A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on April 5, 2017. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve. I’m only showing…
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Lawsuit filed to recover stolen three letter .com domain names – Domain Name Wire
Suit alleges domain names were stolen after AOL email account was compromised. Daniel Kametani of California has filed a lawsuit (pdf) to recover six three letter .com domain names that he says were stolen after someone hijacked his AOL email account. The in rem lawsuit against the six domain names was filed in federal district…
Update: Existing Domains Won’t Be Affected by Uniregistry’s Price Increase
Update: Existing Domains Won’t Be Affected by Uniregistry’s Price Increase Posted on 06 April 2017 by Andrei At the beginning of March, Uniregistry decided to hike the prices on some of its poorest performers by as much as 3,000% and naturally, a huge backlash followed which culminated with GoDaddy’s decision of dropping all Uniregistry strings…
w9.com, 7p.com and 5050.com were changed hands today
DOMAIN SALES Two character domain of w9.com changed hands today, according to whois information, the buyer is Chinese domainer. 7p.com was also acquired by a Chinese domainer, the seller was United Online Web Services, Inc. 5050.com was sold for a seven-figure CNY price today. Wxn.com was auctioned for ￥245,000 CNY(approximately $35,507 USD). Qnk.com was auctioned…
Introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS)
Surfing the web is fun and easy, but think what it would be like if you had to type in the IP address of every website you wanted to view. For example, locating a website would look like this when you type it in: https://54.204.39.132, which would be nearly impossible for most of us to…