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07|11|2008 8:26 pm EDT

DNHeadlines.com launches aggregation site

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

A new Domain Industry Aggregation Service by the name of DNHeadlines has launched today. It lists the last 10 posts from a number of Domain Blogs on one page. While the service is similar to Domaining.com, it lists all the posts individually.
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07|08|2008 8:29 am EDT

ICANN Blames Hack on Register.com

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Up to the Minute

After several of ICANN’s domain names were hacked in June, ICANN has blamed the attack on Register.com.
Although ICANN didn’t name the registrar explicitly, a WHOIS search shows that all the temporarily hacked domains - icann.com, icann.net, iana.com and iana-servers.com - were registered with Register.com.
“The DNS redirect was a result of an attack on ICANN’s registrar’s [...]

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07|07|2008 10:57 pm EDT

.ME Receives Over 30,000 Applications

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Up to the Minute, ccTLDs

The Montenegrin ccTLD, .me, is off to a great start with over 30,000 domain name applications to date. The country’s extension - whose slogan is “.Me is about YOU!” - holds a lot of value due to the potential for personalization.
It is certain that buy.me, fly.me, play.me, and some adult possibilities have drawn large amounts [...]

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07|07|2008 10:54 pm EDT

.ES Passes 1 Million Mark

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Up to the Minute, ccTLDs

Spain’s ccTLD, .es, has passed the one million mark for total domain registrations. This milestone was made possible due to the liberalisation of the registration rules, which happened two years ago.
For the first time ever, in 2007, the country saw more .es domains registered than .com’s.
[via Domain Pulse]
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07|07|2008 3:13 pm EDT

SnapNames back online

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

After an outage that started on the evening of Thursday July 3rd, SnapNames has now been able to restore access to their domain auction website.  In an email SnapNames notified their customers that the site is back online since this morning:
We are pleased to tell you functionality has now been restored and that important data, [...]

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07|03|2008 5:47 pm EDT

Bido Says ‘Bye’ To Guaranteed Auction Sales Price

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Up to the Minute

After a couple weeks of domain name auctions, Bido - the company that auctions 1 name per day - has decided to no longer offer a guaranteed sales price to sellers.
“Looking at domain submissions we learned that if you state that you are willing to give a guarantee if certain guidelines followed, domain owners will [...]

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07|02|2008 3:33 pm EDT

GeoDomain Expo Finalists Announced, Voting Open

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

Associated Cities has announced the finalists for the GeoDomain Awards and voting is now open. Finalists can be seen on the Associated Cities site.  Winners of the awards will be announced during the awards dinner at the GeoDomain Expo in Chicago on July 12th.
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07|01|2008 2:44 pm EDT

Pizza.com Sold (Finally)

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

Andrew at DomainNameWire.com is reporting that Pizza.com has finally sold to National A-1, a company that owns an extensive portfolio of high caliber domain names. No official information about the sale price was reported. The domain name was previously sold at auction on Sedo.com for $2.6 million. However the winning bidder later backed out of [...]

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06|26|2008 10:38 pm EDT

Happy Birthday To Us!

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

Frank and I both forgot Domain Name News turned 1 year old on June 12th . It’s been a busy June and time flies.  It seems like 1 year of real time is like a decade on the internet. I think that we’ve both been so busy in the domain name business for so long [...]

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06|26|2008 10:09 pm EDT

Associated Cities Geo Awards Nominations Open

by Adam Strong in Categories: Up to the Minute

Associated Cities has opened up nominations for their Geo Awards.  Nominations are open to the public  until July 1st and final voting will be conducted on July 2nd with the final voting to close on July 8th. Awards will be presented at the 2008 GeoDomain Expo in Chicago.
To nominate someone Click here
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