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Chinese Regulations Shut Down DN.com Domain Name Escrow Service
March 14, 2016 @ 5:23 AM“Requirements of the government” lead to sudden blackout at escrow company. [Update: DN.com is now back online. I’m also hearing rumors that DN.com might have been acquired by another large Chinese domain company.] Last week domain name escrow service DN.com suddenly went dark. The company sent out an explanation yesterday, which is copied in its…
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Enom Lays Out 2016 Roadmap
March 11, 2016 @ 10:24 AMCompany plans to improve and modernize API. The user interfaces at eNom and Namejet look and feel clumsy and stale. Looking past the main page of NAME’s sites, the logged-in front-end infrastructure is untouched and acts like time capsule to what existed half a decade ago. -Rightside shareholder J. Carlo Cannell On the last Rightside…
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Interesting Domain Name Search Stats
March 11, 2016 @ 6:12 AM2/3rds of searches include a TLD, 44% of searches for new TLDs came back unavailable. eNom revealed some interested stats about domain name searches in its most recent newsletter: Users performed an average of 2.6 searches per session. One-third of all searches were made without specifying a top-level domain. Of those searches that did specify…
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Google Moves All Its Blogs to a New Domain Name: Googleblog.com
March 10, 2016 @ 9:38 AMStarting today Google is moving all its blogs to a new domain to help people recognize when they’re reading an official blog from Google. The new domain name is GoogleBlog.com. These changes will roll out to all of Google’s blogs over time. The Google Webmaster Central blog is one of the first to move to…
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HomeAway CEO Brian Sharples Joins GoDaddy Board
March 10, 2016 @ 6:34 AMCo-founder of vacation rentals site joins GoDaddy’s board and audit committee. HomeAway co-founder and CEO Brian Sharples has been elected to GoDaddy’s (NYSE:GDDY) Board of Directors. Sharples term will run through the annual meeting of stockholders in 2018. He was also appointed as a member of the Audit Committee, replacing Lee Wittlinger. HomeAway was founded…
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Happy Birthday: Domain Name Wire Turns 11 Today
March 9, 2016 @ 11:45 AMThis one goes to eleven. Today is Domain Name Wire’s 11th birthday. It might be a cliche to say a lot has happened since Domain Name Wire published its first post on March 9, 2005. But it’s true on a couple fronts: changes in the domain name business and changes in the online media business…
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New DNA Boss Named
March 9, 2016 @ 10:45 AMThe Domain Name Association has appointed industry newcomer Roy Arbeit as its new executive director. Arbeit was most recently managing director of sales and marketing at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He’s also worked for the American Arbitration Association, Ernst & Young, and Citibank. He will take the DNA top job effective March 15…
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Helsinki Tipped As Next ICANN Venue
March 9, 2016 @ 10:39 AMICANN is expected to be heading to Helsinki, Finland, for its next meeting. Director Chris Disspain dropped the name of the host city during a session at the ICANN 55 meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, today. Apparently it’s common knowledge among attendees that the Finnish capital is being lined up as a replacement for the original…
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ICANN Receives First Sexual Harassment Complaint
March 9, 2016 @ 8:06 AMICANN’s Ombudsman has received what is thought to be the first complaint of sexual harassment at an ICANN meeting. The allegation emerged during a meeting between non-commercial stakeholders and the ICANN board of directors yesterday. During its sessions with constituency groups yesterday, the ICANN board had pushed participants for their views on geographic and gender…
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Governments Still Split On ICANN Accountability Plan, But Will Not Block It
March 9, 2016 @ 2:14 AMThe Governmental Advisory Committee failed to reach consensus on proposals to improve ICANN’s accountability, but has raised “no objection” to them going ahead as planned. After burning the midnight oil in a tense series of meetings at ICANN 55 in Marrakech last night, the GAC finally agreed to the text of a letter that essentially…
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