Domain Names Category


What Is Your Domain Name Worth?

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If you plan to assess the value of your domain name, you’ll find services, some free and others for a fee, offered by many companies. Although it is certainly worth looking at the current domain name market and trying to find equivalence with recent sales, it’s impossible to base the valuation of one domain name [...]


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Domain Suffix .mobi Acquired By Afilias

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Afilias, an Irish Internet infrastructure company, announced that it is buying Top Level Domain Ltd, the registrar for the .mobi Internet domain for mobile Web sites.Afilias, founded in 2001 by several technology and Internet companies, already owns “.info” and had been running “.mobi” and others under contract. Through the acquisition of “.mobi” outright, Afilias will [...]


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Number Of Registered Domain Names Approaching 200 Million

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Twenty-five years ago, the first domain name was registered. A new report has shows the number of registered domain names has broken the 192 million mark.Network infrastructure company, Verisign, has released a report that shows an extra 11 million domain names were registered in the fourth quarter of 2009, taking the number to 15 million [...]


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Cybersquatting May Net Google $500M Annually

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By meticulously analyzing data, Tyler Moore and Benjamin Edelman of Harvard University have revealed that Google may be making nearly half a billion dollars on an annual basis from cybersquatting.Cyberquatting is loosely defined as the act of registering a domain name with typos, trademark variations, etc with ill-intent to bring in traffic from the actual [...]


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Back On The Domain Auction Block: Sex.com

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There’s another strange twist in the history of Sex.com. It’s been stolen and returned and then sold and now it’s gone in to foreclosure.  If it’s popular subject matter didn’t make this name interesting, surely the history and ongoing story behind Sex.com makes it one of the most popular domain names [...]


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