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The Domains
Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in two weeks
Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last mo...
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Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in two weeks
Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last mo...
Discussion
December 4, 2014, 11:24 am
DomainSherpa
What to Expect at NamesCon 2015 (Networking, Education, Offers on Domains) – With Jothan Frakes
Jothan Frakes, co-founder and content producer of the NamesCon domain name industry conference, joins Michael Cyger to discuss NamesCon 2015 taking place January 11-15 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Why is this conference worth your time and money? How can you...
Discussion
What to Expect at NamesCon 2015 (Networking, Education, Offers on Domains) – With Jothan Frakes
Jothan Frakes, co-founder and content producer of the NamesCon domain name industry conference, joins Michael Cyger to discuss NamesCon 2015 taking place January 11-15 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Why is this conference worth your time and money? How can you...
Discussion
December 4, 2014, 8:02 am
The Domains
Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin?
Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign say...
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Verisign Asks: Are Domain Name Registrations An Indication Of The Value of Bitcoin?
Can the value of Bitcoin be predicted by looking at the number of domain names registrations containing the term “Bitcoin”? In its blog post entitled “Domain Registrations: Is Bitcoin Going Mainstream” Verisign say...
Discussion
December 4, 2014, 1:57 am
Domain Shane
Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): FileBackup.com, Reformador.com, More
It’s always interesting to me to look at how buyers are using their domains a few months after purchase. The screenshots below are examples of some buyers of domains from September of this year that have either developed their sites, or purcha...
Discussion
Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): FileBackup.com, Reformador.com, More
It’s always interesting to me to look at how buyers are using their domains a few months after purchase. The screenshots below are examples of some buyers of domains from September of this year that have either developed their sites, or purcha...
Discussion
December 4, 2014, 12:38 am
The Domains
Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC
Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 4 out of 5 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has...
Discussion
Donuts Hits The Jackpot & Wins .Casino Beating Famous Four, Afilias & dotBeauty LLC
Donuts has won another contested new gTLD string beating Famous Four, Afilias, and dotBeauty LLC for the new domain extension .Casino For Donuts this marks 4 out of 5 strings won this week for those keeping score. As we previously reported Donuts has...
Discussion
December 3, 2014, 11:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Meet 8 people who spent more than $10,000 on a .NYC domain name
With over 60,000 domain names registered, the new .NYC domain name is off to a roaring start. During the “landrush phase”, over 1,000 .NYC domain names had more than one interested party and were thus headed to auction. Ten domain names, ...
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Meet 8 people who spent more than $10,000 on a .NYC domain name
With over 60,000 domain names registered, the new .NYC domain name is off to a roaring start. During the “landrush phase”, over 1,000 .NYC domain names had more than one interested party and were thus headed to auction. Ten domain names, ...
Discussion
December 3, 2014, 7:01 pm
The Domains
Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000
According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Tru...
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Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000
According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Tru...
Discussion
December 3, 2014, 6:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
How most people see domain investors
This guy got his name as a domain name, but he wasn’t happy about how it all went down. Want to know how a person trying to get his hands on a domain name sees domain name investors? Here’s a pretty good summary. Brad Frost, a web develop...
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How most people see domain investors
This guy got his name as a domain name, but he wasn’t happy about how it all went down. Want to know how a person trying to get his hands on a domain name sees domain name investors? Here’s a pretty good summary. Brad Frost, a web develop...
Discussion
December 3, 2014, 5:58 pm
The Domains
Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four
Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others, Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .N...
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Donuts Wins .News Beating Out Amazon, Uniregisty, Radix & Famous Four
Donuts has won one of the top 10 new gTLD strings in our opinion, .News beating out among others, Amazon, Uniregistry, Radix, Famous Four. PRIMER NIVEL S.A of Panama and Merchant Law Group LLP also had applications in on .News. In my opinion .N...
Discussion
December 3, 2014, 5:48 pm
The Domains
Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complai...
Discussion
Another No Trademark UDRP Thrown Out, Without Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Another UDRP panel has thrown out a complainant against a company which recently registered a trademark matching a domain registered 7 years earlier without even considering a finding of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Never mind that the Complai...
Discussion
December 3, 2014, 3:26 pm
