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Domain Name Wire
Squarespace starts offering domain name registration
Company now offers domain name registrations in addition to website building tools. Website building platforms such as Squarespace, Wix and Weebly have been taking a bite out of domain name registrars’ pockets in recent years. They’re att...
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Squarespace starts offering domain name registration
Company now offers domain name registrations in addition to website building tools. Website building platforms such as Squarespace, Wix and Weebly have been taking a bite out of domain name registrars’ pockets in recent years. They’re att...
Discussion
April 15, 2016, 2:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chooze clothing company is a reverse domain name hijacker
Panelist calls case “particularly abusive”. A shoe and accessories company that uses the domain name MyChooze.com has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Chooze.com. Vegan shoe company Degani D...
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Chooze clothing company is a reverse domain name hijacker
Panelist calls case “particularly abusive”. A shoe and accessories company that uses the domain name MyChooze.com has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Chooze.com. Vegan shoe company Degani D...
Discussion
April 15, 2016, 1:29 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Friday, April 15th
Man it’s dry this week for domain names. I hate to admit it, but I’m getting sick of looking through the LLLL.coms. None at Godaddy and thousands at Namejet. Pages and pages of them and how many ways can you say ...
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DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Friday, April 15th
Man it’s dry this week for domain names. I hate to admit it, but I’m getting sick of looking through the LLLL.coms. None at Godaddy and thousands at Namejet. Pages and pages of them and how many ways can you say ...
Discussion
April 15, 2016, 10:14 am
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP, the 14th of April 2016
The Daily Recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 14th of April 2016 Auction Quick Recap I’ll keep this short, Did a few other posts today. Hey Cyger! If you’re reading this it’s your move, don’t let that huge scor...
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AUCTION RECAP, the 14th of April 2016
The Daily Recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 14th of April 2016 Auction Quick Recap I’ll keep this short, Did a few other posts today. Hey Cyger! If you’re reading this it’s your move, don’t let that huge scor...
Discussion
April 15, 2016, 4:34 am
Domain Shane
Joe Styler Responds to my response of his response, So I’m responding back.
Earlier today Joe Styler wrote the following in the comment section “Thanks again for the feedback. Anytime there is something to work on we take it seriously so continue to let your account rep know and they will escalate it to the ...
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Joe Styler Responds to my response of his response, So I’m responding back.
Earlier today Joe Styler wrote the following in the comment section “Thanks again for the feedback. Anytime there is something to work on we take it seriously so continue to let your account rep know and they will escalate it to the ...
Discussion
April 15, 2016, 3:26 am
Domain Shane
Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): BigLiving.com, HatsOn.com, MoodUp.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. MoodUp.com sold for $5,350 at Sedo, ...
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Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): BigLiving.com, HatsOn.com, MoodUp.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. MoodUp.com sold for $5,350 at Sedo, ...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 10:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Facebook now owns a domain name registrar
Company acquires existing domain name registrar. Facebook now owns a domain name registrar. As spotted by Pinky Brand today, the company has acquired RegistrarSec. Weekly email report from #ICANN indicates that #FaceBook has acquired a registrar http...
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Facebook now owns a domain name registrar
Company acquires existing domain name registrar. Facebook now owns a domain name registrar. As spotted by Pinky Brand today, the company has acquired RegistrarSec. Weekly email report from #ICANN indicates that #FaceBook has acquired a registrar http...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 10:48 pm
The Domains
Market Recap 4/14/16
Market Recap 4/14/16 Tucows (TCX) was up over 3.5% on the day and Rightside (NAME) closed up 1.7% approaching $9. Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 1.2% on the day after being up 4% yesterday. GOOGL 775.39 +3.48 (0.45%) GDDY 31.03 -0.39 (-1.24%) NAME 8.90 +0.1...
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Market Recap 4/14/16
Market Recap 4/14/16 Tucows (TCX) was up over 3.5% on the day and Rightside (NAME) closed up 1.7% approaching $9. Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 1.2% on the day after being up 4% yesterday. GOOGL 775.39 +3.48 (0.45%) GDDY 31.03 -0.39 (-1.24%) NAME 8.90 +0.1...
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April 14, 2016, 8:28 pm
The Domains
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-l...
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Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 314 million worldwide across all top-l...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 8:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
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“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 7:39 pm
