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.LUXE Launches With Ethereum Blockchai...
Minds + Machines (MMX) has launched what they're describing as the first open top level domain to combine Ethereum blockchain innovation and security with ease-of-use for today's world, with a Sunrise period commencing today. The .luxe standard that 'lets you exchange easily' smart contracts, crypto and other blockchained products. With a .luxe domain name, there's no more unintelligible 40 character hashes just easy-to-remember .luxe words of your choice. The launc
Escrow.com Introduces Escrow Pay Secur...
Escrow.com has introduced a new streamlined checkout payment system for the buying and selling of domain names, as well as cars, boats, aeroplanes anything of value, with one line of code added to a website. The service is called Escrow Pay and has no minimum fee and prices as low as 0.89%. It's being billed as the ideal solution for any website, mobile app, online store, classified site or marketplace that needs to take payments for any product or service of value.
Ice Baby Ice.com Rockets To Top of Yea...
The sale of ice.com last month for a whopping $3.5 million, brokered by Grit Brokerage/Brannans, to Intercontinental Exchange, who currently use theice.com as their home online and where ice.com is currently redirecting, was the top reported domain name sale for the week ending 15 July. According to the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales of all time, a chart that has been compiled since 2003, it would be the 14th biggest sale ever and the biggest since t
ICANN Loses Another Round in Battle Ov...
ICANN announced Friday they had lost another round in their battle to get EPAG, a subsidiary of Tucows, to enforce their 'temporary specification' on the collection of domain name registrant data. For the third time the German courts have ruled against ICANN. This time the Appellate Court determined that it would not issue an injunction against EPAG. In making its ruling, ICANN explains in its announcement, 'the Appellate Court stated that the interpretation of provi
Romanian .EU Registrations Boom While ...
Romanian domain name registrations in the .eu TLD surged 28.2% in the second quarter of 2018, according to the latest EURid Quarterly Update. And while there were 171,843 new registrations for the second quarter, total registrations dropped from 3,824,289 at the end of the first quarter to 3,790,450 at the end of the second, which EURid attributes some to their abusive domain name suspension efforts and the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and .eu. EURid efforts to dea
Verisign Launches Hebrew gTLD As It St...
Verisign has launched a phased rollout of the ???. new gTLD with a Sunrise period having commenced on 30 July and running through until 4 September. The registry operator for .com and .net has struggled to make an impact with the first 3 of their IDN gTLDs that launched into General Availability 2 years ago as registrations haven't even made the 15,000 mark to date. The Hebrew script internationalised domain name is a transliteration of .com, but also translates to '