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Archive News 2012  April
  


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Morgan Linton

Want Liquidity? Sell Me Your Best .COM For $1,200

Okay, here’s an idea I’ve wanted to try for a while and I decided that today is the day! This year I’ve made some incredible sales as well as purchased some fantastic domains and I’m continuing to buy more names that meet the profile I’ve found the most liquidity with. I get a ton of [...] Continue reading


CircleID

The Dangers of Asking for Social Network Passwords

In the last year or so, there's been a lot of controversy about some employers demanding social network passwords from employees or applicants. There's even been a bill introduced in Congress to bar the practice. The focus has been the privacy violation implied by such demands: "the legislation could .. protect the privacy of citizens”; [...] Continue reading


DomainGang

10 Reasons why being a bald domainer is sexy

Ron Jackson of DNJournal did the unthinkable and shaved his head for charity. Having met Ron in person, we know how fond he is of his hair – which was darker and thicker in his early days of domaining. That’s what domaining does, makes people lose their hair, but Ron became a “bald domainer” voluntarily. [...] Continue reading


ICANN Blog

National Physical Laboratory of the UK Selected to Conduct a gTLD Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse Study

I am delighted to report that ICANN has engaged the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) of the United Kingdom to conduct a study of Whois Privacy and Proxy Abuse. Guided by Richard Clayton, NPL has established a collaborative study team of domain specialists from three universities. Together, this team will examine the extent to which gTLD [...] Continue reading


VictorPitts.com

Domain Bias in Web Search

Scientific research by a team from Microsoft and Stanford University indicates strong evidence that there is a domain bias in many people, whereby they will more likely trust some domains and domain tlds than others.  Higher trust correlates to more clicks.  More clicks is a good thing. Good material for those new registry-to-be organizations, and registrants [...] Continue reading


The Frager Factor

NYSE: DMD — LearnTheHardWay.ORG OR What Demand Media Could Become

The true, untapped potential of DMD if connecting emotionally to consumers as seen through their shoes: "Many people die with their music still in them.  Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes  [...] Continue reading


Tech Domainer

ICANN to notify domain applicants of data breaches

LONDON (Reuters) – Organizations taking part in the most ambitious expansion of the Internet so far will find out next week whether their applications for new domain names could have been viewed by competitors as a result of a software bug. The U.S. non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the [...] Continue reading




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