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The Domains
RightofTheDot.com sells Kick.com $276,077
Monte Cahn was kind enough to provide a couple sales from Right of The Dot. Just want to announce that I / RightOfTheDot.com sold Kick.com for $276,077.45 and Cogent.com for $60,029.60. Feel free to post and I have more sales to report soon. Kick.com...
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RightofTheDot.com sells Kick.com $276,077
Monte Cahn was kind enough to provide a couple sales from Right of The Dot. Just want to announce that I / RightOfTheDot.com sold Kick.com for $276,077.45 and Cogent.com for $60,029.60. