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Thu 26th August 2010
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Will New gTLDs Be Successful? Distribution Will Be Key. - by Ken Hansen, Neustar [A big hurdle for new top level domains is getting attention as potentially hundreds of competitors are launched concurrently in the near future. In this guest post Ken Hansen, Senior Director of Business Development at Neustar, explains that getting good distribution from domain registrars is key. Neustar Registry Services operates the global registry for .biz and .us and provides back-end registry services for .co, .tel and .travel. -Andrew] Will ... read more ...
Mon 16th August 2010
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Epik Domain Developer Conference Taking Shape for September - Epik to hold first user conference in September. Next month Epik will host its first user conference/domain development conference. The event, dubbed “Successful Monetization Through Domain Name Development” will take place at The Edgewater Hotel in Seattle September 15-17. I’ll be there. The agenda includes a lot of topics on the minds of domain owners these days: -Acquiring and Screening domains for Development -Operate – Content, SEO, and SEM -Sell – ... read more ...
Wed 11th August 2010
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Should Domainers Invest In Their Own Top Level Domain? - A new opportunity for domain investors is on the horizon. Domain investing is about to enter whole new era with the launch of new top level domain names. Regardless of if they like the idea of new TLDs or not, a number of domainers are evaluating starting their own top level domain names. Consider it diversification or hedging their bets. I caught up with Antony Van Couvering of Minds + Machines to get a run down of what you need to think about if you want to participate. It ... read more ...
 
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DNW Certified Stats Now Works with Parked.com - Parked now works with DNW Certified Stats. Today I launched Parked.com on DNW Certified Stats, which means you now have an easy way to share your Parked domain name parking stats. (If you don’t have a domain parking account with Parked.com, click here to sign up.) Here’s how it works. Say you’re buying or selling a domain name, or doing some sort of development deal with the owner of a domain name that is currently parked at Parked.com. You want to easily ... read more ...
 
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Telnic Wants to Release 1 and 2 Character .Tel Domain Names - Look for shorter .tel domain names soon. .Tel registry Telnic has formally asked ICANN to allow it to offer one and two character .tel domain names. The company would not offer two letter domains that correspond to an existing country code, nor would it release one and two digit domain names. Telnic wants to initially ask interested parties to respond to a request for proposal in order to obtain one of the domains. While other top level domain registries have used ... read more ...
Mon 9th August 2010
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Are we going to DOMAINfest NYC Next Week? - DOMAINfest gears up for Manhattan. Are you heading to DOMAINfest in New York City next week? If so, leave a comment on this post to help with networking. The “Power Networking Day” will take place August 18 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Admission is still available for $175. I have a feeling this will be one of the larger domain name events of the year. The agenda has shaped up nicely. For the first time in a long time at a domain event, there ... read more ...
Fri 6th August 2010
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Demand Media Files to Go Public – Demand By a Numbers - Demand Media files for IPO, with Goldman the lead banker. Demand Media, the parent company of eNom, has filed to go public and raise up to $125 million. I’m reading through the S-1 as we speak, so this article will expand. Here are some of the details: -The company generated $198 million in revenue last year, and $114 million through the first 6 months of 2010 -The company reported a net loss of $22 million last year and $6 million through the first 6 months of ... read more ...
Tue 3rd August 2010
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Sharing Domain Parking Stats is Easy with DNW Certified Stats - Introducing an easier way to share domain name parking stats. I’m excited to announce the launch of DNW Certified Stats, a service that makes it easy to share domain name parking stats. Here’s how it works: 1. You fill out a simple form including your domain names you want to display stats for. 2. DNW Certified Stats fetches the stats from your parking company and creates an online certificate you can share. 3. You provide your unique certificate code to anyone ... read more ...
 
