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The Domains
Founder of Diapers.com Buys Jet.com From Chernoff, Backed By $55 Million To Take On Amazon
Recode.net, just published a post entitled “The CEO Who Sold Diapers.com to Amazon Raises $55 Million to Challenge Amazon Again” Marc Lore, the former CEO and founder of Diapers.com, which the par...
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Founder of Diapers.com Buys Jet.com From Chernoff, Backed By $55 Million To Take On Amazon
Recode.net, just published a post entitled “The CEO Who Sold Diapers.com to Amazon Raises $55 Million to Challenge Amazon Again” Marc Lore, the former CEO and founder of Diapers.com, which the par...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 5:14 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1.9M But Only 5 .Com’s Sell For 5 Figures
Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 Million 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: lurk.com at 18,000 G...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.9M But Only 5 .Com’s Sell For 5 Figures
Over the past week, 569 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9 Million 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: lurk.com at 18,000 G...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 3:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Finally, well-targeted new top level domain name marketing
Network Solutions’ pitches .republican domain names to owners of political domain names. A couple weeks ago I wrote about how Sedo did a new TLD promotion that registrars should be doing. Sedo looked at its existing customer base for people int...
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Finally, well-targeted new top level domain name marketing
Network Solutions’ pitches .republican domain names to owners of political domain names. A couple weeks ago I wrote about how Sedo did a new TLD promotion that registrars should be doing. Sedo looked at its existing customer base for people int...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XYZ now has over 400,000 domain name registrations
Freebies and deep discounts add up to a big figure. The .XYZ domain name now has over 400,000 registrations, according to zone file reports. Of course, the majority of these registrations were given away free to Network Solutions customers on an opt-...
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.XYZ now has over 400,000 domain name registrations
Freebies and deep discounts add up to a big figure. The .XYZ domain name now has over 400,000 registrations, according to zone file reports. Of course, the majority of these registrations were given away free to Network Solutions customers on an opt-...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 2:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Holdings nearly triples sales in second quarter
Company sells close to $10 million worth of domain names. Domain name brokerage Domain Holdings had a big second quarter, turning in almost 3x the sales of its first quarter. The company reported today that it sold $9.9M worth of domain names in the ...
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Domain Holdings nearly triples sales in second quarter
Company sells close to $10 million worth of domain names. Domain name brokerage Domain Holdings had a big second quarter, turning in almost 3x the sales of its first quarter. The company reported today that it sold $9.9M worth of domain names in the ...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 2:43 pm
The Domains
.Toys Launches Wed: O.Toys; Educational.Toys; Pool.Toys, Christmas.Toys Already Registered
.Toys which goes into general availability tomorrow Wednesday July 30th A .Toys non-premium domain registration is priced at $39.95 at Godaddy. We went through the zone file for .Toys and found the more interesting domain names taken in Sunrise (for ...
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.Toys Launches Wed: O.Toys; Educational.Toys; Pool.Toys, Christmas.Toys Already Registered
.Toys which goes into general availability tomorrow Wednesday July 30th A .Toys non-premium domain registration is priced at $39.95 at Godaddy. We went through the zone file for .Toys and found the more interesting domain names taken in Sunrise (for ...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 2:39 pm
The Domains
DomainHoldings.com Reports Amost $10M in Domain Name Sales In Q2
Domain Holdings issued its domain sales report for the second quarter of 2014 reporting almost $10,000,000 USD in sales. These results are not just a testimony of success for our team but further acknowledgment that our brand continues to earn ...
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DomainHoldings.com Reports Amost $10M in Domain Name Sales In Q2
Domain Holdings issued its domain sales report for the second quarter of 2014 reporting almost $10,000,000 USD in sales. These results are not just a testimony of success for our team but further acknowledgment that our brand continues to earn ...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 2:11 pm
The Domains
The Village Voice Covers .NYC: Landrush Auctions Will Be in 5 & 6 Figures
The Village Voice just covered the new .NYC domain names and quotes Gerardo Aristizabal who runs the domain registrar Hello NYC who predicts that Landrush auctions will produce bids at least to the tens of thousands of dollars,” “Two or t...
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The Village Voice Covers .NYC: Landrush Auctions Will Be in 5 & 6 Figures
The Village Voice just covered the new .NYC domain names and quotes Gerardo Aristizabal who runs the domain registrar Hello NYC who predicts that Landrush auctions will produce bids at least to the tens of thousands of dollars,” “Two or t...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 1:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Celebrate Broadway celebrates .Broadway win
Contention set for .broadway top level domain name won by trade association. Celebrate Broadway, Inc., a subsidiary of The Broadway League Inc., has won the contention set for the .Broadway top level domain name. Other applicants included Donuts and ...
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Celebrate Broadway celebrates .Broadway win
Contention set for .broadway top level domain name won by trade association. Celebrate Broadway, Inc., a subsidiary of The Broadway League Inc., has won the contention set for the .Broadway top level domain name. Other applicants included Donuts and ...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 1:09 pm
The Domains
Key-Systems To Donate 30 Euro For 1st 1,000 .Hiv Domain Registrations
Key-Systems GmbH announced today that it will support the dotHIV initiative with a fundraising for the start of .hiv. The domain registrar will donate 30 Euro to the dotHIV association for each of the first 1,000 .hiv domains that is registered in th...
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Key-Systems To Donate 30 Euro For 1st 1,000 .Hiv Domain Registrations
Key-Systems GmbH announced today that it will support the dotHIV initiative with a fundraising for the start of .hiv. The domain registrar will donate 30 Euro to the dotHIV association for each of the first 1,000 .hiv domains that is registered in th...
Discussion
July 29, 2014, 12:50 pm
