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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Ashley Madison targets mobile domain

Affairs dating site wants control of AshleyMadison.mobi.

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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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.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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Occupy.com domain name sells

Domain has new owner but identity is unknown. Occupy.com, which was pitched for sale to the Occupy Movement last year, has sold. It’s not clear who purchased the domain name since its whois record is protected by whois privacy

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How Twitter was named and bought Twitter.com for $7,500

Biz Stone discusses the naming of his company. Today at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone talked about how they named the company and bought the domain for $7,500. Stone and his co-founders wanted a name that showed “urgency”

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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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USPTO to Karsten: not so fast with .PING

Trademark office sends office action to PING Golf brand owner. On Wednesday I posted a list of 115 trademark applications that could be related to new top level domains, along with their current status. The USPTO has a policy of not granting trademarks on top level domains, and the number of “speculative” trademark applications has ballooned as ICANN gets ready to expand the TLD universe

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2011 was record breaking year for .com and .net domain registrations

Over 32 million new domain registrations in .com and .net last year. 2011 set a record for new .com/.net domain registrations with over 32 million registration, VeriSign announced on its investor conference call this afternoon: In the fourth quarter, we added 1.9 million net names to the domain name base, and we processed 7.9 million new registrations, which is about a 4% increase over the same period a year ago.

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VeriSign likely to announce 100M .com milestone today

DomainTools claims milestone reached; VeriSign earnings call on tap for today. At the end of October VeriSign was very, very close to hitting the 100 million .com domain name milestone. Now, according to DomainTools , there are officially 100 million .com domain names registered, not including those going through the redemption process or pending delete

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WIPO gives Twitter popular typo Twittr.com

Twitter gets typo of its Twitter.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded Twitter the domain name Twittr.com in a uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) proceeding. Twittr.com was originally registered before Twitter’s “first use in commerce” date on its trademark for “Twitter”.

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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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115 Top level domain trademarks and their current status

I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S

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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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