TLD Registry, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, and ChopChop.domains is releasing the last installment of their Chinese Domaining Masterclass blog series. Here are the previous 9 installments: the number 7 …
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Donuts Receives The First 6 Infringing Domain Names by MPAA
In February of this year Donuts announced its newly minted “trusted notifier” program with the Motion Picture Association of America (“MPAA”). It was the first arrangement of its kind in the domain name industry made …
Read More »Report: 95% Of People Know .COM, 52% Know Least 1 New gTLD, 95% Trust ccTLDs
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published [PDF, 2.88 MB] the findings from its Phase 2 Global Consumer Research Survey. The key findings are listed below. Conducted by Nielsen, the study measured …
Read More »Learning the Basics of Buying Expired GoDaddy Domains (video)
Heather Dopson, a community builder at GoDaddy, and Joe Styler, the aftermarket product manager at GoDaddy, chatted about the basics of buying Expired Domains on GoDaddy’s auctions. They talked about the timeline of when and …
Read More »Breaking: ICANN & Verisign Propose 6-Year Extension Of The .COM Registry Agreement Until 2024
ICANN is posting for public comment the proposed amendment to the .COM Registry Agreement with Verisign. This proposal is a result of discussions between ICANN and Verisign, Inc. and will extend the .com registry agreement …
Read More »Some Domains You Can Buy Cheap On The Undeveloped.com New gTLD Auction
The Undeveloped.com New gTLD auction is underway with just 7 days left so the Undeveloped team shared the most undervalued names that they currently have in auction. The auction runs from the 20th June to …
Read More »Sedo: Number Of Sold Domains Is On A Steady Decline Since 2010 (Down 38,7%)
I wrote an article 2 days ago called “Is Sedo Slowly Dying?” and Andrew Allemann from DomainNameWire.com added more stats on this article. So here are a few more numbers I found about the amount …
Read More »Google Domains Offers A Free Domain Name
Google Domains wants to grow its domain name business so they are now offering one free domain name (.com, .net, .org, .biz, or .info, a $12 value) to each of their customers. The free domain …
Read More »How DigitalTown Will Use 11,000 .City Domains (DT Bought 400 .City Domains In The Aftermarket)
Robert Monster, CEO of DigitalTown.com and Epik.com, made a lengthy comment (and then a few more smaller comments) on the article I wrote about the announcement of the new DigitalTown platform involving 11,000 .City domain …
Read More ».CO Has Its First Auction In China On 22.CN (CY.co, XD.co, XN.co, etc.)
.CO, part of Neustar, Inc., will launch its first Chinese auction on July 5. The auction, which will be held exclusively on Chinese auction platform 22.cn, will offer many two-letter domains like CY.co and XN.co. The auction concludes …
Read More »Is Sedo Slowly Dying?
I have been following the Sedo domain name sales reports for years now. This week’s report was the smallest I have seen. Sedo domain name sales have been on a steady decline for 3-4 years …
Read More »Video: Summary of Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou, China
Pinkard Alan ‘Pinky’ Brand attended the Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou, a conference with over 1,000 attendees. On behalf of ChopChop.domains, he put together the following video summary that will give you a little taste …
Read More »DigitalTown Announces .CITY Domain Network – Buys 11,000 .City Domain Names
DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC PINK: DGTW) today announced that it has acquired more than 11,000 .CITY domains for use with an international rollout of the DigitalTown’s flagship Smart City Platform and the Global Smart City Network. …
Read More »GoDaddy Warns About Phishing Email Targeting Valuable Domain Names
Joe Styler, GoDaddy’s Aftermarket Product Manager, issued a warning on NamePros about a new phishing email targeting owners of valuable domain names registered with GoDaddy. These kind of phishing emails are not uncommon so people …
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