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A Legitimate Gripe About .blog, But Really New TLDs in General
November 17, 2016 @ 11:22 AMThis guy says that .blog changed the rules on him. Sound familiar? Chris Schidle is upset with Automattic right now because he couldn’t get Chris.blog. And I don’t blame him. Chris isn’t an idiot. He’s also an entrepreneur. When he paid $250 to apply for the domain name Chris.blog in August, he read the description…
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Radix Releases Data On Premium Domain Names
November 17, 2016 @ 8:35 AMCompany reports over $600,000 in premium revenue last quarter. Many new top level domain name companies are following a business practice popularized by .TV: selling domain names that come with an annual premium fee. Radix, which runs domain names such as .online and .store, just released data on its premium sales and renewals in Q3…
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Domaining Europe to Take Place in Berlin in May
November 16, 2016 @ 2:07 PMBerlin to host next Domaining Europe conference in May. Dietmar Stefitz, organizer of the Domaining Europe conference, has announced that the next conference will take place in Berlin May 14-16. The event will be held in cooperation with ECO, The Association of the Internet Industry in Europe. The agenda is focused on monetization and domain…
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C.at Sells for €56,000 in Sedo Auction With More .at Sales to Come
November 15, 2016 @ 1:50 PMC.at is the top sale in first .at auction, with two more auctions ahead this month. Sedo is currently auctioning short Austrian .at domain names, and the numbers so far are impressive. Here are the top ten sales from the first of three registry auctions: c.at 56,000 € 1.at 26,008 € at.at 20,500 € e.at…
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There's an All Out War for Dropping Domain Names
November 15, 2016 @ 1:12 PM…and it’s expensive. It costs expired domain drop catchers $8.03 for every .com domain name they catch for you. So why are they charging customers so much money? A good place to start is by looking at how much they pay to amass the firepower necessary to be successful drop catchers. When a domain name…
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.shop Enters Dangerous Territory With SSL Freebie
November 15, 2016 @ 11:29 AMFree SSL is likely to make registrar partners uneasy. Last week GMO Registry, the company behind the .shop top level domain name, announced that it was providing a free SSL certificate to registrants of .shop domain names. While this might seem like a great perk for registrants, the move risks irking the registrar partners that…
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Frank Schilling Gets RDNH Win
November 15, 2016 @ 6:58 AMPanel rules that Bernina International is guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over Bernette.com domain name. Frank Schilling has successfully defended his domain name Bernette.com in a UDRP, and the panel has found BERNINA International AG guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by filing the case. Bernina is a Swiss company that has sold sewing…
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Who are The Five New ICANN Directors?
November 15, 2016 @ 3:18 AMAlmost a quarter of ICANN’s board of directors were replaced at the organization’s annual general meeting in Hyderabad last week. Five of the 21-strong board are fresh faces, though many will be familiar to regular ICANN and industry watchers. They hail from five different countries in four of ICANN’s five regions. One is female. They…
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.food Goes Live, and It's a Closed Generic
November 15, 2016 @ 2:27 AMThe new gTLD .food went live in the DNS on Friday, but nobody except the registry will be able to register domains there. In what I would argue is one of the new gTLD program’s biggest failures, .food will be a dot-brand, closed to all except the “brand” owner. The registry is Lifestyle Domain Holdings,…
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Afilias Retains .org Back-end Deal
November 15, 2016 @ 1:56 AMPublic Interest Registry is sticking with Afilias to run the .org registry back-end. The announcement came yesterday after a open procurement process that lasted for most of 2016. Over 20 back-end providers from 15 nations — basically the entire industry — responded to PIR’s February request for proposals, we reported back in March. Afilias retaining…
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