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Domain Shane
Domain Flips (CloudCommerce.com, Fertilize.com) and Flops (BillCollection.com, Fertilizing.com)
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips CloudCommerce.com sold for 20,000 USD on 2015-10-04 in a private sale, vs 10,000 USD on 2013-11-03 at Afternic. A site is live already, and the domain...
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Domain Flips (CloudCommerce.com, Fertilize.com) and Flops (BillCollection.com, Fertilizing.com)
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips CloudCommerce.com sold for 20,000 USD on 2015-10-04 in a private sale, vs 10,000 USD on 2013-11-03 at Afternic. A site is live already, and the domain...
Discussion
October 14, 2015, 9:02 pm
The Domains
Former Adult Site VS.com Is The 3rd Reported Two Letter Domain Sale Today
The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it went under privacy at Godaddy. However the servers did not change and the domain was r...
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Former Adult Site VS.com Is The 3rd Reported Two Letter Domain Sale Today
The domain name VS.com appears to have sold. The domain name was registered to a VS Media, Inc. of Calabasas, California until a couple of months ago when it went under privacy at Godaddy. However the servers did not change and the domain was r...
Discussion
October 14, 2015, 8:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Calvin Harris wins cybersquatting claim for CalvinHarris.com
Famous musician gets .com domain name. DJ and Taylor Swift boyfriend Calvin Harris has won rights to the domain name CalvinHarris.com through a World Intellectual Property Organization proceeding. Harris, whose real name is Adam R. Wiles, successfull...
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Calvin Harris wins cybersquatting claim for CalvinHarris.com
Famous musician gets .com domain name. DJ and Taylor Swift boyfriend Calvin Harris has won rights to the domain name CalvinHarris.com through a World Intellectual Property Organization proceeding. Harris, whose real name is Adam R. Wiles, successfull...
Discussion
October 14, 2015, 3:55 pm
The Domains
There Goes Another Two Letter .Com: PT.com Appears To Have Been Sold
The domain name PT.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by a Mark Conrad of Rochester New York for many years and his former company Performance Technologies, who owned the domain since at least 2001. The domain has an original ...
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There Goes Another Two Letter .Com: PT.com Appears To Have Been Sold
The domain name PT.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by a Mark Conrad of Rochester New York for many years and his former company Performance Technologies, who owned the domain since at least 2001. The domain has an original ...
Discussion
October 14, 2015, 3:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
What’s inside 1 Month of Network Solutions emails?
What is Network Solutions pitching to its customers in all of that email? Here’s the answer. Anyone who has registered a domain name with Web.com registrars Network Solutions and Register.com know that the company sends lots of promotional emai...
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What’s inside 1 Month of Network Solutions emails?
What is Network Solutions pitching to its customers in all of that email? Here’s the answer. Anyone who has registered a domain name with Web.com registrars Network Solutions and Register.com know that the company sends lots of promotional emai...
Discussion
October 14, 2015, 2:55 pm
The Domains
.Org Adds 130K Registrations, Tops 10.5 Million: Registrants In China Own 3.2%
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The Dashboard.” The .Org domain name extension, added 130,865 additional registratio...
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.Org Adds 130K Registrations, Tops 10.5 Million: Registrants In China Own 3.2%
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org, .ngo and .ong domains, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report “The Dashboard.” The .Org domain name extension, added 130,865 additional registratio...
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October 14, 2015, 2:15 pm
The Domains
Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In September
Verisign’s published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the .XYZ extension with its acquisition of abc.xyz, the term XYZ was number 6 on the top 10 .com li...
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Verisign: XYZ Is 6 On The Top 10 Trending Keyword For .Com Registrations In September
Verisign’s published the top 10 keywords in registered in .COM and .NET in September and with the help of Google who bought amazing publicity to the .XYZ extension with its acquisition of abc.xyz, the term XYZ was number 6 on the top 10 .com li...
Discussion
October 14, 2015, 1:35 pm
The Domains
Netflix Finally Wins A URS on Netflix.pics; The Difference?; The Domain Was Parked
Netflix finally won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case on the domain name Netflix.pics Netflix recently lost two URS cases on the domain names Netflix.news and Netflix.website. There were two difference between this case of Netflix.pics and the ot...
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Netflix Finally Wins A URS on Netflix.pics; The Difference?; The Domain Was Parked
Netflix finally won a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case on the domain name Netflix.pics Netflix recently lost two URS cases on the domain names Netflix.news and Netflix.website. There were two difference between this case of Netflix.pics and the ot...
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October 14, 2015, 1:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
XYZ is trending…in .Com
XYZ makes .com’s trending keywords list. The .XYZ domain name has garnered a lot of attention since Google’s new parent company Alphabet selected ABC.XYZ for its domain name in August. Now XYZ is hot in .com. Verisign released its monthly...
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XYZ is trending…in .Com
XYZ makes .com’s trending keywords list. The .XYZ domain name has garnered a lot of attention since Google’s new parent company Alphabet selected ABC.XYZ for its domain name in August. Now XYZ is hot in .com. Verisign released its monthly...
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October 14, 2015, 1:08 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Auction Picks: Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
As a Cubs fan and former Wrigleyville resident, I had a great time yesterday watching them celebrate the series win at Wrigly Field. Something that hadn’t been done in 100 years. As a DomainSherpa panelist I had a job to do du...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Auction Picks: Wednesday, October 14th, 2015
As a Cubs fan and former Wrigleyville resident, I had a great time yesterday watching them celebrate the series win at Wrigly Field. Something that hadn’t been done in 100 years. As a DomainSherpa panelist I had a job to do du...
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October 14, 2015, 10:18 am