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DomainSponsor Doubles Revenue in Europe, Plans Two European Roundtables - Parking company sees results from new European operations. The two largest Google domain name parking partners have long known their turf — DomainSponsor was strongest in the U.S. while Sedo was strongest in Europe. Many years after Sedo set up an office in the U.S., DomainSponsor finally decided it needed a home base in Europe, opening an office last year. DomainSponsor said today that it’s getting results, doubling its revenues and customers since May 2010. ... read more ...
 
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Wikileaks Could Put More Pressure on Whois Privacy Services - Could WikiLeaks backlash bring renewed attention to whois privacy services? The backlash against WikiLeaks over its release of thousands of secret U.S. government documents about the war in Afghanistan is building. It’s never pretty when your web site is blamed for death. And although the public now knows who is behind WikiLeaks, I think the situation may place more attention on the use of whois privacy and proxy services. WikiLeaks.org was registered in 2006 using ... read more ...
Mon 2nd August 2010
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Live Current Raises $370,000 Selling New Shares - Live Current places 3.7 million shares and hires COO. Live Current Media, which owns Perfume.com, has raised $370,000 selling additional shares to accredited investors. The company sold 74 units to six different investors, with each unit including 50,000 shares of stock and a warrant to purchase another 50,000 shares for 15 cents each within two years. Each unit cost $5,000. Currently, shares of Live Current sell for 10 cents over the counter. To put it in perspective, ... read more ...
 
