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The Domains
Report Dailymail.com “Sold For As Much As £1m-plus” (1.65 Million)
According to a story in TheGuardian.com, whose parent company operates Mail Online otherwise known as the Daily Mail & General Trust “has paid potentially as much as £1m-plus to secure the valuable domain name. DailyMail.com&rdq...
Discussion
Report Dailymail.com “Sold For As Much As £1m-plus” (1.65 Million)
According to a story in TheGuardian.com, whose parent company operates Mail Online otherwise known as the Daily Mail & General Trust “has paid potentially as much as £1m-plus to secure the valuable domain name. DailyMail.com&rdq...
Discussion
January 27, 2014, 1:38 pm
The Domains
Web.com Has 50 New gTLD For Pre-Registration
Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), which owns two of the top to 10 domain name registrars now has over 50 new gTLD’s domain extensions available for pre-registration and purchase. The following new domain names are now available for pre-registr...
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Web.com Has 50 New gTLD For Pre-Registration
Web.com Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:WWWW), which owns two of the top to 10 domain name registrars now has over 50 new gTLD’s domain extensions available for pre-registration and purchase. The following new domain names are now available for pre-registr...
Discussion
January 27, 2014, 1:28 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 27th, 2014
Someone asked me yesterday day what I thought the key to starting a new blog was. When used to write my old blog I would make sure to write a post about every headline in the news and try and relate it to my website. It was all about numbers, t...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 27th, 2014
Someone asked me yesterday day what I thought the key to starting a new blog was. When used to write my old blog I would make sure to write a post about every headline in the news and try and relate it to my website. It was all about numbers, t...
Discussion
January 27, 2014, 11:17 am
DomainSherpa
StockPhoto.com: Pre-paying $250,000 for a Lifetime of Customer Traffic – With Jon Yau
Instead of hand registering a $9 brandable domain name like ShutterStock.com or iStockPhoto.com and paying for CPC marketing forever, Jon Yau plunked down $250,000 of his family’s savings to purchase StockPhoto.com – a domain name with 50...
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StockPhoto.com: Pre-paying $250,000 for a Lifetime of Customer Traffic – With Jon Yau
Instead of hand registering a $9 brandable domain name like ShutterStock.com or iStockPhoto.com and paying for CPC marketing forever, Jon Yau plunked down $250,000 of his family’s savings to purchase StockPhoto.com – a domain name with 50...
Discussion
January 27, 2014, 9:00 am
The Domains
Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Firm Deep Mind
Google is acquiring Deep Mind for reportedly $400 million although some are reporting it may have been as high as $500 million. Deep Mind is involved in the field of artificial intelligence. The news came out on a Sunday and many publica...
Discussion
Google Acquires Artificial Intelligence Firm Deep Mind
Google is acquiring Deep Mind for reportedly $400 million although some are reporting it may have been as high as $500 million. Deep Mind is involved in the field of artificial intelligence. The news came out on a Sunday and many publica...
Discussion
January 27, 2014, 4:30 am
The Domains
Has Frank Schilling been the inspiration behind one company’s XXX spending spree ?
Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely. It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000...
Discussion
Has Frank Schilling been the inspiration behind one company’s XXX spending spree ?
Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely. It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000...
Discussion
January 26, 2014, 9:07 pm
Domain Shane
You Can Spin TLD Data In Any Direction You Want: Here’s An Example
Yesterday Raymond Hackney (one of the best and most prolific writers in our industry) wrote an article yesterday about dot co that was a synopsis of another article written about dot co. To me it merely showed the marketing prowess behind dot c...
Discussion
You Can Spin TLD Data In Any Direction You Want: Here’s An Example
Yesterday Raymond Hackney (one of the best and most prolific writers in our industry) wrote an article yesterday about dot co that was a synopsis of another article written about dot co. To me it merely showed the marketing prowess behind dot c...
Discussion
January 26, 2014, 7:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts tops $5 million in “orders and commitments”
New TLD company reports metrics as it gets ready for general availability later this week. New top level domain name “mega registry” Donuts says it has topped $5 million in “orders and commitments” for its services so far. Sev...
Discussion
Donuts tops $5 million in “orders and commitments”
New TLD company reports metrics as it gets ready for general availability later this week. New top level domain name “mega registry” Donuts says it has topped $5 million in “orders and commitments” for its services so far. Sev...
Discussion
January 26, 2014, 5:01 pm
The Domains
Fadi Chehadé: If We Fragment The Internet, ‘It Will Not Be The Internet As We Know It’
In an article in the Huffington Post, the CEO of ICANN said that fragmentation of the Internet was a primary concern. From the article: Fadi Chehadé, CEO Of ICANN, told HuffPost Live at Davos he thinks the “biggest threat” to innov...
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Fadi Chehadé: If We Fragment The Internet, ‘It Will Not Be The Internet As We Know It’
In an article in the Huffington Post, the CEO of ICANN said that fragmentation of the Internet was a primary concern. From the article: Fadi Chehadé, CEO Of ICANN, told HuffPost Live at Davos he thinks the “biggest threat” to innov...
Discussion
January 25, 2014, 11:36 pm
The Domains
Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds”
This week we did hear from some companies within the new gtld space and what kind of demand they were seeing. Donuts put out a blog post yesterday where they said they have already received total orders and commitments over $5million. Now some of th...
Discussion
Go Daddy “thousands and thousands” of people have preregistered 25 new gtlds”
This week we did hear from some companies within the new gtld space and what kind of demand they were seeing. Donuts put out a blog post yesterday where they said they have already received total orders and commitments over $5million. Now some of th...
Discussion
January 25, 2014, 9:47 pm
