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Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 19, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 19, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 19, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 19, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 4:21 pm
The Domains
.Blog Gets Almost 950 Domain Registrations In The Sunrise Period
The Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Blog closed a few days ago on October 17th and it looks like .blog ended with just about 950 domain registrations (although the zone file maybe behind and more domains will be added Several two letter and three le...
Discussion
.Blog Gets Almost 950 Domain Registrations In The Sunrise Period
The Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Blog closed a few days ago on October 17th and it looks like .blog ended with just about 950 domain registrations (although the zone file maybe behind and more domains will be added Several two letter and three le...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 2:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
BadHombres.com and NastyWoman.com registered before debate, but Rick Schwartz got…
Key terms from last night’s debate were registered well before the debate, but Rick Schwartz snapped up one phrase. Donald Trump uttered some phrases in yesterday’s debate that are taking on a life of their own today. But the terms in .co...
Discussion
BadHombres.com and NastyWoman.com registered before debate, but Rick Schwartz got…
Key terms from last night’s debate were registered well before the debate, but Rick Schwartz snapped up one phrase. Donald Trump uttered some phrases in yesterday’s debate that are taking on a life of their own today. But the terms in .co...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 1:09 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, October 20th
I did something I don’t do a lot last night. I stayed up and watched the Cubs game. I grew up in Illinois, lived a block from Wrigley for a few years, and have always been a Cubs fan. I know the players, watch a lot of games,...
Discussion
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, October 20th
I did something I don’t do a lot last night. I stayed up and watched the Cubs game. I grew up in Illinois, lived a block from Wrigley for a few years, and have always been a Cubs fan. I know the players, watch a lot of games,...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 10:18 am
The Domains
Will more registrars stop supporting certain new gtlds ?
A little over a week ago Adam Yamada-Hanff broke the story about NameCheap no longer supporting .xyz. According to the article NameCheap made the decision to end their registration support for .xyz. Here is a chat transcript between Adam and NameChea...
Discussion
Will more registrars stop supporting certain new gtlds ?
A little over a week ago Adam Yamada-Hanff broke the story about NameCheap no longer supporting .xyz. According to the article NameCheap made the decision to end their registration support for .xyz. Here is a chat transcript between Adam and NameChea...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 11:29 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 18, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 18, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 18, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 18, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 11:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
A BIG week for end user domain name sales
At least three $10 billion+ companies bought domain names last week. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sales list from Sedo this full of big end users. I count at least three companies with market caps of over $10 billion that bough...
Discussion
A BIG week for end user domain name sales
At least three $10 billion+ companies bought domain names last week. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sales list from Sedo this full of big end users. I count at least three companies with market caps of over $10 billion that bough...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 2:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Dot brand gTLDs–still yet to hit the mainstream
Angie Graves explores the current state of .brand top level domain names. Dot brands have made great strides in the two years since the first delegations in the most recent round of new gTLDs. According to calzone.org’s gTLD calendar, CITIC Gro...
Discussion
Dot brand gTLDs–still yet to hit the mainstream
Angie Graves explores the current state of .brand top level domain names. Dot brands have made great strides in the two years since the first delegations in the most recent round of new gTLDs. According to calzone.org’s gTLD calendar, CITIC Gro...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 1:30 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, October 19th
Looks like a lot of people are taking a hit on their dot info purchases of last year. They were are the craze on Flippa last year but the one word dot info are dropping like flies. Plenty of great terms up at drop but only a few make sen...
Discussion
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, October 19th
Looks like a lot of people are taking a hit on their dot info purchases of last year. They were are the craze on Flippa last year but the one word dot info are dropping like flies. Plenty of great terms up at drop but only a few make sen...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 10:19 am
Domain Name Wire
Daniel Negari exits Rightside position
XYZ founder sells his remaining shares in Rightside. Daniel Negari, CEO of top level domain name company XYZ, has sold all of his remaining shares in Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME). Negari made the disclosure in a Facebook post about the Google open source ...
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Daniel Negari exits Rightside position
XYZ founder sells his remaining shares in Rightside. Daniel Negari, CEO of top level domain name company XYZ, has sold all of his remaining shares in Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME). Negari made the disclosure in a Facebook post about the Google open source ...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 10:20 pm
