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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Wins UDRP On a Bunch of Personal Domains
November 8, 2016 @ 2:16 PMThe CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer won a UDRP on a bunch of domain names that contained her name: sheryl-sandberg-sucks.com sheryl-sandberg-sucks.me sheryl-sandberg.com sherylsandberg.bio sherylsandberg.biz sherylsandberg.ceo sherylsandberg.co …
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Rightside Reports $4.4 Million Net Loss for Q3 (Has 546,000 Registered Domains)
November 8, 2016 @ 2:08 PMRightside announced today financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016 reporting a net loss of $4.4 million for the 3rd quarter. Business Highlights Rightside has 40 gTLDs in its portfolio and ended the quarter with approximately 546,000 registered domains. Rightside’s retail registrar, Name.com, grew revenue approximately 14% year-over-year. With approximately 16.4 million total…
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Rightside's Revenue Drops Again in Q3
November 8, 2016 @ 1:39 PMTop line continues to shrink at Rightside. Domain name company Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) reported earnings after the bell today. Revenue keeps heading in the wrong direction. For the third quarter in a row, revenue was down quarter-over-quarter. More worryingly, it was down year-over-year. The company posted revenue of $53.3 million for the third quarter, down from…
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The .blog Registry is Not Releasing Any 1, 2 and 3 Character Domain Names!
November 8, 2016 @ 9:27 AM.Blog domain names are currently in the Landrush phase but it seems that thousands of domains have been reserved by the registry including ALL 1, 2 and 3 character domain names. Per ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) rules any New gTLD registry can reserve an unlimited amount of domains for whatever reason…
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Verisign to .web Losers: Stop Griping and Carry On
November 8, 2016 @ 6:54 AMVerisign responds to complaints about its deal for .web. Paul Livesay, VP and Counsel at Verisign, has published a detailed response to Donuts’ and Afilias’ challenges over the .web auction result. If you’re unfamiliar with the backstory: Nu DotCo was one of seven applicants for the .web top level domain name. It struck a deal…
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"Shadow Content Policing" Fears at ICANN 57
November 7, 2016 @ 1:00 PMFears that the domain name industry is becoming a stooge for “shadow regulation” of web content were raised, and greeted very skeptically, over the weekend at ICANN 57. Attendees yesterday heard concerns from non-commercial stakeholders, notably the Electronic Frontier Foundation, that deals such as Donuts’ content-policing agreement with the US movie industry amount to regulation…
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Nat Cohen's Telepathy Sues for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
November 7, 2016 @ 9:34 AMTelepathy claims finance company is trying to reverse hijack a domain name it owns. Telepathy, Inc., a company owned by domain name investor Nat Cohen, has sued Seattle company Parametric Portfolio Associates, LLC for alleged reverse domain name hijacking and other actions. Parametric, a financial firm, uses the domain name ParametricPortfolio.com. Telepathy has owned the…
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Google Capital Changes Name to Capitalg, They Did Acquire CapitalG.com
November 4, 2016 @ 11:51 PMGoogle has changed the name from Google Capital to CapitalG and this time they did get the domain name capitalg.com. The domain name looks to have been acquired a few weeks ago. The domain was owned by an organization called GDiapers back in 2014 and then it moved to privacy. It transferred from Go Daddy…
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.blog Goes With a Traditional Landrush
November 4, 2016 @ 8:24 AMWant a great .blog domain? Apply now and prepare for an auction. Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com that is launching .blog, is going with a traditional landrush format rather than the recently-popularized “early access” model for new top level domain name launches. The landrush period runs through the afternoon of November 9. Between now and…
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.blog Domain Name Landrush Has Started
November 3, 2016 @ 10:48 AMThe .Blog registry (owned by WordPress) launched the Landrush Phase for purchasing .blog web addresses. This phase marks the first time non-trademark owners can apply for early access to a .blog domain name. That means anyone can now apply to claim a name. That means you can apply now to get early access to a .blog domain…
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