Should You Build a Domain Name Portfolio
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- Admin
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- domain name, portfolio, investment, finance
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Should you build a domain name portfolio? There are many reasons to consider investing in a domain portfolio. We look at some of the reasons why it is a wise investment. A domain portfolio is a combination of domain names that are owned by you or your business. It is an investment strategy that involves purchasing high-value domain names to later sell them off at a profit. All businesses need domains, no matter how big...
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UK Right of Registration is ending
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- Martyn Holden
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- Nominet, Domain Names, News
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It's been 5 years since Nominet first introduced the shorter .UK extension in June 2014. Since then, millions of organisations have registered to the shorter .UK extension (including us) and experienced tremendous success building their brand.Nominet have been running a number of awareness campaigns to ensure all rights have been communicated to the rights holders. This has seen roughly 2 million .UK domain names registered in the last 5 years (of...
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Nominet and GDPR
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- Admin
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- GDPR, Nominet, Data Privacy, Data Protection
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Set to come into effect on the 25th May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation is at the forefront of everyone's minds. The new law calls for more transparency in data collection and processing. It sets strict standards for the protection of the subject's data privacy. The looming threat of a 20 million fine has motivated corporations such as Google and Amazon to review their privacy policies to be GDPR compliant. So far, the GDPR...
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Carlsberg signs up for 150 premium domains
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- Matt Rendle
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- .beer, Domain Extensions
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If you were not aware of Carlsberg then you are about to be, Carlsberg are one of the 4 largest global brewers and so it makes sense for them to sign up to so many of the new top level domains. 150 top level domains are now Carlsberg's to use as they see fit, the domain they choose was of course .beer, the possibilities of uses for these domains are pretty much endless and they are sure to produce some major traffic to Carlsberg online. Carlsberg...
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UKs Domain Family take to the streets
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- Damian Hope
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- .uk Birthday, Domain Extensions
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Recently .uk hit the streets of London to celebrate its first birthday, the celebrations were unlike any other one year birthday party in history, the UK Domain Family popped up all over London throughout the morning, with flash mobs across the capital in high spirits and Champagne in Piccadilly Circus and leading commuters in a rendition of Happy Birthday on the Underground. All of this and more, plus they had cupcakes and balloons for people to...
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New extensions available this week CAFE EXPRESS
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- Martyn Holden
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- Domain Extensions, Cafe, Express
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We are very excited to announce that we have two new extensions coming to our customers this week, they will be available to our customers from 8th July and could really improve the traffic to your site as they will make it easier for your customers to find you out there on the web. As you all know, the key to any business having a successful website is making it easier for your customers to find you on the web, there are many ways of doing this and...
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Internet Grows to 294 Million Domain Names
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- Paul Marren
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- ICANN, Domain Names
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The internet is growing, not surprisingly businesses are seeing the importance of the internet more and more, they are seeing just what the internet can do for their business and how it can bring traffic to their business and get some more cash flowing in. However, with nearly 300 million domain names out there now, how can you separate your small business from the crowd and still make sure the internet is providing you with the traffic and business...
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Benefits of ukdotnet and ukdotcom
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- Matt Rendle
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- Domain Extensions
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Is there really a benefit to a website address? Surely the benefit is that your customers can find you and that they are reading about your services, the address part is pretty unimportant right? Well actually no, the big benefit of the web addresses in the title of this article is the .uk part, your customers in the UK will begin to trust you more as a business if you have the .uk signature in your web address, if people are going to type their bank...
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Heinz learns a domain renewal lesson
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- Martyn Holden
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- Domain Renewals
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This quite possibly the oddest tech news I have ever come across, Heinz have learnt a lesson about domain renewal from Qr codes and porn, told you it was odd. Domain renewal is basically something you have to do in order to keep the domain name you are using, I am sure you all know this as you are all very bright. If you don't renewal your domain name it goes back out for public resale as you have no use for it any more, you will have been sent emails...
