Tag Archives: services

Sun 14th July 2013
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Verisign reconfirms IDN transliteration plans, provides some-more details - Verisign provides some details on how it will allocate top level domain transliterations. Have you ever invested a lot of money in something without a written contract? It can be a bit nerve racking, and occasionally you can feel like you got burned. That’s why internationalized domain name (IDN) investors are feeling a better after Verisign provided more details about its plans for transliterations of .net and .com domain names. At a high level, there’s nothing ... read more ...
Mon 8th July 2013
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World Congress skeleton 2nd annual gTLD Summit - New TLD event to focus on legal aspects of new top level domain names. Conference organizer World Congress is planning its 2nd Annual Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Names Summit for this September. The one day event will take place September 25 at the Affinia in New York City. It is targeted to intellectual property professionals and brand managers. The agenda is still in the works, but much of it will focus on brand protection as well as strategies to roll out ... read more ...
Mon 1st July 2013
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Donuts hires 6 for sales and marketing - New top level domain applicant adds sales team ahead of new TLD launch. Donuts, which applied for more top level domain names than any other company, has staffed up its sales and marketing team. The company announced six hires today, at least one of which was previously known. Sales and marketing efforts will be based in the company’s new Calabasas, California (Los Angeles) office. The company hired Bob Samuelson to as VP of Sales Marketing. Samuelson joins from ... read more ...
 
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Google and Lego among speakers during new TLD conference - Initial list of speakers for new TLD conference in London is released. Representatives of Google and Lego will be among the speakers at the Digital Marketing gTLD Strategy Congress in London this September. Hal Bailey, Strategic Partnerships Director at Google, which has applied for about 100 new top level domains, will be speaking. Mette Andersen, Corporate Counsel for Lego, will also present. Lego is one of the most prolific UDRP filers, so it will be interesting ... read more ...
 
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Testing DomainsBot’s new TLD Recommendation Engine - Latest DomainsBot software starts to tackle challenge of hundreds of top level domains. DomainsBot announced its new TLD Recommendation Engine today. The service considers a number of data points to return the most relevant top level domain options for a given search. It considers content analysis of popular websites, frequency analysis of searched and registered domains, social media data, and geo targeting. I was eager to try it out given the coming changes to domain ... read more ...
Fri 28th June 2013
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STRAAT pulls .movie focus as it partners with another company - Company withdraws .movie application just before initial evaluation results were to be announced. For the second time in as many months, Nu Dot Co, LLC, a subsidiary of STRAAT Investments, has withdrawn a new top level domain application and partnered up with another applicant. The latest application withdrawn was for .movie, which faced six competitors. Last month it withdrew its application for .book. “We’ve been working out the details of a strategic partnership ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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TLDH and Famous Four strike understanding to solve 3 new TLD row sets - Deal resolves contention sets for .fit, .review, and .science. Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) and Famous Four Media (and associated companies) have made a deal to resolve three contention sets. Under the terms of the deal, Famous Four has withdrawn its application for .fit, leaving TLDH as the only applicant for the string. In return, TLDH has withdrawn its applications for .review and .science. Famous Four will pay a royalty to TLDH on .review revenue. This ... read more ...
Tue 4th June 2013
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If you’re going to TRAFFIC in October, we should buy a sheet now - Discounted tickets available through tomorrow. The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference is expensive, and everyone has their opinion about whether it’s worth it or not. But there’s one thing that’s not debatable: if you know you’re going to go, buy your ticket early. Until tomorrow afternoon you can get a ticket to the October show in Fort Lauderdale for $995. The price will go up fairly rapidly, with a full conference pass costing you nearly $2,000 if you wait until ... read more ...
Mon 3rd June 2013
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Marchex co-founder John Keister resigns from board - Keister has held a number of executive positions with the company. John Keister, a founder of Marchex, resigned from the company’s board today. (Photo: Marchex.com)John Keister, a founder of Marchex, resigned his board position today. Keister was executive vice chairman since May 2010 and was a member of Marchex’ board of directors since its inception in January 2003. He also served in a number of executive positions for the company, including as president from ... read more ...
