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The .com Cliff is .coming
October 11, 2016 @ 6:54 AMIs .com’s growing base of registrations about to go negative? Jim Bidzos was wrong. Bidzos, the CEO of .com registry Verisign, was celebrating a better-than-expected third quarter last year. Domain name registrations were higher than normal thanks to emerging markets. Bidzos and his leadership team thought the short-term boost was over. On an investor conference…
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GoDaddy/ Namefind Sells Over 45 Three Character .com's
October 7, 2016 @ 6:39 AMGodaddy/ Namefind.com continues to move a lot of inventory out of its three portfolio purchases. Yesterday we tracked over 45 three character .Com domain sales: 1ms.com 2nr.com 36t.com 3mm.com 44k.com 53e.com 56t.com 57s.com 63b.com 69p.com 6tg.com 6ti.com 8xn.com 9py.com 9yh.com a86.com bn1.com dj6.com ds3.com e36.com e90.com fd6.com fk6.com gc6.com gm6.com j23.com mz2.com nb7.com nc1.com nr6.com…
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A .com Price Freeze Through 2024 More Likely?
October 7, 2016 @ 3:54 AMMore likely, but not guaranteed. When ICANN published its proposed contract extension with Verisign for the .com contract, it didn’t discuss the question of pricing. .Com prices are currently capped at $7.85 wholesale. The extension, from 2018 to 2024, didn’t touch the pricing element. But the understanding was that Verisign and the U.S. government, which…
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ICANN Faces First Post-transition Test of Un Power (For Real This Time)
October 7, 2016 @ 2:18 AMThe ICANN community and United Nations agencies are heading for a clash, with governments accused this morning of trying to bypass the ICANN policy-making process. According to the leader of an ICANN volunteer working group, governments and UN-affilated intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have circumvented the usual ICANN consensus-building process in order to extract the policies they…
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Efty Releases “UDRP-safe” Landing Pages
October 6, 2016 @ 11:22 PMNew options make it harder for potential complainants to show you were trying to sell a domain name. Domain name selling platform Efty has launched new landing page designs that the company says will help prevent UDRP and INDRP (India) losses.
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Efty Creates 33 New Domain For-Sale Landing Pages
October 6, 2016 @ 10:22 PMEfty created and is now offering a new batch of for-sale landing pages (with industry-specific images), buy-it-now (BIN) landers, and UDRP-safe landing pages. These fast, stable, and responsive landers power the 50,000+ Efty domain names…
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.us Gains Over 100k Domains On 1st Day of $.10 Registration Promotion
October 5, 2016 @ 8:38 AMThe .US domain name extension gained over 100,000 domains yesterday. The domain name registrar, Uniregistry started a promotion of .US registrations for only $.10 officially starting at on October 1 but but yesterday was the first day Uniregistry actually sent out an email blast of the $.10 domain registration promotion. According to RegistrarStats.com; the number…
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From 10-cent Domains to Revved Up Marketing and Policy Changes, .us Might Finally Go Somewhere
October 5, 2016 @ 7:48 AMThe .Us domain name is finally getting some marketing muscle. Hang around American domainers long enough and you’re sure to hear them gripe about .Us. What could the United States’ country code domain name have been had Neustar actually marketed the domain name? It’s not really as simple as that. By the time the internet…
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Payoneer Raises $180 Million
October 5, 2016 @ 6:15 AMPayoneer recently got into the escrow business to challenge front runner Escrow.com. Elliot did an interview with Scott Reynolds, President, Payoneer Escrow. Venture Beat is reporting this morning they just raised $180 million. Digital payments company Payoneer has raised a whopping $180 million in a series E round led by Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), with…
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Ouch: Land Rover Loses UDRP On RangeRoverChauffeur.com Losing All Three Elements
October 5, 2016 @ 6:04 AMLAND ROVER just lost a UDRP on the domain name RangeRoverChauffeur.com in a one member panel decision of Houston Putnam Lowry, and the domain owner did not even respond. Land Rover not only lose the UDRP but it lost all three elements of a UDRP. Here are the highlights: “Complainant claims Respondent’s domain is confusingly…
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