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This is the 4th part of my photo post series: NamesCon 2015: Frank Schilling, Shayan Rostam (.xyz), Theo Develegas & The Girls! (photos) 10 Things I Learned About Chinese Domain Names Rick Schwartz Sold Porno.com …

Neustar, Inc. announced results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2014 and provided guidance. Results for Fourth Quarter 2014 Compared to Fourth Quarter 2013 Revenue increased 6% to $252.4 million Marketing Services revenue increased 8% …

This is the 4th part of my photo series from NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas. I enjoyed the conference and got a few photos in the process. I am posting them in a series of …

Uniregistry just launched its new Knowledge Base so that customers can learn about all of the Uniregistry features available, including bulk edit features and more. One of the most interesting questions on the Knowledge Base …

10 Things I Learned About Chinese Domain Names Rick Schwartz Sold Porno.com For $8,888,888 (here are a few details of the sale) Go Daddy Having Big Trouble With Simple Domain Name Registrations Wix.com Kicked Go …

As further indication that the recession is over, Rick Schwartz aka “Domain King” just closed the largest reported domain name sale in 5 years. The domain Porno.com purchased for $42,000 by Schwartz in 1997 from …

This week 0 New gTLDs enter General Availability, 2 New gTLDs enter the EAP General Availability and 0 strings enter the landrush phase. 2 Donuts New gTLDs enters EAP General Availability on the 4th of …

While Go Daddy was busy preparing a replacement ad for the Super Bowl, its website was malfunctioning. I got several reports from people that searched for a domain name at Go Daddy, found that the …

TLD Registry Ltd, the registry of Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) top level domains, ran a masterclass on Chinese Domaining during the NamesCon 2015 conference in Las Vegas. Chinese IDN experts …

In the past week 559 (603 in the previous week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million ($1m in the previous week). Only 211 (207 in the previous week) domains …

Uniregistry, the New gTLD registry owned by Frank Schilling, registered another 76,000+ domain names from its own reserved domain names to its sister company North Sound Names. These domain names were the premium domain names …

Go Daddy marketing plan exploded in its face in this years Super Bowl. And not because of the TV ad “outrage”, that many few people heard about and even fewer people watched the ad, but …

“Go Daddy Raises A Chip With Some Dip”: Go Daddy Super Bowl 2015 TV Ad (video) Funniest Flippa Auction Ever: “New gtlds ruined me! IM BROKE!” Typosquatting In .UK Domain Names Is Booming This is …

This is the Go Daddy Super Bowl 2015 tv ad everybody was waiting for. It was shown just before (1-2 minutes) the half time of the big game. It was probably shot in a day. …