Sun 2nd June 2013
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Verisign whois secretly returning “no match” results - Have to submit query twice to get correct result on Verisign’s whois. Verisign’s whois service for .com and .net is sometimes falsely returning a result of “no match” the initial time you search for a domain name. For example, if you search for DNW.com on Verisign’s site or via port 43 whois, you’ll get a “no match” result the first time. Click “search” a second time and the correct whois will be returned. You can see example screenshots on the ... read more ...
Thu 30th May 2013
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3 reasons TRAFFIC Vegas matters - The domain investor community is in Las Vegas right now. Here’s why this TRAFFIC conference matters. I’m writing this post from the Bellagio in Las Vegas, where the latest TRAFFIC conference is taking place. I think this conference “matters” for three key reasons. 1. Without this event, it would be a long time between seeing the domain community. Webfest was in early February. If TRAFFIC only had its Florida show this year, it would be about 8 months between ... read more ...
Tue 28th May 2013
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On daub this week: Vegas Baby, Vegas! - Domain industry heads to Las Vegas this week. As the U.S. trudges back to work and school after a three day weekend, many in the domain name industry are headed to Las Vegas for the TRAFFIC conference. Although the conference doesn’t start until Wednesday, many went early to soak in the sun and hit the blackjack tables. Formal festivities start Wednesday evening with the kick-off happy hour. Panels and presentations start Thursday morning. The first panel discusses ... read more ...
Thu 23rd May 2013
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Bill Sweetman unveils Name Ninja - Name Ninja to provide wide variety of domain name services including domain portfolio management, domain acquisition, and new TLD strategy. Domain consulting firm NameNinja formally launches today.Former Tucows executive Bill Sweetman formally unveiled his domain name consulting shop today. Name Ninja will offer services to three core groups: startups, entrepreneurs and marketers; individual and corporate domain name owners; and new gTLD registries and operators. Sweetman ... read more ...
Tue 14th May 2013
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Would we like some-more Domain Name Wire enlightening videos? - Are DNW videos valuable content? Last month I posted a handful of instructional videos to Domain Name Wire and YouTube: How to submit an invalid WHOIS complaint How to set up and use two-factor authentication at GoDaddy.com How to learn more about your buyer on Sedo How to use Watch My Domains Pro Spend just 60 seconds and never get a $60 offer on Sedo again Each of the videos got roughly 100-200 views on YouTube. So here’s my question to you: are these videos ... read more ...
Tue 7th May 2013
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Escrow.com tops $1.5 billion in transactions - Milestone shows that Escrow.com is growing very fast. I seems like just last year that I was writing about Escrow.com topping the $1 billion mark. And that’s because it was just last year that the company announced it had crossed the $1 billion transaction milestone. Now, about 16 months later, Escrow.com says it has already hit $1.5 billion in transactions. It took the company 11 years to hit the first $1 billion and just over a year to hit $1.5 billion, so the ... read more ...
Wed 1st May 2013
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Sex-settlement: Manwin and ICM Registry come to terms - Deal settles antitrust lawsuit and countersuit between adult site operator and .xxx domain registry. .XXX domain name registry ICM Registry and adult site operator Manwin have settled their legal battle, the companies announced today. As part of the deal, ICM will offer significantly discounted .xxx domain registrations in May and will offer similar promotions in the future. The wholesale cost for .xxx domains will be $7.85 in May, the same price as .com. Registrars ... read more ...
Tue 30th April 2013
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Verisign gets obvious for triggering web crawling formed on registry data - .Com registry awarded patent for using registry data to trigger web crawling. With Verisign analyzing how to profit from its patent portfolio, competitors should pay close attention to the company’s new patents. Today Verisign was awarded U.S. Patent 8,433,700 (pdf) for “Method and system for triggering web crawling based on registry data”. The patent describes ways in which a registry can provide data to other companies, such as search engines, that may help ... read more ...
