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Amazon Backtracks After Pricing Free Alexa List at Over $900,000
November 23, 2016 @ 3:30 AMAmazon has reversed, at least temporarily, its decision to yank its free list of the world’s most popular domains, after an outcry from researchers. The daily Alexa list, which contains the company’s estimate of the world’s top 1 million domains by traffic, suddenly disappeared late last week. The list was popular with researchers in fields…
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Over 19,000 .blog Domain Names Registered in First 24 Hours
November 22, 2016 @ 12:02 PMTotal with sunrise and landrush now tops 21,000. The .blog domain name is off to a pretty good start in terms of domain name registrations. 19,035 domain names were registered during the first 24 hours of general availability, the registry confirmed to Domain Name Wire. That makes a total of 21,115 registrations including sunrise and…
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Another Major Registrar is Sending Expired Domains to GoDaddy
November 22, 2016 @ 11:18 AMEndurance’s PDR is sending expired domain inventory to GoDaddy Auctions. It looks like GoDaddy Auctions has picked up another major expired domain name partner. I was searching expired domain names today and noticed many domain names registered at Public Domain Registry and BigRock in GoDaddy’s expired domain lists, e.g. loyaltymoney.com, tarabulusshiping.com and rippleleaf.com. Both of…
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MailboxPark Wants to Monetize Email to Your Parked Domain Names
November 22, 2016 @ 8:02 AMCompany will pay you for email sent to domain names you own. MailboxPark, a new offering from 250ok, will pay domain name owners for their parked domains’ email traffic. The new service requires domain owners to point their MX records to MailboxPark, at which point the company will start paying domainers for email messages sent…
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Oracle Buys Dyn Just Weeks After Huge Attack
November 21, 2016 @ 6:51 AMOracle has signed a deal to buy DNS services provider Dyn for an undisclosed amount probably in the nine-figure range. The software giant said it plans to integrate Dyn’s services into its existing cloud computing platform. For the moment, existing Dyn customers are unaffected. Dyn provides distributed DNS resolution services mainly to the enterprise market,…
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After Shaky Start, .blog Launches Today
November 21, 2016 @ 6:29 AMThe new gTLD .blog goes into general availability today, after some mild controversy about the way the registry allocated reserved domain names. Knock Knock Whois There, the registry affiliated with WordPress maker Automattic, last week apologized to some would-be customers for declining to honor some landrush pre-registrations. Some registrants had complained that domains that were…
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CentralNic Hires Andy Churley As Marketing Director
November 21, 2016 @ 4:46 AMChurley has domain registrar and registry experience. Domain name company CentralNic today announced that it has hired Andy Churley as Group Marketing Director. Churley will oversee marketing across all of CentralNic’s companies, which include retail registrars and backend registry services. Churley was most recently Chief Marketing Officer at NameShield, a brand protection domain name registrar…
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Famous Four Exec Moves to CentralNic
November 21, 2016 @ 4:09 AMFamous Four Media has lost its chief marketing officer to CentralNic. Andy Churley joined the London-based registry services provider as group marketing manager this month, according to press release. He’s been with FFM for the first few years of its entry into the gTLD game, overseeing the launches of cheap TLDs such as .science, .download…
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A Strange Thing is Happening to Domain Names Suspended in URS
November 18, 2016 @ 6:46 AM…they’re being renewed. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was introduced as an alternative to Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (URDP) when new top level domain names were introduced. URS is a faster, cheaper version of UDRP. A big difference is what happens when a Complainant wins. In the case of a URS, the domain name is merely…
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Boeing's Fight Against "Newborn" Domain Names
November 17, 2016 @ 11:47 AMCan flagging new domain names help stop the spread of malware? We all get emails with links that go to phishing and malware sites. There’s one thing in common with most of the domains hosting this bad stuff: they were registered a short time ago. In fact, many malware networks are programmed to frequently register…
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