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Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Saturday, March 14th, 2015
Sometimes I use the saying “I’m going to stick around like burnt popcorn” and most people have no idea what I’m talking about. Wednesday a lot of people figured it out. All our employees have started coming back to...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Saturday, March 14th, 2015
Sometimes I use the saying “I’m going to stick around like burnt popcorn” and most people have no idea what I’m talking about. Wednesday a lot of people figured it out. All our employees have started coming back to...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 10:55 am
Domain Shane
Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): Hueston.com, Vadacom.com, HappyFresh.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. Hueston.com sold for $25,000 at Dom...
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Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): Hueston.com, Vadacom.com, HappyFresh.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. Hueston.com sold for $25,000 at Dom...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 12:47 am
The Domains
Salesforce Paid $2.6 Million Dollars For Social.com & Now It Just To Redirects To Another URL
Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that “Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monit...
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Salesforce Paid $2.6 Million Dollars For Social.com & Now It Just To Redirects To Another URL
Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that “Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monit...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 7:17 pm
The Domains
TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the v...
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the v...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 6:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameJet Expired Domain Report
Frank Schilling made a comment yesterday regarding NameJet that I believe is significant – and not because it’s anything new … rather the opposite. Many people, myself included, have observed rising final auctio...
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NameJet Expired Domain Report
Frank Schilling made a comment yesterday regarding NameJet that I believe is significant – and not because it’s anything new … rather the opposite. Many people, myself included, have observed rising final auctio...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 6:17 pm
The Domains
International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
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International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 4:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Where to find Domain Name Companies at #SXSW
Find at least seven companies in Austin at #SXSW. Over the next 10 days about 400,000 people will come to Austin for SXSW and the many unofficial events that surround it. Here are some of the places you can find domain name companies in Austin during...
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Where to find Domain Name Companies at #SXSW
Find at least seven companies in Austin at #SXSW. Over the next 10 days about 400,000 people will come to Austin for SXSW and the many unofficial events that surround it. Here are some of the places you can find domain name companies in Austin during...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 2:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
MarkMonitor: we won’t profit on .Sucks
Company will charge modest service fee on “Extortion domain”. Brand protection domain name registrar MarkMonitor says it understands its clients will feel compelled to pay for a .sucks domain name, but it won’t profit from the regis...
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MarkMonitor: we won’t profit on .Sucks
Company will charge modest service fee on “Extortion domain”. Brand protection domain name registrar MarkMonitor says it understands its clients will feel compelled to pay for a .sucks domain name, but it won’t profit from the regis...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts challenges ICANN’s .Doctor decision
Stethoscope may be required to register a .Doctor domain name. Donuts has filed a reconsideration request after ICANN decided to slam the door on who can register a domain name under the .doctor top level domain name. Last month, ICANN’s New gT...
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Donuts challenges ICANN’s .Doctor decision
Stethoscope may be required to register a .Doctor domain name. Donuts has filed a reconsideration request after ICANN decided to slam the door on who can register a domain name under the .doctor top level domain name. Last month, ICANN’s New gT...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 1:43 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, March 5th, 2015
If you are reading this on your phone you probably notice that our site now displays a lot better. This website was super responsive and then we decided to have a couple things custom coded and honestly never realized how bad it was on a phone ...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, March 5th, 2015
If you are reading this on your phone you probably notice that our site now displays a lot better. This website was super responsive and then we decided to have a couple things custom coded and honestly never realized how bad it was on a phone ...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 10:55 am
