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The Domains
ICANN Shuts Down Pacman Registrar From New Registrations and Transfers Until At Least Jan 30, 2014
In a letter sent to Pacnames Ltd. of Auckland New Zealand ICAN has sent a NOTICE OF BREACH OF REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT AND NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF REGISTRAR’S ABILITY TO CREATE NEW REGISTERED NAMES OR INITIATE INBOUND TRANSFERS ...
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ICANN Shuts Down Pacman Registrar From New Registrations and Transfers Until At Least Jan 30, 2014
In a letter sent to Pacnames Ltd. of Auckland New Zealand ICAN has sent a NOTICE OF BREACH OF REGISTRAR ACCREDITATION AGREEMENT AND NOTICE OF SUSPENSION OF REGISTRAR’S ABILITY TO CREATE NEW REGISTERED NAMES OR INITIATE INBOUND TRANSFERS ...
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October 9, 2013, 1:10 am
The Domains
New gTLD Program Committee On Collision Report: Registries Can Launch If They Block A Lot Of Domains/Calls For More Study/.CORP & .HOME Are Doome
The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) made its recommendations tonight to the ICANN Board on the Collision report. In short the NGPC recommends additional study of the issue without a stated time frame, but with the exception of .Corp and .Home...
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New gTLD Program Committee On Collision Report: Registries Can Launch If They Block A Lot Of Domains/Calls For More Study/.CORP & .HOME Are Doome
The New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) made its recommendations tonight to the ICANN Board on the Collision report. In short the NGPC recommends additional study of the issue without a stated time frame, but with the exception of .Corp and .Home...
Discussion
October 9, 2013, 12:57 am
Elliot's Blog
Domain Registrars That Offer Two Factor Authentication
This morning, I posted an article discussing two factor authentication for customer accounts at domain registrars. At the time I published the article, I wasn’t aware of all the companies that offered this or similar extra layers of account sec...
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Domain Registrars That Offer Two Factor Authentication
This morning, I posted an article discussing two factor authentication for customer accounts at domain registrars. At the time I published the article, I wasn’t aware of all the companies that offered this or similar extra layers of account sec...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 6:45 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $970K
Sedo just published it weekly transactions report Over the past week, 615 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $970,000. This amounts to $52.1 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 44% of total sales wer...
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Sedo Transactions Total $970K
Sedo just published it weekly transactions report Over the past week, 615 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $970,000. This amounts to $52.1 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 44% of total sales wer...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 5:41 pm
Domain Shane
This New TLD Reminds Me of the Cable TV Expansion
If there’s one thing in life I know. Just when you think you understand how things work, they don’t. And just after you start making good cash, things change. Every day I read do this, do that. This is the safe pla...
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This New TLD Reminds Me of the Cable TV Expansion
If there’s one thing in life I know. Just when you think you understand how things work, they don’t. And just after you start making good cash, things change. Every day I read do this, do that. This is the safe pla...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 4:48 pm
The Domains
DomainNameSales Sells $1.5 Million In Domain In Sept Led By DataCenter.com For $190K, Waitress.com $168K
In the first of what appears will be a monthly report DomainNameSales.com reported over $1.5 Million in domain name sales for the month of September led by DataCenters.com at $190,000 and Waitress.com at $168K Here are all the sale we received and I ...
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DomainNameSales Sells $1.5 Million In Domain In Sept Led By DataCenter.com For $190K, Waitress.com $168K
In the first of what appears will be a monthly report DomainNameSales.com reported over $1.5 Million in domain name sales for the month of September led by DataCenters.com at $190,000 and Waitress.com at $168K Here are all the sale we received and I ...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 4:35 pm
The Domains
SilkApp.com Changes To Silk.co Gets Another $1.6 Million In Funding & TechCrunch Covers It
TechCrunch.com has just covered the company previously known as Silkapp.com which has just rebranded to Silk.Co and that it raised an additional $1.6 Million in funding to bring it up to a total of $3.7 million in funding According to TC: &ldqu...
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SilkApp.com Changes To Silk.co Gets Another $1.6 Million In Funding & TechCrunch Covers It
TechCrunch.com has just covered the company previously known as Silkapp.com which has just rebranded to Silk.Co and that it raised an additional $1.6 Million in funding to bring it up to a total of $3.7 million in funding According to TC: &ldqu...
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October 8, 2013, 3:01 pm
The Domains
Fairwinds Partners Rolls Out BeyondTheDot.com To Cover New gTLD’s
FairwindsPartners.com which is a brand consultancy firm and also represented many Brand new gTLD applications, rolled out today a site to “let consumers know what to expect” from the launch of the new gTLD’s “Beyondthedo...
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Fairwinds Partners Rolls Out BeyondTheDot.com To Cover New gTLD’s
FairwindsPartners.com which is a brand consultancy firm and also represented many Brand new gTLD applications, rolled out today a site to “let consumers know what to expect” from the launch of the new gTLD’s “Beyondthedo...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 2:47 pm
Elliot's Blog
Good Time to Contact End User Buyer
The other day, I read a report about a large deal that had recently been transacted (outside the domain space). The medium sized company made hundreds of thousands of dollars on a deal, and it had been reported in a trade magazine. I own a domain nam...
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Good Time to Contact End User Buyer
The other day, I read a report about a large deal that had recently been transacted (outside the domain space). The medium sized company made hundreds of thousands of dollars on a deal, and it had been reported in a trade magazine. I own a domain nam...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 2:35 pm
The Domains
La Salle U Allows The Direct Match Domain To Be CyberSquatted On for Over 13 Years & It Sells Email Addresses Too
La Salle University won control of it’s direct match .com domain name today LasalleUniversity.com in a one member UDRP ruling. The fact that La Salle, won control of this domain isn’t the story. The story is it took La Salle over 13 years...
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La Salle U Allows The Direct Match Domain To Be CyberSquatted On for Over 13 Years & It Sells Email Addresses Too
La Salle University won control of it’s direct match .com domain name today LasalleUniversity.com in a one member UDRP ruling. The fact that La Salle, won control of this domain isn’t the story. The story is it took La Salle over 13 years...
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October 8, 2013, 1:19 pm
