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Domain Shane
Update on Top 10 Sales from A Year Ago: Novio.com, Preggers.com, 3DPrinter.net, Blabbermouth.com, More
Listed below are updates to the top 10 domain sales from a year ago this week, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. 88888.com for $245,000 No site resolves, and presumably owned by an investor in China…..Whois appears to show Ename’s privacy pro...
Discussion
Update on Top 10 Sales from A Year Ago: Novio.com, Preggers.com, 3DPrinter.net, Blabbermouth.com, More
Listed below are updates to the top 10 domain sales from a year ago this week, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. 88888.com for $245,000 No site resolves, and presumably owned by an investor in China…..Whois appears to show Ename’s privacy pro...
Discussion
November 15, 2014, 2:13 am
Domain Name Wire
Reviewing last month’s NameJet sales
Joseph Peterson takes a look at some of last month’s notable domain name sales at NameJet. If I were to tell you that, by selling 66 domains at or above the $2,000 mark during October, NameJet recorded one of its lowest monthly domain counts&nb...
Discussion
Reviewing last month’s NameJet sales
Joseph Peterson takes a look at some of last month’s notable domain name sales at NameJet. If I were to tell you that, by selling 66 domains at or above the $2,000 mark during October, NameJet recorded one of its lowest monthly domain counts&nb...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 5:00 pm
The Domains
.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be?
The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with ...
Discussion
.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be?
The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with ...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 4:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bespoke.com saved in UDRP, but no RDNH and unbelievable dissent
Domain bought for $18,805 earlier this year saved in UDRP, but it was closer than it should have been. In September, I wrote about the domain name Bespoke.com being hit with a UDRP after the buyer paid $18,805 to buy it in an expired domain name auct...
Discussion
Bespoke.com saved in UDRP, but no RDNH and unbelievable dissent
Domain bought for $18,805 earlier this year saved in UDRP, but it was closer than it should have been. In September, I wrote about the domain name Bespoke.com being hit with a UDRP after the buyer paid $18,805 to buy it in an expired domain name auct...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 3:23 pm
Sully's Blog
Local Domains for Quick Cash
A few days ago, I wrote about 3 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Domaining. One of those things was to forget the hand registrations and save your money for a premium domain. I mentioned that there was one exception to that ...
Discussion
Local Domains for Quick Cash
A few days ago, I wrote about 3 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Domaining. One of those things was to forget the hand registrations and save your money for a premium domain. I mentioned that there was one exception to that ...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 3:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why my North Dakota Trucking domain name pays for itself
Registering NorthDakotaTrucking.com probably didn’t make sense, but now I understand why it pays for itself each year. I registered the domain name NorthDakotaTrucking.com in 2007. I was on a bit of a geo domain kick at the time. But let’...
Discussion
Why my North Dakota Trucking domain name pays for itself
Registering NorthDakotaTrucking.com probably didn’t make sense, but now I understand why it pays for itself each year. I registered the domain name NorthDakotaTrucking.com in 2007. I was on a bit of a geo domain kick at the time. But let’...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 2:59 pm
The Domains
PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. ...
Discussion
PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. ...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 1:21 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Friday 11/14/14
I saw my buddy Frager talking about his great stock picks over the last few months and got a giggle out of it. Stock picking hasn’t been very hard lately if you picked the momo stocks. I think everyone has Apple, Tesla, Chipotle, Ce...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Friday 11/14/14
I saw my buddy Frager talking about his great stock picks over the last few months and got a giggle out of it. Stock picking hasn’t been very hard lately if you picked the momo stocks. I think everyone has Apple, Tesla, Chipotle, Ce...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 11:45 am
DomainSherpa
Domain Name News: November 14 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:• Amazon.com Wins .Book, .Buy and .Pay Top Level Domain Name Battles• Web.com Sued for Telemarketing Calls• Will Web.com's Poor Earnings Report Hurt GoDaddy&rsq...
Discussion
Domain Name News: November 14 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news, including:• Amazon.com Wins .Book, .Buy and .Pay Top Level Domain Name Battles• Web.com Sued for Telemarketing Calls• Will Web.com's Poor Earnings Report Hurt GoDaddy&rsq...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 10:30 am
The Domains
More Details Emerge On New York’s Deal On .NYC: But 50K New Yorkers Did Not Register 50K Domains
According to a post on crainsnewyork.com, the city of New York is making a “cool $40,000 a week on the Internet”. According to the story, the City of New York collects 40% of all domain registration fees collected by Neustar the ope...
Discussion
More Details Emerge On New York’s Deal On .NYC: But 50K New Yorkers Did Not Register 50K Domains
According to a post on crainsnewyork.com, the city of New York is making a “cool $40,000 a week on the Internet”. According to the story, the City of New York collects 40% of all domain registration fees collected by Neustar the ope...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 10:28 pm
