Domain Name Wire for Domain - November's top stories and podcasts

Welcome to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter!           Listen to the latest podcast episodes and find out what made headlines last month. We secure every website with SSL – FOR FREE! AutoDNS is the perfect domain management system for domainers and professional users. Just pay for the domain and enjoy these services free of charge – no extra fees! • WHOIS privacy service • Integrated domain parking & monetization • Basic SSL for a better Google ranking • Highly secure nameservers • Bulk transfer service …and much more! Sign up for FREE and get your domain business started! www.autodns.direct November's Top Stories The holidays are upon us! My daughter is going through a Pokemon phase for Christmas, which is a reminder of how a new generation can be exposed to something that faded out between generations. Think about this and how it might relate to domain names... November was a great month for the Domain Name Wire Podcast, with several recent podcasts topping 1,000 downloads. Contact me if you'd like to sponsor the podcast. Here are last month's podcasts: #112 Big companies and domain names #111 New Domain Transfer Policy #110 Building Geo Domain Names #109 Chips, mistakes and opportunities with Shane Cultra And the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire based on views: 1. It's the end of domain search as we know it (and I feel fine) - This post from Fracesco Cetraro was the most-read story last month. 2. There's an all out war for dropping domain names - Drop catching services have added hundreds of new registrars to snag deleting domain names. 3. Urgent: update your Whois records before December 1 - It's too late, but this post explains the new procedure. 4. .Com domains for $1.99 on Black Friday - Registries offered big discounts to registrars for Black Friday. 5. Another major registrar is sending expired domains to GoDaddy - GoDaddy is now selling expired domains from Public Domain Registry in addition to Tucows. Enjoy the holiday season, and be sure to check out Domain Name Wire throughout the month for the latest domain name news.

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - October's top stories and podcasts

Welcome to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter!           Listen to the latest podcast episodes and find out what made headlines last month. We secure every website with SSL – FOR FREE! AutoDNS is the perfect domain management system for domainers and professional users. Just pay for the domain and enjoy these services free of charge – no extra fees! • WHOIS privacy service • Integrated domain parking & monetization • Basic SSL for a better Google ranking • Highly secure nameservers • Bulk transfer service …and much more! Sign up for FREE and get your domain business started! www.autodns.direct October's Top Stories I hope everyone had a great Halloween yesterday.  Before we jump into last month's podcasts and top stories on Domain Name Wire, I'd like to highlight a podcast I published this week in memory of Lonnie Borck. Many readers knew Lonnie, a domain name investor who attended most domain name conferences. I spoke to a number of Lonnie's friends to compile a podcast of stories and memories about Lonnie. He will be missed. Here are podcasts from last month:  Risks ahead for domain name owners? – DNW Podcast #104  Selling more domain names (with Bob Mountain) – DNW Podcast #105  How Page Howe is making money with domains – DNW Podcast #106  How to get free publicity for your website – DNW Podcast #107  Remembering Lonnie Borck – DNW Podcast #108  Here are the top 5 stories from October, ranked in order of views:  1. Who is Clarivate? - Asked, and answered. Mark Monitor is now part of Clarivate Analytics.  2. How GoDaddy "uses this one simple trick" to get 56,000 more registration years per month - It works.  3. Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts - The cost of registry services continues to drop.  4. The .Com Cliff is .Coming - Last year's Chinese surge is going to lead to a drop in the .com base this quarter.  5. GoDaddy builds a new (and better) domain valuation tool - It's not available to the public yet, but it promises to improve automate domain name valuation. -Andrew

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - September's top stories and podcasts

