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Domain Name Wire
Expired domain name results: Wangan.com $13k, Floridian.com $11k and more
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. The usual suspects are at it again – China and the USA. During the past week, NameJet saw a $13.9k auction finish for Wangan.com, which formerly belonged to a C...
Discussion
Expired domain name results: Wangan.com $13k, Floridian.com $11k and more
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. The usual suspects are at it again – China and the USA. During the past week, NameJet saw a $13.9k auction finish for Wangan.com, which formerly belonged to a C...
Discussion
May 14, 2015, 2:12 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Record level of click through on the list yesterday. Must have been a few names that people liked. Or at least one name that people REALLY liked. I track the names that get clicked so I can see what kind of names are popular. ...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Record level of click through on the list yesterday. Must have been a few names that people liked. Or at least one name that people REALLY liked. I track the names that get clicked so I can see what kind of names are popular. ...
Discussion
May 14, 2015, 11:25 am
DomainSherpa
How to Invest $10K; Unresponsive Sellers; Reject $10K for $50K Offer; Going .Green; Deflategate.com
In this DomainSherpa Discussion:•How to invest $10K if beginning investing today: ten $1K domains or one $10K domain?•After negotiating, seller goes unresponsive. What are your options now?•When is a bird in the hand worth ($10K offer ...
Discussion
How to Invest $10K; Unresponsive Sellers; Reject $10K for $50K Offer; Going .Green; Deflategate.com
In this DomainSherpa Discussion:•How to invest $10K if beginning investing today: ten $1K domains or one $10K domain?•After negotiating, seller goes unresponsive. What are your options now?•When is a bird in the hand worth ($10K offer ...
Discussion
May 14, 2015, 7:02 am
The Domains
.Design Winds Up With Over 5K Domain Registrations After 1st Day
.Design which launched into general availability (GA) on Tuesday wound up with 5,204 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com. The 5,204 domain names include all registrations during the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid a...
Discussion
.Design Winds Up With Over 5K Domain Registrations After 1st Day
.Design which launched into general availability (GA) on Tuesday wound up with 5,204 domain registrations according to ntldstats.com. The 5,204 domain names include all registrations during the Sunrise period by Trademark Holders and those who paid a...
Discussion
May 14, 2015, 4:43 am
Domain Shane
Domain Flips (BSH.com, PWX.com, J2M.com) and Flops (SpecialOffer.com, Depreciating.com) from NameBio
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips PWX.com sold recently for 35,000 USD at Voove, vs 1,500 USD on 2006-10-16 at Afternic. Ahhhh, the days when you could buy an LLL.com for $1,500. Whois...
Discussion
Domain Flips (BSH.com, PWX.com, J2M.com) and Flops (SpecialOffer.com, Depreciating.com) from NameBio
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips PWX.com sold recently for 35,000 USD at Voove, vs 1,500 USD on 2006-10-16 at Afternic. Ahhhh, the days when you could buy an LLL.com for $1,500. Whois...
Discussion
May 14, 2015, 12:49 am
The Domains
Weigel Broadcasting Co (MeTvNetwork.com) Files UDRP on Me.Tv
Weigel Broadcasting Co. has filed a UDRP on the domain name Me.Tv The domain name is owned under privacy since at least 2005 at Enom.com and it looks like it may have been owned by Enom.com as it went to an Enom.com registration page in 2012 rather t...
Discussion
Weigel Broadcasting Co (MeTvNetwork.com) Files UDRP on Me.Tv
Weigel Broadcasting Co. has filed a UDRP on the domain name Me.Tv The domain name is owned under privacy since at least 2005 at Enom.com and it looks like it may have been owned by Enom.com as it went to an Enom.com registration page in 2012 rather t...
Discussion
May 13, 2015, 9:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Qualcomm, Express and other End User Domain Name Buyers
Qualcomm and Express among end user domain name buyers last week. The top sale on Sedo’s weekly transaction list for the past week was Same.com, which I wrote about here. Although that sale dwarfed the other public sales, some big companies wer...
Discussion
Qualcomm, Express and other End User Domain Name Buyers
Qualcomm and Express among end user domain name buyers last week. The top sale on Sedo’s weekly transaction list for the past week was Same.com, which I wrote about here. Although that sale dwarfed the other public sales, some big companies wer...
Discussion
May 13, 2015, 6:23 pm
The Domains
Qatar Airways Loses Attempt To Grab DiscoverQatar.org & QatarTourism.org
Qatar Airways Doha, Qatar, just lost its bid to grab the domain names discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org in a UDRP which are owned by Travelindex SA The one member panel of Tony Willoughby found the Complaint which owns qatarairways.com slogan on...
Discussion
Qatar Airways Loses Attempt To Grab DiscoverQatar.org & QatarTourism.org
Qatar Airways Doha, Qatar, just lost its bid to grab the domain names discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org in a UDRP which are owned by Travelindex SA The one member panel of Tony Willoughby found the Complaint which owns qatarairways.com slogan on...
Discussion
May 13, 2015, 5:54 pm
The Domains
Co. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.UK; Owns New gTLD .Mango
The company we wrote about yesterday being found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands, today we were given a hat tip by Domainincite.com, that this company is also a new gTLD ap...
Discussion
Co. Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Mango.UK; Owns New gTLD .Mango
The company we wrote about yesterday being found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking, Consolidated Artists B.V. of Rotterdam Netherlands, today we were given a hat tip by Domainincite.com, that this company is also a new gTLD ap...
Discussion
May 13, 2015, 4:01 pm
The Domains
BTC.com Launches New Platform For Bitcoin Users: $1M Purchase Price is a “Long Term Lease”
BTC.com announced today a new platform for the world’s Bitcoin users on “the million-dollar domain”. We also learned from the press release that the BTC.com sale for $1 Million dollars is “long term lease agreement” and ...
Discussion
BTC.com Launches New Platform For Bitcoin Users: $1M Purchase Price is a “Long Term Lease”
BTC.com announced today a new platform for the world’s Bitcoin users on “the million-dollar domain”. We also learned from the press release that the BTC.com sale for $1 Million dollars is “long term lease agreement” and ...
Discussion
May 13, 2015, 2:41 pm
