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This is How Stupid The GAC’s New gTLDs Advice is
May 9, 2013 @ 1:58 AMFor the last few weeks I’ve been attempting to write a sensible analysis of the Governmental Advisory Committee’s advice on new gTLDs without resorting to incredulity, hyperbole or sarcasm. I failed, so you’ll have to read this instead. I’m sorry, but the GAC’s Beijing communique (pdf) just has too much stupid in it to take […]
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887,000 .vn IDN Domains Registered
May 9, 2013 @ 12:07 AMVietnam sees rapid IDN registration growth. There were 887,000 .vn internationalized domain names registered as of the end of March, Dot VN, Inc. disclosed this month. Dot VN, Inc. markets Vietnam’s .vn namespace in an agreement with Vietnamese Internet Network Information Center. Some (or perhaps most) of the success with IDNs is because Dot VN […]
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Domain Name Change Leads to 20% Drop at HomeAdvisor.com
May 8, 2013 @ 11:31 PMSwitch from ServiceMagic.com to HomeAdvisor.com leads to organic search traffic drop. IAC underestimated the challenge from switching its ServiceMagic business to a new domain name, the company disclosed with its first quarter results. The company renamed the business HomeAdvisor, and switched from ServiceMagic.com to HomeAdvisor.com. It was forewarned that the move would be difficult, but […]
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Yahoo Wants Out of Its Bing Deal & Move to Google & Why That’s Bad News for Domainers
May 8, 2013 @ 10:13 PMAccording several sources, Yahoo would like to get out of its deal with Microsoft and let Google Monetize their search results. Yahoo entered into a 10 year search deal in 2010 and uses Bing search engine to power search results on Yahoo sites.
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Scott Wagner Takes COO and CFO Positions at Go Daddy
May 8, 2013 @ 6:39 AMScott Wagner goes from interim to permanent at GoDaddy. Domain name registrar GoDaddy today announced that Scott Wagner is its new COO and CFO. Wagner took over as interim CEO of the company last summer when Warren Adelman stepped down from the CEO position. He then vacated that position earlier this year to make way […]
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The Name.com Password Reset Email is Real: Time to Change Your Name.com Password
May 8, 2013 @ 4:22 AMThe email that Name.com has been sending is real and all name.com customers should change their password. Hackers aimed at one of name.com’s large commercial clients have caused the registrar to send emails with a link to change the login …
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Network Solutions Seizes Over 700 Domain Names & Sites Associated to Syrian President
May 8, 2013 @ 4:14 AMAccording to krebsonsecurity.com, Network Solutions has seized more than 700 domain names “belonging to various Syrian entities, including a prominent Syrian hacker group and sites associated with the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad”.
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DomainAgents.com Helps Startup Acquire Dream Domain Radius.com for $100k
May 7, 2013 @ 11:37 PMDomainAgents.com just helped serial Entrepreneur Darian Shirazi company Radius to acquire the domain name Radius.com. ”Radius aggregates small business data on over 23 million companies to help businesses prospect and find targeted leads and was started in 2009 and has more than 2 billion pieces of information about the smallest businesses in the US.”…
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ICANN Sends Breach Notice to Large Argentinian Domain Registrar
May 7, 2013 @ 11:15 PMDattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a number of provisions of the registrar accreditation agreement. According to the breach notice, Dattatec is not taking […]
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How Demand Media Sees Its Domain Name Business
May 7, 2013 @ 6:48 AMDomain business positioned as end-to-end domain provider, spin-out on track. Demand Media just concluded its first quarter earnings conference call, and much of the talk centered on new TLDs. The company is working to spin out its domain name business into a separate business and expects that to happen by the end of the year […]
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