Welcome to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter!           Listen to the latest podcast episodes and find out what last month's top stories were. We secure every website with SSL – FOR FREE! AutoDNS is the perfect domain management system for domainers and professional users. Just pay for the domain and enjoy these services free of charge – no extra fees! • WHOIS privacy service • Integrated domain parking & monetization • Basic SSL for a better Google ranking • Highly secure nameservers • Bulk transfer service …and much more! Sign up for FREE and get your domain business started! www.autodns.direct September's Top Stories Welcome to the latest edition of the DNW Newsletter, where I run down the top stories and podcasts from the past month. On September 6, I published DNW Podcast #100, and what better way to mark the occasion than by interviewing Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System. Here are the five most recent podcasts. You can listen to them at the links or subscribe on iTunes and the Google Play Store. #104 - Risks ahead for domain name owners? #103 - Kieren McCarthy explains the "internet handover" #102 - Hiro Tsukahara #101 - All about SSL #100 - Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the DNS And these were the top 5 stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by page views. 1. Payoneer jumps into domain name escrow business - International payments company Payoneer is getting into the domain name escrow business with the help of Brandon Abbey.  2. Silicon NYC kickoff features .NYC domain names - a great event in New York City featured lots of .NYC domain names. 3. Rightside is releasing 2-character domains. Here's what you need to know. - Rightside started offering two-character domain names under its forty top level domain names through the registrar channel last month.  4. Here's what happened to ICANN on Capitol Hill yesterday - Ted Cruz' witch hunt continued last month. In the end, ICANN was set free.  5. Company wants to trademark Pets.com, X.com and famous slogans - Early employee and LinkedIn is playing games with trademarks. -Andrew

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - Last month's top stories and podcasts

Welcome to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter!           Listen to the latest podcast episodes and find out what last month's top stories were. We secure every website with SSL – FOR FREE! AutoDNS is the perfect domain management system for domainers and professional users. Just pay for the domain and enjoy these services free of charge – no extra fees! • WHOIS privacy service • Integrated domain parking & monetization • Basic SSL for a better Google ranking • Highly secure nameservers • Bulk transfer service …and much more! Sign up for FREE and get your domain business started! www.autodns.direct Augusts' Top Stories Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer, has passed. I'm thrilled.  Not only is summer at times unbearable in Austin, but people take a break from the web in the summer, too. The mobile web is changing this somewhat. But business tends to wane during the summer.  Now everyone is back in front of their computers and business (and clicks!) can resume.  Here's a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire in August.  1. Ted Cruz asks DOJ to review .Com pricing - Ted Cruz asked how the DOJ would continue to be able to control .com pricing after the NTIA steps out of its internet governance role. The answer is reassuring for domain name investors.  2. A new Trademark King? Domainers need to watch out. This story gets zanier and zanier as time passes.  3. Donuts demands $22.5 million for .Web domain name - Donuts is continuing with its lawsuit against ICANN over .web, a top level domain that Verisign won for $135 million in an auction.  4. Divyank Turakhia sells Media.net for $900 million - The Turakhia brothers have struck again, this time with ad tech company Media.net.  5. Do new TLDs suffer from an awareness problem or demand problem? - Perhaps both. This post stimulated a lot of conversation.  DNW Podcasts in August:  #99 - Ray King on marketing domain names  #98 - Jackson Elsegood on Escrow.com  #97 - Frank Schilling  #96 - The most successful new domain? with Ken Hansen  #95 - All about China with Raymond Li and Simon Cousins -Andrew

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - Last month's top stories and podcasts

Welcome to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter!           Listen to the latest podcast episodes and find out what last month's top stories were. We secure every website with SSL – FOR FREE! AutoDNS is the perfect domain management system for domainers and professional users. Just pay for the domain and enjoy these services free of charge – no extra fees! • WHOIS privacy service • Integrated domain parking & monetization • Basic SSL for a better Google ranking • Highly secure nameservers • Bulk transfer service …and much more! Sign up for FREE and get your domain business started! www.autodns.direct July's Top Stories It's time for our monthly look back at what happened in the domain name business. Here are the podcasts you should catch up on: #91 - WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg talks domain names #92 - Rob Monster #93 - Jothan Frakes on Hong Kong, NamesCon #94 - How James Booth went from zero to $5 million in 6 months And here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked in order of views. 1. Verisign buys .web for $135 million - I wrote a few stories about this, but I'm lumping them into one here so they don't hijack the top five list. I broke the news that .web closed for $135 million, then was able to confirm Verisign was the buyer, and subsequently wrote about why it wanted to buy this top level domain. 2. Matt Mullenweg Podcast - My interview with WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg was a top story last month. Matt provided a great perspective on domain names and why they are more important than ever. He also discussed his company's forthcoming release of .blog.  3. A smart brokerage pitch from Afternic - Afternic's sale pitch for brokering domain names hits the mark on how it can add value.  4. 52 new TLD sales over $5,000 you probably haven't seen yet - Uniregistry released a bunch of data on domain sales, including these new TLDs.  5. WTF: Heidi Powell files cybersquatting lawsuit against Heidi Powell over HeidiPowell.com - One Heidi Powell has sued another over the domain name HeikiPowell.com. The lawsuit is b.s. Check in at Domain Name Wire daily for the latest news in the domain name business! -Andrew

