Its that time of year again where the organizers of the TRAFFIC Conference have opened up nominations for the TRAFFIC award which will be handed out during its conference October 7th-10th 2012 in Ft. Lauderdale. As we have for the last few year, we are going to nominate a few people. For the Domain Hall Of Fame: I'm going with some of my previous picks who all should be in the Domain Hall … [Read more...]
Paul Stahura Of Donuts Picked By ManagingIP As One Of “The Most Influential People In The Americas”
ManagingIP.com has named Paul Stahura of Donuts, Inc. as one of the "The Most Influential People In The Americas". ManagingIP selected 50 people who are "shaping the IP industry Worldwide". Here is what the publication had to say about Paul: ""If you are a trade mark owner and aren't already familiar with Donuts, you soon will be." "When Icann announced last month that it had received … [Read more...]
BuyDomains Launches BuyDomainsCentral.com Powered By Enom To Take New gTLD Domain Pre-orders
Buydomains.com, which is owned by Name Media, is teaming up with Enom.com, which is owned by Demand Media, to start to take pre-orders or a create a watch list for new gTLD's domain name registration when they become available. The new site set up by BuyDomains.com for the new gTLD program is BuyDomainsCentral.com, which is powered by Enom. Its an interesting move by two company's that are … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Adds Chinese Registrar Dnbiz & Their 100K Members
Afternic, announced today that Chinese registrar Dnbiz will join the Afternic network as a Premium Reseller. "Dnbiz is a leading Chinese leading marketplace for buying and selling domain names, with over 100,000 members." "Dnbiz offers the largest selection of premium domains in China with more than 5 million available for sale." Dnbiz offers services including: domains acquisition, … [Read more...]
Verisign Report: 233 Million Domains Registered; 7.5 Million Added; 116.7 .Com/.Net Registrations
Verisign Published its State of the Domain Report for the quarter ending March 31, 2012. (pdf) The first quarter of 2012 closed with a base of more than 233 million domain name registrations across all Top-Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 7.5 million domain names, or 3.3 percent, over the fourth quarter of 2011. Registrations have grown by 23 million, or 11 percent, since the first … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Teams Up With Godaddy.com To Sell Domains On A Request Price Basis
Afternic.com in a press release, today announced an enhanced strategic partnership with GoDaddy.com that brings Afternic's 'Request Price' domain names to Go Daddy customers. Go Daddy, already offers Afternic's premium domains with set 'Buy Now' prices (BIN) but now will display domain names that are not priced. MostWantedDomains.com has been a beta tester of this service for about a … [Read more...]
Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com Integrated With Escrow.com
According to a press release out this morning, Escrow.com announcedthat Frank Schilling's DomainNameSales.com has successfully integrated the Escrow.com platform into its automated completion system, to ensure all parties are protected when buying or selling a domain name on DomainNameSales.com. "Frank Schilling’s name marketing companies have been strong supporters of Escrow.com since 2001 – … [Read more...]