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Domain Name Wire
Trump is still trending…in .com
Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, &l...
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Trump is still trending…in .com
Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, &l...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 1:18 am
The Domains
ipaymentinc.com Found Guilt Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on A domain it used to own iPayments.com
In what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, just got found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ipayments.com T...
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ipaymentinc.com Found Guilt Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on A domain it used to own iPayments.com
In what is a great case for al domain name holders iPayment, Inc. of Westlake Village, California, represented by Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, just got found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the domain name ipayments.com T...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 8:43 pm
The Domains
Down The Stretch We Come as the ROTD/4.cn Action Has Over $6M In Bids & Closes Wed @ 8AM EST
The RightoftheDot.com auction which is being held on 4.CN as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has 305 domain names with bids as of publication, including may with no reserves. You can see all the domain names in the auction here In all th...
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Down The Stretch We Come as the ROTD/4.cn Action Has Over $6M In Bids & Closes Wed @ 8AM EST
The RightoftheDot.com auction which is being held on 4.CN as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has 305 domain names with bids as of publication, including may with no reserves. You can see all the domain names in the auction here In all th...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 6:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Symantec issued patent for rating domain registrars
Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells t...
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Symantec issued patent for rating domain registrars
Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells t...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 5:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lead Gen and Domain Names with Braden Pollock – DNW Podcast #49
Can domainers make money with lead gen? Is there a scaleable way to monetize domain names with lead generation? Today’s guest, Braden Pollock, runs lead generation company Legal Brand Marketing. We’ll chat about monetizing domains with le...
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Lead Gen and Domain Names with Braden Pollock – DNW Podcast #49
Can domainers make money with lead gen? Is there a scaleable way to monetize domain names with lead generation? Today’s guest, Braden Pollock, runs lead generation company Legal Brand Marketing. We’ll chat about monetizing domains with le...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club banks with more premium sales in August
.Club sells another $100k in premium domain names. The .Club registry has released premium domain sales totals from August, much like it did for the previous month. This provides great insight into premium sales by registries. .Club’s domains c...
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.Club banks with more premium sales in August
.Club sells another $100k in premium domain names. The .Club registry has released premium domain sales totals from August, much like it did for the previous month. This provides great insight into premium sales by registries. .Club’s domains c...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 2:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts releasing 2 character domain names this week
TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two l...
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Donuts releasing 2 character domain names this week
TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two l...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 1:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week: .Ski and .Lotto domain names
Hit the slopes with .Ski this week. Two new top level domain names launch today, the most anticipated of which is .ski. .Ski got 1,000 registrations during a combined Sunrise and Limited Registration Period. A number of entities and people that are k...
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This week: .Ski and .Lotto domain names
Hit the slopes with .Ski this week. Two new top level domain names launch today, the most anticipated of which is .ski. .Ski got 1,000 registrations during a combined Sunrise and Limited Registration Period. A number of entities and people that are k...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 1:19 pm
The Domains
CSC September New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot
The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. We picked through the report and found what we believe are the highlights. You can review the...
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CSC September New gTLD Report: .News & .Sexy Are Hot
The brand protection and domain name registrar CSC published its New gTLD Utilization Report for September late last week and had some interesting findings. We picked through the report and found what we believe are the highlights. You can review the...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 12:30 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015
It sounds like DomainFest Asia went well. The auction seems to be going pretty well and I think without question will result in the highest auction total in auction history. Considering there are millions of dollars of bids already and th...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015
It sounds like DomainFest Asia went well. The auction seems to be going pretty well and I think without question will result in the highest auction total in auction history. Considering there are millions of dollars of bids already and th...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 10:45 am
