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  • Advantages & Disadvantages of Domain Industry Jobs Elliots Blog (2 days ago) - From time to time, I will post a job opening or two at a domain industry company. Some of these job opportunities are at domain brokerages, some are at parking companies, some are at domain registrars, and others are at companies that operate in the domain investment space. For someone...
  • Registrar & Hosting Company in the News With Banned Pam Anderson Commercial Elliots Blog (Thursday, 6 June) - Nope… the title of this blog post certainly isn’t link bait. According to a variety of news outlets, a Pamela Anderson commercial has apparently been banned in the UK because it was too racy. The advertisement was for an Australian domain registrar and hosting company called Crazy Domains, which can...
  • Request a Fast Domain Transfer Elliots Blog (Tuesday, 7 May) - Depending on the outgoing and incoming domain registrar, an inter-registrar transfer can take anywhere from a few moments to several days.When there’s quite a bit of money on the line, it seems that a domain name transfer can take forever. I’ve had some transfers take as long as a week...
  • Blacknight 10 Year Anniversary: Google Nexus 7 Giveaway Elliots Blog (Friday, 3 May) - Blacknight is an Ireland based, ICANN accredited domain name registrar and hosting company. The company is celebrating its tenth anniversary by holding a drawing for a Google Nexus 7 tablet with Android 4.1 Jellybean. It looks like visitors can enter up to 15 times each, and one random winner will...
  • Domain Name News - April 29, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 29 April) - Proposed New ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement Posted - ICANN has posted for public comment a proposed new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The document is the result of more than 18 months of negotiations between ICANN and the registrar community.......
  • 5 Things To Know About Managing Your Domain Information DomainTools Blog (Friday, 26 April) - All to often the Support Team here at DomainTools receives disconcerting stories from registrants who have no control over their domain names or websites. What is entirely surprising is how many registrants shift control of their business’ domain and/or website to outside resources without building a solid understanding as to...
  • Namecheap Holding Earth Day Promo Elliots Blog (Monday, 22 April) - Namecheap, a domain name registrar known for its fun promotions, is currently offering a special Earth Day domain transfer promo. People interested in transferring domain names to Namecheap can use one of two special coupon codes to transfer .com, .net, .org (and others) domain names for $5.99, and in addition...
  • Name.com Educating Clients About New TLDs Elliots Blog (Monday, 8 April) - I strongly believe that the more that domain registrars publicize and promote new gTLD domain names, the greater the likelihood these TLDs will gain traction with consumers and be in demand. I’ve mentioned how eNom is promoting gTLDs, and I wanted to share the interesting way Name.com is also promoting...
  • Domain Name News - March 11, 2013 Webnames.ca Blog (Monday, 11 March) - ICANN Seeks New Registry, Registrar Agreements - Approximately one month after posting a proposed new gTLD registry agreement, ICANN has posted a proposed new registrar agreement. Both proposed agreements have encountered criticism, notably from within the registry and registrar......
  • nTLD Brand Monitoring with DomainTools DomainTools Blog (Thursday, 21 February) - DomainTools is well-known for Whois data: whois lookup, whois history, and reverse whois reports. But we also have a lot of other cool products that savvy clients utilize all the time. Many of those products deal with domain names and DNS data, rather than strictly whois data.Brand Monitor is a...