So it’s official. I am going to my first domain name conference: NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas. Are you going? Do you want to meet? Let me know! Chinese Domaining Masterclass By TLD Registry At …
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ICANN 53 Will Be Held In Buenos Aires, Argentina & Will Cost Up To $1.5 Million
ICANN announced that the ICANN 53 conference will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ICANN’s intent was to hold its second Public Meeting of 2015 in the Latin America/Caribbean region and found that an available …
Read More »Rightside Has Its First Investor & Analyst Day & Will Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell
Rightside Group, Ltd. (Nasdaq:NAME) is hosting its first Investor & Analyst Day event today from 10:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. ET at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. The event will feature key members of Rightside’s …
Read More »Domaining Europe 2015 Will Be Held In Valencia, Spain
Domaining Europe 2015 was announced that will be held again in Valencia, Spain from the 23rd to the 25th of April 2015. This is the 7th European Domaining Conference in Europe. Some of the discussions …
Read More »Go Daddy: Acquiring Expired Domains (video)
Go Daddy had a Google Hangout that explained how to to buy expired domain names: “Ever wonder what happens to expired domains? Unlike expired milk, expired domains don’t turn sour and get kicked to the …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-03-2014): Hacked.com $50,000, BFN.com $25,000, Chairman.com $20,000
New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .Paris 8,037, .Moscow 3,651, .МОСКВА 3,245, .ltda 59(?) Chinese Domaining Masterclass By TLD Registry At NamesCon 2015 I published today my renewals/drops report from October: My 476 Domain Name Renewals …
Read More »TLD Registry Announces 3 New Board Members
TLD Registry, the exclusive owner/operator of the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, today announced three newest members of the board: Chairwoman of the board Kirsi Eräkangas(伊可思),Vice Chairman Harri …
Read More »ICANN Accepting Comments To Develop Plan To Transition Away From The U.S. Government Stewardship
Following the request of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for ICANN “convene a multistakeholder process to develop a plan to transition the U.S. government stewardship role” with regard to the IANA Functions and …
Read More ».LGBT Domain Name Sunrise Opens On January 5, 2015
Afilias today announced the first phase of the introduction of a new generic top-level domain that is dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and those who serve it: dot LGBT or .LGBT. The …
Read More »New gTLD 1st Day Domains: .Paris 8,037, .Moscow 3,651, .МОСКВА 3,245, .ltda 59(?)
Here are the 1st day domain name registration results from this week’s 7 New gTLD launches: On the 1st of December, 2 Russian geo New gTLDs launched: .moscow and .МОСКВА (xn--80adxhks). Moscow is the capital …
Read More »Chinese Domaining Masterclass By TLD Registry At NamesCon 2015
The 2nd annual NamesCon domain name conference, to be held in Las Vegas in January 2015, announced a major lecture series presented by TLD Registry, the world’s leading Chinese domain name registry. TLD Registry is …
Read More »Daily Domain Sales (12-02-2014): CityLounge.com $7,899, HowHigh.com $6,000, SAT.info $2,000
I published today my renewals/drops report from October: My 476 Domain Name Renewals And 49 Drops (9.3%) I booked my flight ticket to Namescon in Las Vegas. I applied for a new passport too. Now …
Read More »ICANN Releases All Digit/Digit, Letter/Digit & Digit/Letter 2-Character New gTLD Domain Names
As previously announced, ICANN had been working towards developing a process to permit registries to request the release of two-character ASCII domain names at the second-level for registration to 3rd parties and activation in the …
Read More »October: My 476 Domain Name Renewals And 49 Drops (9.3%)
Like every month I go through my domains to see what to renew and what not to. I am a bit late on this report. So, in October I renewed 476 domains and dropped 49 …
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