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Domain Name Wire
Afilias sells its stake in MMX
Afilias USA exits its position in new top level domain company. Domain name registry Afilias has sold its stake in top level domain name company MMX (London AIM: MMX), also known as Minds + Machines. The company exited its 3.16% position in the compa...
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Afilias sells its stake in MMX
Afilias USA exits its position in new top level domain company. Domain name registry Afilias has sold its stake in top level domain name company MMX (London AIM: MMX), also known as Minds + Machines. The company exited its 3.16% position in the compa...
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November 18, 2020, 7:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
241 four letter domain names will sell tomorrow
No-reserve domain name auction ends Thursday. Sedo’s four-letter .com domain name auction ends tomorrow. There are no reserves and all of the domains have bids — which means that all 241 domains will sell. As of the time of posting...
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241 four letter domain names will sell tomorrow
No-reserve domain name auction ends Thursday. Sedo’s four-letter .com domain name auction ends tomorrow. There are no reserves and all of the domains have bids — which means that all 241 domains will sell. As of the time of posting...
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November 18, 2020, 6:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Cooper’s Hawk restaurant chain tries reverse domain name hijacking
Restaurant chain files UDRP after years of trying to acquire the domain name. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has determined that Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain name CoopersHawk.com. ...
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Cooper’s Hawk restaurant chain tries reverse domain name hijacking
Restaurant chain files UDRP after years of trying to acquire the domain name. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has determined that Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurants tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain name CoopersHawk.com. ...
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November 18, 2020, 6:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
19 end user domain sales at Sedo
A resume service, an Irish health tech company, and a manufacturer of outdoor shelters bought domain names last week. Lots of end users bought domain names at Sedo this past week. The top sale was an exact match Dutch domain name, and the top .com sa...
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19 end user domain sales at Sedo
A resume service, an Irish health tech company, and a manufacturer of outdoor shelters bought domain names last week. Lots of end users bought domain names at Sedo this past week. The top sale was an exact match Dutch domain name, and the top .com sa...
Discussion
November 18, 2020, 2:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy (all of it) went down this evening
All of GoDaddy — including its main website — went down this evening. GoDaddy had technical difficulties this evening that took down its entire network, including websites hosted on GoDaddy. The main GoDaddy.com website was not resolving ...
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GoDaddy (all of it) went down this evening
All of GoDaddy — including its main website — went down this evening. GoDaddy had technical difficulties this evening that took down its entire network, including websites hosted on GoDaddy. The main GoDaddy.com website was not resolving ...
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November 18, 2020, 3:45 am
The Domains
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by gereedschap.nl
Sedo released their weekly doamin name sales and gereedschap.nl led the way at 35,750 Euro, ($42,418). Tools in Dutch. Flinks.com was second at $25,000 and Jey.com was third at $20,000. 69 .com sales 25 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Top 3 highlights ...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by gereedschap.nl
Sedo released their weekly doamin name sales and gereedschap.nl led the way at 35,750 Euro, ($42,418). Tools in Dutch. Flinks.com was second at $25,000 and Jey.com was third at $20,000. 69 .com sales 25 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Top 3 highlights ...
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November 17, 2020, 9:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy launches GoDaddy Corporate Domains for large brands
GoDaddy rebrands Brandsight and launches it as GoDaddy Corporate Domains. GoDaddy announced GoDaddy Corporate Domains today. The brand-targeted registrar is a rechristening of Brandsight, a corporate domain name registrar that GoDaddy acquired as par...
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GoDaddy launches GoDaddy Corporate Domains for large brands
GoDaddy rebrands Brandsight and launches it as GoDaddy Corporate Domains. GoDaddy announced GoDaddy Corporate Domains today. The brand-targeted registrar is a rechristening of Brandsight, a corporate domain name registrar that GoDaddy acquired as par...
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November 17, 2020, 5:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
NASDAQ 100 company Vertex Pharmaceuticals tries reverse domain name hijacking
Company tried to get domain name from a Pakistani medical company. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found that Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTX), a $58 billion (market cap) company, tried to reverse domain name hijack ...
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NASDAQ 100 company Vertex Pharmaceuticals tries reverse domain name hijacking
Company tried to get domain name from a Pakistani medical company. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found that Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRTX), a $58 billion (market cap) company, tried to reverse domain name hijack ...
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November 17, 2020, 4:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Does your domain name registrar make it easy to transfer domains out?
Don’t do business with registrars that make it difficult to leave. Yesterday, I received a notice from the Wall Street Journal that I needed to update my credit card. I logged into my WSJ.com account and was surprised to see that I’m payi...
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Does your domain name registrar make it easy to transfer domains out?
Don’t do business with registrars that make it difficult to leave. Yesterday, I received a notice from the Wall Street Journal that I needed to update my credit card. I logged into my WSJ.com account and was surprised to see that I’m payi...
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November 17, 2020, 2:15 pm
The Domains
New disclaimer alert for GoDaddy Appraisal tool
Over the weekend I noticed a little triangle as an alert when using the GoDaddy appraisal tool. Disclaimer The Estimated Value is based on an algorithm utilizing data GoDaddy has available to it to help estimate predicted sale price of domains. Howev...
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New disclaimer alert for GoDaddy Appraisal tool
Over the weekend I noticed a little triangle as an alert when using the GoDaddy appraisal tool. Disclaimer The Estimated Value is based on an algorithm utilizing data GoDaddy has available to it to help estimate predicted sale price of domains. Howev...
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November 16, 2020, 11:54 pm
