Adam Dicker | Domain Expert

You still have domains registered on GoDaddy? Why?

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:55:10 +0000

Patrick Lambert discusses the numerous instances of GoDaddy.com turning off domains for questionable reasons and with very little notice. Would you trust GoDaddy with your domain name?

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Chrome Connecting To Random Domains On Start? Here Is Why!

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:34:11 +0000

ghacks: “f you are monitoring your network traffic closely you may have noticed that the Google Chrome web browser and its Open Source counterpart Chromium are both trying to connect to three random ten letter words on start up.”

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Chrome Connecting To Random Domains On Start? Here Is Why!

Domain Guardians adds domain sales newsletter as it increases brokerage activity

DomainNameWire — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:52:31 +0000

Domain Guardians sees increased demand for domain brokerage.

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SXSW just a few weeks away

DomainNameWire — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:14:08 +0000

Domain companies among those coming to Austin for big tech event. South By Southwest (SXSW) is coming to Austin March 9-18, and plenty of domain name companies will be in attendance.

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Ashley Madison targets mobile domain

DomainNameWire — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:07:02 +0000

Affairs dating site wants control of AshleyMadison.mobi.

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – February 17, 2012

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:06:05 +0000

February 17, 2012 — In the week ending February 17, 2012, there were a few discounts on domains, including a special pricing offer on the .LU domain and .biz domains. Other promotions include a 50 percent discount offer on the GNAX cloud and an Exabytes Facebook contest where entrants can win an iPhone.

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Web Hosting Sales and Promos Roundup – February 17, 2012

Amazon buys Prime.xxx domain name

DomainNameWire — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:26:55 +0000

Prime.xxx registered by Amazon.com.

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Google Stops Indexing Blogger Blogs On Custom Domains

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:22:49 +0000

Google’s Blogger has had some issues where new posts on custom domains aren’t being indexed by Google. Bloggers have been complaining about it, understandably, on Google’s Webmaster Help forum (via Barry Schwartz).

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An outrageous UDRP case

DomainNameWire — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:40:48 +0000

Cases shouldn’t be heard if they’re this bad. So this guy William (Bill) Robert Johnson forms a company called Aahara Enterprises Pty.

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Presentations & Videos from DOMAINfest Global Conference Now Available to All Online

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:55:54 +0000

If you weren’t able to attend the 2012 DOMAINfest Global conference that ran January 31 – February 2 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa, Monica, California, here’s the next best thing to being there. Show organizers have posted presentations and videos from the various conference sessions online for all to see.

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Typosquatters fined £100,000 for premium rate SMS deception

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:11:32 +0000

Two firms found to have used typosquatting domains to lure consumers to misleading web competitions have each been hit with unprecedented £100,000 fines, the UK industry watchdog has announced.

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DNS flaw reanimates slain evil sites as ghost domains

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0000

Life after death trick could be exploited by cyber-crooks Analysis Cyber-crooks may be able to keep malicious domains operating for longer – even after they are revoked – by manipulating the web's Domain Name System (DNS).…

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.Halal top level domain in the works

DomainNameWire — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:42:49 +0000

Company applying for .halal with ICANN. Halalan Tayyiban, Corp is planning to apply for the .halal top level domain name. The company operates a web site HalalFinder.com

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ESQwire wins a UDRP that you should read

DomainNameWire — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:51:53 +0000

Decision includes a lot of good defenses if you’re hit by a UDRP. If you’re looking for ways to defend a domain name that is hit with a UDRP, there’s a good laundry list of rebuttals in a recent dispute handled by domain law firm ESQwire.com . The case was brought by Sweden’s Rusta AB over the domain name Rusta.com.

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Tucows on domain name aftermarket, SOPA, and new top level domains

DomainNameWire — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:39:37 +0000

Tucows has a banner year and discusses rising aftermarket domain sale prices. Today Tucows reported record quarterly revenue of $26.4 million for the last quarter.

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