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The Domains
DomainNameSales.com Announces $5.6MM Of Domain Transactions
DomainNameSales.com released today a combined total of $5,582,211 worth of sales. This included $4,738,329 worth of sales from their privately owned inventory, as well as $843.882 of partner sales. The highest domain sale was boatsforsale.com at...
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DomainNameSales.com Announces $5.6MM Of Domain Transactions
DomainNameSales.com released today a combined total of $5,582,211 worth of sales. This included $4,738,329 worth of sales from their privately owned inventory, as well as $843.882 of partner sales. The highest domain sale was boatsforsale.com at...
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July 16, 2013, 5:33 pm

The Domains
Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.5MM Led By Body.com For $380K
Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.5MM Led By Body.com For $380K Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/08/13 – 07/14/13 totaling $1.5MM. The highest priced transaction was body.com at $380,000 followed by startnext.com a...
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.5MM Led By Body.com For $380K
Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.5MM Led By Body.com For $380K Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 07/08/13 – 07/14/13 totaling $1.5MM. The highest priced transaction was body.com at $380,000 followed by startnext.com a...
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July 16, 2013, 4:30 pm

The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $1.07MM In Domains Let By ahn.org For $50K
Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/8/13 – 7/14/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,073,756. The highest sale was ahn.org which sold for $50,000, followed by Baseba...
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Afternic.com Sells $1.07MM In Domains Let By ahn.org For $50K
Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 7/8/13 – 7/14/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,073,756. The highest sale was ahn.org which sold for $50,000, followed by Baseba...
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July 16, 2013, 2:18 pm

Domain Name Wire
Healthcare company spends $50,000 on .org domain name for hospital chain
Tucows sells AHN.org for $50,000 to hospital system. Healthcare provider and insurance company Highmark spent $50,000 for the AHN.org domain name, topping Afternic’s list of reportable sales for last week. The domain name is the acronym for All...
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Healthcare company spends $50,000 on .org domain name for hospital chain
Tucows sells AHN.org for $50,000 to hospital system. Healthcare provider and insurance company Highmark spent $50,000 for the AHN.org domain name, topping Afternic’s list of reportable sales for last week. The domain name is the acronym for All...
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July 16, 2013, 2:05 pm

Domain Name Wire
Just like Express, The Limited loses .Limited new top level domain objection
Donuts has scored its second victory against a large fashion brand. The company has successfully defended itself in a Legal Rights Objection brought by Limited Stores, LLC for the top level domain .Limited. It recently won a case brought by Express f...
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Just like Express, The Limited loses .Limited new top level domain objection
Donuts has scored its second victory against a large fashion brand. The company has successfully defended itself in a Legal Rights Objection brought by Limited Stores, LLC for the top level domain .Limited. It recently won a case brought by Express f...
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July 16, 2013, 1:39 pm

Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy triples space in Sunnyvale, now over 80 employees in Silicon Valley
Domain name registrar leases 40,000 square feet in key Silicon Valley location. GoDaddy is opening a new office in Sunnyvale, California as it rapidly increases its headcount in the area. The new 40,000 square foot office more than triples the compan...
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GoDaddy triples space in Sunnyvale, now over 80 employees in Silicon Valley
Domain name registrar leases 40,000 square feet in key Silicon Valley location. GoDaddy is opening a new office in Sunnyvale, California as it rapidly increases its headcount in the area. The new 40,000 square foot office more than triples the compan...
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July 16, 2013, 1:10 pm

The Domains
MSNBC Does On Air Interview With Political Domainer Michael Deutsch
A few days ago the Nationaljournal.com wrote a story about political domainer Michael Deutsch who has over 1,800 domain names including naturalcondom.com to yankeestadium.com to drinkmilk.com to stemcellresearch.com. Today MSNBC did on air interview ...
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MSNBC Does On Air Interview With Political Domainer Michael Deutsch
A few days ago the Nationaljournal.com wrote a story about political domainer Michael Deutsch who has over 1,800 domain names including naturalcondom.com to yankeestadium.com to drinkmilk.com to stemcellresearch.com. Today MSNBC did on air interview ...
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July 16, 2013, 12:44 pm

Elliot's Blog
Quickest Domain Name Inquiry
I wanted to share a fun anecdote, especially because it involves a domain name I hand registered. As my domain registrar account managers can attest, I don’t hand register many domain names. Annually, I might hand register between 20-50 domain ...
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Quickest Domain Name Inquiry
I wanted to share a fun anecdote, especially because it involves a domain name I hand registered. As my domain registrar account managers can attest, I don’t hand register many domain names. Annually, I might hand register between 20-50 domain ...
Discussion
July 16, 2013, 12:31 pm

The Domains
ICANN Still Has No Idea What’s Its Going To Do With The Surplus From New gTLD Fees & Auctions
We have been saying for quite sometime that ICANN has not committed on how what its going to do with the surplus from the new gTLD program and today at the ICANN meeting in Durban ICANN confirmed it. Speaker at the meeting of the ICANN Board and Gove...
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ICANN Still Has No Idea What’s Its Going To Do With The Surplus From New gTLD Fees & Auctions
We have been saying for quite sometime that ICANN has not committed on how what its going to do with the surplus from the new gTLD program and today at the ICANN meeting in Durban ICANN confirmed it. Speaker at the meeting of the ICANN Board and Gove...
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July 16, 2013, 11:48 am

Domain Name Wire
Verisign downgrades sponsorship of ICANN meetings
After peaking in 2011 meeting, Verisign’s sponsorship of ICANN meetings has steadily dropped. Thinks there’s a lot of bad blood between Verisign and ICANN right now? That may be why Verisign isn’t sponsoring the Durban meeting at as...
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Verisign downgrades sponsorship of ICANN meetings
After peaking in 2011 meeting, Verisign’s sponsorship of ICANN meetings has steadily dropped. Thinks there’s a lot of bad blood between Verisign and ICANN right now? That may be why Verisign isn’t sponsoring the Durban meeting at as...
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July 16, 2013, 11:48 am