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Is Verisign About to Change The Expired Domain Drop Catching Game? New Patent Filed
July 6, 2017 @ 7:44 AMPatent application shows that Verisign might be shaking up the current system. Lots of well-timed firepower. That’s how the expired domain name drop catching system works in .com today. Drop catchers target domain names the second they drop, and try to coordinate amongst their hundreds of owned-and-operated registrars as well as partners to register as…
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GoDaddy Promotes Domain Investing On Its Homepage
July 6, 2017 @ 5:46 AMRegistrar builds awareness about domain investing through prominent feature. Large companies can make a big impact. When McDonald’s started offering apple slices in kids meals, it became the largest restaurant buyer of apples in the U.S. overnight. For all of its faults, it also made a huge impact on childhood nutrition. Like McDonald’s can do…
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Game Over for The .mcdonalds and .mcd Domain Name Extensions
July 6, 2017 @ 5:05 AMThe McDonald’s Corporation sent 2 letters asking The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to terminate the .mcdonalds and .mcd registries by November 2nd 2017. The company only ever registered 1 domain name in each extension. The ones that were mandatory by ICANN: nic.mcdonalds and nic.mcd. Both are redirecting to a webpage at mcdonalds.com. The company also asked…
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Over 750 Domain Name Registrars Expected to Shut Down in the Next 12 Months, ICANN Predicts
July 5, 2017 @ 11:17 PMICANN estimates over 750 accredited domain name registrars are likely to close within the next 12 months as a result of the over-saturated drop-catching market — the process used to game the system and rapidly register valuable domain names within milliseconds of deletion…
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Mcdonald's Terminates .McDonalds and .MCD .Brand TLDs
July 5, 2017 @ 12:51 PMRestaurant giant terminates plans for .McDonalds and .MCD domain names. McDonald’s had decided it doesn’t want to run new top level domain names after all. The restaurant chain applied to run the .McDonalds and .MCD top level domain names, but it recently sent termination notices (pdf) to domain name overseer ICANN voluntarily relinquishing the two…
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How Rightside Sold Itself
July 5, 2017 @ 10:03 AMThere were lots of twists and turns over the past year as Rightside sold itself. Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) announced last month that it would be acquired by Donuts for $213 million. This ended a long and winding road for the company as it began exploring strategic options last year. It has Donuts to…
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.blog Renewal Prices Will Not Go Up, Registry Promises
July 5, 2017 @ 1:23 AMKnock Knock Whois There, the .blog registry, has promised not to raise its wholesale fees on existing registrations. The company, which is affiliated with WordPress, seems to have made the move in response to ongoing registrar discomfort following Uniregistry’s plan to significant raise the price of several of its new gTLDs (which has since been…
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Thick Domain Name WHOIS is Getting Closer
July 4, 2017 @ 2:11 AMThe transition from Thin to Thick WHOIS for the .com, .net and .jobs extensions is coming soon and quite a few progress has been done. The registry operator for .COM and .NET, Verisign, met the 1 May deadline to deploy the Operational Testing & Evaluation (OT&E) environment for registrars to test the migration of Thick…
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Rightside Gets Its First Shareholder Lawsuit After Acquisition Announcement
July 3, 2017 @ 11:12 AMUnsurprisingly, Rightside has been sued after announcing its planned sale to Donuts. The lawyers are circling. Seattle law firm Breskin Johnson & Townsend PLLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) on behalf of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) shareholder Susan Paskowitz challenging the deal Rightside struck to be acquired by Donuts for $213 million. The suit seeks class action…
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Rightside Gets Its First Shareholder Lawsuit After Acquisition Announcement
July 3, 2017 @ 11:12 AMUnsurprisingly, Rightside has been sued after announcing its planned sale to Donuts. The lawyers are circling. Seattle law firm Breskin Johnson & Townsend PLLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) on behalf of Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) shareholder Susan Paskowitz challenging the deal Rightside struck to be acquired by Donuts for $213 million. The suit seeks class action…
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