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2017 Global Domain Industry Summit in Xiamen, China
May 8, 2017 @ 7:32 PMGlobal Domain Summit (GDS) 2017 will be held in the domain city Xiamen, China during 7th -9th July,2017. GDS 2017 is co-organized by Godaddy, AliCloud, Baidu Cloud, eName and Bizcn. This summit is probably the largest global domain name industry event in China. Main topics of this summit will include the development trend analysis for…
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Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in Baffling UDRP Case
May 8, 2017 @ 9:10 AMAnother WTF UDRP filing. A World Intellectual Property panelist has found Anyclean Premium Limited guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in one of the most baffling and misleading UDRP cases I’ve ever read. Anyclean runs a cleaning service and uses the website AnyClean.co.uk. The domain name at issue is Any-Clean.com, which is owned by Jethro…
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Kat.ph Gets a Ton of Traffic, But No Monetization On Google
May 8, 2017 @ 7:58 AMOwner says it received over 700,000 uniques over past month. TorrentFreak has an interesting story about the Philippine country code domain name KAT.ph, which is currently for sale. The U.S. Government attempted to seize the domain name that was used by KickAssTorrents but was never able to get the registry to cooperate. The domain name…
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.gay, .music and Others in Limbo As ICANN Probes Itself
May 8, 2017 @ 3:29 AMSeveral new gTLD applicants have slammed ICANN for conducting an investigation into its own controversial practices that seems to be as opaque as the practices themselves. Seven proposed new gTLDs, including the much-anticipated .music and .gay, are currently trapped in ICANN red tape hell as the organization conducts a secretive probe into how its own…
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Escrow.com Wins Torch Award for Ethics From The Better Business Bureau (Bbb)
May 5, 2017 @ 11:48 PMBetter Business Bureau (BBB) serving the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern Coastal California announced the winners of the first annual regional Torch Awards competition. Among the winners was Escrow.com that was the winner of the BBB Torch Award for Ethics in the 50-99 employee category. “The Torch Awards for Ethics competition was created to…
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.Club Turns 3 Years Old
May 5, 2017 @ 2:11 PM.Club domain names are celebrating their 3rd anniversary and they have published a video displaying a small sample of their journey so far. “It is hard to believe, but it has already been three years since our CEO Colin Campbell rang the bell and .CLUB domains went live at registrars around the world. It has…
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GoDaddy Inc. Announces Pricing of Follow-on Offering and Repurchase
May 5, 2017 @ 5:55 AMGoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures, announced today the pricing of an underwritten public offering of shares of Class A common stock at a price to…
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Tucows Sending Expiry Inventory to NameJet
May 4, 2017 @ 12:24 PMAccording to an email sent to NameJet customers earlier this afternoon, the auction platform is now auctioning Tucows’ expiring domain name inventory. Here’s what NameJet sent to its customers today announcing the new auction inventory: “NameJet announces a substantial increase to our registrar expiry inventory with the addition of expiring names from Tucows. Tucows has been an ICANN accredited registrar since 1999 and possess a large number of aged domains. This recent integration means more inventory of quality names are being made available every day on NameJet!” I just learned that Tucows is now sending all of its expiring inventory to NameJet…
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XYZ Buys .storage Top Level Domain Name
May 3, 2017 @ 9:03 AMXYZ gets its tenth top level domain name XYZ, the company that runs the .xyz domain name, has added a tenth top level domain name to its stable. The company announced this morning that it has acquired the .storage top level domain name. Self Storage Co., a subsidiary of self-storage giant Extra Space Storage, Inc.,…
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Stolen Ldw.com Domain Name Returned in UDRP
May 3, 2017 @ 7:33 AMOriginal registrant discovered theft late last year. Game developer LDW Software, LLC has successfully recovered the stolen domain name LDW.com through a UDRP. The alleged theft appears to have happened in 2015, but the company didn’t become aware of the change until the perpetrator changed the nameservers for the domain name at the end of…
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