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The Domains
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-l...
Discussion
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-l...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 8:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
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“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 7:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Man files UDRP against his ex-wife
Maybe you shouldn’t let your spouse register domain names for you. I’m sure there are a lot of allegations made against ex-spouses. But calling your ex-wife a cybersquatter? An Ontario man filed a UDRP against his ex-wife over the domain ...
Discussion
Man files UDRP against his ex-wife
Maybe you shouldn’t let your spouse register domain names for you. I’m sure there are a lot of allegations made against ex-spouses. But calling your ex-wife a cybersquatter? An Ontario man filed a UDRP against his ex-wife over the domain ...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 7:20 pm
Domain Shane
CHINESE SALES TRENDS FOR APRIL 14, 2016
The 4L number includes a sale with no seller ID listed. I haven’t seen this before, and it was a higher dollar sale that drove the average up some. Without that sale, the average price for 4L was $326. Volumes are down a lot p...
Discussion
CHINESE SALES TRENDS FOR APRIL 14, 2016
The 4L number includes a sale with no seller ID listed. I haven’t seen this before, and it was a higher dollar sale that drove the average up some. Without that sale, the average price for 4L was $326. Volumes are down a lot p...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 7:11 pm
Domain Shane
Thank you for responding Joe Styler. Here’s my response.
Joe Styler from Godaddy responded to my post from yesterday. “We did have an issue yesterday where the domain registration path was impacted briefly. It probably doesn’t look like it to a casual observer but we are always releasing new ch...
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Thank you for responding Joe Styler. Here’s my response.
Joe Styler from Godaddy responded to my post from yesterday. “We did have an issue yesterday where the domain registration path was impacted briefly. It probably doesn’t look like it to a casual observer but we are always releasing new ch...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 6:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
“That’s radio with five o’s…”
This company has a horrible name. It was painful to my ears. NPR aired a story last Friday about music discovery service Radiooooo. When the correspondent mentioned the name, it went something like this “It’s a service called Radio. That&...
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“That’s radio with five o’s…”
This company has a horrible name. It was painful to my ears. NPR aired a story last Friday about music discovery service Radiooooo. When the correspondent mentioned the name, it went something like this “It’s a service called Radio. That&...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 3:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lending Club buys Lending.Club domain name
Big company in marketplace/peer-to-peer lending business buys .club domain name. Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. Th...
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Lending Club buys Lending.Club domain name
Big company in marketplace/peer-to-peer lending business buys .club domain name. Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. Th...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 2:26 pm
The Domains
Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Found on 23 Year Old Domain MasterCall.com
Master Call Connections, LLC (represented by Mikhail Lezhnev, New York, USA has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Mastercall.com. The one member UDRP panel of David J. Steele found the domain name that was register...
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Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Found on 23 Year Old Domain MasterCall.com
Master Call Connections, LLC (represented by Mikhail Lezhnev, New York, USA has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Mastercall.com. The one member UDRP panel of David J. Steele found the domain name that was register...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 2:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Master Call Connections is a domain name hijacker
Company filed cybersquatting complaint in abuse of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Master Call Connections, LLC has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in one of the most egregious UDRP filings in recent ...
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Master Call Connections is a domain name hijacker
Company filed cybersquatting complaint in abuse of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Master Call Connections, LLC has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in one of the most egregious UDRP filings in recent ...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 1:49 pm
The Domains
Tinder Files UDRP to Get The Domain TinderBuster.com; But Is The Target SwipeBuster.com?
An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active...
Discussion
Tinder Files UDRP to Get The Domain TinderBuster.com; But Is The Target SwipeBuster.com?
An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 1:45 pm
