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In late 2012, Namecheap relaunched the initiative and set the date for the second Move Your Domain Day as 22 January 2013. On that day, Namecheap announced that domain transfers would be greatly discounted, and between $0.50 and $1.50 per domain transferred would be donated to the EFF (depending on the total number of transfers). [16]
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company [3] headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated in Delaware. [4] As of 2023, [update] GoDaddy is the world's fifth largest web host by market share, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] with over 62 million registered domains. [ 7 ]
In 1993 the U.S. Department of Commerce, in conjunction with several public and private entities, created InterNIC to maintain a central database that contains all the registered domain names and the associated IP addresses in the U.S. (other countries maintain their own NICs (Network Information Centers) -- there is a link below that discusses Canada's system, for example).
An Auth-Code, [1] [2] also known as an EPP code, authorization code, transfer code, [3] or Auth-Info Code, [1] is a generated passcode required to transfer an Internet domain name between domain registrars; the code is intended to indicate that the domain name owner has authorized the transfer.
A frequent tactic used by domain hijackers is to use acquired personal information about the actual domain owner to impersonate them and persuade the domain registrar to modify the registration information and/or transfer the domain to another registrar, a form of identity theft. Once this has been done, the hijacker has full control of the ...
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A wildcard DNS record is a record in a DNS zone that will match requests for non-existent domain names. A wildcard DNS record is specified by using a * as the leftmost label (part) of a domain name, e.g. *.example.com. The exact rules for when a wildcard will match are specified in RFC 1034, but the rules are neither intuitive nor clearly ...
A drop catcher is a domain name registrar that offers the service of attempting to quickly register a given domain name for a customer if that name becomes available—that is, to "catch" a "dropped" name—when the domain name's registration expires and is then deleted, either because the registrant abandons the domain or because the ...