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SK Lubricants Guilty of Reverse Domain Hijacking On Zic.com
December 4, 2015 @ 10:26 AMSK Lubricants Americas of Houston, Texas was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) on the three letter .com domain name ZIC.com The domain owner was represented by ESQwire.com The Domain Name was originally created on September 6, 2003 but the current owner obtained the Domain Name on February 28, 2015 and is…
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Schilling: Registries Could Wind-down Unprofitable gTLDs
December 4, 2015 @ 8:59 AMNew gTLD portfolio registries may one day decide to wind down some of their gTLDs if they fail to reach profitability. That’s according to Uniregistry CEO Frank Schilling, who told DI today that registries may “sunset” under-performing TLDs. His comments came in response to our post earlier today about registries going out of business involuntarily…
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ICANN Security Advisor Predicts "Hundreds" of New gTLDs Will "Go Dark"
December 4, 2015 @ 6:37 AMA security company led by a member of ICANN’s top security committee reckons that “hundreds” of new gTLDs are set to fail, leading to web sites “going dark”. Internet Identity, which provides threat data services, made the prediction in a press release this week. IID’s CTO, quoted in the release, is Rod Rasmussen. He’s a…
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China to Enforce Real Name Verification On .com Domain Names
December 3, 2015 @ 2:53 PMThe government of China is clamping down on registrants of .com domain names. Regulations that have prevented Chinese residents from using many new top level domain names will soon affect .com and .net domain name registrations, too. The rules will apply to .com and .net domain name registrations starting March 1, 2016, according to documents…
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How to Invest in Domain Names Through an Ira or 401(K)
December 3, 2015 @ 10:40 AMInvesting in domain names through a retirement account might allow you to defer taxes. Earlier this week I introduced UpMoney, my new site about investing, spending and saving. In one of the posts I interviewed Kirk Chisholm, Principal of wealth management firm Innovative Advisory Group, about investing retirement funds in alternative assets. I was a…
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Domain Name Appraisal Scam Still Making The Rounds
December 2, 2015 @ 10:57 AMAfter all these years, it’s still going strong. It’s one of the oldest scams in the books, and apparently it’s still working. The domain appraisal scam goes like this: someone says they’re interested in buying your domain name, and they think it’s worth a lot of money. But before they can go through with the…
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Domaining Europe Moves to The Netherlands
December 2, 2015 @ 8:37 AMDomaining Europe conference will be held in the Netherlands for the first time in 2016. Organizers say the venue will be the Grand Hotel Amrâth Kurhaus in The Hague, which is about an hour by train from Amsterdam’s Schipol airport. Since its inception, Domaining Europe has been held in Valencia, Spain. The plan for 2016…
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Frank Schilling Invests Another $1 Million in Rightside
December 2, 2015 @ 8:06 AMDomain name investor buys more shares, and has made a small profit. A company connected to domain name investor Frank Schilling has purchased another 150,000 shares of Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) stock, increasing his interest in the company to 6.1% of shares outstanding. An SEC filing reveals that Schilling has paid a total of $8,387,181, including…
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales Drive 35,000 Radix Domain Name Registrations
December 2, 2015 @ 7:54 AMNew TLD company reports holiday sales drove increase volume. Deep discounts and added exposure helped new top level domain name registry Radix get 35,000 registrations over four days. The company deeply discounted prices on its domain names, with many registrars offering its domain names for as little as 99 cents, from Black Friday to Cyber…
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.global is Giving Away a Premium Domain Everyday Until Christmas: Housing.global Was The 1st
December 2, 2015 @ 7:48 AM.Global is giving away a FREE Premium domain name a day, everyday until Christmas. The daily contest started yesterday and the first domain name won was housing.global and Damon Barnard was the lucky winner In all there are $50,000 worth of .GLOBAL premium names to be won! You need to enter the contest each…
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