Uniregistry launched .Christmas and .BlackFriday yesterday Thusday, July 8th 2014. The first day, or rather first hours, registration numbers were not very impressive. .Christmas had 419 domain registrations and .BlackFriday 401 registrations. These numbers include …
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Potential Scandal At WIPO Involving Director General Francis Gurry
TheRegister did an article yesterday exposing allegations of bizarre and potentially illegal conduct within the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The Register obtained access to an internal report indicating reasonable grounds to suspect serious misconduct …
Read More »ICANN 52 Meeting Will Be Held In Marrakech, Morrocco (8-12 February 2015)
ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England (ICANN 50), the location of the ICANN 52 meeting to be in Marrakech, …
Read More »4ormat Rebrands To Format By Buying the Domain Name Format.com
TechCrunch.com did an article today on how the “online portfolio service Format has been trying to acquire the domain name, format.com, for the past three years. On Monday they announced the purchase as well as a rebranding …
Read More ».EU Registrations Grow By 2.2% In Q1 2014
The total number of .eu registrations grew by 2.2% in Q1 2014, according to the progress report released today by the .eu registry EURid. “This relatively high growth rate is thanks, in part, to our …
Read More »Redelegation of the .GW domain representing Guinea-Bissau
ICANN decided, at the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors that was held on 26 June 2014 in London England, the redelegation of the .GW domain representing Guinea-Bissau. Kuo-Wei Wu introduced the agenda …
Read More »Many .US Domain Name Offers Are Coming Lately
I am getting a lot of .us domain name offers lately. They started coming the week before the 4th of July and they keep coming until today. I have gotten 7 offers for .us domains …
Read More »Hexonet Suspended My Domain After Their Verification Email Went to Spam (WARNING)
Hexonet suspended one of my domains after their 2013 RAA verification email went straight to spam. I wrote a few months back about the Enom and Tucows problem that was that they didn’t use their …
Read More »Texas A&M Buys 12thMan.com Domain Name For An Undisclosed Price
Chron.com posted an article yesterday about how Texas A&M bought the domain name 12thMan.com from a Tennessee businessman Eric Arnold. Arnold said he was prohibited from disclosing the purchase price but is pleased to pass …
Read More »DomainAgents Compensates Domain Owners Or Donates to Charity For Engaging With Negotiations
DomainAgents compensates domain owners for engaging with negotiations. When you enter into active negotiations, on completion, you receive a promotional credit that may be redeemed for your choice of one of the following: A free …
Read More »New gTLD Weekly Review: .Christmas, .BlackFriday, .Engineering, .Services, .Pub
I haven’t made a post with New gTLD launches in the past couple of months because I thought that most people knew about them but a few of my readers complained so this weekly post …
Read More »Re-Consideration of Sensitive Strings: .ADULT, .PORN, and .SEX.
A regular meeting of the New gTLD Program Committee of the ICANN Board of Directors was held in London, England on 21 June 2014. The Committee engaged in a discussion concerning applications for several adult-oriented …
Read More »Lil Wayne Facing Lawsuit Over Domain Name YoungMoney.com Bought For $600,000 in 2011
A new lawsuit has been filed against Lil Wayne and his Young Money label over the domain name YoungMoney.com bought for $600,000 in 2011. Lil Wayne and his Young Money label may have to find …
Read More »CentralNic Launches BuyDomains.London Campaign to “Get London businesses online”
Following the recent launch of the new internet top-level domain .London and of the buydomains.london website for SMEs to obtain their .london domain names, Ben Crawford, CEO of buydomains.london parent company CentralNic has launched a …
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