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Domain Name Wire
ICANN 51 site shows funny tweet from parody Chehade account
Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which pulls in all...
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ICANN 51 site shows funny tweet from parody Chehade account
Unfiltered tweet feed on ICANN website pokes fun at .xyz giveways. Like many meetings/conferences, ICANN publishes a tweetstream on its page for each meeting. That includes the site for the upcoming ICANN 51 meeting in Los Angeles, which pulls in all...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week .Rocks, definitely not a .Fail week
.Rocks is the top TLD of the week. On Tuesday I questioned if this week would be a big .fail for new TLDs, or if it would .Rock. We now have a (relative) answer. Rightside’s .Rocks was the top domain name launch of the week. So, by that definit...
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This week .Rocks, definitely not a .Fail week
.Rocks is the top TLD of the week. On Tuesday I questioned if this week would be a big .fail for new TLDs, or if it would .Rock. We now have a (relative) answer. Rightside’s .Rocks was the top domain name launch of the week. So, by that definit...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 3:25 pm
The Domains
Treat.co Bought For $1,050 in 2011 Just Flipped For $19K
The domain name Treat.co just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $19,000. The domain was bought by the Seller also from Sedo, back in December 2011 for $1,050. So its a 19X return in about 30 months. Not bad. The domain name is already activ...
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Treat.co Bought For $1,050 in 2011 Just Flipped For $19K
The domain name Treat.co just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $19,000. The domain was bought by the Seller also from Sedo, back in December 2011 for $1,050. So its a 19X return in about 30 months. Not bad. The domain name is already activ...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 3:24 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Adopts Compensation “Restricted Stock Unit Plan” For Up To 12.5% Of Its Shares
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today “that it has adopted a new share incentive scheme”. “As set out in the Company’s Readmission document published earlier this year, the Company has been considering impl...
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Minds + Machines Adopts Compensation “Restricted Stock Unit Plan” For Up To 12.5% Of Its Shares
Minds + Machines Group Limited (AIM:MMX), announced today “that it has adopted a new share incentive scheme”. “As set out in the Company’s Readmission document published earlier this year, the Company has been considering impl...
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August 7, 2014, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons spends $1M on Christine Jones’ run for governor
Parsons paying for attack ads against former employee’s competition for Governor. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is lending a helping hand to his former employee Christine Jones. Jones, who was GoDaddy’s general counsel, is now running for g...
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GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons spends $1M on Christine Jones’ run for governor
Parsons paying for attack ads against former employee’s competition for Governor. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is lending a helping hand to his former employee Christine Jones. Jones, who was GoDaddy’s general counsel, is now running for g...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 1:54 pm
The Domains
Very Troubling: 19 Year Old SouthPaw.com Lost in UDRP
Southpaw Enterprises, Inc. just won the rights to the domain name southpaw.com in a UDRP As a term, Southpaw refers to someone who is left handed. The domain name was registered on April 18, 1995. The Respondent bought the domain name in 2002. The Co...
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Very Troubling: 19 Year Old SouthPaw.com Lost in UDRP
Southpaw Enterprises, Inc. just won the rights to the domain name southpaw.com in a UDRP As a term, Southpaw refers to someone who is left handed. The domain name was registered on April 18, 1995. The Respondent bought the domain name in 2002. The Co...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 1:53 pm
The Domains
Principal Financial Loses URS On Principal.Guru
Principal Financial Services,just lost a Uniform Resolution Proceeding on the domain name Principal.Guru The company filed a separate URS on the domain names principal.services principal.center Which case has not been decided yet but I would not expe...
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Principal Financial Loses URS On Principal.Guru
Principal Financial Services,just lost a Uniform Resolution Proceeding on the domain name Principal.Guru The company filed a separate URS on the domain names principal.services principal.center Which case has not been decided yet but I would not expe...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 1:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Picking a baby name based on domain name availability
Site generates list of available domain names for naming a baby. A lot of domain name registrars have pushed out PR in recent years about parents snapping up a domain name for their newborn babies. I have one matching my daughter’s name, and ev...
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Picking a baby name based on domain name availability
Site generates list of available domain names for naming a baby. A lot of domain name registrars have pushed out PR in recent years about parents snapping up a domain name for their newborn babies. I have one matching my daughter’s name, and ev...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 1:22 pm
The Domains
.Rocks The New gTLD With Over 5K Registrations. .Limited 1,100; .WTF 973; .Financial 751
.Rocks led this weeks new gTLD’s that went into general availability yesterday finishing off its first day with 5,191 registrations which includes domains taken in Sunrise and through the Early Access Program (EAP). .Limited finished it f...
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.Rocks The New gTLD With Over 5K Registrations. .Limited 1,100; .WTF 973; .Financial 751
.Rocks led this weeks new gTLD’s that went into general availability yesterday finishing off its first day with 5,191 registrations which includes domains taken in Sunrise and through the Early Access Program (EAP). .Limited finished it f...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 1:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Use HTTPS? Google will give you a bump in search rankings.
Search ranking change should be good news for domain name registrars. Google announced this morning that it’s starting to give extra credit in search results to companies offering websites secured by SSL. That means sites where you see httpS://...
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Use HTTPS? Google will give you a bump in search rankings.
Search ranking change should be good news for domain name registrars. Google announced this morning that it’s starting to give extra credit in search results to companies offering websites secured by SSL. That means sites where you see httpS://...
Discussion
August 7, 2014, 1:04 pm