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.Com and .Net Base Tops 100 Million Domain Names - VeriSign reports growth over 100 million domain names. As forecasted, the total number of .com and .net domain names under management topped 100 million in the second quarter of 2010, reports VeriSign. The company ended the quarter with 101.5 million domains across the two top level domain names. VeriSign added 7.9 million new domain names in the quarter, representing 13% growth year-over-year. The naming services business grossed $164 million for the quarter, up ... read more ...
Wed 28th July 2010
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Rick Latona Discusses TRAFFIC Dublin - Here’s the scoop on the next TRAFFIC conference. TRAFFIC is taking the show on the road again next month, traveling to Dublin, Ireland August 24-25. Domain Name Wire caught up with show organizer Rick Latona to get the scoop on the show. DNW: Why did you pick Dublin as one of the locations for this year? Latona: Many Internet companies are setting up their European headquarters in Ireland. There are excellent tax advantages as well as a very tech friendly infrastructure. ... read more ...
Wed 21st July 2010
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Domain Roundtable Goes to a Bahamas in March - Conference makes its return in a very nice location. After taking a year off, Thought Convergence’s Domain Roundtable is making a return in 2011 in a big way: a trip to the Bahamas. The event will take place March 1-4, 2011 at Atlantis in the Bahamas. Other details are not yet available. Last month I asked readers to participate in a poll asking where you’d prefer to see a domain conference: Hawaii or Bahamas. The response was fairly evenly split between the ... read more ...
Mon 19th July 2010
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HostingCon Kicks Off in Austin - Web hosting conference kicks off in Austin, Texas. The annual HostingCon conference kicked off in Austin this morning, with organizers expecting 1,500 or more attendees. I count over 115 vendors who will be showing their wares on Tuesday and Wednesday. A number of exhibitors are domain name companies who want to get hosting companies to sell their products including domain name registrations. Among the domain name companies are: Afilias DotMobi (which is running ... read more ...
Sun 18th July 2010
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265 .Co Domains That Weren’t Registered in Landrush - Good keyword domains still available in .co. Now that the .co landrush has ended, I have compiled a list of 265 .co domain names that weren’t picked up in the period. That means they will be available on July 20. But many of these keyword domains will be in demand, meaning you need to pre-register them. For a list of registrars and pricing for pre-registering domains, see this guide. Please note that I haven’t checked any of these domains against trademarks, ... read more ...
Fri 16th July 2010
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.Co Receives Nearly 28,000 Landrush Applications - .Co landrush proves significant interest in securing .co domains. The .Co landrush application period has closed, and the domain name registry has received 27,905 applications during the period. That brings the total applications received to date (including sunrise) to 39,000. 2,523 domain names received more than one landrush application, which means they’ll be auctioned off on Pool. 70 domain names had 10 or more applicants. 451 applicants submitted more than ... read more ...
Thu 15th July 2010
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Warning: Your Yahoo Search Traffic is Going Away Next Month - Yahoo to transition to Bing search results very soon. It’s time to stop talking about Yahoo search rankings and the traffic the search engine delivers to your site. Starting as early as next month, no one will care how well you’ve tricked Yahoo into ranking your site well. Today Yahoo! sent out a communication to its advertisers telling them about the transition of organic search results to those of Bing. According to the email: Assuming our testing continues ... read more ...
Wed 14th July 2010
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Official WordPress Backup Now Available with VaultPress - VaultPress secures WordPress in a vault. Backing up a WordPress blog has never been particularly easy or efficient. Earlier this year I wrote about the first truly “easy” backup tool. It works fine and costs me only 10 cents a month in hosting. But now Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has launched an official backup tool called VaultPress. Although it costs money, it’s worth it for anyone who makes a business out of their WordPress site. VaultPress ... read more ...
Tue 13th July 2010
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DevHub’s Social Web Site Building Off to Strong Start - Web site builder gaining new users — and new developed sites — every minute. Last month I wrote about DevHub’s latest web site builder release and noted that the company was adding a social element to building web sites. The social functionality just went live this week, and so far user engagement is up significantly. Most importantly, new users are spending more time developing their web sites. Over 1,500 sites have been created in the past 12 hours and ... read more ...
Mon 12th July 2010
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Local.com Gives Octane360 More Octane - [Editor’s note: Last Friday I interviewed Local.com CEO Heath Clarke and Senior VP of Corporate Development Peter Hutto about their company’s acquisition of Octane360. In doing research, I realized the first article I ever wrote on DNW — March 9, 2005 — was about their company’s purchase of the Local.com domain name for $700,000. That was 3,575 posts ago.] I’ve long thought Octane360’s business model was one of the most innovative monetization strategies ... read more ...
Sun 11th July 2010
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About 1,500 .Co Sunrise Applications Denied; Now Available in Landrush - Denied sunrise applications and additional releases from .co registry now available. [Update: the full list has been published by some registrars this morning.] About 1,500 applications for .co domain names through the trademark sunrise process have been denied, and the domain names are now available for registration through Landrush. If any of them are not claimed during the Landrush period, they will be available for pre-registration before July 20 and general ... read more ...
Fri 9th July 2010
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Test Driving DomainTools’ New iPhone App - The leading whois resource launches its iPhone app. DomainTools launched its iPhone (slash-ipod touch-slash-ipad) app this week. It’s a fairly simple app for now, but the company says it’s working to add lots of functionality in the near future. For now you get a few basic functions. First, of course, is the ability to do a whois lookup. The whois result includes hyperlinks on the email addresses (so you can email the owner) and the phone numbers (so you can ... read more ...
Tue 6th July 2010
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How to Maximize Chances of Getting .Co Domains, and during Lowest Prices - Here’s how to maximize your chances of getting the .co domain names you want — without breaking the bank. .Co domain name registration will be open to the public July 20. But if you want to get a good domain name, you’ll need to pre-register the domains prior to the general release. On July 20 the registrars will be pinging the .co registry servers like mad in a bid to get domains that were pre-registered. Going at it by hand will be difficult. Each registrar ... read more ...
Fri 2nd July 2010
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DOMAINfest NYC Should Draw a Big Crowd - Next month’s one day conference will be big; October’s will be even bigger. It’s technically only a one day event, but I suspect next month’s DOMAINfest Power Networking Day in New York City will draw a very sizable crowd. The event is being held right after Affiliate Summit, and both events are cross promoting each other. This, along with being in New York City, should result in big numbers. I caught up with Oversee.net Head of Marketing Aaron Kvitek yesterday ... read more ...