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Domain Name Wire
Track your domains even after you decide not to renew them
You never know when a domain’s chances of selling will increase. I renew many of my domains six months or more in advance. If I know I’m going to renew them, I like to knock them out in bulk so I don’t have to worry about them and d...
Discussion
Track your domains even after you decide not to renew them
You never know when a domain’s chances of selling will increase. I renew many of my domains six months or more in advance. If I know I’m going to renew them, I like to knock them out in bulk so I don’t have to worry about them and d...
Discussion
June 22, 2017, 4:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
CrazyDomains owner buys Singapore domain and hosting company
Australian registrar gobbles up Singapore company. Dreamscape Networks, owner of Australian domain name registrar CrazyDomains, has acquired Singapore’s Vodien Group for AUS $30 million (about USD $23 million). Vodien Group has 27,000 customers...
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CrazyDomains owner buys Singapore domain and hosting company
Australian registrar gobbles up Singapore company. Dreamscape Networks, owner of Australian domain name registrar CrazyDomains, has acquired Singapore’s Vodien Group for AUS $30 million (about USD $23 million). Vodien Group has 27,000 customers...
Discussion
June 22, 2017, 2:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rick Schwartz gets RDNH win on Queen.com
Flower company guilty of reserve domain name hijacking over Queen.com domain name. Knud Jepsen A/S has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in the UDRP it brought against Rick Schwartz’s domain name Queen.com. The complainant is k...
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Rick Schwartz gets RDNH win on Queen.com
Flower company guilty of reserve domain name hijacking over Queen.com domain name. Knud Jepsen A/S has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in the UDRP it brought against Rick Schwartz’s domain name Queen.com. The complainant is k...
Discussion
June 22, 2017, 1:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Normann Copenhagen and DLA Piper team up in bad reverse domain hijacking case
With help of well-known law firm, furniture company tries to take Normann.com away from guy whose last name is Normann. Normann Copenhagen ApS, a seller of Scandinavian furniture, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain...
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Normann Copenhagen and DLA Piper team up in bad reverse domain hijacking case
With help of well-known law firm, furniture company tries to take Normann.com away from guy whose last name is Normann. Normann Copenhagen ApS, a seller of Scandinavian furniture, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking over the domain...
Discussion
June 21, 2017, 6:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
iOS 11 might make QR codes cools again
QR reader built into camera in next version of iOS. Remember QR codes? Scanning one makes it easy to visit a URL or get other information. It’s supposed to be a lot easier than typing a long URL. But they never really took off, at least in the ...
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iOS 11 might make QR codes cools again
QR reader built into camera in next version of iOS. Remember QR codes? Scanning one makes it easy to visit a URL or get other information. It’s supposed to be a lot easier than typing a long URL. But they never really took off, at least in the ...
Discussion
June 21, 2017, 3:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
17 end user domain name sales up to $50,000
Three letter domain name is top end user domain name sale of the week. Sedo’s top reported sale of the week was Nom.com. However, the domain is still in escrow so the buyer isn’t known. This isn’t an investor price these days, so it...
Discussion
17 end user domain name sales up to $50,000
Three letter domain name is top end user domain name sale of the week. Sedo’s top reported sale of the week was Nom.com. However, the domain is still in escrow so the buyer isn’t known. This isn’t an investor price these days, so it...
Discussion
June 21, 2017, 2:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
.NYC’s most trafficked websites are actually legit
40 are in Alexa’s Top Million, and they are real websites. Since most sites that use new top level domain names are relatively new, you wouldn’t expect to find many that get a lot more traffic than well-established .com sites. Typically, ...
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.NYC’s most trafficked websites are actually legit
40 are in Alexa’s Top Million, and they are real websites. Since most sites that use new top level domain names are relatively new, you wouldn’t expect to find many that get a lot more traffic than well-established .com sites. Typically, ...
Discussion
June 21, 2017, 1:12 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by a pair of LLL.coms
Sedo reported their weekly sales and Nom.com was the top sale at $86,500. Epg.com sold for $50,000 to come in second place. There was not one non – com gtld sale for the first time that I can remember. Vital.tv was the top cctld sale at 7,100 E...
Discussion
Sedo weekly sales led by a pair of LLL.coms
Sedo reported their weekly sales and Nom.com was the top sale at $86,500. Epg.com sold for $50,000 to come in second place. There was not one non – com gtld sale for the first time that I can remember. Vital.tv was the top cctld sale at 7,100 E...
Discussion
June 20, 2017, 8:17 pm
The Domains
“There’s sort of a market, but it’s not very efficient or liquid.”
Bloomberg economics editor Peter Coy, wrote a piece on domain names and some of the commentary was interesting. Joseph Cohen, founder of Universe a startup that makes an app for building mobile websites, said “It’s not a true market,&rdqu...
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“There’s sort of a market, but it’s not very efficient or liquid.”
Bloomberg economics editor Peter Coy, wrote a piece on domain names and some of the commentary was interesting. Joseph Cohen, founder of Universe a startup that makes an app for building mobile websites, said “It’s not a true market,&rdqu...
Discussion
June 20, 2017, 5:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Analyzing Donuts’ deal to acquire Rightside
Rightside had to sell and Donuts is the logical buyer. Last week, Donuts agreed to acquire Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) for $213 million. As luck would have it, I was vacationing in Costa Rica when the deal was announced. I gave some initial thoughts rig...
Discussion
Analyzing Donuts’ deal to acquire Rightside
Rightside had to sell and Donuts is the logical buyer. Last week, Donuts agreed to acquire Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) for $213 million. As luck would have it, I was vacationing in Costa Rica when the deal was announced. I gave some initial thoughts rig...
Discussion
June 20, 2017, 3:22 pm
