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Efty Reports All-time High # of Inquiries in August
August 28, 2017 @ 11:59 PMThe Summer months tend to be the slowest time of the year for my business. I typically see fewer inquiries and do less deals during the Summer. In a tweet sent early this morning, Efty reported that there have been a record number of inquiries made via its platform in August – and the month hasn’t even ended: August usually is a slow month for domain name sales but at Efty we’ve been seeing an ALL time high…
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Report Suggests Bright Future for Chinese Domain Market
August 28, 2017 @ 9:28 AMKassey Lee examines data from a recent CNNIC report. If you invest in the Chinese domain market, you need to know CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) because it publishes a national survey report twice a year on China’s internet landscape. The latest report — the 40th — was published in July. You can download…
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Efty's Landing Pages Tweaks Lead to 30%+ More Domain Name Inquiries
August 28, 2017 @ 7:34 AMLast week I wrote how Efty made it’s domain name selling landing pages a lot faster. Efty sent out a tweet today saying that August was an all time high month for Efty in terms of confirmed domain name inquiries: “August usually is a slow month for domain name sales but at Efty we’ve been seeing…
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Tucows to Discontinue .au Domain Name Registrations for All Chinese Resellers
August 27, 2017 @ 1:51 PMTucows’s reseller platform OpenSRS will no longer be able to provide .au domain name registrations to any reseller that is based in China. This follows a formal direction Tucows was given by auDA, the registry for the Australian top-level domain, .au. In a letter Tucows received, auDA is directing Tucows, under the terms of its…
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CentralNic Acquires .sk Operator for €26 Million
August 25, 2017 @ 6:59 AMControversial deal will boost CNIC annual revenue by about €4 million. Domain name company CentralNic (London AIM: CNIC) has acquired SK-NIC, A.S., manager of Slovakia’s .sk country code domain name, for about €26 million. The deal is for €21.27 million up front and deferred cash consideration of up to €4.85 million depending on how the…
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Whoisology Announces New Features
August 24, 2017 @ 3:07 PMUsers of Whoisology will be happy to learn about some new features the company recently rolled out. Subscribers to Whoisology’s newsletter received an update this evening announcing the additions they can expect to see. Here are the highlights of the new features: Bulk Whois – “lets you download the whois details of up to 5000 domains at once…
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Clothing Company Aether is a Reverse Domain Name Hijacker
August 24, 2017 @ 1:35 PMDomain owner used the domain for a business. Apparel company Aether, LLC has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain name Aether.com. The company that owns Aether.com used to offer a product at the domain name. The product is no longer offered and the domain…
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Zacr to Delete 12,000 .za Domains Next Week
August 24, 2017 @ 10:05 AMSouth African ccTLD registry ZACR is to delete more than 12,000 domains, many of them English dictionary words, ending in .org.za next week. That’s more than a third of the current count of .org.za domains, which stands at about 33,000 today. The list includes many English dictionary-word domains very possibly worth more than the standard…
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Playboy Files UDRP Against Playboy.club
August 24, 2017 @ 5:40 AMPlayboy, the popular adult entertainment publisher, has filed a UDRP against the Playboy.Club domain name. The UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and it is case #D2017-1633. The domain name has a creation date of February of 2017, and it is owned by a registrant in China. At the present time, the domain name does not appear to be used for a website. It looks like Playboy.Club had been previously registered in December of 2014…
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GoDaddy's Reason for Dumping Uniregistry Doesn't Make a Lot of Sense
August 24, 2017 @ 5:23 AMGoDaddy, as you may have read, has again decided to dump Uniregistry’s portfolio of TLDs, following wholesale price increases. But its explanation for the move — trying to provide its customers with a “great product experience” — doesn’t seem to tally with the way it has gone about implementing the change. The company confirmed this…
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