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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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Two
Debuts Today: Gates Open for .XXX and DomainTools
Launches Screenshots.com
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General
availability of the new .XXX extension
began today when the ICM
Registry, operator of the TLD aimed
at the adult entertainment industry, opened
their doors at 11am
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(U.S.
Eastern time). Names are now available on a
first come, first served basis at standard
registration fees. Those vary from one
registrar to the next, so registrants would be
wise to shop around. A list of registrars
that offer .xxx is available at www.buy.xxx.
For trivia buffs, the first domain taken when
open registration began was iown.xxx.
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In
another debut today, popular
domain name research and
monitoring service provider DomainTools
launched Screenshots.com,
a free website that
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screenshots
of what a website has looked
like throughout its history
as well as how it appears now.
Screenshots.com provides a web
archive of images and data sets
that can be used for studying
the history of website
homepages.
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By launching on the premium
domain name Screenshots.com (a domain the company purchased
earlier this year for $32,500), a
DomainTools press
release said they will be able to feature
useful content in a more functional way for users that
are specifically interested in home page archives. In
addition to learning how a website looked over time,
visitors can quickly uncover the year the domain was
first registered and find similar kinds of websites. The
Featured Screenshot section on the home page
scans news feeds for domain name references and
showcases those on a rotating basis.
Screenshots.com checks up
to 1 million websites a day and, unlike other
screenshot services, captures external resources like
ads and images. With Screenshots.com, what you see is
exactly what a past visitor would have seen when they
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For nearly
10 years now, DomainTools.com has been a key resource
for domain investors. Along with their sister sites, DailyChanges.com,
ReverseWhois.com,
and Reversemx.com,
the company has helped individuals, small business
owners and large enterprises do everything from finding
a good domain for a new business to verifying DNS
and WhoIs information on corporate portfolios of
thousands of domains. |
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(Posted Dec.
6, 2011)
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