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Domain Name Wire
Anyone can start a club on Clubhouse now. What does this mean for .Club?
A new feature could improve the interplay between Clubhouse and .club domains. It’s been quite a ride for .Club this year thanks to the popular Clubhouse app. Some people are buying .club domains to use in conjunction with the app, and many mor...
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Anyone can start a club on Clubhouse now. What does this mean for .Club?
A new feature could improve the interplay between Clubhouse and .club domains. It’s been quite a ride for .Club this year thanks to the popular Clubhouse app. Some people are buying .club domains to use in conjunction with the app, and many mor...
Discussion
March 6, 2021, 8:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
This company didn’t want you to dropcatch BoatSecure.com
It was apparently bombarded by auction frontrunners. One of the expired domain auctions on DropCatch.com this afternoon was for the domain BoatSecure.com. I was researching the name and looking at other companies using the extension when I came upon ...
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This company didn’t want you to dropcatch BoatSecure.com
It was apparently bombarded by auction frontrunners. One of the expired domain auctions on DropCatch.com this afternoon was for the domain BoatSecure.com. I was researching the name and looking at other companies using the extension when I came upon ...
Discussion
March 5, 2021, 8:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
FTA.com domain name sells for $400,000
Shane Kinsch strikes again with another big domain name sale. Anyone who owns a three letter .com domain name has received many offers for it. It was probably tempting to sell during the Chinese boom a few years back, when investors regularly offered...
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FTA.com domain name sells for $400,000
Shane Kinsch strikes again with another big domain name sale. Anyone who owns a three letter .com domain name has received many offers for it. It was probably tempting to sell during the Chinese boom a few years back, when investors regularly offered...
Discussion
March 5, 2021, 4:19 pm
The Domains
Verisign DNIB Q4 2020 showed a decrease of 4.4m regs vs Q3 of 2020
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2020. The fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain name registrations, or...
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Verisign DNIB Q4 2020 showed a decrease of 4.4m regs vs Q3 of 2020
Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q4 2020. The fourth quarter of 2020 closed with 366.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 4.4 million domain name registrations, or...
Discussion
March 5, 2021, 6:09 am
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – Mar 4 2021: Hip Hop and You Don’t Stop: Sports.Cards, Metaverse.io (again), ClassicRap.com
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Sports.Cards, Metaverse.io (again), ClassicRap.com;• We discuss domains coming up for auction on N...
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DomainSherpa Review – Mar 4 2021: Hip Hop and You Don’t Stop: Sports.Cards, Metaverse.io (again), ClassicRap.com
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Sports.Cards, Metaverse.io (again), ClassicRap.com;• We discuss domains coming up for auction on N...
Discussion
March 4, 2021, 7:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Korean chicken restaurant chain settles lawsuit with domain investor
Company had tried to secure a domain through a UDRP, only to be hit with a lawsuit. Korean fast food chain Mom’s Touch has settled a lawsuit domain name investor GNO, Inc. (Gregg Ostrick) filed against it. Mom’s Touch’s parent compa...
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Korean chicken restaurant chain settles lawsuit with domain investor
Company had tried to secure a domain through a UDRP, only to be hit with a lawsuit. Korean fast food chain Mom’s Touch has settled a lawsuit domain name investor GNO, Inc. (Gregg Ostrick) filed against it. Mom’s Touch’s parent compa...
Discussion
March 4, 2021, 7:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 recent end user domain name sales
A cybersecurity company, office furniture seller, and an insurance company bought domain names. Sedo had a couple of domain name sales this week that I really want to know who bought them. It’s not clear yet, but keep an eye on ThisDoesntSuck.c...
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14 recent end user domain name sales
A cybersecurity company, office furniture seller, and an insurance company bought domain names. Sedo had a couple of domain name sales this week that I really want to know who bought them. It’s not clear yet, but keep an eye on ThisDoesntSuck.c...
Discussion
March 4, 2021, 2:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Desktop.com launches out of beta
Remote team and web app platform is backed by several people in the domain name industry. Desktop.com has officially launched the non-beta version of its product. The service is the brainchild of .Global founder Rolf Larsen. Larsen sold .Global to Af...
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Desktop.com launches out of beta
Remote team and web app platform is backed by several people in the domain name industry. Desktop.com has officially launched the non-beta version of its product. The service is the brainchild of .Global founder Rolf Larsen. Larsen sold .Global to Af...
Discussion
March 3, 2021, 5:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
The SiteLock v. GoDaddy lawsuit is getting ugly
Discovery process has gotten so bad that the parties are using a court reporter to document meet-and-confer sessions. A legal battle between website security company SiteLock and GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) gives credence to the idea that the only people wh...
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The SiteLock v. GoDaddy lawsuit is getting ugly
Discovery process has gotten so bad that the parties are using a court reporter to document meet-and-confer sessions. A legal battle between website security company SiteLock and GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) gives credence to the idea that the only people wh...
Discussion
March 3, 2021, 5:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com leaderboard gets a shakeup
The Endurance-Web merger changes the look of the charts. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers November 2020. Last month, Endurance International ...
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.Com leaderboard gets a shakeup
The Endurance-Web merger changes the look of the charts. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers November 2020. Last month, Endurance International ...
Discussion
March 3, 2021, 2:01 pm
