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Insider bidding at Godaddy’s auctions

Posted on June 30th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 4 Comments »

I have always had a doubt about various domain auction houses and their policies on domain auctions in general. If you think about it, these companies can do whatever they want. There is no control body in place to monitor their dealings. They can keep the expired domains they like, auction off the rest and [...]

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28/06/2008 Free List Of 132 Expired Domains

Posted on June 28th, 2008 by admin in Expired Domains | No Comments »

I posted a list of 132 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to register on the FREE forum. If you want to learn more about domaining and how I find these [...]

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Hackers Hijack IANA and ICANN Web Sites

Posted on June 27th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

Following yesterday’s approval of a controversial move to loosen restrictions on new domain extensions (gTlds), domaining control bodies IANA and ICANN had their domains hijacked. Under the alias “NetDevilz”, a group of hackers temporarily hijacked the sites of the key organizations and redirected them to a taunting page. Visitors to the websites of the Internet [...]

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ICANN Approves gTld Naming System Changes

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 9 Comments »

According to the BBC, ICANN today approved the proposed changes to the gTld Naming System. The new rules remove previous restrictions that kept companies, individuals and countries to a limited set of domain extensions (.com, .edu, .net, .uk etc). Under the new rules, domain extensions can up to 64 characters if you’ve got the $50,000 [...]

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ICANN To Expand gTld Naming System?

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board is meeting today to decide on two key proposals. The first proposal is the long awaited move to allow non Latin charactered gTlds, meaning domain names using Chinese, Arabic or Cyrillic letters ( full domain names including extensions ). The other proposal, the one that’s [...]

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25/06/2008 Free List Of 111 Expired Domains

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin in Expired Domains | 1 Comment »

I posted a list of 111 expired domains in the DNXpert domain name forum today. I practice showing only a sample of that list on my blog here to be fair to the folks that bothered to register on the FREE forum. If you want to learn more about domaining and how I find these [...]

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Godaddy Reaches 30 Million Registrations

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

GoDaddy.com domain registrar has announced that it has just reached 30 Million domain registrations. Go Daddy claims to be registering, renewing and transferring domain names at the rate of of about one every second of every day. This flies in the face of critics who, years ago, suggested the surge to register domain names was [...]

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£.com To Be Auctioned Off Today

Posted on June 26th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Richard Haigh, a businessman who bought the domain name www.£.com for £20 nine years ago is hoping to auction it for more than £1million today. Today, on 26th June 2008, at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Amsterdam, Great Britain’s “pound domain” (£.com) will, along with associated property, be auctioned for sale as part of the IP [...]

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NameSeek.com.au – Another Aussie Domain Aftermarket

Posted on June 25th, 2008 by admin in Buying & Selling, Domain News | 1 Comment »

Following Australian registry (Auda)’s recent change of policy loosening transfer rules for .com.au domain names which took effect 1st June 2008 I recently blogged about the first Aussie website to auction .com.au domain names. Well, it appears this is not the only site aiming to get in on the action early ( thanks to ruth [...]

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Fandango Acquires Movies.com from Disney

Posted on June 25th, 2008 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Los Angeles-based movie ticketing and entertainment site Fandango Inc – owned by Comcast Corp – said Monday it has acquired Movies.com from Walt Disney Co. for an undisclosed amount. Fandango, the company which sells tickets for 1,300 theaters nationwide said it will now handle the movie ticketing functions for Movies.com, which is mainly an entertainment [...]

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