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Michael Ward joins Uniregistry as Director of Registrar Operations
Ward moves from Directnic to Uniregistry. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has hired Michael Ward as its new Director of Registrar Operations. Ward will be in charge of registrar growth, marketing, and product support for the registrar side of the...
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Michael Ward joins Uniregistry as Director of Registrar Operations
Ward moves from Directnic to Uniregistry. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has hired Michael Ward as its new Director of Registrar Operations. Ward will be in charge of registrar growth, marketing, and product support for the registrar side of the...
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October 7, 2014, 12:47 am
Domain Name Wire
.NYC one of five top level domains launching this week
.NYC launches this week and Donuts’ well runs dry. It’s time for the weekly overview of new top level domain names coming out this week. It will be brief, as just five are on the docket as best I can tell. But one of them is certainly big...
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.NYC one of five top level domains launching this week
.NYC launches this week and Donuts’ well runs dry. It’s time for the weekly overview of new top level domain names coming out this week. It will be brief, as just five are on the docket as best I can tell. But one of them is certainly big...
Discussion
October 6, 2014, 8:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire Podcast #1: Ray King of Top Level Design
I’m very excited today to launch the Domain Name Wire Podcast. Each week’s podcast will include an overview of the previous week’s domain name industry news followed by a guest from the Domain Name Industry. The podcast will soon be...
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Domain Name Wire Podcast #1: Ray King of Top Level Design
I’m very excited today to launch the Domain Name Wire Podcast. Each week’s podcast will include an overview of the previous week’s domain name industry news followed by a guest from the Domain Name Industry. The podcast will soon be...
Discussion
October 6, 2014, 4:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker just reset your password, and you need to do something about it
Moniker tries to improve security, but… Moniker just sent an email to all of its customers notifying them that their passwords were reset in the name of better security. Requiring stronger passwords at Moniker is a good idea. It has historical...
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Moniker just reset your password, and you need to do something about it
Moniker tries to improve security, but… Moniker just sent an email to all of its customers notifying them that their passwords were reset in the name of better security. Requiring stronger passwords at Moniker is a good idea. It has historical...
Discussion
October 6, 2014, 2:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Planet Fitness guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
…as the company wastes money with a reactive approach to intellectual property management. Planet Fitness, a chain of over 800 fitness clubs in the United States, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for its attempt to get th...
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Planet Fitness guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
…as the company wastes money with a reactive approach to intellectual property management. Planet Fitness, a chain of over 800 fitness clubs in the United States, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking for its attempt to get th...
Discussion
October 6, 2014, 1:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report: MedTravel.com $18k, BrownCollege.com $16k and more
Joseph Peterson provides a round up of expired domain sales from the past week. GoDaddy’s $17.8k sale of MedTravel.com hearkens back to the $7.1k sale of MedicalTravel.com at NameJet, which I reported in June. It’s tempting to conclude th...
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Expired Domain Report: MedTravel.com $18k, BrownCollege.com $16k and more
Joseph Peterson provides a round up of expired domain sales from the past week. GoDaddy’s $17.8k sale of MedTravel.com hearkens back to the $7.1k sale of MedicalTravel.com at NameJet, which I reported in June. It’s tempting to conclude th...
Discussion
October 3, 2014, 2:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
$42,000 MySchool.com domain name survives UDRP
Complainant goes after domain name for a second time, and loses for the second time. Original Web Ventures has survived a UDRP that was filed against its MySchool.com domain name — a domain name it purchased last year for $42,000. The complaina...
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$42,000 MySchool.com domain name survives UDRP
Complainant goes after domain name for a second time, and loses for the second time. Original Web Ventures has survived a UDRP that was filed against its MySchool.com domain name — a domain name it purchased last year for $42,000. The complaina...
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October 3, 2014, 1:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Analyst: new TLDs to hit $500 million in 3 years
Report forecasts strong opportunity for new top level domain applicants. B. Riley & Co analyst Sameet Sinha issued a report today estimating that new TLDs should go “from Zero to $500MM in Three Years”. The report also initiates cover...
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Analyst: new TLDs to hit $500 million in 3 years
Report forecasts strong opportunity for new top level domain applicants. B. Riley & Co analyst Sameet Sinha issued a report today estimating that new TLDs should go “from Zero to $500MM in Three Years”. The report also initiates cover...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 9:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Affiliate Summit sues hotel booking company
Organizers say defendants are tricky conference attendees into booking hotel rooms. Many people in the domain name industry that go to January’s NamesCon conference will stick around Vegas for the Affiliate Summit conference, which starts Janua...
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Affiliate Summit sues hotel booking company
Organizers say defendants are tricky conference attendees into booking hotel rooms. Many people in the domain name industry that go to January’s NamesCon conference will stick around Vegas for the Affiliate Summit conference, which starts Janua...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 4:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Should new TLD registries sell directly to consumers?
New TLD registries might need to go direct to consumers in addition to the existing registrar channel. There has been an established channel for gTLD domain name registrations for a long time. The registries offer domains to registrars, who in turn s...
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Should new TLD registries sell directly to consumers?
New TLD registries might need to go direct to consumers in addition to the existing registrar channel. There has been an established channel for gTLD domain name registrations for a long time. The registries offer domains to registrars, who in turn s...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 2:19 pm