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Easy Domains are Nominet Accredited
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- Paul Marren
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- Nominet, Easy Domains, Nominet Accredited
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Easy Domains are now classified as a Nominet Accredited Channel PartnerEasy Domains have received an early Christmas present from Nominet which has made this festive season a double celebration for everyone who works on our team. Becoming a Nominet Accredited Channel Partner is an exclusive merit which is only provided to UK domain registrars that offer a premium service which performs to the high level required by the Nominet regulations. Being...
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Wales Domain Name Launch
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- Paul Marren
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- Wales New Domain Name, .wales, .cymru, Nominet
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The Welsh online community are proud of their cultural heritage and there is no more potent method of expressing your ties to Wales in your online activities than by registering a domain name that is uniquely Welsh to your business or organisation. Businesses in Wales will soon be able to join the Scottish and Londoners in being able to identify their online activities with their location of origin. Businesses throughout Wales will soon be able to...
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Dot London Domain Names
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- Paul Marren
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- Dot London, Domain Names,
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General availability for the much anticipated Dot London domain begins on 9th September 2014, however London based businesses and residents have been given a priority period to register their own Dot London domain name. The Dot London domain name is being released on the 29th April 2014 for businesses, organisations and individuals who live in London or is associated with it and want to promote their link to the city within their online presence. London...
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Dot UK Domain Names
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- Paul Marren
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- Dot UK Domain Names,
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Following Nominet's decision to release the much anticipated .uk domain, many businesses and consumers are excited to be a part of the great .uk domain launch. The .uk domain suffix is released on 10 June 2014. This will mean that businesses will be able to ensure that their brand name is the most important element within the domain address whilst still associating your name with it's UK roots. The majority of businesses and individuals who own...
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New Top Level Domains
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- Paul Marren
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- Top Level Domains, TLD, Domain Names,
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There has been a lot of excitement over recent months when it was announced by ICANN that over 1,000 new Top Level Domain name suffixes will become available for online businesses to use as a replacement for one of the standard 22 TLDs which have been previously in use. Easy Domains is happy to share the news that the first dozen or so Top Level Domains are now available for purchase and that many more will become accessible throughout the year to...
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Easy Domains Supports dotEng
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- Paul Marren
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- dotScot, dotEng, Domain Names, England,
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Following the success of the dotScot campaign in providing an independent identity to Scottish businesses, Easy Domains have joined the campaign to push for a dotEng extension that will allow companies based in England to have an equally unique presence on the web. Supported by internationally recognised Scottish natives such as actor Sir Sean Connery, First Minister Alex Salmond and entrepreneur Sir Tom Farmer, the campaign begun by the not-for-profit...
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dotSCOT Coming Summer 2014
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- Damian Hope
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- .scot, Scotland Domain
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Domain names actually mean something to certain groups of people, and it seems that national pride counts for a lot. There has been plenty of activity and a strong desire for there to be a distinctive domain name for Scottish businesses and individuals, and now it seems that the. scot domain name will be a reality. By this summer, it is expected that Scottish businesses and individuals will be able to purchase the domain name, which makes it very...
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UK domain names to change
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- Damian Hope
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- Nominet, .uk
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The organisation responsible for the trusted ".co.uk" domain extension in the United Kingdom, Nominet, is close to opening up a new frontier in UK name spaces, with the option of having a shorter ".uk" domain extension rather than the traditional ".co.uk". This means that the majority of businesses that have a website under ".co.uk" will be able to shorten the name of their site, and therefore have a more snappier and modern domain name extension...
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The new gTLDs mean a new Internet
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- Damian Hope
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- Domain Extensions
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If you run a business or organisation online, you will recognise the feeling you get when someone else has snapped up the domain name you need. This is especially true if you already have an established offline business, and are finally making the leap into the online world. You may find that you pick the domain name you need and then choose a ".com" string after it, assuming that all will be well. In recent months however, the market has...
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Domain Extensions Made Easy
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- Daniel Lee
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- Domain Names, Extensions
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Purchasing domain names is like purchasing property; domains are an asset to you or your company and can be seen as a secure address for your online abode. You can buy as many as you like, use them for whatever purpose you desire and you can move your online content between your domains as little or as often as you wish. Youve finally decided on your domain name, Easy. Now you're bombarded by a range of domain suffix and you want...
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