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Did Raiders Owner Register LasVegasRaiders.com in 1998? Not So Fast.
March 27, 2017 @ 4:26 PMMark Davis is a fairly common name. See updates… News broke today that the Oakland Raiders had enough votes to move the team to Las Vegas, and people quickly picked up on the fact that LasVegasRaiders.com was registered. It was registered in 1998 to Mark Davis, which happens to be the name of the owner…
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GoDaddy Acquires Sucuri
March 27, 2017 @ 2:43 PMGoDaddy Inc (NYSE: GDDY), announced it has entered into an agreement to purchase Sucuri, a leading provider of website security products and services. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Sucuri is a security platform offering business owners a suite of security tools designed to protect website owners from emerging online threats. Nearly 75…
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Gloo.com Subject of UDRP
March 27, 2017 @ 1:16 PMA UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization involving the valuable 4 letter GLOO.com domain name. The UDRP filing is listed on the WIPO website as case is WIPO Case D2017-0606. GLOO.com (or perhaps simply Gloo.com because it is considered a pronounceable 4 letter domain name) was created in 1998. The domain name’s Whois record had privacy on it until very recently, and perhaps the privacy was removed because of the UDRP. With the privacy removed, I can see the domain name is registered to an entity in Great Britain…
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Two Tucows Execs are Leaving
March 24, 2017 @ 5:15 AMCFO and CIO announced their resignations this month. Two Tucows executives have recently notified the company that they are leaving. Last week, Chief Financial Officer Michael Cooperman announced that he was retiring after 18 years with the company. He will remain an advisor to the company when he leaves April 1. Dave Singh, current Vice…
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New gTLD Registries Want a $17 Million ICANN Rebate
March 24, 2017 @ 3:41 AMMany gTLDs are performing more poorly than expected and their registries want some money back from ICANN to compensate. The Registries Stakeholder Group this week asked ICANN for a 75% credit on their quarterly fees, which they estimate would cost $16.875 million per year. The money would come from leftover new gTLD application fee money,…
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Hacker Hostage Crisis at ICANN Secret Key Ceremony! (On Tv)
March 24, 2017 @ 2:10 AMOne of ICANN’s Seven Secret Key-Holders To The Internet got taken out as part of an elaborate heist or something on American TV this week. In tense scenes, a couple of secret agents or something with guns were forced to break into one of ICANN’s quarterly root zone key signing ceremonies to prevent a hacker…
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DENIC Approved As ICANN Escrow Agent
March 24, 2017 @ 12:56 AMGerman ccTLD registry DENIC has been given ICANN approval to provide data escrow services to registrars. It becomes the seventh company to receive this accreditation, the second in Europe after the UK’s NCC Group. The company said it signed its ICANN contract and first registrar, Global Village, at the ICANN meeting in Copenhagen last week…
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Two Domain Name Industry People Make Moves
March 23, 2017 @ 6:39 AMEpik and MMX make key hires. Two familiar faces in the domain name industry have new homes. Joseph Peterson, who also writes for Domain Name Wire, was hired as Director of Operations at Epik. Joseph is one of the most analytical people I know. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about him over the several…
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Casino.online Sells for $201,250
March 23, 2017 @ 5:23 AMDomain under the new top level domain name .online sells for big bucks. Here’s a new top level domain name sale that jumps out at you: Casino.online has sold at Sedo for $201,250! The domain name crossed Sedo’s RSS feed yesterday. As of right now, the domain name resolves to a SafeNames registrar holding page…
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Lawsuit Filed to Overturn OpenTime.com UDRP
March 22, 2017 @ 10:34 AMDomain owner shot himself in the foot in UDRP response, so he’s asking a court to let him keep the domain name. The owner of OpenTime.com, who lost the domain name in a UDRP decision last month, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to try to retain ownership of the domain name. If you look at…
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