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After One Year Hiatus, GoDaddy is Back in The Super Bowl
December 15, 2016 @ 5:01 AMGoDaddy will advertise in next year’s Super Bowl game to promote a new product. GoDaddy sat out the Super Bowl last NFL season for the first time since 2005. It will be back as an advertiser this season, the company announced today. Instead of promoting just the GoDaddy brand, the ad will focus on on…
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Verisign Running a New .net Campaign
December 14, 2016 @ 2:04 PMVerisign is running a new .NET campaign called “Uncommonly Timeless” that is of course using a .net domain name: UncommonlyTimeless.net. Here is why Verisign thinks you should you choose a .net domain: Est. 1985 .net is one of the original domain extensions for the internet. In fact, the first .net was created more than 30…
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Neustar (NSR) to Go Private in $2.9 Billion Deal
December 14, 2016 @ 6:19 AMDeal comes ahead of revenue plunge due to losing lucrative contract. Domain name and marketing analytics company Neustar (NYSE: NSR) has entered into a deal to be acquired by private equity firm Golden Gate Capital in a transaction valued at approximately $2.9 billion, including debt. The deal comes at a pivotal time for the company,…
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CentralNic Closes $4.5 Million Domain Portfolio Sale
December 14, 2016 @ 4:52 AMYear-end deal will help company hit its earnings target. CentralNic (AIM:CNIC) has closed its largest ever premium domain sales contract, the company reported today. The deal is worth $4.5 million. The company didn’t provide details about which domain names are included. I have reached out to the CentralNic for further comment and will update this…
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.shop Reached 100,000 Domain Name Registrations (60% Coming From Europe)
December 13, 2016 @ 8:52 AMGMO Registry, Inc. announced that .shop, the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over two months since .shop opened for business on September 26, 2016. On June 30, 2016 .shop was opened for the first time exclusively to trademark holders. Over the two-month Sunrise period more than 1,180…
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.shop Domain Names are Now Free
December 13, 2016 @ 8:37 AMMoniker offers first-year registration for free, but limited to one per customer. GMO Registry, the company behind the .shop top level domain names, is offering free .shop domain names through December 23. So far, the promotion is being offered by Key-Systems’ registrars Moniker and domaindiscount24. It’s limited to one per customer, which means we shouldn’t…
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Free .shop Domains Until Christmas
December 13, 2016 @ 8:21 AMThe new .shop gTLD is likely to see growth over the coming week or so, as registrars begin to offer them for free. Two retail registrars in the Key-Systems stable — Moniker and domaindiscount24 — said today they will offer a free .shop to each of their customers until December 23. The offer is limited…
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Three Millionth .it Name Registered
December 13, 2016 @ 7:24 AMItalian ccTLD .it has topped three million domains for the first time, according to registry Registro.it. The milestone name was abbigliamentoludica.it, seemingly a clothes shop. It appears to have been registered November 25. The registry announced the news in English last week. It appears that growth is slowing somewhat over the long term. The ccTLD…
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New Book By Andrei Polgar: Wealth Management 2.0
December 13, 2016 @ 5:46 AMA new book just came out by Andrei Polgar called “Wealth Management 2.0”. Andrei Polgar is a domain name investor and a blogger at DomainingTips.com. It took Andrei 3 years to write and with the exact title being “Wealth Management 2.0: Financial Education for Internet Professionals” and as the name suggests, it’s a book which…
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Survey Says Most WHOIS Records "Accurate"
December 13, 2016 @ 5:37 AMNinety-seven percent of Whois records contain working email addresses and/or phone numbers, according to the results of an ongoing ICANN survey. The organization yesterday published the second of its now-biannual WHOIS Accuracy Reporting System reports, a weighty document stuffed with facts and figures about the reliability of Whois records. It found, not for the first…
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