Tommy Robinson, who has been banned from most major social media platforms due to his anti-Islam “hate speech”, is now conducting business via a domain name that some believe rightfully belongs to the Muslim-majority nation of Turkey. The r...
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April 23, 2019 Kevin Murphy
.islam, .tr, censorship, Domain Policy, tommy robinson, turkey
The Internet Commerce Association (ICA), a trade organization advocating for the rights and interests of domain name owners and related service providers, shares its first pubic members webinar, discussing Registry Agreements, UDRP reform, Price Increa...
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April 22, 2019 DomainSherpa
Zak Muscovitch
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, revealed today the purchase price of the domain name Tesla.com. He paid $11 million to buy Tesla.com in February 2016 from its previous owner. The domain name was owned by a Stuart Grossman of California since at...
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December 9, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, sold domains
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX) announced the Group’s unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2018 (the “period”). Highlights Registrations within the MMX portfolio, excluding those from the acquisiti...
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September 26, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Picture this. John has spent time and money building up his online business. He has worked on the marketing, he has built up traffic, the site is generating revenue. Life is good. So why on earth would he sell it? Actually, there are a number of reason...
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August 30, 2018 Michael
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GMO Registry announced that .tokyo (https://hello.tokyo/en), the Top Level Domain (hereafter “TLD”) representing Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, reached 100,000 domain names. This milestone comes just over 4 years since .tokyo opened for business in ...
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August 27, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Mike Texas is in fact noted conspiracy theorist Mike Adams. New gTLD registry Donuts confirmed with DI over the weekend that the buyer of six figures worth of “platinum” .news domain names used a fake name. The company last week said that a...
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July 16, 2018 Kevin Murphy
Domain Registries, fake news, natural news, webseed
The arrest warrant for the 4 people (including Sahar Sarid) involved in the Mugshots.com case is circulating the internet and here are a few interesting facts and comments. You can read the first post about the arrest here. Here is an extract of the ar...
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May 21, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver bought 3 Rudy Giuliani domain names. Guess what he did with them! Well it is not exactly 3 Rudy Giuliani domains. It is 2 domains that include his name and one that references something he said about Hillary Clinto...
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May 10, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) today announced that it has received a letter from the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) [PDF, 400 KB] that provides guidance on the European Union’s General Data Protect...
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April 12, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News