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GoDaddy Reintroduces China's .cn Domain Name
February 29, 2016 @ 6:56 AM6 years after dropping extension, GoDaddy begins selling .cn domain names again. GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) has started selling China’s .cn domain names again as part of its push into the Asia market. The company stopped selling .cn domain names in 2010 after the Chinese government cracked down on usage of the domains. It required companies that…
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Mining Company Says It's Acquiring Jade.com for $1.25 Million
February 29, 2016 @ 6:27 AMDomain name is currently owned by Future Media Architects. A Canadian Jade mining company says it has entered into an agreement to acquire the Jade.com domain name for USD $1.25 million. CDN Jade Mine Resources Inc., a Canadian mining company, said it is raising CAD $1.8 million to help pay for the domain name. In…
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Berryhill and Sarid Win UDRP for Kosmos.com
February 26, 2016 @ 11:32 AMFrench company wanted the .com to go with its .fr domain name. John Berryhill has successfully defended the domain name Kosmos.com on behalf of Sahar Sarid’s company Ashanti PLC. Complainant Kosmos SAS is an education technology company that uses the domain name Kosmos.fr. It incorporated on April 3, 1998. The domain name was registered the…
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Internetx and Registries Team Up for Auction During WHD.global
February 26, 2016 @ 10:14 AMHosting domains will be auctioned off next month in Germany. Domain name registrar InterNetX and a handful of domain name registries have teamed up for an auction during next month’s WHD.global conference. WHD.global, the huge conference for people in the hosting space, takes place in Rust, Germany March 15-17. The auction will take place at…
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Coalitions Vs. Communities and New Top Level Domain Names
February 26, 2016 @ 7:13 AMMany groups seeking community status were coalitions, not the entire community. ICANN’s new top level domain name program guidebook afforded communities two ways to get a leg up in acquiring a new top level domain name. First, they could file a community objection against any applicant. If it won the objection, the losing applicant wouldn’t…
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$6,358,902 in Sales for Domain Holdings in Q4 2015
February 25, 2016 @ 5:17 PMDomain Holdings had a strong Q4 2015. Q4 Highlights and Sales Summary Include: Total Sales: $6,358,902 Average Weekly Sales: $489,146 Average Sales Price (ASP): $105,982 Sales Summary Q3 vs Q4: Domain Holdings experienced growth across the board for Q4 2015. Their brokerage team generated $1.82M more (40% increase) in sales in Q4 than in Q3…
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Brandshield Files Patent Application Covering Its Brand Protection Tools
February 25, 2016 @ 8:45 AMApplication explains inner workings of BrandShield’s technology. Last week Angie Graves, writing for Domain Name Wire, told the story of brand-protection company BrandShield. Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application (pdf) BrandShield filed covering its systems. It is one of the most in-depth patent applications I’ve seen covering a brand protection…
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.space Gets a Makeover & Sells $25,000 Worth of Premium Domains Per Month
February 25, 2016 @ 8:34 AMRadix’s domain extension .space surpassed 125,000 registrations in just about a year from launch and is all set for its next big mission -growing customer awareness. After the January 2015 launch, Radix now introduces .space with an all new swanky look, brand image, and a brand new site – <a href="http://www.get.space" rel="nofollow">http://www.get.space</a>. While the Registrar Channel remains…
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First New gTLD Deleted From The Net
February 25, 2016 @ 6:00 AM.doosan today became the first new gTLD to be removed from the domain name system. It’s no longer showing up in the DNS root zone file, and IANA’s record lists it as “retired”. .doosan was a dot-brand managed by Korean conglomerate Doosan Group. The company never did anything with it before deciding to kill the…
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.site Gets 140,000+ New Domain Registrations in 24 Hours
February 25, 2016 @ 5:46 AM.site that was launched by Radix a few months ago saw an enormous surge in registrations on Wednesday morning. The TLD received over 140,000 new domain name registrations in a single day. The large jump in registrations can be attributed to a high demand for Pinyin Acronyms in .site from the Chinese market. .site has…
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