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ICANN Asks New TLD Registries to Ask for Permission On China
August 23, 2017 @ 9:58 AMOperators must submit RSEP for approval. Are Chinese gateways used to comply with real name verification rules in China a registry service? To date, it seems like only the operators of .XYZ think so. They submitted a so-called RSEP to ICANN to get approval for their gateway before they introduced one. Now other registries, including…
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Blake Irving to Retire From GoDaddy
August 23, 2017 @ 5:18 AMIrving out, Wagner in. GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving announced yesterday afternoon that he will retire from GoDaddy at the end of the year. Scott Wagner, GoDaddy’s president and chief operating officer, will take over as CEO when Irving leaves. Irving can be credited with turning a company that was known for its racy Super Bowl…
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Brandbucket Releases Domain Name Sales Data
August 22, 2017 @ 10:52 AMCompany releases sales data…for last year. BrandBucket released some sales data about 2016 today. Yes, we’re talking about data from last year so it’s a bit tardy. The brandable domain marketplace sold 1,017 domains for an average price of $3,070, so sales totaled over $3.1 million. The median sales price (the most useful metric for…
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Brandbucket Releases Domain Name Sales Data
August 22, 2017 @ 10:52 AMCompany releases sales data…for last year. BrandBucket released some sales data about 2016 today. Yes, we’re talking about data from last year so it’s a bit tardy. The brandable domain marketplace sold 1,017 domains for an average price of $3,070, so sales totaled over $3.1 million. The median sales price (the most useful metric for…
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GoDaddy Will Stop Offering All Uniregistry Domain Names
August 22, 2017 @ 6:58 AMGoDaddy will stop offering all Uniregistry domain names and extensions on August 29, 2017. A few months back GoDaddy suspended all Uniregistry extensions after the price increases were announced but then reinstated (some and then) all of the extensions after Uniregistry said that it will be grandfathering prices on SOME of the extensions…
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Google Shifts 400,000 .site Domains
August 22, 2017 @ 2:30 AMGoogle has given away what is believed to be roughly 400,000 subdomains in Radix’s .site gTLD as part of a small business web site service. Since its launch a couple of months ago, the Google My Business web site builder offering has been offering small businesses a free one-page site with a free third-level domain…
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Starr.com: 1991 Registration, Subject of UDRP
August 18, 2017 @ 1:10 PMA UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) against the Starr.com domain name. The filing can be seen at UDRPSearch.com, and it is case #1743189. Starr.com has been registered for over 25 years. It was created in November of 1991, and it has not expired since that time. I don’t regularly see domain names this old, let alone seeing a UDRP filed against a domain name that has existed for so long…
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GoDaddy Drops Uniregistry Again
August 18, 2017 @ 10:53 AMThis time it appears to be permanent. Earlier today I recorded a podcast with Frank Schilling that will air Monday morning. During the recording, Schilling informed me that GoDaddy will stop offering Uniregistry top level domain names. This isn’t the first time GoDaddy has dropped Uniregistry names, but it seems they now have put a…
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Champagne Bong Company Loses Domain Dispute
August 18, 2017 @ 9:38 AMComplainant has drunk too much champagne. A company that sells “champagne bongs” (seriously, take a look) has lost a cybersquatting complaint it brought in an effort to upgrade its domain name to .com. Chambong uses the domain name Chambong.co and filed the case against Chambong.com. The owner of Chambong.com didn’t respond to the complaint, but…
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Ebay Allegedly Bullying Naturebay
August 18, 2017 @ 6:43 AMAccording to a report on Fox 13 (the Tampa, Florida Fox affiliate station), Ebay is allegedly bullying a website called NatureBay. It would appear Ebay has an issue with the “Ebay” that is found in the NatureBay branding. The NatureBay.com domain name registration dates back to July of 2009, according to a DomainTools Whois search…
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