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Domain Name Wire
Network Solutions auto enrolls customer into $1,850 “WebLock” service
Email to customer informs him that his credit card will be billed unless he opts out. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will ...
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Network Solutions auto enrolls customer into $1,850 “WebLock” service
Email to customer informs him that his credit card will be billed unless he opts out. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will ...
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January 21, 2014, 11:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Big company’s website suspended thanks to 2013 RAA
Sports site suspended because someone didn’t click on a confirmation email. It’s not exactly Amazon.com, but a website belonging to a large company has been suspended thanks to a whois verification snafu. Fixtures365.com, a sports betting...
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Big company’s website suspended thanks to 2013 RAA
Sports site suspended because someone didn’t click on a confirmation email. It’s not exactly Amazon.com, but a website belonging to a large company has been suspended thanks to a whois verification snafu. Fixtures365.com, a sports betting...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 9:37 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million
Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million
Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 9:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
A Recap: My week at NamesCon
A recap of what I did, saw, and heard during NamesCon last week. Last week was the inaugural NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. In case you weren’t one of the close to 600 people who experienced it in person, everything you’ve heard is spo...
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A Recap: My week at NamesCon
A recap of what I did, saw, and heard during NamesCon last week. Last week was the inaugural NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. In case you weren’t one of the close to 600 people who experienced it in person, everything you’ve heard is spo...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 8:18 pm
The Domains
Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains
Forget about new gtlds we have Star domains W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using J...
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Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains
Forget about new gtlds we have Star domains W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using J...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 8:05 pm
Domain Shane
Godaddy Has Some Auction Problems: Including Losing Trust in the Completion of the Deal
In order for a company to be successful the most important thing that you can do is establish trust with your customer. Money is lost when the consumer doesn’t trust that the transaction with go smoothly from start to finish. There ...
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Godaddy Has Some Auction Problems: Including Losing Trust in the Completion of the Deal
In order for a company to be successful the most important thing that you can do is establish trust with your customer. Money is lost when the consumer doesn’t trust that the transaction with go smoothly from start to finish. There ...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 7:26 pm
The Domains
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.86 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/13/14 – 1/19/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,866,118. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Heg.net for $5,000. Below is the ...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.86 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/13/14 – 1/19/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,866,118. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Heg.net for $5,000. Below is the ...
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January 21, 2014, 6:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Heritage Auctions accepting submissions for next domain name auction
Auction is scheduled to take place in late March. Heritage Auctions is planning its second domain name auction to take place in late March, and is seeking domain name owners to submit their domains for the auction. The company sold about $1.5 million...
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Heritage Auctions accepting submissions for next domain name auction
Auction is scheduled to take place in late March. Heritage Auctions is planning its second domain name auction to take place in late March, and is seeking domain name owners to submit their domains for the auction. The company sold about $1.5 million...
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January 21, 2014, 6:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Yahoo! and 21 other end users bought
Yahoo! buys a sports domain name and other end user domain name purchases. Afternic and GoDaddy sold $1.7 million worth of aftermarket domain names from 1/6/14 – 1/12/14. Here are some of the sales that were to end users. You can see more end u...
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What domain names Yahoo! and 21 other end users bought
Yahoo! buys a sports domain name and other end user domain name purchases. Afternic and GoDaddy sold $1.7 million worth of aftermarket domain names from 1/6/14 – 1/12/14. Here are some of the sales that were to end users. You can see more end u...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 4:18 pm
The Domains
Booking.com Which Applied For .Booking Rolls Out Campaign Using Booking.Yeah
Booking.com which applied for the new gTLD .Booking announced today a new advertising campaign wrapped around Booking.Yeah Its the “first-ever brand campaign” for Booking.com. Booking.com applied for the .booking new gTLD. No one a...
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Booking.com Which Applied For .Booking Rolls Out Campaign Using Booking.Yeah
Booking.com which applied for the new gTLD .Booking announced today a new advertising campaign wrapped around Booking.Yeah Its the “first-ever brand campaign” for Booking.com. Booking.com applied for the .booking new gTLD. No one a...
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January 21, 2014, 3:29 pm