Mon 29th April 2013
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Site promises to beget pronounceable, brief domain names - New site claims to generate short domain names that can be pronounced and are available for registration. A new site says it can help entrepreneurs find short, pronounceable, and unregistered .com domain names that they can brand for their business. Pronouncey.com, which just launched (and itself was recently hand registered) it pretty simple. You just select the number of characters, hit generate, and then it randomly creates a domain name that it claims is pronounceable. Does ... read more ...
Thu 25th April 2013
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Video: How to use Watch My Domains Pro - See how to get started with this simple (yet valuable) software program. I’ve mentioned Watch My Domains Pro multiple times over the years. It’s a relatively simple software program that makes it easy to manage your domain portfolio. At a glance you can view expiring domains in your portfolio, see which registrars you’re using for each of your domains, and find out if you have domains parked with defunct parking services. In this video I’ll show you the basics ... read more ...
Tue 16th April 2013
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Review: Taking IP Neighborhood for a Test Drive - IP Neighborhood combines a number of valuable tools for domain name investors. IP Neighborhood compiles valuable domain data at a low monthly price.Last month Ron Jackson profiled IP Neighborhood, a new service by Simon Johnson. The profile piqued my interest because it described tools on IP Neighborhood that are similar to those of DomainTools. And with IP Neighborhood’s low price point (I just signed up for the $19.95/month plan), it could be a good alternative ... read more ...
Thu 4th April 2013
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Apparently Verisign is value a same with or but cost hikes - Company’s market cap is back up to October levels. Just as I don’t understand why the DOW has been hitting all time records lately, I also don’t understand this: Verisign is apparently worth the same with or without seven-percent-a-year price hikes on .com. When Verisign dropped the bomb on October 25 that the Department of Commerce was reviewing its ability to automatically increase prices, the company had a marketcap of about $7 billion. Verisign signed a ... read more ...
Wed 20th March 2013
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Demand Media sets adult Dublin bureau for domain services - Company makes formal announcement about operations in Ireland. Demand Media announced today that it is opening its international headquarters for the company’s domain services business in Dublin, Ireland. Demand Media is serving as the backend registry provider for its own top level domains (applied for under United TLD Holdco Ltd.) as well as Donuts’. United TLD has applied for 26 top level domains and Donuts has applied for 307. Of course, many of these domains ... read more ...
Tue 19th March 2013
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The DevHub story: association finally finds a tolerable business, looks to enhance in 2013 - After many failed business models, Seattle company DevHub has found a sustainable business model that doesn’t rely on Google. It was the fall of 2010 and DevHub was running out money. Which meant it was running out of time. The company had raised $2 million and had gone through a couple different business models. But nothing stuck long enough to sustain the business. The company had about 10 payrolls left, and then it was toast. Then the phone rang… The beginning Mark ... read more ...
Thu 14th March 2013
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Domaining Spain heads to Valencia subsequent month - The Domaining Spain conference is just over a month away. Domaining Spain will take place in Valencia, Spain on April 25-27. The focus of the event is on ccTLDs (especially given its European location) and new TLDs. Although the title includes “domaining”, the event looks like it will be a good opportunity for brand owners and new TLD applicants. The first day is mostly devoted to new top level domains, and the first session is a presentation by the Trademark ... read more ...
Mon 25th February 2013
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DNForum is tip domain forum again - No surprise: DNForum is your favorite. DNForum.com has once again been voted the top domain name forum in Domain Name Wire’s annual survey. The survey of over 500 domain name investors and professionals selected the long running domain forum as the clear winner. 45% of survey respondents selected DNForum as their favorite. Although that’s less than last year’s 54% share, there’s still a long gap between DNForum and its competitors. It was a close battle for ... read more ...