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domainnamewire.com 8y ago

Some .AI domain name functions limited due to Hurricane Irma

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domainincite.com 10y ago

ICANN Assigns Tor's .Onion TLD as Special-Use Domain Name

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venturebeat.com 11y ago

GoDaddy is about to buy Nodejitsu

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iwantmyname.com 11y ago

Startup and tech domain name trends in 2015 and beyond

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blog.iwantmyname.com 11y ago

How we upgraded our domain search using Erlang, RabbitMQ and Socket.IO

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anyname.nz 12y ago

NZ second-level domains launching on Sep 30, 2014

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iwantmyname.com 12y ago

Free up your phone: Why email support is better

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domainnamewire.com 12y ago

Neustar acquires .CO domain registry for $109 million

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iwantmyname.com 12y ago

The Rise Of Dropbox Blogging

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www.stuff.co.nz 12y ago

Google 'Trekker' hits Abel Tasman track

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iwantmyname.com 13y ago

Make The .IO Top-Level Domain International

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iwantmyname.com 14y ago

.APP Domain Names Will Create New Naming Opportunities For Developers

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domainincite.com 14y ago

.APP Top-Level Domain Very Likely To Happen

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www.readwriteweb.com 14y ago

Tumblr Holds Its Nose, Opens Back End to Ads

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blog.kylemeyer.com 14y ago

Kill the Blockbuster

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www.domainnamenews.com 14y ago

Why Businesses Should Not Rely On Facebook URLs For Advertising

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reitnauer.com 14y ago

Impact of Go Daddy's two PR disasters in 2011 on iWantMyName customer growth

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iwantmyname.com 14y ago

Free Automatic Domain Registrar Transfer Service

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www.good.is 14y ago

Want to Register a Domain Name? Don't Go With GoDaddy - Technology - GOOD

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www.assistly.com 14y ago

Top Ten Hosted Services to Get Your Startup Off the Launchpad FAST

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iwantmyname.com 14y ago

Use bang commands to manage your domains

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www.theatlantic.com 15y ago

When the Internet Nearly Fractured, And How It Could Happen Again

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iwantmyname.com 15y ago

List of static website generators

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iwantmyname.com 15y ago

Simple Custom Domain Amazon S3 DNS Setup

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xn--55gaaaaaa281gfaqg86dja792anqa.ws 15y ago

The Sad Story Of The Unicode Snowman

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sam.sargeant.name 15y ago

Why the P2P DNS project will not work

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domainincite.com 15y ago

ICANN had no role in seizing torrent domains

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iwantmyname.com 15y ago

Why Some Domain Extensions Are More Expensive Than Others

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www.couch.io 16y ago

CouchDB Case Study iWantMyName

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iwantmyname.com 16y ago

Your Username Does Not Belong To You

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Why am I here? 13 years ago

It's not that bad anymore. When I arrived 5 years ago the data caps were still terrible with around 10GB. They still exist but are 10x-20x higher now (and there are some unlimited plans) and 100mbit down is not uncommon. There's 4G with decent speed too... I get 27mbit down on my iPhone 5s in Wellington—that's on 3.5G. Some rural areas are not as lucky of course.

It's great to see other companies experimenting with openness in salaries. We've taken a different approach and pay all employees (including founders) the same salary which increases as the company grows. Our team is now 8-people strong and it's working great so far. As long as you contribute to the bottom line everyone's salary goes up automatically. It's totally transparent, no negotiations required, reviews, etc.

iwantmyname is hiring a back-end blacksmith!

Location: Anywhere (we're based in Wellington, New Zealand)

We are a small international start-up (there's 7 of us at present) where creativity, transparency and happiness are the company's core values. Our team is a bunch of geeks who love building the most awesomest domain management service on Earth.

So let's have fun() and play with all the nice stuff you always wanted to play with. We've built a stack here at iwantmyname that is both flexible and fun, and we're in need of another hacker to help us turn it into a beauty.

We're currently using modern Perl, Erlang, Coffee Script, Lua, CouchDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kyoto Tycoon, Puppet, Vagrant and are looking at a whole lot of new toys to build the best possible experience for our customers.

So if you've run up against company policies around $favorite_toy in production, join us and see it scale or die in flames. If you introduce technology that is not up to scratch yet, put some time aside to contribute back to that project to get it where we need it.

