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“At NamesCon Europe 2019, pro big wave surfers Andrew Cotton and João de Macedo discussed how they overcome challenges and bounce back from (sometimes literally) bone-crunching defeat. Business and investing have more to do with surfing than you ...
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July 19, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Conferences, Domain Name News
Today, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced it awarded to Neustar a contract to continue operating the .us registry for 10 more years. The announcement says that Neustar will continue to operate the .us registry at n...
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July 17, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, Domain Name News
Google is planning some changes on how publishers access their AdSense accounts. More than a third of the users access AdSense from mobile devices. With this in mind, Google has reviewed its mobile strategy and will be focusing its investment on the Ad...
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July 15, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
MMX announced its new service “for trademark holders seeking to protect their brand identity across its adult portfolio of TLDs from the increasing trend of domain name abuse including website phishing and malware.” Branded AdultBlock and A...
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July 15, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
In the past few months Sedo started auctioning expired domain names and also created a dedicated expiry auction page: expiringdomains.sedo.com. Sedo is auctioning expired domains from the German registrar 1&1 IONOS. Sedo and 1&1 IONOS are part ...
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July 11, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Read here how much Undeveloped paid to purchase their new domain name and brand Dan.com. A few days back I asked Reza Sardeha, CEO of DAN.COM, 10 questions. But I also asked him a bonus question that you can see here: You bought DAN.com from someone na...
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July 10, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, sold domains
Stage one of the unclaimed .uk domains release ended and 1,793,701 domains were made available to the public via participating registrars. In the first week, 41,459 of those .uk domains were registered. That is 2.26% of all released domains. 251 regist...
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July 10, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, Domain Name News
The top 10 trending keywords registered in .COM and .NET domain names during the month of June 2019 were published by Verisign, the .com and .net registry. You can find the list from last month here. My experience shows that 700 or 800 (or even less) d...
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July 9, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, domain extensions, Domain Name News
ICA, the Internet Commerce Association, sent a letter today asking ICANN for an explanation of the .org decision. ICA says that ICANN’s decision to execute the new .org Registry Agreement despite overwhelming public opposition is greatly concerning to ...
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July 3, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
In case anyone in this domain name industry really cares, the .org Registry Agreement contract was not the only contract renewed by ICANN. The .info, .biz and .asia Registry Agreement contracts were renewed too on 30 June 2019! Who approved these 4 con...
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July 2, 2019 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions