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Google Hates ICANN’s Attempt to Eliminate Whois Privacy Calling it “Impractical & Ineffective
Google filed it’s comment on the whois privacy issue with ICANN today. Google seems to hate the proposal of the ICANN working group to prohibit commercial domain registrants from using proxy or privacy services calling it unf...
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Google Hates ICANN’s Attempt to Eliminate Whois Privacy Calling it “Impractical & Ineffective
Google filed it’s comment on the whois privacy issue with ICANN today. Google seems to hate the proposal of the ICANN working group to prohibit commercial domain registrants from using proxy or privacy services calling it unf...
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July 8, 2015, 3:05 am
The Domains
From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations
The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman...
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From CBS to CNN To Fox To Google: New gTLD .News Has Almost 500 Sunrise Registrations
The new gTLD .News enters the Early Access Program (EAP) for Rightside Tomorrow, Wednesday July 8th with the highest number of Sunrise domain registrations the registry has had in any of its new domain name extensions, just short of 500. Matt Overman...
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July 7, 2015, 10:15 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1m for the week led by Vigia.com
There were 501 transactions on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: vigia.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD: c...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1m for the week led by Vigia.com
There were 501 transactions on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: vigia.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD: c...
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July 7, 2015, 8:46 pm
The Domains
NetNames files Complaint w/ European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS Pricing
NetNames.com has filed a complaint to European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS pricing strategy that had Brand owners charged $1,999 each year (wholesale) for a .SUCKS domain name compared to others that are charged just $10...
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NetNames files Complaint w/ European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS Pricing
NetNames.com has filed a complaint to European Competition Commission on Vox Populi’s .SUCKS pricing strategy that had Brand owners charged $1,999 each year (wholesale) for a .SUCKS domain name compared to others that are charged just $10...
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July 7, 2015, 2:51 pm
The Domains
Andee Hill Joins Donuts As Director of Business Development
Andee Hill has joined Donuts,as Director of Business Development with specific responsibility for relationships with the domain investor community. Andee is a longtime participant in the domain name industry, most recently with her EscrowHill.com bus...
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Andee Hill Joins Donuts As Director of Business Development
Andee Hill has joined Donuts,as Director of Business Development with specific responsibility for relationships with the domain investor community. Andee is a longtime participant in the domain name industry, most recently with her EscrowHill.com bus...
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July 7, 2015, 2:12 pm
The Domains
Carlsberg Group joins Minds + Machines Pioneer Program For .Beer
Minds + Machines, (LSE:MMX), announced today that Carlsberg, “the world-renowned brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program“. Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that includes their most popular ...
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Carlsberg Group joins Minds + Machines Pioneer Program For .Beer
Minds + Machines, (LSE:MMX), announced today that Carlsberg, “the world-renowned brewery group, will participate in its .beer Pioneer program“. Carlsberg has secured over 150 .beer domains, in a portfolio that includes their most popular ...
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July 7, 2015, 1:09 pm
The Domains
Radix and .Site Want To Give you a chance to win a free Apple Watch
EAP starts tomorrow for .Site, EAP starts on the 8th of July at 1600 UTC and the GA starts on the 15th of July. So with the launch of one of the more highly anticipated strings, we worked with Radix (an advertiser on TheDomains) and came up with a co...
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Radix and .Site Want To Give you a chance to win a free Apple Watch
EAP starts tomorrow for .Site, EAP starts on the 8th of July at 1600 UTC and the GA starts on the 15th of July. So with the launch of one of the more highly anticipated strings, we worked with Radix (an advertiser on TheDomains) and came up with a co...
Discussion
July 7, 2015, 12:38 pm
The Domains
Amazon’s Prime Day Is July 15th But The Domain PrimeDay.com May Sell Today
Amazon announced yesterday that its “Prime Day” sale using the hashtag #PrimeDay on July 15th in celebration of Amazon’s 20th birthday will “Bury Black Friday” by comparison. We noticed that the domain name PrimeDa...
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Amazon’s Prime Day Is July 15th But The Domain PrimeDay.com May Sell Today
Amazon announced yesterday that its “Prime Day” sale using the hashtag #PrimeDay on July 15th in celebration of Amazon’s 20th birthday will “Bury Black Friday” by comparison. We noticed that the domain name PrimeDa...
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July 7, 2015, 4:12 am
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European Domain Centre Looks at Companies Ditching .com for a new gtld
Christopher Hofman Laursen published a pretty extensive post today on EuropeanDomainCentre.com. The post titled, “Why these 50+ businesses dumped their .com for a new top level domain” takes a look at several businesses that have ditched ...
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European Domain Centre Looks at Companies Ditching .com for a new gtld
Christopher Hofman Laursen published a pretty extensive post today on EuropeanDomainCentre.com. The post titled, “Why these 50+ businesses dumped their .com for a new top level domain” takes a look at several businesses that have ditched ...
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July 6, 2015, 11:54 pm
The Domains
Kansas City’s Lead Bank To Switch From .Com To .Bank
According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Lead Bank is switching their domain name from LeadBankOnline.com to Lead.Bank. Lead Bank will become one of the first banks to switch their domain from a .com to a .bank. Accor...
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Kansas City’s Lead Bank To Switch From .Com To .Bank
According to the Kansas City Business Journal, Lead Bank is switching their domain name from LeadBankOnline.com to Lead.Bank. Lead Bank will become one of the first banks to switch their domain from a .com to a .bank. Accor...
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July 6, 2015, 11:05 pm
