01 February 2013

Domain registrar powers Kim Dotcom’s new Mega

Domain registrar powers Kim Dotcom’s new Mega - Domain Name Wire: "Lentino and Kim Dotcom have partnered to launch the new version of Mega. Instra Corporation, based in New Zealand and Australia, will provide technical and product support to Mega users. It is also signing up resellers that will provide premium accounts to the service. These resellers will sell packages to people who need more than 50 GB of storage space. In addition to Instra, other resellers at launch include EuroDNS and DigiWeb."

2 tools I use to track my domain portfolio
Domain Name Wire
Watch My Domains Pro and DomainTools Domain Monitor work in tandem to keep a watchful eye on my portfolio. Yesterday I reiterated my appreciation for Watch My Domains Pro, a tool I've been praising since 2007. Rob Sequin seconded my approval for ...

.Org wholesale price to increase to $8.25
Domain Name Wire
Org gets pricier. .Com prices may be fixed for the next six years, but that's not stopping other registries from increasing prices. Public Interest Registry has informed ICANN that it will increase the wholesale cost of a .org domain name to $8.25 on ...

8 companies that changed their domain names…but it isn't easy
Domain Name Wire
Now that I'm using a non-optimum name, is it worth switching? That's another tough call. Let's face it, changing domain names is painful. Especially when you're successful. At that point it's probably not the cost so much as the education and SEO. In ...

MLBAM Buys Rockies Domain Name - Baseball America (blog)
Bayoubuzz (subscription)
Major League Baseball Advanced Media has purchased the domain name Rockies.com for an undisclosed sum from a Canadian organization that promoted tourism in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. MLB Advanced Media vice president of corporate ...

Have you done a domain parking audit lately? - Domain Name Wire
Bayoubuzz (subscription)
But when it comes to making sure my domains are parked correctly, apparently I'm a little lax. I just audited a few hundred of my domain names to check their nameservers. I was surprised at what I found: 1. Some of my domains were pointing to Go Daddy ...

UK domain names had successful 2012
By admin
... and recent activity to open the second-level .uk space. Regardless of these direct impacts, the rise of .co.uk domain name sales points to the value of a region that has a high user adoption of the geo-specific TLD, similar to Germany (.de).
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Sign.com owner threatens Signs.com - Domain Name Wire: "The owner of Signs.com is fighting back. It filed suit in Utah, asking for declaratory judgment (pdf) that its use of the domain name doesn’t infringe SA International, Inc’s rights."

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