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.pet Went Live On Tuesday & Has Over 5.4k Domains Registrations

The new gTLD .Pet went live into general availability (GA) on Tuesday where is could be registered on a first come, first served basis and according to ntlstats.com .Pet has 5,428 domain name registered. There were less than 100 .Pet domain names registered before GA in Sunrise. Godaddy is charging $11.99 for a .Pet domain…
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Krueger Sues M+M Over Five Million "Missing" Shares

Former Minds + Machines chair Fred Krueger has taken the company to court, claiming he’s owed shares worth over half a million dollars. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week, Krueger says the shares were promised to him in 2007 but have subsequently gone “missing”. The suit also names as defendants M+M chief…

Sedo Comes to Austin

Sedo is returning to Austin next month to tell the world about domain names. Domain name marketplace Sedo is partnering up with a bunch of domain name companies to offer music, free food, free booze and free tattoos next month in Austin. Sedo Domain Village will coincide with the annual SXSW conference, which draws nearly…
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Namejet - Enom Security Issue Discovered - a Domain Can Leave an Account Without a Trace

While selling a domain name at the NamesCon/RightOfTheDot/Namejet auction I discovered a big security flaw at Enom. But let’s start from the begginning… I submitted my first domain name in a NamesCon auction this year. It was a 3 letter .org that didn’t go into the live auction. In the silent auction it sold (not…

49.6% of All Active Websites are Build On .com Domains

The report shows that .com is used as top level domain by 49.6% of all the websites. The only two New gTLDs that are used in more than 0.1% of websites are .xyz and .club. World Wide Web Technology Surveys (W3Techs) is reporting daily the usage of top level domains for websites. The table below…

Cruz Says Chehade is in China's Pocket

Terrifying US presidential candidate Ted Cruz has told outgoing ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade to recuse himself from crucial decisions, claiming Chehade is conflicted. Republican Cruz yesterday said that Chehade can’t be trusted to make decisions related to the IANA transition because he’s already signed up to a Chinese internet governance committee. Chehade said in December…

Magenta.com Acquired By Deutsche Telekom Ag

The largest public domain name sale reported by DNJournal last week was Magenta.com, which sold for $100,000 via DomainNameSales.com. Although I am sure it will be surpassed because it is only February, this $100k deal currently ranks as the 7th largest sale of the year on the DNJournal year to date sales report. According to DomainTools, Magenta.com is now owned by Deutsche Telekom AG. If you visit Magenta.com right now, the domain name does not seem to resolve. I assume that is temporary because of the cost of the acquisition. Deutsche Telekom seems to have branded the “magenta” color, although…

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Escrow.com Launches Concierge Transfer Service

Company will take control of the domain name before transferring it to the new owner with optional service. Escrow.com has launched a new service called Concierge Transfer, in which Escrow.com the will take control of the domain name to complete the transfer. Similar to how Sedo handles most domain name transfers, the seller will transfer…
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CloudFlare Will Launch its Own 'High Security' Web Domain Registrar

CloudFlare will set up its own internet domain registrar for wealthy customers who cannot have their websites hijacked.

Internet readies plan for final transition of power to dun-dun-derr... ICANN

A final transition plan for the top level of the internet away from the US government to non-profit California corporation ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will be published next month. After a two-year process, the internet community will meet in Marrakech between 5 and 10 March, and is expected to …