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Four .xxx domain names sell for $600,000
Registry sells four more premium adult domain names. ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain name, announced today that it sold four premium .xxx domain names for $600,000. Adult entertainment company Really Useful Limited bought M...
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Four .xxx domain names sell for $600,000
Registry sells four more premium adult domain names. ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain name, announced today that it sold four premium .xxx domain names for $600,000. Adult entertainment company Really Useful Limited bought M...
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October 15, 2013, 3:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy acquires webhosting company (mt) Media Temple
GoDaddy gets foothold in more technical customer segment with latest acquisition. GoDaddy has acquired Los Angeles-based webhosting company (mt) Media Temple, known simply as (mt), for an undisclosed price. (mt) targets a more technical customer base...
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GoDaddy acquires webhosting company (mt) Media Temple
GoDaddy gets foothold in more technical customer segment with latest acquisition. GoDaddy has acquired Los Angeles-based webhosting company (mt) Media Temple, known simply as (mt), for an undisclosed price. (mt) targets a more technical customer base...
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October 15, 2013, 12:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Elliot’s Blog rebrands as DomainInvesting.com
Popular domain investing blog moves to a new domain name. If you visit Elliot Silver’s popular domaining blog today, don’t be alarmed by the redirect to DomainInvesting.com. Silver has rebranded the site from ElliotsBlog.com to DomainInve...
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Elliot’s Blog rebrands as DomainInvesting.com
Popular domain investing blog moves to a new domain name. If you visit Elliot Silver’s popular domaining blog today, don’t be alarmed by the redirect to DomainInvesting.com. Silver has rebranded the site from ElliotsBlog.com to DomainInve...
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October 15, 2013, 9:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt resigns
Richard Rosenblatt resigns as Chairman & CEO of Demand Media. There’s been a change at the top of one of the domain name industry’s biggest companies. Demand Media announced today that Richard Rosenblatt has stepped down as Chairman a...
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Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt resigns
Richard Rosenblatt resigns as Chairman & CEO of Demand Media. There’s been a change at the top of one of the domain name industry’s biggest companies. Demand Media announced today that Richard Rosenblatt has stepped down as Chairman a...
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October 14, 2013, 4:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameBright.com: This is what happens when a domain investor creates a domain registrar
Team at TurnCommerce unveils new domain name registrar with tools for domainers. What would happen if a large domain name investor created a domain registrar from the bottom up? The result would look like NameBright.com. NameBright.com is a new domai...
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NameBright.com: This is what happens when a domain investor creates a domain registrar
Team at TurnCommerce unveils new domain name registrar with tools for domainers. What would happen if a large domain name investor created a domain registrar from the bottom up? The result would look like NameBright.com. NameBright.com is a new domai...
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October 14, 2013, 4:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN publishes new TLD applicant videos
All new TLD applicants invited to participate in recorded videos. As part of ICANN’s global awareness campaign for new top level domain names, the group invited all applicants for new top level domain names to participate in a recorded intervie...
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ICANN publishes new TLD applicant videos
All new TLD applicants invited to participate in recorded videos. As part of ICANN’s global awareness campaign for new top level domain names, the group invited all applicants for new top level domain names to participate in a recorded intervie...
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October 14, 2013, 12:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
After acquiring TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name team went to work
Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education comp...
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After acquiring TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name team went to work
Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education comp...
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October 14, 2013, 10:52 am
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What domain names the Jacksonville Jaguars and 30 others bought last week
NFL team was among the end user buyers of domain names last week. When GoDaddy acquired Afternic, one of my unspoken concerns was that Afternic would no longer release sales data. GoDaddy has historically released less information than other large do...
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What domain names the Jacksonville Jaguars and 30 others bought last week
NFL team was among the end user buyers of domain names last week. When GoDaddy acquired Afternic, one of my unspoken concerns was that Afternic would no longer release sales data. GoDaddy has historically released less information than other large do...
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October 12, 2013, 11:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Oh brother, .Shop applicant has really lost it this time
Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be...
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Oh brother, .Shop applicant has really lost it this time
Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be...
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October 11, 2013, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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October 11, 2013, 10:18 am
