If you were affected, I think you can contact Groupon and request a refund. The Groupon offer was only valid for people from the US or Canada, so I wasn’t able to take advantage of it but based on what I’m hearing/reading, GoDaddy rejected additional Groupon credits today.

For example, if you bought three $70 credit codes via Groupon and applied them, you’ll only see $70 in your account now instead of $210. If you bought 4 $70 credit codes, you’ll only see $70 in your account instead of $280 and so on.

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The good news from VeriSign (news I’m sure you read about earlier this year) is that, as per the stipulations of their new contract, there won’t be any new price increases for dot coms. That’s excellent news for sure but the bad news for next year is that as of the 1st of July 2013, the wholesale price will increase to $5.62, ICANN fee not included.

Oh well 🙂

The dot sx landrush phase started and you can now claim your domain at registrars such as 101Domain. The landrush price over at 101Domain is $49.95 plus a non-refundable $10 application fee, click HERE for more details.

If the .sx domain you went after is not awarded, 101Domain will refund your $49.95 registration fee.

Congrats Andrew! I was browsing TechCrunch and came across their article about Amazon’s potential plans for Casa.com, with DomainNameWire being credited as the source. It’s always nice to come across such posts and it should be obvious to anyone capable of rational thought that our entire industry benefits whenever something like this happens. One step a time, one post at a time, we need to do everything humanly possible to help everyone understand that the domaining industry has its place in the online ecosystem and is here to stay.

If you want to start 2012 with some additional capital, click HERE and submit your best domains. The best 100 submissions will be included in the Jan 02 newsletter (Monday).

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The NamePros.com homepage design has been updated and it seems that they have added some new sections.

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Up until this point, they were only available to French residents but as of tomorrow, all Europeans will be able to register/own them according to a DomainMonster.com reminder I received via email.

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It seems that as of this month, PayPal no longer offers international masspay payments at $1 each. Instead of $1, you’ll be paying 2% of the amount that is being sent with a maximum which varies depending on the country you are from and the country you are sending to (in most cases, the maximum seems to be $45).

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Up until this point, DomainingTips.com was mostly about me posting personal opinions and what not. Well, I’ll still do this but as of today, DomainingTips.com will cover domaining news as well, so you might as well get used to the logo because you will see it quite often 🙂

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Places and Daily deals are (or should I say were) some of Facebook’s interesting expansion approaches but they ultimately decided to discontinue both projects.

Here is an official FB statement about why they are no longer interested in keeping Daily Deals alive:

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