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Last month’s top DNW stories

Verisign and the Gab controversy were top stories last month. Last month’s headlines were dominated by news related to the U.S. government extending the Cooperative Agreement with Verisign. Let’s start by reviewing the top five posts on DNW in November, ranked by views: 1. Who wins, who loses from Trump Admin decision on domain names […]

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Jon Nevett named new CEO of PIR (.Org)

Donuts co-founder will lead the .org registry. Jon Nevett has been named the new CEO of Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit that runs the .org top level domain name. Nevett will take over for Jay Daley, who was the interim CEO after Brian Cute left. Nevett left Donuts–a company he co-founded–in October. Since then, […]

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USMCA.com case study

Building a site on USMCA.com has led to significantly more traffic. In October I wrote about creating a website for USMCA.com using GoDaddy WordPress hosting and the included Beaver Builder plugin. I thought I’d provide a bit of an update about how the site is performing. As background, USMCA is short for United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, […]

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Domains suggest which cities might get XFL football teams

21 cities are likely in the running for football teams. In which cities will the new, faster version of American football land? Some domain name registrations are a good hint at possible cities. XFL is a new (again) football league that wants to reimagine the sport. WWE chairman Vince McMahon tried to launch the XFL […]

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T-Mobile rebirths T-Mobile Money name, registers a bunch of typos

Company registers 75+ domain names to protect its T-Mobile Money name. Back in 2016 T-Mobile (NASDAQ:TMUS) killed its Mobile Money banking program for the unbanked. It now appears the company is starting a new program with a similar name. T-mobilemoney.com, a domain name T-Mobile used for the old program, now features a new program offering digital banking […]

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15% of new TLD auction proceeds for marketing? That’s all anyone cares about.

New TLD companies pile on for awareness campaign. How should ICANN spend the $240 million it has raised by auctioning rights to new top level domain names? Last month, ICANN asked the community for feedback on initial ideas for how to allocate the money. It was primarily interested in some of the mechanisms and procedures […]

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The secure padlock doesn’t mean a website is safe

Nearly half of phishing sites now use SSL. Google has led a big push in recent years to get all websites to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). You know a site uses it when it starts with https:// instead of http:// and the browser shows a padlock next to the URL. People have been trained […]

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How to do a portfolio checkup at GoDaddy

A simple process to make sure your domains are set out how they should be. If you are a domain investors who has been investing for even a couple of years, your portfolio is probably a bit messy. By messy, I mean you have domains pointing to stale nameservers, some of your registrant information is […]

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Daily Domain Picks 11-16-18

Daily Domain Picks 11-16-18 Kush.com was the big news on Thursday selling for $500,000. QY.org closed at $10,000 on NameJet. Top sales/closes from yesterday: kush.com 500,000 USD 2018-11-15 Sedo qy.org 10,000 USD 2018-11-15 NameJet jeny.com 8,500 USD 2018-11-15 NameJet nebi.com 6,700 USD 2018-11-15 NameJet virtualtruth.com 5,100 USD 2018-11-15 GoDaddy calltrack.com 5,051 USD 2018-11-15 DropCatch *data […]

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