Dot .Game vs. Dot .Games : And the winner is …

September 26, 2016 · SPECIAL REPORT

In May, we compared two upcoming, at the time, new gTLDs, catering to the multi-billion dollar game industry: .Game vs. .Games. Uniregistry was about to roll out dot .Game, and things looked equal; then, at launch, the pricing was unveiled to be a rather shocking $1 dollar per day. In the weeks that... [Read more]

Hard to be a virgin in 2016 : VirginReality.com domain lost in UDRP

Domain News: September 30, 2016 - 1:16 pm domain-law

Virgin reality. The challenges of being a virgin for religious purposes are big in our time and era. The registrant of the domain VirginReality.com decided to create a reality show demonstrating exactly that. Virgin Enterprises Limited of London, United Kingdom, decided that...

Domain parking : Sedo updates its terms and conditions

Domain News: September 30, 2016 - 10:50 am domain-news

Sedo sent out an email updating its terms and conditions, as they apply to domain parking services. The PPC provider has outlined the changes per below: Generation of Click Balance and Payment Right to Terminate Service and Effect of Termination Advertising Keywords Regarding...

Trump in Cuba : Did the Republican candidate register these domains?

Domain News: September 29, 2016 - 9:51 pm domain-news

Newsweek reported that Donald Trump’s organization secretly conducted business in Cuba, violating the US trade embargo against the communist country. The company allegedly spent at least $68,000 dollars in Cuba in 1998; the funds were funneled through an American consulting...

Chinese domain market report : SSL certificate issuer from China under fire

Domain News: September 29, 2016 - 1:35 pm domain-news

Chinese domain market report. A Chinese secure certificate issuer is under fire, for giving them away to unauthorized entities. According to the Mozilla researchers, Shenzhen-based WoSign has been handing out SSL certificates for websites, to people that had no business getting...

Arizona Attorney General : Lawsuit filed to stop the Internet transition away from US control

Domain News: September 29, 2016 - 10:21 am domain-news

President Barack Obama. The Arizona Attorney General, along with Attorneys General in Texas, Oklahoma, and Nevada filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday night to stop the Obama Administration from ceding U.S. Government trusteeship of the Internet to an unregulated and nongovernmental...

Dot .Games : Domain stats and figures from RightSide

Domain News: September 29, 2016 - 9:58 am domain-news

Dot .Games recently opened its gates to everyone; from game authors, developers, gamers and domain investors, this fresh gTLD by RightSide was well-received. By rolling out .Games at a wholesale price of only $15 dollars, RightSide attempts to dominate the game industry’s...

Are domainers “scumbags” ?

Domain News: September 29, 2016 - 8:58 am domain-news

Someone is mad at domainers. Someone is really mad about domainers, and is letting it all out. Apparently frustrated by the practice of buying and selling domain names, an angry, small-pricked gentleman by the name of “Ziplock Bagger” left us the following message: “Domainers...

AhmetHashish Rahajani : And how my cousin gots .NYC domains free

Domain News: September 28, 2016 - 4:03 pm domain-news

Hi and did you miss me, good domainers, salaam to you, it is I, AhmetHashish Rahajani from Persia city. Early, I showed investor how beat China mans on NameJet. Demonstrate importance family for domain support, and win. And now, big story. I live Iran, ancient empire. But peoples...

That Sharpening Guy : Dot-Com domains “in the wild”

Domain News: September 28, 2016 - 1:26 pm domain-news

For more than 20 years, the dot-com era has dressed millions of individual businesses. And yet, we have not reached that critical point where everything has its own domain – that, will be taken care by the gTLDs. 😉 Can’t discount dot com, however, and we keep track...

Undeveloped.com rebrands its domain marketplace, adding new features

Domain News: September 28, 2016 - 9:52 am domain-news

Domain marketplace Undeveloped, has announced a number of new features and improvements to its marketplace, including a complete rebranding. Some of these features include the following, according to the information that we were sent: New brand and marketplace to be more appealing...

Angry blogger has a bone to pick with NetSol and GoDaddy

Domain News: September 28, 2016 - 9:01 am domain-news

NetSol logo in the 90’s. When you own more than one domain, you’re automatically a domainer; if you have 43, you’re a “sophisticated domainer.” In the case of blogger Basil King, the process of having to renew 17 domain names every year became complex,...

WTF seriously? 21 year old domain VisualVoice.com was challenged in UDRP

Domain News: September 27, 2016 - 11:11 pm domain-law

WTF Seriously? Twenty one years! That’s how long ago Michael McGloin – the registrant of the domain, VisualVoice.com – decided to get this domain. In 1995 domain registrations cost $100 for two years and Network Solutions was the only domain registrar. Since...

Fuchs against non-Fuchs : Nominet clears domain owner over .CO.UK debate

Domain News: September 27, 2016 - 11:35 am domain-law

Fuchs is the German word for “fox” and a common surname of German origin; the registrant of Fuchs.co.uk has been holding on it for several years. A man named Christian Fuchs, who just so happen to bear the exact same name as a Leicester soccer player, attempted to...

Win “The Domain Game” : Review and how to vastly improve your score!

Domain News: September 27, 2016 - 9:58 am domain-news

Michael Sumner Domain investor and NameBio CTO, Michael Sumner, developed a nice little game that most domainers should love. The Domain Game was developed last year for the iOS, and it just made its way to Android! Finally! 😀 The concept is deceivingly simple: guess the price...

Watching the debate? More political keyword domains got registered

Domain News: September 26, 2016 - 10:34 pm domain-news

The first presidential debate is taking place tonight, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump engaging in a battle of wits and smarts. Naturally, such engagements often involve catchy phrases, devised to retain the short attention span of millions of watchers. Early on during...