March 14th All the auctions are public, meaning you didn’t/don’t have ot pre-order th...
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March 13, 2016, 7:58 pm
The Domains
March 2017 ICANN Meeting Set For Copenhagen, Denmark
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced they will be holding its 2017 March conference from March 11-16, 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark The ICANN conference will be hosted by the The Danish Business Authority in conjunc...
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March 2017 ICANN Meeting Set For Copenhagen, Denmark
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced they will be holding its 2017 March conference from March 11-16, 2007 in Copenhagen, Denmark The ICANN conference will be hosted by the The Danish Business Authority in conjunc...
Discussion
March 12, 2016, 3:01 pm
The Domains
Infographic on New gTLD’s Left To Be Launched
Yesterday we published a list of the new gTLD’s that are left to be launched in the current new gTLD round. Yesterday the European Domain Centre ApS published an infographic with all the new gTLD’s that were or will be launched in 2016 or...
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Infographic on New gTLD’s Left To Be Launched
Yesterday we published a list of the new gTLD’s that are left to be launched in the current new gTLD round. Yesterday the European Domain Centre ApS published an infographic with all the new gTLD’s that were or will be launched in 2016 or...
Discussion
March 12, 2016, 1:33 pm
The Domains
ButtonMakers.com Registered in 2007 Lost in UDRP To Co. That Registered TM in 2014
The domain name ButtonMakers.com which was registered by the domain holder in 2007 was just lost in a UDRP to Rockstar Industries, LLP which registered a trademark in 2014. The one member panel of Dr. Katalin Szamosi found the Complainant had establi...
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ButtonMakers.com Registered in 2007 Lost in UDRP To Co. That Registered TM in 2014
The domain name ButtonMakers.com which was registered by the domain holder in 2007 was just lost in a UDRP to Rockstar Industries, LLP which registered a trademark in 2014. The one member panel of Dr. Katalin Szamosi found the Complainant had establi...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 11:16 pm
The Domains
Market Watch 3/11/16 Stocks up across the board – Go Daddy up 2%
Market Recap 3/11/16 Stocks were up across the board, Rightside (NAME) was the only stock over $1 that was down and it was only a few pennies. Go Daddy (GDDY) and Tucows (TCX) were both up over 2%. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 744.87 +12.70 (1.73%) Godaddy Inc...
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Market Watch 3/11/16 Stocks up across the board – Go Daddy up 2%
Market Recap 3/11/16 Stocks were up across the board, Rightside (NAME) was the only stock over $1 that was down and it was only a few pennies. Go Daddy (GDDY) and Tucows (TCX) were both up over 2%. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 744.87 +12.70 (1.73%) Godaddy Inc...
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March 11, 2016, 11:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
eNom lays out 2016 roadmap
Company plans to improve and modernize API. The user interfaces at eNom and Namejet look and feel clumsy and stale. Looking past the main page of NAME’s sites, the logged-in front-end infrastructure is untouched and acts like time capsule to wh...
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eNom lays out 2016 roadmap
Company plans to improve and modernize API. The user interfaces at eNom and Namejet look and feel clumsy and stale. Looking past the main page of NAME’s sites, the logged-in front-end infrastructure is untouched and acts like time capsule to wh...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 6:24 pm
The Domains
.Club Rings Up $90K in Premium Domain Sales In February
.Club sold $90,000 in premium domain name sales in February 2016. According to a blog post on it’s site, .Club, without any auctions being held during the short month, 17 different registrars and Sedo contributed to a “very respectable Pr...
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.Club Rings Up $90K in Premium Domain Sales In February
.Club sold $90,000 in premium domain name sales in February 2016. According to a blog post on it’s site, .Club, without any auctions being held during the short month, 17 different registrars and Sedo contributed to a “very respectable Pr...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 5:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Interesting domain name search stats
2/3rds of searches include a TLD, 44% of searches for new TLDs came back unavailable. eNom revealed some interested stats about domain name searches in its most recent newsletter: Users performed an average of 2.6 searches per session. One-third of a...
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Interesting domain name search stats
2/3rds of searches include a TLD, 44% of searches for new TLDs came back unavailable. eNom revealed some interested stats about domain name searches in its most recent newsletter: Users performed an average of 2.6 searches per session. One-third of a...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 2:12 pm
The Domains
How Many New gTLD’s Are Left To Be Launched?
A reader to thedomains.com asked as a comment on another post, as to how many new gTLD’s are there still to come Good question According to my count, excluding .Brand gTLD’s which can basically launch once the .Brand decides to move it al...
Discussion
How Many New gTLD’s Are Left To Be Launched?
A reader to thedomains.com asked as a comment on another post, as to how many new gTLD’s are there still to come Good question According to my count, excluding .Brand gTLD’s which can basically launch once the .Brand decides to move it al...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 1:38 pm