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - My interview with Matt Mullenweg + top stories

Welcome to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter!           Listen to my latest podcast episode and find out what last month's top stories were. We secure every website with SSL – FOR FREE! AutoDNS is the perfect domain management system for domainers and professional users. Just pay for the domain and enjoy these services free of charge – no extra fees! • WHOIS privacy service • Integrated domain parking & monetization • Basic SSL for a better Google ranking • Highly secure nameservers • Bulk transfer service …and much more! Sign up for FREE and get your domain business started! www.autodns.direct Exclusive Podcast Interview Today I published a new podcast interview with Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, which has raised nearly $200 million in investments. Mullenweg explains why domain names are "more important than ever" and what his company's plans are for .blog. Check out the podcast episode now. June's Top Stories Let's take a look back at June on Domain Name Wire. Here are the podcasts you should catch up on: #90. A frank conversation with Colin Campbell - The .Club CEO talks about the state of new TLDs, how his company lost money last year and the effects of inexpensive domain promos. #89. Domain leases and options - Attorney Zac Muscovitch explains how to structure domain lease and option agreements. #88. Boats.com owner on .Boats, .Homes & more - Jim Schrand of Dominion Enterprises discusses his company's restricted top level domains. #87. Selling a 6 figure domain name - Kate Buckley explains how she sold Rate.com for $725,000. And here are the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked in order of views. 1. Lawsuit ensnares innocent domain name investors - Some people who bought domain names from a court-appointed receiver woke up to find the domains transferred to a different entity. 2. Backpack Girl makes appearance in hilarious UDRP - A lawyer thought Backpack Girl was specifically selected for a domain name, and then doubled down. 3. Phil Bienert out as GoDaddy CMO, Barb Rechterman back in - Barb Rechterman is back in the CMO role at GoDaddy. 4. Google coughs over "New-TLDs-as-SEO-boost" claims - Google explains, once again, that its algorithm doesn't give added weight based on a new top level domain name. 5. Uniregistry: 1.5 million domains in one day - Does Uniregistry scale? It found a stress test with .xyz's one cent promo. Check in at Domain Name Wire daily for the latest news in the domain name business! -Andrew

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - Top Domain Stories from May

Welcome to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter!           Here's a look back at the previous month in the domain name business. We secure every website with SSL – FOR FREE! AutoDNS is the perfect domain management system for domainers and professional users. Just pay for the domain and enjoy these services free of charge – no extra fees! • WHOIS privacy service • Integrated domain parking & monetization • Basic SSL for a better Google ranking • Highly secure nameservers • Bulk transfer service …and much more! Sign up for FREE and get your domain business started! www.autodns.direct May's Top Stories It was great seeing many of you last month at DNSeattle and WHD.usa. Both were good events with great people. Just a quick plug before we get started...if you're interested in the Internet of Things, sign up for my wife's weekly newsletter covering the next big thing in technology. Here's a look at what was hot in the domain name industry last month. First, here are the podcasts I aired: #86 - Domain investor Adam Strong #85 - Update with Rightside CEO Taryn Naidu #84 - 10 Awesome Web Tools #83 - Trademarks and Copyrights with Daliah Saper #82 - DomainTools CEO Tim Chen Now, here are the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by page views: 1. ICANN sends termination notices to 10 new TLD owners - applicants aren't delegating domain names within the required timeline, and ICANN is putting them on notice.  2. DNForum makes its return - Adam Dicker's DNForum is back. Based on comments, faces an uphill battle attracting users.  3. 18 ICANN employees make $250k+ - ICANN released its latest tax return showing how much its top people are paid.  4. What domain names are in demand? A buyer broker speaks. - Bill Sweetman analyzed his last 500 domain buy requests to better understand what type of domain names end users are looking for.  5. Inside new top level domain company Donuts - Two of Donuts' co-founders revealed how the company is doing when I sat down with them at their Bellevue, Washington office. Check in at Domain Name Wire daily for the latest news in the domain name business! -Andrew

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