The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET during the month of September 2015 were published by Verisign. There are no common keywords in the 2 lists. XYZ appears in the .com list …
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Afilias Acquires 101Domain Registrar
101Domain announced today that it was acquired by Afilias. Wolfgang Reile, current President & CEO will be stepping down. Anthony M. Beltran will be the next CEO. Here is the official announcement:
Read More ».XYZ Domain Name Trademark “Infringement”: Registrants Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent
I got an email from a reader that thought he had received a UDRP or a URS on his .xyz domain name. It turned out he was wrong. The registry had suspended his domain name. …
Read More »Namejet Lowers The Minimum Bid For Pending Delete Domains To $39 For A Limited (?) Time
For a limited time, NameJet is lowering the minimum bid for Pending Delete (Dropping) Domain Names to $39. It seems that the fierce competition from DropCatch and Pheenix is driving drop prices down and Namejet wants …
Read More »Hard Disk Recovery – I Made The Impossible!
I made the impossible. Well, it is not really impossible since I actually did it but I will explain… One night I went to sleep leaving my PC open doing some whois queries, downloading zone …
Read More ».Bank Has 6,000 Applications & A 97% Approval Rate
As of today, fTLD has received more than 6,000 applications for .bank domain names and approximately 5,400 have been approved for an approval rate of 97%. The most common reason for a an application to …
Read More »New gTLD Utilization Report: .Brand Domain Registrations Increase By 50%
The October Special Edition of CSC’s New gTLD Utilization Report shows the pace of .brand registrations accelerating with a 50% increase since the September report. The report shares further examples of .brands in use and …
Read More ».NYC Celebrates Its Anniversary By Releasing Over 16,000 .NYC Domains
New York City and Neustar, the official registry operator for .nyc, released today over 16,000 new .nyc website addresses for businesses, organizations, and individuals with a physical address in the five boroughs. Domain names are …
Read More ».Online & .Tech In The Streets Of San Francisco (video)
Radix, the .online/.tech/.website registry, published a video from their PR efforts in the streets of San Francisco. “We were creating a buzz on the streets, talking about the awesome new domain names available – .TECH …
Read More ».CLUB September Premium Name Sales (SOHO.CLUB, MOBI.CLUB)
September was a busy month of travel for the .CLUB team, starting and ending the month with events focused on the Domain Investor community, DomainFest Asia in Macau and then The Domain Conference in our …
Read More »I Will Even List Domains For Sale That Are Not Actually For Sale!
I am listing all my domain names for sale. Even OnlineDomain.com or OnlineDomains.com will get listed. But I am not really interested in selling all of my domains. And it is not only domains that …
Read More »This Is What Will Happen To Expired .NYC Domain Names
ConnectingNYC.org asked the .NYC registry, Neustar, what will happen to the first year registrations of .nyc domain names that are beginning to expire. .NYC domain names will drop as usual and no domains are going to be …
Read More »Google Domains Adds Nearly 90 Donuts Domains To Its Inventory
Donuts Inc., the largest registry for new domain names, like .guru, .media and .photography, said today that Google has added nearly 90 of the company’s domain options to its domain name sales platform, bringing a more diverse …
Read More »My First Snail Mail Domain Name Offer
Usually a letter to a domain investor means a C&D or even worse a lawsuit. In the past it could mean a UDRP too but rules changed and everything related to a UDRP complaint is …
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