Uniregistry made domain investors tear up with final Tweet

Long after Uniregistry was acquired by GoDaddy, the company continued to provide excellent services to domain investors as a registrar and brokerage. Eventually, Uniregistry (Uni) shut down both as a domain registrar and its Uni Marketplace team moved to GoDaddy, aiming at finishing the job on Afternic 2.0. The Uni app was discontinued, DomainNamesales.com was […]

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Domains with “X” are cool but the Twitter rebranding is horrendous

Using domains that contain the letter “X” has always been rather cool and against the norm. Maybe due to the political impact of Malcolm X, or the intro to religion, cyberspace, and afterlife by Norman Spinrad and his Deus X novel. Whatever your drive is to register or acquire domains that consist of the letter […]

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Extremely hardcore: Will Evergreen sell the .com #domain to Elon Musk?

Today’s trending keyword pair is “extremely hardcore.” From a leaked memo sent by Elon Musk, Twitter’s new Oberführer, any employee willing to hold onto their employment must sign a form pledging to be “extremely hardcore.” Forget about organizational efficiency and scope; what matters to Elon Musk is unquestionable commitment to the company, demonstrated by work […]

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Acquire.com: #Microacquire founder asked Elon Musk for the banned Twitter account

The founder of Microacquire, a start-up that assists other start-ups improve their chances of getting funded and acquired, is one busy CEO. Andrew Gazdecki‘s company is rebranding from Microacquire.com to Acquire.com, having acquired—pun intended—the matching .com domain, Acquire.com. In the process, the company filed an application with the USPTO to register the mark ACQUIRE.COM. It’s […]

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Elon Musk hints of X.com after Twitter agreement re-established

Elon Musk put on his big boy pants and agreed to honor the April 25 merger agreement he originally signed, in which he agreed to pay $54.20 per Twitter share. The richest man in the known cosmos had a terrible week, after texts revealed the level of communications he held with numerous investors and engineers, […]

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Twitter sinks its #fleets and dozens of squatted #domains are now useless

Twitter has pulled the plug on Fleets—ephemeral tweets designed to compete with Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, and Snapchat. The feature didn’t catch on, and Twitter is now sinking Fleets, effective tomorrow. Although fleets is the plural of fleet, Twitter Fleets is a portmanteau of “fleeting tweets.” When Twitter announced the launch of Fleets last November, […]

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#Periscope down: Twitter dropping $100 million dollars into the sea

Twitter spent $100 million dollars to acquire Periscope in 2015, betting that personal video live-streaming would be a great sidekick to its primary social medium service. Alas, the video sharing platform is slated to go down in early 2021 and by March no more activity on Periscope will be taking place. Twitter seems to like […]

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Why is Twitter blocking #DropCatch listed URLs?

Twitter has no love for DropCatch, apparently. Any domain name listed in auction at DropCatch, cannot be shared by punching in its live auction URL. The issue appears to have been ongoing for a while, and it’s definitely frustrating if one wants to share a direct URL to an auction on DropCatch. For example, when […]

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#Domain privacy : Twitter data sharing opt-out option removed for US customers

Don’t believe corporations that promise data privacy; they can revoke this expected condition at any time. Twitter is the latest offender from a growing list of social media companies. In a recent change to terms and conditions, Twitter removed the ability for its US-based customers to turn off data sharing with third party advertisers, such […]

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Ten years of #DomainGang on the Twitter feed!

Today marks the 10th anniversary of joining Twitter as @domaingang. A decade of tweeting has produced almost 15k tweets and over 10k followers. Social media was different back then, and Twitter’s growth has given the world the opportunity to discover news and information that share the same relevance, via the use of hashtags. That was […]

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#Nigerian domain registry to auction premium .NG #domains via Twitter!

NiRA, the domain registry for Nigeria, will auction 10 premium .NG domains using Twitter as the platform! 😀 This unique approach is shared in the latest news from the .NG registry: The NiRA Executive Board of Directors intends to auction Ten (10) Premium Domain Names, in accordance with the provisions of the NiRA Domain Name […]

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Twitter gave the #Domain King his handle back!

Rick Schwartz, the de facto Domain King, reclaimed his Twitter handle after someone else registered it in February. Rick’s return to social media wasn’t motivated by any willingness to start posting on Twitter – far from that. In his own words, the Domain King attributed his repossession of @DomainKing to brand protection: “Getting my @DomainKing […]

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