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Epik has retracted a claim it made on social media that former customer Kiwi Farms was hosting child sexual abuse material on its web site. The troubled registrar had said on Twitter in January that it had received a complaint about a “doxxing” post on the Kiwi Farms troll forum that contained naked photographs of [...] Continue reading
A city gTLD launching exclusively on a blockchain alternative naming system? It’s happened, with the announcement of .austin at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The extension is already on sale at $10 a name via Unstoppable Domains, in partnership with the Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce. The organizations said the names will serve [...] Continue reading
Today: Appraisal of Techzone.net / Looking for .com, .org, and .net – Budget $500 / 79555.com Sold for $8,600 and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Appraisal of Techzone.net – How would you value this domain name in today’s market? [...] Continue reading
Today: Appraisal of Techzone.net / Looking for .com, .org, and .net – Budget $500 / 79555.com Sold for $8,600 and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Appraisal of Techzone.net – How would you value this domain name in today’s market? [...] Continue reading
Dying free-domains registry Freenom has shut down at least 12.6 million domains across three of its TLDs, according to research from Netcraft. Netcraft’s latest web server survey shows that the domains — across .tk, .cf and .gq — no longer resolve, according to the company. That’s 98.7% of the resolving domains Freenom had a [...] Continue reading
ICANN has published what could be the next version of GoDaddy’s .xxx registry contract, and is framing it as very much open to challenge. The proposed Registry Agreement would scrap the “sponsored” designation from .xxx, substantially reduce GoDaddy’s ICANN fees, and implement the strictest child-protection measures of any gTLD, as well as make ICANN Compliance’s [...] Continue reading
The annual Global Domain Report, produced jointly by InterNetX and Sedo, has been released and is now available to download at no cost. The 80 page, data-heavy report offers an in-depth view of the domain name industry – both from the perspective of domain investors and from industry providers. The report covers a multitude of [...] Continue reading