ICANN has just delayed the launch of their new Top Level Domain (TLD) extension program, which lets businesses apply for custom extensions such as .shoes, .flowers and .texas. They have cited technical, economic, legal, and policy issues that still need to be resolved. There’s one issue ICANN are unlikely to consider though; how these domains [...]

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It’s easy to avoid disasters with hindsight and hopefully 10yrs as a domain registrar, web producer and marketer has given me some. In my opinion, here are 12 defensive steps which you should take right now.
1. Ensure Your Domains Have Accurate WHOIS records
Sounds simple but you wouldn’t believe how many domain registrations have been made [...]

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Domain legend Frank Schilling links to two more articles speculating on the “Google-GoDaddy merger” rumours. When asked about a potential union, Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons told eWeek, “I have no comment on that, but I’d like to.”

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For all you new or experienced domainers out there. We have just launched our new domain auction portal: e3auction. The site offers Premium Domains from several key sources, offered for immediately purchase and access to Auctions run by Tucows as well as several tools.

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For all you aspiring domainers out there, we’ve made some updates on our Domain Auction Tool. Email alerts can now be set up to search on keywords, contained in auctioned domains. You will see this section added to your daily email report, together with the No. of Yahoo links and Registered Date.
To start email [...]

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There’s been a fair amount of talk recently on ways to keep domain names looking old, Rand posted about the drop name service providers Snapnames, Enon and Pool. I wanted to explain about a recent development that’s rocking the industry: the domain auction.
Ok some background information. When you fail to renew your domain name [...]

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According to the Finnish site Content Business, EURid has suspended 74 000 .eu domain names and has sued 400 registrars for breach of contract. They have accused a syndicate of registrars of systematically acquired domain names with the obvious intent of selling them. In the domain business we call this warehousing.

In this case we are [...]

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Well the last 48hrs were interesting for us here. As most of you know we had to pull the plug on the free .be registrations here last night. Being on the ‘most popular’ list of del.icio.us / digg and 100+ blogs /forums can take quite a toll on a server, and put unfair pressure on [...]

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This offer is now closed – sorry folks. You are welcome to register your .be domain at our normal low prices.
Switzerland is immediately associated with banking, clocks and mountains, Holland with tulips, cheese and wind-mills. For Belgium, we have chocolate,
Hercule Poirot and in my opinion the best beer in the world.
Belgium has [...]

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There has been a particularly great follow up to the appeal that Gorge Kirikos made for information for his new verisignsucks.com website. Steve Wills of deepskytech.com has found an ingenious solution to the loss of time and money that Verisign causes his business – he simply invoices them!

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