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Domain Name Wire
Sedo to pitch domain names to financial investors
Company heads to Dubai to tell financial investors about domain names. If there’s one company in the domain name space that makes an effort to pitch domain names to various industries and people outside the domain business, it’s Sedo. The...
Discussion
Sedo to pitch domain names to financial investors
Company heads to Dubai to tell financial investors about domain names. If there’s one company in the domain name space that makes an effort to pitch domain names to various industries and people outside the domain business, it’s Sedo. The...
Discussion
March 31, 2017, 1:18 pm
Sully's Blog
December.com
If I could own a dot com of a month of the year, It would certainly be December.com. Yeah, October is a cool month and all but nothing screams “sales” like December. Plus, it’s a great holiday month, if you want to get all nos...
Discussion
December.com
If I could own a dot com of a month of the year, It would certainly be December.com. Yeah, October is a cool month and all but nothing screams “sales” like December. Plus, it’s a great holiday month, if you want to get all nos...
Discussion
March 31, 2017, 11:28 am
Domain Name Wire
Premium renewals create headaches for domain buyers
Figuring out if a domain has a premium renewal price can be confusing. There’s a bit of a quarrel going on right now between two domain name brokers over the sale of a domain with a premium renewal. One person bought a .TV domain name through t...
Discussion
Premium renewals create headaches for domain buyers
Figuring out if a domain has a premium renewal price can be confusing. There’s a bit of a quarrel going on right now between two domain name brokers over the sale of a domain with a premium renewal. One person bought a .TV domain name through t...
Discussion
March 30, 2017, 9:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Do you count your time as part of your domain investments?
Here are two schools of thought. I bet you get a pretty large number when you add up all of the time you spend on domain name investing. There’s sifting through drop lists. Updating nameservers. Responding to inquiries. When you calculate your ...
Discussion
Do you count your time as part of your domain investments?
Here are two schools of thought. I bet you get a pretty large number when you add up all of the time you spend on domain name investing. There’s sifting through drop lists. Updating nameservers. Responding to inquiries. When you calculate your ...
Discussion
March 30, 2017, 6:23 pm
The Domains
Experts agree, nTLDs are as good as any other TLDs for SEO rankings
Sponsored by Radix Choosing a domain name is one the most complex processes when building a website, especially for a business. The domain name you choose will have a lasting impact on a business’s branding, marketing and online presence...
Discussion
Experts agree, nTLDs are as good as any other TLDs for SEO rankings
Sponsored by Radix Choosing a domain name is one the most complex processes when building a website, especially for a business. The domain name you choose will have a lasting impact on a business’s branding, marketing and online presence...
Discussion
March 30, 2017, 1:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
20 years after registering IMEC.com, company hit with UDRP
Panel declines to find reverse domain name hijacking despite highly questionable UDRP. Imagine registering a four letter .com domain name for your business in 1996. You use it off and on during that period, and then twenty years later you receive a c...
Discussion
20 years after registering IMEC.com, company hit with UDRP
Panel declines to find reverse domain name hijacking despite highly questionable UDRP. Imagine registering a four letter .com domain name for your business in 1996. You use it off and on during that period, and then twenty years later you receive a c...
Discussion
March 29, 2017, 9:46 pm
The Domains
With Almost 10% Of New gTLD Registrations In Upcoming Delete Status; The Peak Of 28.8M May Stand Until .Web
According to ntldstats.com almost 10% of all registered new gTLD domain names are in upcoming delete status; meaning for at least a while new G’s domain name may have peaked out. On March 24, 2017 the number of new gTLD domain registratio...
Discussion
With Almost 10% Of New gTLD Registrations In Upcoming Delete Status; The Peak Of 28.8M May Stand Until .Web
According to ntldstats.com almost 10% of all registered new gTLD domain names are in upcoming delete status; meaning for at least a while new G’s domain name may have peaked out. On March 24, 2017 the number of new gTLD domain registratio...
Discussion
March 29, 2017, 5:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name sales up to $200k
Here are some of the domain names end users purchased at Sedo over the past week. A lot of Sedo’s domain name sales over the past week are still in escrow, but there are still some notable end user sales to write about. I think the buyers of Ge...
Discussion
End user domain name sales up to $200k
Here are some of the domain names end users purchased at Sedo over the past week. A lot of Sedo’s domain name sales over the past week are still in escrow, but there are still some notable end user sales to write about. I think the buyers of Ge...
Discussion
March 29, 2017, 4:12 pm
The Domains
So $1,999 for 83.com anyone ?
With the help of Josh (legendaryJP) we confirmed that Diana Pitcher did sell DWN.com for 2,999 Euros, this was the suggested price she received when adding her name to Sedo. Domain investors know to skip these suggestions, some use them for comic fod...
Discussion
So $1,999 for 83.com anyone ?
With the help of Josh (legendaryJP) we confirmed that Diana Pitcher did sell DWN.com for 2,999 Euros, this was the suggested price she received when adding her name to Sedo. Domain investors know to skip these suggestions, some use them for comic fod...
Discussion
March 29, 2017, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Austin company tries its hand at an “alternative root”
Want to register something.new? You can, but there’s a catch. An Austin company has launched something like an “alternative root” for domain names. Authenticated Reality is launched “The New Internet“, a service that all...
Discussion
Austin company tries its hand at an “alternative root”
Want to register something.new? You can, but there’s a catch. An Austin company has launched something like an “alternative root” for domain names. Authenticated Reality is launched “The New Internet“, a service that all...
Discussion
March 29, 2017, 3:09 pm
