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The Domains
Post the best .com you have for sale for $250 or less
$250 or less .COM ONLY Let’s try to blow out some names this week, on the daily $250 or less makes up at least half of the .coms being reported by Namebio. They should preferably be two and three word.coms but you are free to list any .com you ...
Discussion
Post the best .com you have for sale for $250 or less
$250 or less .COM ONLY Let’s try to blow out some names this week, on the daily $250 or less makes up at least half of the .coms being reported by Namebio. They should preferably be two and three word.coms but you are free to list any .com you ...
Discussion
May 15, 2020, 8:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Doxing crosses the free speech line in UDRP case
Panelist rules that domain used for gripe site isn’t protected speech. UDRP panelists walk a fine line when considering cases involving gripe sites. Is it cybersquatting to register a domain related to a company if the goal is to complain about...
Discussion
Doxing crosses the free speech line in UDRP case
Panelist rules that domain used for gripe site isn’t protected speech. UDRP panelists walk a fine line when considering cases involving gripe sites. Is it cybersquatting to register a domain related to a company if the goal is to complain about...
Discussion
May 15, 2020, 6:22 pm
The Domains
NameJet/Snapnames April sales led by Khols.com
NameJet/Snapnames released their April sales $2,000 and above. Khols.com was the top sale at $81,559. The domain which was lost in a UDRP to Kohl’s the department store chain. More on that here. 999555.com was second at $44,000. 1740.com was th...
Discussion
NameJet/Snapnames April sales led by Khols.com
NameJet/Snapnames released their April sales $2,000 and above. Khols.com was the top sale at $81,559. The domain which was lost in a UDRP to Kohl’s the department store chain. More on that here. 999555.com was second at $44,000. 1740.com was th...
Discussion
May 15, 2020, 6:16 pm
The Domains
A bunch more of Jane Both’s blockchain domain names expire
Sadly it’s Deja Vu for the estate of Jane Angela Maginsky Pantalone Both. I wrote about her passing and her blockchain related domains expiring in January of 2018. Back then over 100 domains and $100,000 in expired domain auction sales transact...
Discussion
A bunch more of Jane Both’s blockchain domain names expire
Sadly it’s Deja Vu for the estate of Jane Angela Maginsky Pantalone Both. I wrote about her passing and her blockchain related domains expiring in January of 2018. Back then over 100 domains and $100,000 in expired domain auction sales transact...
Discussion
May 15, 2020, 6:13 am
Domain Name Wire
Website Boom: Wix quantifies massive demand for websites due to Covid
People are creating websites in droves. Website building platform Wix (Nasdaq: WIX) reported first quarter earnings today. It had a solid first quarter, but things got really interesting in April. As domain name companies can attest, there has been a...
Discussion
Website Boom: Wix quantifies massive demand for websites due to Covid
People are creating websites in droves. Website building platform Wix (Nasdaq: WIX) reported first quarter earnings today. It had a solid first quarter, but things got really interesting in April. As domain name companies can attest, there has been a...
Discussion
May 14, 2020, 6:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
A cool featured of ExpiredDomains.net
Kassey Lee explains a neat feature of ExpiredDomains.net for finding domain deals. I collect China-related domains. Recently I discovered a function provided by ExpiredDomains.net that is very useful if you have a shopping list of domains. During my ...
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A cool featured of ExpiredDomains.net
Kassey Lee explains a neat feature of ExpiredDomains.net for finding domain deals. I collect China-related domains. Recently I discovered a function provided by ExpiredDomains.net that is very useful if you have a shopping list of domains. During my ...
Discussion
May 14, 2020, 3:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Cloud releases lots of reserved inventory, drops premium renewals
No more premium renewals as more names go through the channel. I normally don’t write about individual top level domain names releasing or repricing their premium inventory. But I’ve sold two .cloud domains for about $1,000 each, so there...
Discussion
.Cloud releases lots of reserved inventory, drops premium renewals
No more premium renewals as more names go through the channel. I normally don’t write about individual top level domain names releasing or repricing their premium inventory. But I’ve sold two .cloud domains for about $1,000 each, so there...
Discussion
May 14, 2020, 1:32 pm
The Domains
Tema.com just closed at $128,938
Tema.com just closed at $128,938 at DropCatch. The domain name was owned by a Swedish company named Rectus for years. Rectus was acquired by Parker Hannafin in 2007. The bidding popped from $109,137 to $128,888 by namecatching but the bidder determin...
Discussion
Tema.com just closed at $128,938
Tema.com just closed at $128,938 at DropCatch. The domain name was owned by a Swedish company named Rectus for years. Rectus was acquired by Parker Hannafin in 2007. The bidding popped from $109,137 to $128,888 by namecatching but the bidder determin...
Discussion
May 13, 2020, 7:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Nordic healthcare company files dead-on-arrival cybersquatting claim
Company goes after domain registered nine years before it started using its brand name. Timik Group, a healthcare company in Sweden and Norway, has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against the domain Timik.com. The case was dead one arrival: Timi...
Discussion
Nordic healthcare company files dead-on-arrival cybersquatting claim
Company goes after domain registered nine years before it started using its brand name. Timik Group, a healthcare company in Sweden and Norway, has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against the domain Timik.com. The case was dead one arrival: Timi...
Discussion
May 13, 2020, 5:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain sales including a three letter .com
A new online events platform, a touch display manufacturer, and a surgical mask seller bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale for the past week was a three-letter domain bought by an end user through SedoMLS. Here’s a look at some of...
Discussion
End user domain sales including a three letter .com
A new online events platform, a touch display manufacturer, and a surgical mask seller bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale for the past week was a three-letter domain bought by an end user through SedoMLS. Here’s a look at some of...
Discussion
May 13, 2020, 5:00 pm