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The Domains
3 Years Later: Team Schilling vs Team Schwartz On New gTLD’s; Who Was Right?
It was three years ago to the date that marked the epic debate between the “Domain King” Rick Schwartz and arguably the most successful domainer in history , Frank Schilling on the New gTLD’s. The debate went on for almost 80 Minute...
Discussion
3 Years Later: Team Schilling vs Team Schwartz On New gTLD’s; Who Was Right?
It was three years ago to the date that marked the epic debate between the “Domain King” Rick Schwartz and arguably the most successful domainer in history , Frank Schilling on the New gTLD’s. The debate went on for almost 80 Minute...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 8:30 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales – 2016 .us handreg sells for $13,000
Sedo released their weekly sales chart and MyMed.com was the top sale at $25,000. The most remarkable sale for me Evus.us registered in March 2016, sold for $13,000. EVUS is an acronym for Electronic Visa Update System. The buyer is out of Spain. Imb...
Discussion
Sedo weekly sales – 2016 .us handreg sells for $13,000
Sedo released their weekly sales chart and MyMed.com was the top sale at $25,000. The most remarkable sale for me Evus.us registered in March 2016, sold for $13,000. EVUS is an acronym for Electronic Visa Update System. The buyer is out of Spain. Imb...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 8:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Small Businesses and Investors Losing Domains in Flawed UDRP Decisions
[Editor’s note: Nat Cohen takes a look at recent UDRP decisions in this extensive report.] Are you guilty of “cybersquatting” without knowing it? Take a look at these recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (&ldqu...
Discussion
Small Businesses and Investors Losing Domains in Flawed UDRP Decisions
[Editor’s note: Nat Cohen takes a look at recent UDRP decisions in this extensive report.] Are you guilty of “cybersquatting” without knowing it? Take a look at these recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (&ldqu...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 6:14 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 17, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 17, 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 17, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 17, 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 18, 2016, 4:38 pm
The Domains
August/September .CLUB Premium Domain Sales Top $135k
The .Club registry just announced that is sold over $135,000 domain names in August/September 2016 .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 through the registrar channel . 84 other domain names were sold for a total of $103,245.47, including the...
Discussion
August/September .CLUB Premium Domain Sales Top $135k
The .Club registry just announced that is sold over $135,000 domain names in August/September 2016 .Club sold 52 names totaling $32,103.52 through the registrar channel . 84 other domain names were sold for a total of $103,245.47, including the...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 3:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts
Donuts makes key contributions to open source registry platform, setting up a possible migration in the future. The shakeup in the backend domain name registry services business continues. Today, Google launched an open source cloud-based registry pl...
Discussion
Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts
Donuts makes key contributions to open source registry platform, setting up a possible migration in the future. The shakeup in the backend domain name registry services business continues. Today, Google launched an open source cloud-based registry pl...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 3:00 pm
Domain Shane
Giuseppe Graziano and GGRG.com Release Quarter 2 Report on Short, Liquid Dot Coms
Over the years Guiseppe Graziano (GGRG.com) has become the number one analyst of short dot coms. We all know the 1st quarter had a peak in this category due to the high demand from the Chinese sector. But what happened in quarter two? Did the bottom ...
Discussion
Giuseppe Graziano and GGRG.com Release Quarter 2 Report on Short, Liquid Dot Coms
Over the years Guiseppe Graziano (GGRG.com) has become the number one analyst of short dot coms. We all know the 1st quarter had a peak in this category due to the high demand from the Chinese sector. But what happened in quarter two? Did the bottom ...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 2:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
All LLL.com domain names worth $2 billion, new report says
A new report sheds light on the health of the domain name aftermarket for short .com domain names. Domain name valuation service Estibot and short domain name brokerage GGRG have released a report on the state of the market for short domain names. Th...
Discussion
All LLL.com domain names worth $2 billion, new report says
A new report sheds light on the health of the domain name aftermarket for short .com domain names. Domain name valuation service Estibot and short domain name brokerage GGRG have released a report on the state of the market for short domain names. Th...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 1:30 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.COM: IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, October 18th
The last couple of days I’ve been watching the daily drops and “hand catching” a few. It used to be the only thing I did to buy domains and I’d try and process the list everyday. The last two days of tracking the drop list ha...
Discussion
DSAD.COM: IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, October 18th
The last couple of days I’ve been watching the daily drops and “hand catching” a few. It used to be the only thing I did to buy domains and I’d try and process the list everyday. The last two days of tracking the drop list ha...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 11:55 am
Domain Name News
Google publishes their TLD registry software: Nomulus
Google announced this morning that they are releasing their TLD registry platform, Nomulus, which is written in Java, under an Apache 2.0 license. The company uses the software to run their own registry for their TLDs. Portfolio TLD applicant Donuts ...
Discussion
Google publishes their TLD registry software: Nomulus
Google announced this morning that they are releasing their TLD registry platform, Nomulus, which is written in Java, under an Apache 2.0 license. The company uses the software to run their own registry for their TLDs. Portfolio TLD applicant Donuts ...
Discussion
October 18, 2016, 9:42 am
