Germany’s .de domain name turns 40

The popular ccTLD now has over 18 million registered domains. One of the internet’s most popular country code domain names turns 40 today. On this date in 1986, .de was entered into the IANA database. Two years later, there were only six .de domains when the University of Dortmund took over administration. At the time, [...]

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Shop.com Changes Hands for $99 Million in Biggest Publicly Reported Domain Sale on Record to Top Latest Chart

The domain aftermarket has a new heavyweight champion. Shop.com obliterated all previous publicly reported records to top DNJournal's latest sales chart as well as its YTD Top 100 and All Time Top 20 Cash Domain Sales Charts. Shop.com came in $29 million higher than the previous record holder (AI.com) and $69 million more than #3 [...]

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