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Will May 2018 Be The Death of WHOIS?
August 17, 2017 @ 6:20 AMWhois will change forever next year. On May 25, 2018, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into full effect. The privacy regulation will have a major impact on industries that handle personal data of people in the EU, including the domain name industry. Domain name companies are scrambling to figure out…
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Namecheap Will Discontinue Several Uniregistry and XYZ Domain Extensions
August 16, 2017 @ 9:12 AMNamecheap announced that it will be discontinuing several of the Uniregistry and XYZ domain name extensions (plus .rich and .luxury) on September 7, 2017. Kudos to Namecheap! The domain name registrar said that it has been increasing the number of top level domain names, or TLDs, that they offer to our customers but from time…
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Beta Testing Dropcatch.com Private Auctions
August 16, 2017 @ 7:39 AMAbout a week and a half ago, I noticed a change in one of the headings on DropCatch.com. “Type” was one of the column headings, and I had not seen that before. I reached out to Jeffrey and Andrew Reberry, and they confirmed that the platform would soon allow domain owners to list their domain names for auction…
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No Domain Front Running at GoDaddy
August 16, 2017 @ 6:06 AMA few days ago, someone wrote an accusatory comment regarding domain name frontrunning at GoDaddy. The comment was made in an article I wrote about GoDaddy’s “Steal a Great Domain Name” marketing campaign at baseball games. Here’s what the commenter wrote: “The funniest thing about the article is that the author failed to mention GoDaddy.com actually steals website names. If you don’t believe me, go to their website choose a common last name and add a company name behind it like johnsontravels.com…
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Another auDA Director Quits After Conflict Claims
August 16, 2017 @ 5:27 AMAustralian ccTLD manager auDA has lost its second director in two week with the resignation of Michaella Richards, announced today. Richards’ position had been subject to criticism by disgruntled auDA members. It had been speculated that her appointment to the board last December was less due to her experience in the domain industry, reportedly lacking,…
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Endurance Losing Founder-CEO Next Week
August 16, 2017 @ 5:10 AMEndurance International, the parent company of registrar brands including Public Domain Registry, BuyDomains, Domain.com and BigRock, will see its founding CEO resign next week. The company said this week that Hari Ravichandran will be replaced by Jeff Fox, most recently chair of customer relationship management software vendor Convergys, on August 22. Endurance, which makes about…
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GoDaddy Officially Launches Second-line Phone Service
August 15, 2017 @ 7:46 AMSmartLine lets you run two phone numbers from your mobile phone. GoDaddy officially announced its SmartLine service today, and it should be appealing to many domain name investors who use their mobile phones for both personal and business calls. The product was available before the announcement but was not heavily promoted. SmartLine allows you to…
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Liquid Domains Market: Quality is In, Quantity is Out
August 15, 2017 @ 6:04 AMGGRG Brokerage Consulting and Giuseppe Graziano published the 2nd quarter of 2017 Liquid Domains Market Overview partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. QUALITY IS IN, QUANTITY IS OUT. Increased end user sales in the 3Ls and lower 5th percentile values in 4Ls and 5Ns signal that this might be the right…
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Google Dumps Nazi Domain in Hours
August 14, 2017 @ 11:04 AMNeo-Nazi blog The Daily Stormer found itself without a registrar for the second time in a day this evening, after Google cancelled its registration. The company told BBC News: We are cancelling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service. The cancellation came not many hours after GoDaddy, the controversial site’s…
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Google to Cancel The Daily Stormer's Domain Name Registration Too
August 14, 2017 @ 10:56 AMGoogle Domains won’t put up with The Daily Stormer, either. Google doesn’t want DailyStormer.com, either. The owner of the white supremacist website transferred his domain name to Google today after GoDaddy told him he needed to transfer it or it would suspend service. But Google doesn’t want anything to do with the domain name, either…
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