You still have domains registered on GoDaddy? Why?

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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SXSW just a few weeks away

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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Amazon buys Prime.xxx domain name

Prime.xxx registered by Amazon.com.

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An outrageous UDRP case

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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DNS flaw reanimates slain evil sites as ghost domains

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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16 compelling end user domain purchases

16 companies buy the right domain in the domain aftermarket. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly look at end user domain sales. All of these sales took place on Afternic unless otherwise noted

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James Schramko’s Namecheap Review Now Up on BuyWithBonus.com – Quality Domain Name Service at a Bargain

James Schramko reviews Namecheap; a domain name and web hosting company from where he gets quality domains for his online business at bargain prices.Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) February 08, 2012 In the internet marketing space, the importance of a brand ownership and reliable web hosting service cannot be stressed enough. As the saying goes, time is money, and each minute a business website is …

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.Ping trademark in jeopardy, but Ping sailing through

PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping.

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Moniker publishes final DOMAINfest auction list

Two more valuable domain names added to auction. Moniker has published the final list of domains for next week’s live domain auction during DOMAINfest, as well as the online auction to follow. Bargain.com and Democracy.com have been added to the auction

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VeriSign plans to apply for about 12 new top level domain names

Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com. VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Naming Services, said on VeriSign’s investor conference call this evening. Most of these will be transliterations of .com.

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LeadRefs.com helps you find buyers for your domains

Free service finds potential buyers for your domain names. Sure, you can sit on your domain portfolio and wait for the right buyer to come along.

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DomainTools Estimates Verisign Manages Over 100 Million .COM Domains

A number of organizations track the .com domain registrations by simply reading the Verisign daily zone file, a methodology that underestimates the current count.

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Is Marchex considering selling its domain name portfolio?

Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at “ strategic alternatives ” for its domain name portfolio

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Best Buy buys PhoneFreedom.com and other end user domain sales

A big retailer makes a small domain purchase.

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Some legal advice: LegalAdvice.org is generic

Panel rules against company claiming rights to LegalAdvice.org. A company called Capitalism, Inc

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ANA on ICANN’s Expansion of Top-Level Domains: “Reckless and Premature”

On January 12, ICANN began carrying out its controversial new plan. As WebProNews previously reported, the organization made the historical decision last year to expand the number of generic top-level domain (gTLD) names to an unlimited number. What this means is that the 22 domain name endings, including .com, .org, and others that currently exist could turn into .brand going forward.

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UK-based Transpact offers domain escrow services

Another option for domain name escrow services.

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Buy.XXX: a case study of consumer awareness of TLDs

The general public doesn’t know that domains can end something other than .com. On November 22 I wrote an article about ICM Registry’s TV ad campaign

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