Last night’s DNSeattle meetup at GoDaddy’s office in Kirkland was awesome. Thanks to Michael Cyger for organizing, and I’ll have a recap on DNW next week.
In the meantime, here’s a look back at April on Domain Name Wire…
Podcasts
#81: Craig Schwartz discusses finance TLDs
#80: Ryan Colby tries to get investors, domainers and developers together.
#79: CentralNic CEO Ben Crawford discusses explains his business.
#78: Igloo’s Tessa Holcomb updates us on the aftermarket.
Top 5 Stories
1. Capgemini fails to take down grip site – an unhappy job applicant registered CapgeminiRecruiting.com for a gripe site. The consulting firm tried to get it back through a UDRP but failed.
2. DomainTools is about to get more expensive for some users – There are quite a few frustrated domain investors after DomainTools raised prices and limited queries. Listen to DomainTools CEO Tim Chen explain the changes in DNW Podcast #82.
3. Interesting data comparing .coms to premium new TLDs – Rightside released comparisons of the cost of some of its premium domains compared to the “equivalent” .com domain.
4. End user domain name sales, including several new TLDs – this weekly end user sales report included a couple solid new TLD sales.
5. What China giveth, China can taketh away – a drop in the Chinese market for domain names will hurt many domain companies.
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