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Hi, China! Afternic inks deal with China’s largest domain registrar
Afternic offers domain names through HiChina. Afternic announced a deal today with HiChina, China’s largest domain name registrar. HiChina is the company’s fourth partner in China for AfternicDLS. This means that customers searching for d...
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Hi, China! Afternic inks deal with China’s largest domain registrar
Afternic offers domain names through HiChina. Afternic announced a deal today with HiChina, China’s largest domain name registrar. HiChina is the company’s fourth partner in China for AfternicDLS. This means that customers searching for d...
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June 21, 2012, 10:13 am
Domain Name Wire
Early .Green backer fights three other applicants for domain name
The green domain space gets crowded. Competition to run the top level domain .green is heating up (and heating up is not a word revered by the green community). Four companies have submitted applications to ICANN to run the domain name: DotGreen Comm...
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Early .Green backer fights three other applicants for domain name
The green domain space gets crowded. Competition to run the top level domain .green is heating up (and heating up is not a word revered by the green community). Four companies have submitted applications to ICANN to run the domain name: DotGreen Comm...
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June 20, 2012, 11:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft gets dotBing.com, but what about other dot domains?
Company gets control of dotBing.com domain name, but doesn’t have dot domains related to most other TLD bids. This week Microsoft took control of dotBing.com, a domain that was registered back in 2009. Its interest in the domain is clearly rela...
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Microsoft gets dotBing.com, but what about other dot domains?
Company gets control of dotBing.com domain name, but doesn’t have dot domains related to most other TLD bids. This week Microsoft took control of dotBing.com, a domain that was registered back in 2009. Its interest in the domain is clearly rela...
Discussion
June 20, 2012, 10:54 am
Domain Name Wire
SnapNames throws hat into domain sunrise and landrush auction ring
KeyDrive companies want to play a role in new TLD rollout. SnapNames and Moniker have announced they will support sunrise and landrush auctions for new top level domain registries. The company will, of course, also offer premium generic sales and auc...
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SnapNames throws hat into domain sunrise and landrush auction ring
KeyDrive companies want to play a role in new TLD rollout. SnapNames and Moniker have announced they will support sunrise and landrush auctions for new top level domain registries. The company will, of course, also offer premium generic sales and auc...
Discussion
June 20, 2012, 10:31 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN may let new TLD applicants modify their applications
Plan may allow new TLD applicants to fix errors. ICANN is considering allowing applicants for new top level domains to make changes to their applications, the organization confirmed to Domain Name Wire today. The group is working on a process that co...
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ICANN may let new TLD applicants modify their applications
Plan may allow new TLD applicants to fix errors. ICANN is considering allowing applicants for new top level domains to make changes to their applications, the organization confirmed to Domain Name Wire today. The group is working on a process that co...
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June 19, 2012, 7:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com’s Quidsi acquires Afterschool.com
A new Quidsi store in the works? Amazon.com’s Quidsi, the company behind stores with great domains such as Diapers.com, Soap.com (cleaning and personal care), YoYo.com (toy), and Wag.com (pet stuff), has purchased the domain name Afterschool.co...
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Amazon.com’s Quidsi acquires Afterschool.com
A new Quidsi store in the works? Amazon.com’s Quidsi, the company behind stores with great domains such as Diapers.com, Soap.com (cleaning and personal care), YoYo.com (toy), and Wag.com (pet stuff), has purchased the domain name Afterschool.co...
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June 19, 2012, 11:28 am
Domain Name Wire
Another digital archery service launches. Here’s how you should pay for one of these services.
Digital archery services are a no lose proposition — for the service provider. I just got a press release from an outfit called Digital Archery Hotshots, the latest company to offer digital archery solutions for ICANN’s batching process. ...
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Another digital archery service launches. Here’s how you should pay for one of these services.
Digital archery services are a no lose proposition — for the service provider. I just got a press release from an outfit called Digital Archery Hotshots, the latest company to offer digital archery solutions for ICANN’s batching process. ...
Discussion
June 19, 2012, 10:58 am
Domain Name Wire
MediaSet.com decision reversed, owner can keep domain
MediaSet.com can remain with domain registrant. In April I wrote about how a court had apparently ruled that Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, had rights to the domain name MediaSet.com. MediaSet is controlled by former Italian Prime Minis...
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MediaSet.com decision reversed, owner can keep domain
MediaSet.com can remain with domain registrant. In April I wrote about how a court had apparently ruled that Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, had rights to the domain name MediaSet.com. MediaSet is controlled by former Italian Prime Minis...
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June 19, 2012, 9:10 am
Domain Name Wire
A few tips to ICANN’s new CEO
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Congratulations! On Friday, ICANN will announce you as its new Chief Executive Officer. This is a pretty good gig. You’ll earn about a million bucks a year, which isn’t bad for a non-profit CEO. (...
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A few tips to ICANN’s new CEO
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Congratulations! On Friday, ICANN will announce you as its new Chief Executive Officer. This is a pretty good gig. You’ll earn about a million bucks a year, which isn’t bad for a non-profit CEO. (...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 11:41 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain horse trading event in Prague next week
You can have .app if I can have .cloud. I talked to Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush about 15 minutes after ICANN’s “big reveal” news conference ended last week. He told me he had already received an em...
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Domain horse trading event in Prague next week
You can have .app if I can have .cloud. I talked to Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush about 15 minutes after ICANN’s “big reveal” news conference ended last week. He told me he had already received an em...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 11:22 am
