The McDonald’s Corporation sent 2 letters asking The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to terminate the .mcdonalds and .mcd registries by November 2nd 2017. The company only ever registered 1 domain name in each extension. The …
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Namejet released it’s June 2017 domain name auctions report that includes 1 and 2 word .coms, some 1, 2, or 3 character domains and some numerics. Namejet sold 129 (112 domains in May) domains in …
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The transition from Thin to Thick WHOIS for the .com, .net and .jobs extensions is coming soon and quite a few progress has been done. The registry operator for .COM and .NET, Verisign, met the …
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WordPress and its company Knock Knock WHOIS There that owns the rights to the .blog domains announced an amendment to the .blog Registry-Registrar Agreement. Changes will be effective on July 15th, 2017. WordPress said that …
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The attempted theft of the domain name Queen.com from its lawful owner Rick Schwartz was spectacularly rejected by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) . Frands Jepsen, owner and managing director of Queen.dk, tried to …
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In the past few weeks I have read some straight up bullshit statements from people in the domain name industry that I really enjoy their writing and are certainly knowledgeable in regards to domain names …
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The GDS (Global Domain Summit) 2017 event is now only a couple of weeks away. GDS 2016 was the first year the meeting was held. It was staged in Hangzhou, which is a beautiful Chinese …
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I got a call, I was not expecting, from a broker from a well known marketplace. He clearly didn’t knew who I was or what I do as he asked me if I was selling …
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Afnic has published a complete overview of the global domain market in 2016 in a study based on ICANN statistics, information from registries, specialized web sites and its own research. The overall domain name market growth …
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Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry, has officially terminated the Systemic Copyright Alternative Dispute Resolution Policy (SCADR). PIR determined that the SCADR is not ripe for implementation. The intention of the SCADR was to create …
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Namejet knows about auction shill bidding on their platform. Period. They knew about it now and they knew about it in the past. There has always been some shill bidding on all auction platforms. Yes, of course there has been shill bidding in other auctions platforms. GoDaddy had and has several …
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