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Last year saw the registration of 995,000 new .nl domain names. That’s 20 per cent up on 2019, when 827,000 new .nls were created. Thanks to the registration surge, the total number of .nl domain names stood at 6.1 million on 1 January 2021, acco...
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January 20, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, Domain Name News
Today it was Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, that made a tweet about domain names. 2 days ago it was Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, that tweeted about domain names. This is what Chad Hurley wrote on Twitter today: Want to change the world? Register a swe...
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January 14, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Elon Musk tweeted yesterday once again about domain names. The tweet has a link to x.com and an image that shows how much someone hurts when the domain name they bought for a side project (that never launched) is up for renewal. Spoiler: it hurts a lot...
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January 13, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Giuseppe Graziano from GGRG partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com published the 17th edition of the Liquid Domains Overview (LXDO), which focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective ...
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January 12, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, sold domains
Rick Schwartz has been tweeting non-stop in the past few days providing very important tips and lessons about domain names. Here are Rick Schwartz’s 7 lessons in domaining so far: Lesson 1: If you give a price, YOU LOSE!! Lesson 2: If you give a ...
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January 8, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
See below Epik’s update on Afternic fast transfer status after GoDaddy terminated the Afternic/Epik partnership. Today is the day the agreement was set by GoDaddy to terminate. Regarding Afternic Faster Transfer and Epik’s Commitment to Protectin...
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January 5, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
The .blog registry, Knock Knock WHOIS There, shared some stats about the quality of the New gTLD extension. Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC is a subsidiary of Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and Jetpack. It was created in 2015 to manage th...
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January 5, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
I won a domain at GoDaddy auction on the 1st of January 2021. I tried to pay for it. Here is all I tried so I could pay and failed: I tried to pay using the firefox browser on my PC. Clicking to pay for the domain or clicking on my cart left me with &#...
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January 3, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
Donuts Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Afilias, Inc. The announcement came after ICANN approved the change of control of Afilias. “Now under one corporate structure, the two companies will continue to operate securely and ...
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December 30, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
The NamesCon domain name auction is now live at GoDaddy Auctions. You can use the drop down on the popular searches to navigate to the “NamesCon 2021 Auction” listings. At the time of writing there were 30 domains in the auction. There are more names b...
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December 28, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
buy domains, Domain Conferences, Domain Name News