Monthly Archives: December 2015

Tue 1st December 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Is Amazon.com Getting into The Ticket Biz? Checkout These 3 New Domain Registrations - Amazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket business to maybe take on Ticketmaster.com and/or StubHub.com Interestingly the domain name AmazonSportsTickets.com is ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Dear Freelancer.com, don't disaster adult Escrow.com - Escrow.com has a bright future ahead of it, as long as new ownership makes the right moves. Dear Freelancer.com, Congratulations on your acquisition of Escrow.com. It is a great company that just about everyone in the domain name industry uses, and uses often. When you bought Escrow.com for $7.5 million, I knew you didn’t have a goal of merely milking the cash cow. As your CEO Matt Barrie told me on the Domain Name Wire Podcast, you want more. You want to grow the company. That makes sense. But ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
It's #GivingTuesday, though this classification wasn't really charitable - Charity technology provider makes ridiculous arguments in a UDRP. It’s fitting that WIPO just published a UDRP decision for networkofgiving.com (and .org) on #GivingTuesday. The complaint was filed by Edatanetworks Inc., a company that provides customer loyalty technology and counts charities as its clients. It claims to have used the “Network of Giving” marks since about 2007…two years after the current registrant of the corresponding domain names registered them. The current registrant ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
7 things Domainers should do before a finish of a year - A December checklist for domain name investors. It’s December 1, which means the end of the year is rapidly approaching. With that in mind, here’s a checklist of things for domain name investors to complete before the end of the year. 1. Run a preliminary income statement. Knowing where you stand so far this year will help you optimize for taxes…and estimate your bill. 2. Renew, renew, renew. Depending on the tax regime where you live and your accounting method (e.g. cash accounting), now ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainHack.er in EN and tagged
The Bizarre Afterlife of .su, the Domain Name and Last Bastion of the USSR - On September 19, 1990, a forgettable event failed to change the course of human history. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority assigned the Soviet Union .su as its country code top-level domain. This presumably would have mattered a great deal more if the “Evil Empire” hadn’t collapsed 15 months later, but .su, notably, didn’t collapse with its country. The domain lives on and now, 25 years laters, it’s making a strange and unsettling comeback.Let’s start from the beginning: ccTLDs ... read more ...