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The DotWeekly disaster (where the owner lost 7 years of work) got me thinking. I do an onsite backup regularly but that might not be enough. I was searching for an online backup option and …

Complainant filed for a UDRP for the domain gtms.com because Respondent didn’t reply to their interest of purchasing the domain name. The domain was registered 8 years before Complainant registered its “gtms” trademark. Complainant used …

EuRid, the .eu registry operator,.eu introduced a revised trade and transfer procedure for .eu domains names today, 21 November 2012. The revised procedure aims to automate the .eu trade and transfer process, making it more user …

This week, 948 transactions (919 last week) took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million ($2.2 last week). Only 245 domains (213 last week) were reported by Sedo this week. The other …

I got this email with the subject: “GoDaddy.com: Our latest update to Premium Listings is huge!!”. When I opened it I just saw an obvious change that should have been there from the beginning. There …

BindersFullOfWomen.XXX did not sell for even $0.99 at Ebay. On the 16th of October during the presidential debate Mitt Romney said that when he was governor and filling his cabinet, women’s groups brought him “whole …

I got an email from Backorder Zone to complete an online survey and win a free backorder credit. Backorder Zone is a fairly new backorder service compared to others like Snapnames, Pool and Namejet. Apparently …

Every once in a while I get a domain transfer request that I have not initiated. Over 90% of the time this transfer request is from Go Daddy. I am pretty sure that Go Daddy …

Christie’s, the global auction house, bought the domain name WarholArt.com for $6,457 last September at Afternic. The domain name WarholArt.com now redirects to http://www.christies.com/warhol/ that is the official website for the Andy Warhol auctions held …

About a month ago I complained about the GoDaddy auction system that allows previous owners to renew their expired domains up to a week after the auction has finished at TDNAM. This means that a …