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Domain Name Wire
MarkMonitor: we won’t profit on .Sucks
Company will charge modest service fee on “Extortion domain”. Brand protection domain name registrar MarkMonitor says it understands its clients will feel compelled to pay for a .sucks domain name, but it won’t profit from the regis...
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MarkMonitor: we won’t profit on .Sucks
Company will charge modest service fee on “Extortion domain”. Brand protection domain name registrar MarkMonitor says it understands its clients will feel compelled to pay for a .sucks domain name, but it won’t profit from the regis...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts challenges ICANN’s .Doctor decision
Stethoscope may be required to register a .Doctor domain name. Donuts has filed a reconsideration request after ICANN decided to slam the door on who can register a domain name under the .doctor top level domain name. Last month, ICANN’s New gT...
Discussion
Donuts challenges ICANN’s .Doctor decision
Stethoscope may be required to register a .Doctor domain name. Donuts has filed a reconsideration request after ICANN decided to slam the door on who can register a domain name under the .doctor top level domain name. Last month, ICANN’s New gT...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 1:43 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, March 5th, 2015
If you are reading this on your phone you probably notice that our site now displays a lot better. This website was super responsive and then we decided to have a couple things custom coded and honestly never realized how bad it was on a phone ...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, March 5th, 2015
If you are reading this on your phone you probably notice that our site now displays a lot better. This website was super responsive and then we decided to have a couple things custom coded and honestly never realized how bad it was on a phone ...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 10:55 am
DomainSherpa
Domain Name News: March 13 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.• Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As of December 31• Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLDs to Lose 6x The Number...
Discussion
Domain Name News: March 13 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.• Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As of December 31• Is The Trademark Clearinghouse Causing New gTLDs to Lose 6x The Number...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 9:30 am
Domain Shane
The Speculation is Over: VVV.com Sells for $136,400 on Namejet
And it was a fight between the biggest buyer on Namejet , FIRST, and a buyer than came just for the name, VVVcom. There were polls. There were threads. How much will VVV.com sell for. Andrew Rosener told everyone that he had ...
Discussion
The Speculation is Over: VVV.com Sells for $136,400 on Namejet
And it was a fight between the biggest buyer on Namejet , FIRST, and a buyer than came just for the name, VVVcom. There were polls. There were threads. How much will VVV.com sell for. Andrew Rosener told everyone that he had ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 8:56 pm
The Domains
Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of December 31
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as ...
Discussion
Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of December 31
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 8:46 pm
The Domains
VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
Discussion
VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 8:39 pm
The Domains
Is The Trademark Clearing House Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearing house program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read a...
Discussion
Is The Trademark Clearing House Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearing house program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read a...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 7:01 pm
The Domains
Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: “2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class”
In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of 11, and two word domains was ...
Discussion
Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: “2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class”
In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of 11, and two word domains was ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 4:42 pm
The Domains
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new ...
Discussion
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 4:28 pm
