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Domain Shane
Rod Beckstram of ICANN “More domain names should lower prices, increase innovation”
Rod Beckstram, President and CEO of ICANN sat down with the with LiveMint.com aka WallStreetJournal and answered a few questions about the domain industry and of course, touching on the new .tld domains coming to market. I thought he had a few ...
Discussion
Rod Beckstram of ICANN “More domain names should lower prices, increase innovation”
Rod Beckstram, President and CEO of ICANN sat down with the with LiveMint.com aka WallStreetJournal and answered a few questions about the domain industry and of course, touching on the new .tld domains coming to market. I thought he had a few ...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 6:43 pm
The Domains
Google Reports: Revenue Up 33%; AdSense Revenues Up 18%;Paid Clicks Up 28% CPC Up 5%; Stock Up $43 A Share
After the market closed today Google reported earnings and they had a blowout quarter by any measure “”We had a great quarter,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “Revenue was up 33% year on year and our quarterly revenue w...
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Google Reports: Revenue Up 33%; AdSense Revenues Up 18%;Paid Clicks Up 28% CPC Up 5%; Stock Up $43 A Share
After the market closed today Google reported earnings and they had a blowout quarter by any measure “”We had a great quarter,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google. “Revenue was up 33% year on year and our quarterly revenue w...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 4:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
.HIV Domain Name Initiative Turns to Crowd Funding
A charity top level domain wants you to be charitable to get it off the ground. A group hoping to launch the .HIV top level domain name is turning to crowdfunding to raise the six figures required to apply for the domain. The idea is that companies c...
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.HIV Domain Name Initiative Turns to Crowd Funding
A charity top level domain wants you to be charitable to get it off the ground. A group hoping to launch the .HIV top level domain name is turning to crowdfunding to raise the six figures required to apply for the domain. The idea is that companies c...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: VeriSign Withdraws Request for Domain Takedown
VeriSign cancels request to ICANN to allow it to offer new anti abuse service. Just days after formally proposing a controversial mechanism to scan domain names and take down web sites used for malicious purposes, VeriSign has withdrawn the request. ...
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Breaking: VeriSign Withdraws Request for Domain Takedown
VeriSign cancels request to ICANN to allow it to offer new anti abuse service. Just days after formally proposing a controversial mechanism to scan domain names and take down web sites used for malicious purposes, VeriSign has withdrawn the request. ...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 2:28 pm
Domain Shane
If Nobody In a Crowded Room Agrees With You and You Call them Ignorant, You Might Have it Backwards
I by no means am calling Stephen Douglas ignorant. He certainly is a positive force in our community but I hate being called stupid because I don’t agree with someone’s ideas. If you remember, Stephen put on The Future T...
Discussion
If Nobody In a Crowded Room Agrees With You and You Call them Ignorant, You Might Have it Backwards
I by no means am calling Stephen Douglas ignorant. He certainly is a positive force in our community but I hate being called stupid because I don’t agree with someone’s ideas. If you remember, Stephen put on The Future T...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 1:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners
A way to make money off of shortened URLs? There’s not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that. The company filed a trio of patent applications (here’s one) for methods of monetizing shortened U...
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Go Daddy Wants to Patent Way to Monetize URL Shorteners
A way to make money off of shortened URLs? There’s not a whole lot of money in shortening links. Go Daddy has devised a way to change that. The company filed a trio of patent applications (here’s one) for methods of monetizing shortened U...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 1:06 pm
Elliot's Blog
Quickly Transfer a Name from Go Daddy
I have an account at GoDaddy, specifically because of the company’s high level of customer service. The one thing that irritates the heck out of me is when I buy a Godaddy-registered domain name in the aftermarket, have it pushed to my account,...
Discussion
Quickly Transfer a Name from Go Daddy
I have an account at GoDaddy, specifically because of the company’s high level of customer service. The one thing that irritates the heck out of me is when I buy a Godaddy-registered domain name in the aftermarket, have it pushed to my account,...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 12:45 pm
Domain Shane
Domain Appraisal Test
Inspired by two of Shane’s posts yesterday, I decided to run a little rest and see how 8 random domains that were sold on NameJet for over $2000 compared to their appraisal value on Estibot. For the record I don’t really put any stock int...
Discussion
Domain Appraisal Test
Inspired by two of Shane’s posts yesterday, I decided to run a little rest and see how 8 random domains that were sold on NameJet for over $2000 compared to their appraisal value on Estibot. For the record I don’t really put any stock int...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 11:22 am
The Domains
Sands Casino Coming To Miami? Mark Monitor Registrations Indicate It Maybe On the Way
Over the last couple of month there have been some stories about huge casino complex’s that maybe coming to Miami. You can read some stories on it here, and here. Today we noticed a slew of new domain registrations by Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYS...
Discussion
Sands Casino Coming To Miami? Mark Monitor Registrations Indicate It Maybe On the Way
Over the last couple of month there have been some stories about huge casino complex’s that maybe coming to Miami. You can read some stories on it here, and here. Today we noticed a slew of new domain registrations by Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYS...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 10:04 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN’s Reply Cycle Falling Flat
Circular-reference comment period not eliciting more comments. If you held a comment period about comment periods, then tested a new comment period idea called “reply cycle” on that same comment period about comment periods, would anybody...
Discussion
ICANN’s Reply Cycle Falling Flat
Circular-reference comment period not eliciting more comments. If you held a comment period about comment periods, then tested a new comment period idea called “reply cycle” on that same comment period about comment periods, would anybody...
Discussion
October 13, 2011, 8:33 am
