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The Domains
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.85 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 2/17/14 – 2/23/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,848,381. The top .com sale was lead by ProjectBook.com for $20,000, with the top non-com sale lead by ILN.org for $9,800. Below is t...
Discussion
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.85 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 2/17/14 – 2/23/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,848,381. The top .com sale was lead by ProjectBook.com for $20,000, with the top non-com sale lead by ILN.org for $9,800. Below is t...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 6:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club domain name auction ends tomorrow. 0 domains have hit their reserve.
Auction has bidders but no domains have hit their reserve yet. The Olympic-themed .Club domain name auction going on at Sedo ends on Wednesday. So far no domain names have hit their reserve price. I think there are three reasons that no domains have ...
Discussion
.Club domain name auction ends tomorrow. 0 domains have hit their reserve.
Auction has bidders but no domains have hit their reserve yet. The Olympic-themed .Club domain name auction going on at Sedo ends on Wednesday. So far no domain names have hit their reserve price. I think there are three reasons that no domains have ...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 5:26 pm
The Domains
Moving A Penalized Website To A New Domain May Not Remove Your Google Penalty
Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the...
Discussion
Moving A Penalized Website To A New Domain May Not Remove Your Google Penalty
Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 5:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain search progressing, but still not ready for new top level domain names
Registrars are slowly improving their search results to show new top level domain name options, but the experience is far from ideal. Earlier this month I wrote about how domain name search at major registrars wasn’t ready for new top level dom...
Discussion
Domain search progressing, but still not ready for new top level domain names
Registrars are slowly improving their search results to show new top level domain name options, but the experience is far from ideal. Earlier this month I wrote about how domain name search at major registrars wasn’t ready for new top level dom...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 4:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
It’s time! Take the 2014 Domain Name Wire Survey
Please take the ninth annual survey from Domain Name Wire. The 9th annual Domain Name Wire survey officially launches today, and this year’s looks very different from the past. You may recall that last year someone tried to game the survey by s...
Discussion
It’s time! Take the 2014 Domain Name Wire Survey
Please take the ninth annual survey from Domain Name Wire. The 9th annual Domain Name Wire survey officially launches today, and this year’s looks very different from the past. You may recall that last year someone tried to game the survey by s...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Green and .Wedding contention sets settled in multi-million dollar auctions
Two three-applicant contention sets are resolved. The .green and .wedding new top level domain name contention sets have been resolved in private auctions. It’s unclear which company won the .green auction as applications have not yet been with...
Discussion
.Green and .Wedding contention sets settled in multi-million dollar auctions
Two three-applicant contention sets are resolved. The .green and .wedding new top level domain name contention sets have been resolved in private auctions. It’s unclear which company won the .green auction as applications have not yet been with...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 1:22 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Wins Private Auction For Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00 The figure quoted includ...
Discussion
Minds + Machines Wins Private Auction For Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00 The figure quoted includ...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 12:43 pm
The Domains
Ga.Me Launches “Revolutionizing The Way People Play & Develop Games”
According to a press release out this morning by the .ME Registry the site Ga.ME, a product that is revolutionizing the way people play and develop games launched today. Developed by Turbulenz Limited in Guildford, UK, Ga.ME is the first unifie...
Discussion
Ga.Me Launches “Revolutionizing The Way People Play & Develop Games”
According to a press release out this morning by the .ME Registry the site Ga.ME, a product that is revolutionizing the way people play and develop games launched today. Developed by Turbulenz Limited in Guildford, UK, Ga.ME is the first unifie...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 12:29 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on February 25th, 2014
Congrats to Michael Cyger for winning the “domain blogger I think could change my tire” poll yesterday. He won by a landslide although the “I’ll just do it myself” received twice as many votes as anyone. It was a c...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on February 25th, 2014
Congrats to Michael Cyger for winning the “domain blogger I think could change my tire” poll yesterday. He won by a landslide although the “I’ll just do it myself” received twice as many votes as anyone. It was a c...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 11:21 am
The Domains
Mt.Gox Goes Offline, Gox.com is sold and some interesting documents show up
While reading MattVukas.com tonight Matt mentioned that there was a blogger that was posting some interesting stuff. From the article: But tonight, we may have received the final chapter of Mt. Gox’s last saga, courtesy of a Bitcoin blogger kn...
Discussion
Mt.Gox Goes Offline, Gox.com is sold and some interesting documents show up
While reading MattVukas.com tonight Matt mentioned that there was a blogger that was posting some interesting stuff. From the article: But tonight, we may have received the final chapter of Mt. Gox’s last saga, courtesy of a Bitcoin blogger kn...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 9:13 am
