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    analysis Numbers in Domains: Why They Matter and Which Extensions Lead the Pack

    How many domains in your portfolio contain numbers? If you’re a savvy domain investor, targeting end-user sales, chances are you don’t have many. So what if I told you that there are large gTLDs where the majority of domains have at least one number in them, and there's at least one namespace...
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    news ICANN to kill off 60-day domain transfer lock

    ICANN is set to kill off its unpopular 60-day transfer lock policy, following a vote at ICANN 82 in Seattle this week. The GNSO Council yesterday voted to accept the final report of its Transfer Policy working group, a mammoth 163-page document that contains 47 recommendations affecting all...
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    news GoDaddy launches DomainMaxxing to optimize your domains

    GoDaddy has unveiled a suite of new premium product features designed to help its customers realize the full value of their domains in increasingly competitive marketplaces. DomainMaxxing was developed on the premise that domains aren’t merely technical assets anymore, they’re performative...
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    information $50 million in BINs for these DomainNames.com ultra-premiums

    You will have no doubt read over the last few days that GoDaddy/Afternic has launched DomainNames.com, a service set up to promote and sell “ultra-premium” domains owned by third-party domainers. If you’re curious what kind of ask-price range constitutes “ultra-premium” before thinking about...
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    news Please support Domain Incite

    Domain Incite, the independent source of news, analysis and opinion for the domain name industry and ICANN community, relies on support from readers like you to survive. Please consider making a one-off or recurring donation via PayPal or credit/debit card. Please support Domain Incite | Domain...
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    news Revealed: who’s really running Epik

    Scandal-rocked registrar Epik promised to turn over a new leaf when it got acquired last year, and now the guy in charge of the domains business — a familiar face to many– has broken cover and talked to DI about the company’s recent woes and turnaround plans. That guy is director of domains...
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    news Gname adds another 200 registrars, bringing its total to 500+

    Singaporean drop-catching registrar Gname has added another 200 shell registrars to its collection, bringing its total to over 500. The 200 companies are named Gname 301 Inc through Gname 500 Inc. More accreditations means more connections to gTLD registrars and a better chance to catch expired...
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    news .dot is coming very soon

    New new gTLD registry Dish DBS has revealed the launch dates for its .dot gTLD, and it’s coming pretty soon. Information filed with ICANN shows that .dot is due to go to sunrise in just a couple weeks — from July 21 to October 19 — with a 12-day Early Access Period where early adopters... .dot...
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    news .io questions in sharp focus as UK signs Chagos treaty

    The UK government has signed a treaty handing over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius, which could eventually turn out to be bad news for .io domain name owners. Currently known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, Chagos was seized in the 1960s and 1970s, its citizens...
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    news I get a wrongful kicking as .su registry denies turn-off plan

    The registry for the former Soviet Union’s .su ccTLD has denied that ICANN plans to kick it off the internet, giving three reasons why its over 100,000 domains are safe. RosNIIROS pointed to Russian law, ICANN ccTLD policy, and the lack of any formal retirement notice as reasons why the ccTLD...
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    new gtlds Is Trump the elephant in the room for new gTLDs?

    How scared should companies be of Donald Trump after they pay almost a quarter-million dollars to file their new gTLD applications with ICANN a few months from now? How scared should ICANN be that some applications might attract the wrong type of attention? Let’s speculate. To date, the second...
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    news No RDAP? No accreditation

    ICANN has terminated its contract with another registrar after the company failed to implement RDAP, the Whois replacement protocol. US-based Brennercom will be de-accredited January 28, according to a published ICANN Compliance notice. The headline infraction is the fact that Brennercom failed...
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    news Got junk? June’s biggest gTLD growers do

    It’s becoming a truth universally acknowledged that when a gTLD sees a growth spike it’s because the registry is running a promo and tens of thousands of machine-generated junk domains have been registered. That certainly seems to be true for June’s biggest growers. The gTLDs the grew the...
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    news New Pope’s .com domain was registered the day Francis died

    A domainer snapped up the .com matching the new Pope’s name on the day the last Pope died. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected this evening and took the name Pope Leo XIV. PopeLeoXIV.com was registered on the afternoon of April 21, a few hours after the news of Pope Francis’ death was announced...
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    news Rubens Kühl has died

    Rubens Kühl, a mainstay of the ICANN community and prolific commentator on the domain name industry, has died tragically young. According to Brazilian ccTLD registry NIC.br, Rubens died November 3 at the age of 55, survived by his wife and two children. Rubens was at NIC.br for 16 years, mostly...
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    news GoDaddy ordered to stop lying about crappy security

    GoDaddy has agreed to roll out some pretty basic security measures and has been told to stop lying about how secure its hosting is, under an agreement with US regulators. It turns out that the company, while claiming that security “was at the core of everything we do”, was failing to do some...
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    news “Bulletproof” registrar takes a bullet to the head

    ICANN has terminated a rogue registrar that claimed it offered “bulletproof” domain registrations services. Fewmoretaps, which went by the ironic d/b/a Trustname.com, will lose its right to sell gTLD domains names on September 11, having repeatedly failed to chase up abuse reports over many...
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    news Kid-friendly domains could be reborn

    With governments around the world increasingly looking at reducing the harmful effects on the internet on children, it seems child-friendly domain name projects may see a resurgence. The US government’s new hunt for a registry operator for .us, launched this week, contains a fairly explicit call...
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    news UK launches “police.ai”, but does it own the domain?

    The UK’s increasingly authoritarian government this afternoon announced extensive policing reforms, including what it called “Police.ai”. Home secretary Shabana Mahmood, speaking in Parliament in the last couple of hours, announced a new National Police Service and a substantial ramping up of...
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    news .ai rival lines up gTLD bid

    The increasingly popular .ai top-level domain looks like it could have its first full competitor before long. An organization called 0G Foundation, which says it has made a “decentralized AI operating system”, has announced plans to apply to ICANN for the new gTLD .agi next year. AGI stands for...
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