We love open source, we contribute a lot and we want you to be actively contributing to projects or talking at conferences to share your knowledge with the community.

If this sounds like you, fire up a console window and get in touch by doing the following dig lookup:

dig TXT jobs.iwantmyname.com

Wellington (NZ), remote OK, Content Marketer (full-time) at iwantmyname

You love to write. Your content would appear on the iwantmyname blog, guest articles on other sites, marketing copy, emails, or our FAQ. You're a true storyteller and inspire others to be awesome at what they do.

iwantmyname is a small international start-up (there's 6 of us at present) where creativity, transparency and happiness are the company's core values. Our team is a bunch of geeks who love building the most awesomest domain management service on Earth. We are frequently involved with local user groups, conferences/events and have a large following in the developer and design community globally.

Full details: https://iwantmyname.com/jobs/content-marketer

I moved from Germany to Australia in 2007 where I was able to save some money from my day job. Then moved across the ditch to Wellington, NZ about 6 months later with ~$10k cash in the bank. I started running out of money after 9 months which was exactly the time our little domain registrar iwantmyname could afford a small salary. Most exciting time of my life (in a good way) with moving countries and starting a company!

GoDaddy's dashboard might be bloated which can be confusing but I doubt they deliberately delete domains after removing the credit card info from your account (as long as a domain hasn't reached the expiration date of course).

As the GoDaddy representative correctly mentioned, it is the registries who are to blame for any restore fees. It's bad enough that you as a customer lost domains so Verisign, PIR, Afilias or any other gTLD registry shouldn't ask for anything else but the normal renewal fee.

We are not an ICANN accredited registrar but it's something we might consider in the future. Lots of registrars started out as resellers (or still are for ccTLDs, e.g. eNom, Netsol going through a German registrar) so this is not an uncommon thing.

Most of our TLDs are registered through 1API which is a pure wholesale registrar and we're having a very close business relationship with them. I can promise you if there ever is an issue on the registrar/registry relationship part of the business, we will be able to solve it faster than many ICANN registrars.

> 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 is .DE and has >15 mio registrations, .UK > 10 mio just to name the two largest ones. Generally speaking the easier (and cheaper) to register a ccTLD the more wide-spread it is in a country.

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 an option to add DNS records when starting the transfer.

2) This might be helpful for email / website / blog hosting: http://iwantmyname.com/services – these hosted apps and services can all be used with your own domain.

(Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder at iWantMyname)

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.

Email support answers during the weekend can sometimes take a few hours longer. As far as I can tell from our help desk, your request was answered after 13 hours. Did you send us an email before? If you don't receive an answer after 24 hours, feel free to ping us on Twitter.

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 excellent relationship with our ICANN registrar and access to all management functions so there isn't really a difference technology-wise.

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/K6MP

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 2007 after working for a German domain registrar for nearly 6 years. We were successful (2 million domains under management) and the big ones GoDaddy, NetSol, eNom, Register.com etc. just started registering ccTLDs (country code top-level domains) through us.

But something didn't feel right... Domain registrars were getting lots of bad press (frontrunning, parking) and I started thinking of building a new domain management service. In the meantime I moved to Australia and after 6 months of being with an Australian registrar, I had enough. It was time to finally take the plunge. So I moved from Australia to New Zealand where we launched iWantMyName with zero dollar investment in December 2008. I knew one of my co-founders from Germany (luckily he was the former CTO of a registrar back in Germany and had enough of Europe too).

The first year was hard. Really fucking hard. We still had to do some consulting jobs to survive and our service could do nothing but register domains. No transfers, only certain DNS record types were supported, no whois updates. But for me it was really surprising how few features people actually need. Our site architecture helps to keep design work at a minimum level too, it's intentionally kept simple. Actually, we don't even have a designer in our team.

So where are we now a bit more than 2 years later? Well, we're running a profitable domain management service which generates six figures in revenue. This currently supports three founders, one employee and every single cent that's left will go into improving the user experience. No upselling, no annoying ads, no parking crap, auctions and what have you. We have decided not to compete on price, features or add crappy hosting services but only to give customers what they really need and that is purchasing / managing domains. Having said that, there's still lots of room for improvement and we will not stop until we've build the domain registrar Marco is looking for.