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Is Verisign .web Applicant's Secret Sugar Daddy?
July 14, 2016 @ 10:24 AMThe fiercely contested .web gTLD is being forced into a last-resort auction and some people seem to think a major registry player is behind it. Two .web applicants — Radix (pdf) and Schlund (pdf) — this week wrote to ICANN to demand that the .web auction, currently planned for July 27, be postponed. They said…
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Rightside Reveals Premium and .live Stats, Date for 2-character Release
July 14, 2016 @ 10:14 AMNew TLD company offers stats about .live and premium domain names. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) published some interesting stats about its second quarter today. Here are some of the notable numbers: $1 million premium sales (wholesale) from premiums in Q2. This was probably helped by the company’s special renewal pricing on premium domains. The company has sold…
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Snapnames and Namejet are Increasing Backorder Prices
July 14, 2016 @ 10:04 AMFees go up by $10 next week. SnapNames and NameJet are increasing their fees to catch pending delete expired domain names. The sites will increase their minimum fees by $10 to $79.00 on Tuesday, July 19. The fee increase will not apply to domains already ordered at the $69.00 price. SnapNames and NameJet pooled their…
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Web.com Policy Exec Moves to ICANN
July 14, 2016 @ 7:06 AMDomain industry veteran Jennifer Gore is to become ICANN’s new director of registrar relations. She takes over the role from Mike Zupke, who I gather is leaving ICANN, from next Monday. She will report to Cyrus Namazi in ICANN’s Global Domains Division. Gore was most recently senior director of policy at Web.com, a role she…
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Applicants Ask for .web Auction Postponement Over Nu Dot Co
July 14, 2016 @ 4:54 AMApplicants concerned that rival has a big-money backer. At least two applicants for the .web top level domain name are asking for this month’s auction to be postponed. Radix and Schlund Technologies GmbH sent letters to ICANN that state: We support a postponement of the .WEB auction to give ICANN and the other applicants time…
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Donuts Invests in Bitcoin Startup
July 14, 2016 @ 2:48 AMDonuts has made an investment in Netki, a company focused on digital wallets used in Bitcoin and other e-money systems. Netki’s service is designed to make it easier to locate the wallets Bitcoin users use when they send and receive money, which are usually gibberish strings of around 34 characters. The company service, when integrated…
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After Long Battle, First Bulgarian IDN Domain Goes Live
July 14, 2016 @ 12:14 AMBulgarians finally have the ability to register domain names in their native Cyrillic script, after years of fighting with ICANN. The domain Имена.бг, which translates as “names.bg” went live on the internet this week, according to local reports. Bulgaria was one of the first countries to ask for a internationalized domain name version of its…
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No, Google You Still Can't Have Dotless, One-word Domains
July 13, 2016 @ 3:36 PMA surreptitious effort to introduce so-called “dotless domains” – where you type a single word into your browser to reach a website – has been noticed and shot down.
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.co Makes $250k in Its 1st Domain Auction in China
July 13, 2016 @ 8:34 AM.CO, part of Neustar, Inc., had its first domain name auction in China. The auction, which was held exclusively on Chinese auction platform 22.cn, offered 19 two-letter domains like CY.co and XN.co. The auction concluded today July 13. The total proceedings of the auction were about $250,350. Top sellers were cy.co that was sold for $32k and…
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Donuts Invests in Blockchain Technology Company
July 13, 2016 @ 6:46 AMDonuts makes an investment in Netki. Donuts has made its second investment under its Donuts Labs program. Netki, Inc. is billed as a digital identity startup dedicated to democratizing digital currency. Just how does this relate to DNS? Here’s how Donuts explains it: As a distributed database, the blockchain maintains a continuously growing list of…
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