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The difference between "sunrise" and "landrush" phases of new Top Level Domain rollouts.

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By , May 25, 2010

We published a few articles on our company blog about the forthcoming launch of the .CO top level domain, and we made numerous references to the “sunrise” and “landrush” phases without realizing that those phrases are “jargon”. People who don’t live and breathe domains may not actually know what this means!

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Home How do marketers and spammers get my personal information after I register a domain name?

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By , April 22, 2010

It never fails: somebody registers their first domain name and within 24 hours they’re getting unsolicited email in their inbox and eventually more marketing material via postal mail.

What happened?

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Where can I find the whois history of a domain name?

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By , April 22, 2010

DomainTools (formerly whois.sc and not affiliated with DomainHelp) carries a whois history of many domains in the .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info top level domains.

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