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by treitnauer 14y ago
It's most of the time coincidence. Especially with GoDaddy being the largest registrar. Millions of customers and two people had the same idea.
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by treitnauer 14y ago
Judging from ICANN's current timeline not before late 2013 but my guess would be 2014 so it's still some time away (if .app will be in the first batch of approved TLDs which is very likely).
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.APP Domain Names Will Create New Naming Opportunities For Developers(iwantmyname.com)
4 points by treitnauer 14y ago|2 comments
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by treitnauer 14y ago
That's a great initiative... well done!
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.APP Top-Level Domain Very Likely To Happen(domainincite.com)
3 points by treitnauer 14y ago|0 comments
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by treitnauer 14y ago
> Country codes showed us that average users don't want other TLDs, unless they are domain hacks and can be spoken easily (.ly, .it, etc). They almost always prefer the .com Wrong and a typical US-centric view... Germany's preferred TLD
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Tumblr Holds Its Nose, Opens Back End to Ads(readwriteweb.com)
3 points by treitnauer 14y ago|0 comments
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Kill the Blockbuster(blog.kylemeyer.com)
69 points by treitnauer 15y ago|32 comments
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Why Businesses Should Not Rely On Facebook URLs For Advertising(domainnamenews.com)
2 points by treitnauer 15y ago|0 comments
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Impact of Go Daddy's two PR disasters in 2011 on iWantMyName customer growth(reitnauer.com)
2 points by treitnauer 15y ago|0 comments
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Free Automatic Domain Registrar Transfer Service(iwantmyname.com)
3 points by treitnauer 15y ago|0 comments
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by treitnauer 15y ago
Thanks, really appreciate your support!
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by treitnauer 15y ago
1) Transferring DNS is a bit of a pain indeed. Luckily GoDaddy lets you export the zone for each domain from their control panel. I would just send this to your new registrar and they can import the settings. Some registrars also give you a
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Want to Register a Domain Name? Don't Go With GoDaddy - Technology - GOOD(good.is)
5 points by treitnauer 15y ago|4 comments
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Top Ten Hosted Services to Get Your Startup Off the Launchpad FAST(assistly.com)
2 points by treitnauer 15y ago|1 comments
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by treitnauer 15y ago
No, that's pure coincidence :) Just seeing the thread now... The domain was transferred 12 days ago and you have received an email informing you about the successful transfer. Sedo was only sending you a reminder to change the domain owner.
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Use bang commands to manage your domains(iwantmyname.com)
1 points by treitnauer 15y ago|0 comments
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by treitnauer 15y ago
Not yet. We're accredited for some ccTLDs and will add further accreditations as we grow. That's a common practice at lots of registrar companies. Even the big ones like GD, NetSol etc. are "only" resellers for some ccTLDs. We've got an exc
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by treitnauer 15y ago
Thanks for such kind words! Since we're on HN, I thought I'd also share the tech behind iWantMyName. It's a catalyst app powered by a RabbitMQ based backend flavored with a lot of CouchDB and sugar coated with some Redis: http://lnz.me/K6M
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by treitnauer 15y ago
We've started building a new domain management service at http://iWantMyName.com and we're bootstrapped, profitable and proud as 37signals would say... ;) Here is some more background information from a co-founder perspective: http://new
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by treitnauer 15y ago
Thanks guys, glad that you like our service. To answer Marco's question: It is hard to be a good domain registrar but not impossible. Let me tell you my little personal story about bootstrapping iWantMyName. I left Germany at the end of 200
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When the Internet Nearly Fractured, And How It Could Happen Again(theatlantic.com)
5 points by treitnauer 16y ago|0 comments
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List of static website generators(iwantmyname.com)
2 points by treitnauer 16y ago|0 comments
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Simple Custom Domain Amazon S3 DNS Setup(iwantmyname.com)
2 points by treitnauer 16y ago|0 comments
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by treitnauer 16y ago
...or you have your domain registrar doing the redirection for you automatically when setting up the DNS for S3: http://iwantmyname.com/services/developer/setup-custom-domai...
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by treitnauer 16y ago
There are quite a few TLDs offering 2-letter domains. These are the ones that can be registered without any restrictions: .AG .CX .GD .GS .GL .HT .LC .MS .MU .PE .TC .TL .VG Also see http://iwantmyname.com/short-domain-search
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by treitnauer 16y ago
Yep, we're working on it. Sorry for the problems. Update Site performance should be much better again. Now having an issue with our domain search due to too many connections.
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by treitnauer 16y ago
Related article from a ccTLD perspective: http://internetnz.net.nz/news/blog/2011/nz-right-choice-Kiwi...
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by treitnauer 16y ago
LOL, that's awesome :)
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by treitnauer 16y ago
The sad story of the unicode snowman: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2035926

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