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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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Registrar
Name.com Releases Free Full Service Android App - First
to Offer Back Ordering By Mobile Phone (iPhone Version
in the Works)
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Name.com
has long been
one
of the domain industry's most innovative
registrars. The Denver based company has
burnished that reputation by releasing a free
new mobile
phone app for Android (an iPhone
version is also in the works).
Name.com becomes one of only a few ICANN
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accredited
registrars that offer domain registration apps
and the world's
first with mobile back ordering
capability. The full service app also offers
domain search, registration, privacy and DNS
management. To encourage people to download the
new app, for the next six months Name.com will
be providing a year of free Whois privacy
with each mobile registration.
Owen
Borseth, Name.com's Senior Software Engineer
and lead developer on the app said, "We
wanted our app to offer more than just
registration and domain management features. Our
domain name backorder service, Domain
Nabber, is one of our most popular services,
so it was a great addition."
For
those wondering why Name.com released an Android
app before one for Apple's popular iPhone,
Name.com Founder and CEO Bill
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Mushkin
said, "We chose to develop an Android
app first because it really spoke to the core of
our open source roots and the fact that
we have a large international customer base.
With the Android operating system's rapid global
growth, we can now reach customers whose primary
access to the Internet is not their computer,
but their mobile phone, and provide them with
all the tools they need." Though they
developed their Android app first, the company
confirmed that an iPhone version is coming
soon, as well as a fully optimized Name.com
site for mobile phone users.
Mushkin
founded Name.com in 2003 and, with more than 50
different domain extensions available for
registration, it has since become one of the top
registrars in the world with over 1 million
domains under management.
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On other
note today - The Domain
Roundtable conference closed
this morning when attendees began
heading home from the Atlantis Resort
in the Bahamas. The final event
on the show's business agenda was
Thursday afternoon's Aftermarket.com
live domain auction, an event that
produced just under $200,000 in
sales. 33 of the 64 names up for bid
were sold - giving Aftermarket.com an
impressive sell-through rate of over 50%.
The top sales were Coed.com ($45,000),
Cam.net ($31,000) and TravelBags.com
($17,000).
Though the
conference is over, the domain sale
continues with an extended
auction, featuring all of
the domains that did not sell in the
live session, remaining up for bid until
Thursday (March 10). |
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(Posted March
4, 2011)
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