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Sedo Adds New Escrow Option Through Partnership With Escrow.domains
May 23, 2017 @ 6:41 AMService targets people who can handle the domain transfer themselves. Domain name marketplace Sedo has added a new domain name escrow option through a partnership with Escrow.domains, a service offered by law firm Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC. The service is in addition to Sedo’s existing escrow offering for domain transactions not initiated on its marketplace…
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125 People to Attend DNSeattle On Thursday
May 23, 2017 @ 6:26 AMOff to Seattle, the center of the domain name universe. 125 people from the domain name industry are expected to attend the sold-out DNSeattle meetup at Amazon.com’s headquarters on Thursday evening. The event is organized by Michael Cyger of DomainSherpa. This year’s meetup is from 6-9 PM on Thursday and features an interview with domain…
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Want to Be One of The Internet's Seven Secret Key-holders? Apply Now!
May 22, 2017 @ 9:43 AMICANN has put out a call for volunteers, looking for people to become what are sometimes referred to as “the internet’s seven secret key holders”. Specifically, it needs Trusted Community Representatives, people of standing in the internet community who don’t mind carrying around a small key and getting a free trip to Los Angeles or…
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Richemont Kills Off Two More Dot-brands
May 22, 2017 @ 7:04 AMLuxury goods maker Richemont has decided to ditch two more of its dot-brand gTLDs. The company has asked ICANN to terminate its registry contracts for .chloe and .montblanc, according to documents published by ICANN late last week. Chloe is a fashion brand; Mont Blanc sells pens, jewelery and such. No reason was given for either…
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Iran Reported to Ombudsman After New gTLD ConsPIRacy Theory
May 17, 2017 @ 6:32 AMICANN’s Ombudsman has stepped in to resolve a complaint from the Iranian government that it was being “excluded” from discussions about the next phase of the new gTLD program. Kavouss Arasteh, Iran’s Governmental Advisory Committee representative, earlier this month accused the leadership of the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures Working Group of deliberately scheduling teleconferences to…
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Key-systems Buys Reseller Edc
May 17, 2017 @ 3:26 AMKey-Systems has acquired one of its resellers, European Domain Centre. The acquiring registrar did not disclose the terms of the deal, but said EDC will help boost its own BrandShelter corporate registrar business. EDC says it has clients including AirBnB, Campari, Lycamobile, iStockPhoto and BusinessWire. The company was founded in 2003 by Nikolaj Borge and…
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Shares of GoDaddy Hit an All Time High
May 16, 2017 @ 1:22 PMShares of Godaddy (GDDY) hit an all time high today of $40.37 before closing at $40.29 which I also believe is an all time high closing price for shares of Godaddy. Shares were up over 3% at $1.23 and are up slightly after hours. I didn’t see any news today on the company…
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You Can Now Make Euro Transactions at Escrow.com Again
May 16, 2017 @ 9:48 AMYou can now make Euro transactions at Escrow.com again. The feature was lost a few months back while the company started enforcing the KYC (know your customer) requirements while also changing their banking partner. Euro transactions were first introduced at Escrow.com in 2013. I really missed the Euro transactions as they are way cheaper when…
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Atc.com UDRP Won By Domain Owner
May 16, 2017 @ 9:17 AMIn late March, I wrote about the ATC.com UDRP filing. ATC.com had been created back in 1990, and the complainant owned the domain name for many years. The decision was just made, and the domain owner will retain this valuable domain name. The primary reason for the decision going in favor of the domain name owner was that the three person panel found that the “Complainant has failed to establish sufficient trademark rights to the letters ATC.” Because of this finding, the panel did not have to decide…
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ICANN Published Its Tax Return and Here's What We Learned
May 16, 2017 @ 5:41 AMTax return for year ending June 2016 shows growing compensation. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) just published its tax return (pdf) for the financial year ending June 2016. Here are some takeaways. Revenues exceed expenses by $57 million, and net assets grew to $334 million. 14 employees had total compensation of at…
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