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Domain Name Wire
PIR calls for nominations for .Org Impact Awards
10 organizations that use .org domains will take home a total of $85,000. Public Interest Registry, the registry that manages .org domains, has opened nominations for its 2020 .Org Impact Awards. This year’s awards are a bit different from last...
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PIR calls for nominations for .Org Impact Awards
10 organizations that use .org domains will take home a total of $85,000. Public Interest Registry, the registry that manages .org domains, has opened nominations for its 2020 .Org Impact Awards. This year’s awards are a bit different from last...
Discussion
June 24, 2020, 5:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy plans layoffs and is closing Austin offices
Company struggles with outbound sales and social media products. GoDaddy’s (NYSE: GDDY) revenue is topping expectations, but the company is laying off employees and restructuring its business because Covid-19 is impacting part of its business. ...
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GoDaddy plans layoffs and is closing Austin offices
Company struggles with outbound sales and social media products. GoDaddy’s (NYSE: GDDY) revenue is topping expectations, but the company is laying off employees and restructuring its business because Covid-19 is impacting part of its business. ...
Discussion
June 24, 2020, 2:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts’ TrueName service offers brand protection to registrants
Donuts has announced TrueName, a registrant service that automatically blocks registrations of homographs of registered domains. When a customer registers a Donuts TLD such as .guru, .money or .live, Donuts will block registrations of lookalike domai...
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Donuts’ TrueName service offers brand protection to registrants
Donuts has announced TrueName, a registrant service that automatically blocks registrations of homographs of registered domains. When a customer registers a Donuts TLD such as .guru, .money or .live, Donuts will block registrations of lookalike domai...
Discussion
June 24, 2020, 1:12 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by two .coms this week
Sedo released their weekly sales and ConstructionLoan.com and Zirrus.com tied for first at $25,000. MyTy.com was $1 off the top at $24,999. 61 .com sales 20 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: &mid...
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Sedo weekly sales led by two .coms this week
Sedo released their weekly sales and ConstructionLoan.com and Zirrus.com tied for first at $25,000. MyTy.com was $1 off the top at $24,999. 61 .com sales 20 cctld sales 4 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: &mid...
Discussion
June 23, 2020, 8:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets domain search ranking patent
Patent describes way to personalize domain search results. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,693,837 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for System for and method of ranking domain names based on user properties. The pate...
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Verisign gets domain search ranking patent
Patent describes way to personalize domain search results. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,693,837 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for System for and method of ranking domain names based on user properties. The pate...
Discussion
June 23, 2020, 7:37 pm
The Domains
What they do right – what do they do wrong – DropCatch
Over the last few years we have published a series The good, the bad and the ugly. Readers have been able to leave their feedback and some companies have reached out over the years and let me know they took the posts to heart. This year I want to try...
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What they do right – what do they do wrong – DropCatch
Over the last few years we have published a series The good, the bad and the ugly. Readers have been able to leave their feedback and some companies have reached out over the years and let me know they took the posts to heart. This year I want to try...
Discussion
June 23, 2020, 5:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expert.ai domain sells for record €95,000
.Ai has a new record-holder. Sedo has brokered the sale of Expert.ai for €95,000 (about $108,000), a record for a publicly-disclosed .ai domain name sale. According to Whois records, the Italian firm Expert System SpA bought the domain name. Exp...
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Expert.ai domain sells for record €95,000
.Ai has a new record-holder. Sedo has brokered the sale of Expert.ai for €95,000 (about $108,000), a record for a publicly-disclosed .ai domain name sale. According to Whois records, the Italian firm Expert System SpA bought the domain name. Exp...
Discussion
June 23, 2020, 3:35 pm
The Domains
Buying and Selling Crypto with PayPal?
It looks like you soon will be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies through PayPal and Venmo. CoinDesk published an article highlighting the plans that came from sources. PayPal declined comment. “My understanding is that they are going to all...
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Buying and Selling Crypto with PayPal?
It looks like you soon will be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies through PayPal and Venmo. CoinDesk published an article highlighting the plans that came from sources. PayPal declined comment. “My understanding is that they are going to all...
Discussion
June 22, 2020, 7:15 pm
DomainSherpa
From SEM Expert to Domain Industry Expert in 2 Years – with Alvin Brown
SEM Expert, digital strategist, and domain name industry publisher Alvin Brown joins us to share his expertise, addressing specific domain investing strategy options, automation & efficiency, and some impressive examples of the importance of buil...
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From SEM Expert to Domain Industry Expert in 2 Years – with Alvin Brown
SEM Expert, digital strategist, and domain name industry publisher Alvin Brown joins us to share his expertise, addressing specific domain investing strategy options, automation & efficiency, and some impressive examples of the importance of buil...
Discussion
June 22, 2020, 6:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Michael Rodenbaugh sues UDRPSearch owner David Lahoti
Attorney sues after UDRPSearch owner forwards website to other site with derogatory comments. Attorney Michael Rodenbaugh has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against David Lahoti, owner of the UDRP search site UDRPSearch.com. For the past few weeks, Lahoti has...
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Michael Rodenbaugh sues UDRPSearch owner David Lahoti
Attorney sues after UDRPSearch owner forwards website to other site with derogatory comments. Attorney Michael Rodenbaugh has filed a lawsuit (pdf) against David Lahoti, owner of the UDRP search site UDRPSearch.com. For the past few weeks, Lahoti has...
Discussion
June 22, 2020, 5:14 pm
