Category: Trends
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PrimeWire shifts between domain names, banned still
The Judiciary’s hammer is hitting hard on Piracy domain names. Netflix along with other popular studio houses are one by one taking down major piracy platforms. Joining the list of schooled domain names is PrimeWire. PrimeWire is one of the popular piracy streaming websites online. The platform came under judicial radar when Netflix and other…
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Makers of Baby Shark video, contesting over BabyShark.com
Whether you may be a grown adult or a 4 year old baby, there is one thing common between them. The likeness towards the uncontrollably catchy song ‘Baby Shark’. The video intended for little kids is currently the most watched video on the internet. However, did you know the makers of the video had to…
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PrusaPrinters opts to a new brandable name
PrusaPrinters is a well known name for people familiar with 3D printing. It is a free 3D model repository. However, you might not find the repository at its usual location, PrusaPrinters.org now. You can’t, as it has now been rebranded to the new name of Printables.com. The reason behind adopting the new name is a…
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.ng domains gain slightly amid discounts
In a previous post we talked about the fall in the number of .ng domains. We also talked about how Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) had announced huge price cuts on .ng domains. It appears that the efforts of NiRA have bore results. NiRA has released their latest figures, for the performance of .ng in…
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Highlights from Sedo and InternetX’s Global Domain Report
InternetX and Sedo have jointly released the Global Domain Report. The report gives a figurative assessment of the performance of the domain name industry in 2021. The .com TLD maintained its dominance in the previous year. There were approximately 364.6 million domain names registered across all TLDs at the end of 2021. Out of this,…
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Brands’ fear of trademark violations in Russia
The Russia-Ukraine crisis’ fire fails to extinguish even after a month, since the global tragedy began. Human lives have been lost and irreparable damage has been done to the resources as well as psyche of people involved. As a retaliation to the growing worldwide support for the Ukrainians, several brands based in ‘enemy countries’ of…
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Contradicting views on ICANN’s DNS Abuse Trends report
ICANN has recently published its report on the trends in DNS Abuse cases perpetrating online. The report covers cases occurring in the period of the past 4 years, beginning October 2017 till January 2022. The report however, did present some facts that might appear contradicting to the prevailing notions of DNS Abuse trends. The report…
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This statistic could help you in your next domain investment
The one who observes better, invests better. Investment based on intuitions do seem romantic, but in the grand scheme of things, investments made on the basis of rational criticism and sound assessment turn out successful. And a hinge point for all those criticisms and assessments are statistics. The import of textiles and apparels in the…
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DuckDuckGo has made some changes in websites ranking
DuckDuckGo CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, in a Twitter post has announced that they are going to make some changes in their website rankings. He wrote that like many others, he is also disturbed by the Ukraine Crisis. Amid the ongoing events, he announced that DuckDuckGo is going to down-rank Russian domain names spreading misinformation. Along with…
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Second level .tz domain name to be made available
Tanzania has announced the launch of new .tz domain names. Second level domain name registrations under the Top-level domain .tz would begin soon. This wasn’t possible earlier. Earlier, only third level domain names under second level .tz domains such as .or.tz, .co.tz, .mobi.tz, etc. The domain names will be available in 3 phases, starting from…
