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
The European Commission has issued a communication concerning Brexit and the .eu TLD. The communication states that, based on the United Kingdom’s intent to withdraw from the European Union, undertakings and organisations that are established in the Un...
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March 29, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Country Code TLDs, Domain Name News
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) will be moving to AWS, migrating the vast majority of its infrastructure as part of a multi-year transition. GoDaddy will leverage the ...
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March 28, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Michael Castello, of Castello Brothers LLC, announced the sale of the domain name Traveler.com. The announcement came in a comment on DomainInvesting.com. Michael Castello did not disclose any more details for this sale and the domain name whois still ...
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March 27, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, sold domains
The domain name Purple.com was sold for $900,000 in 2017. The sales price was reported in a SEC filing from PURPLE INNOVATION, LLC. (Note 5, Page 14) Purple Innovation is an American comfort technology company based in Alpine, Utah, USA. It specializes...
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March 17, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, sold domains
CentralNic Group Plc made an announcement today after some recent industry speculation. The Company confirmed that discussions are taking place regarding the potential combination of CentralNic and KeyDrive S.A. and its subsidiaries including domain re...
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March 14, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News
Domaining Europe will transition into NamesCon Europe beginning with the upcoming June 7-9th event in Valencia, Spain. Dietmar Stefitz, who founded Domaining Europe in 2008, will directly manage the 2018 event with the assistance of NamesCon producers ...
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March 2, 2018 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Conferences, Domain Name News