Tag Archives: Paypal

Thu 3rd September 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Any Squatting on Paypal.me Names ? You Betcha - Mike wrote on Wednesday about Paypal rolling out Paypal.me and your chance to reserve a novelty name that will be associated with your account. It is important to note you can’t change it once you pick it. The Daily Dot covered name squatting taking place and while some celebrity names got taken others got reserved like Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift. Politicians did not get reserved status. From the article: PayPal.Me opened up with basically every possible URL available to any enterprising user. ... read more ...
Tue 30th June 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Paypal Tells Sellers to Provide Compelling Evidence to Fight Buyer Dispute - Paypal is getting ready to be set free from Ebay and be a public entity again. This will be the second IPO for the company. Back in 2002 the company went public under the symbol PYPL. Here is a look at the terms back in 2002 courtesy of Nasdaq.com Company Description PayPal enables any business or consumer with email to send and receive online payments securely, conveniently and cost-effectively. Our network builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards to create ... read more ...
Thu 21st May 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
PayPal fined $25million Related to a Pay Later Button - PayPal got hit with a $25 million fine for deceiving their customers. The pay later button is at the root of the problem, I know when I first started seeing it I thought it was annoying. I just want to pay for my domain registration, not looking to pay later for $10.99. Rob Beschizza wrote on Boing Boing covered the story: A few months ago, I noticed that PayPal put a “pay later” button where the usual payment button would be. It’s a tricky way to snooker users into the credit/debt treadmill, ... read more ...
Fri 31st January 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Go Daddy Owns it Role in a Twitter @N Case – Paypal Does Not - Go Daddy admits that it was at fault in the @N case. Paypal denied any fault. ItWorld covered the story that has been going on for a few days with regards to Naoki Hiroshima, his Twitter handle @N and his Go Daddy account. The story has been covered inside the domain world and out and now comes an acknowledgement from Go Daddy and a denial from Paypal. — GoDaddy has acknowledged that one of its employees fell victim to a social engineering attack allowing a hacker to take over a customer’s domain ... read more ...
Mon 23rd September 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
One some-more pointer that PayPal is about to buy Braintree Payments - Braintree domain names registered. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that PayPal is close to a deal to acquire Braintree Payments. Braintree handles payments for OpenTable, Uber Technologies and Airbnb, among others. If you need more proof that something is in the works, look no further than a flurry of recent domain name registrations. A handful of defensive domain name registrations have been undertaken at domain name registrar MarkMonitor, including: braintreepaymentssucks.com braintreepaymentssucks.net braintreesucks.com braintreesucks.net Some ... read more ...
Wed 30th April 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Survey: Escrow.com Tops for Big Ticket Domain Name Transactions - Survey shows Escrow.com is leader at facilitating large domain purchases. 34% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey said they prefer to use Escrow.com to safely pay for high dollar domain names they buy. Escrow.com is popular with domain owners because it was designed as a fully automated platform for escrow and has a particular focus on domain names. Pricing is also reasonable: $0-$5,000 3.25% $5,001-$25,000 $162.50 + 0.26% of amount over ... read more ...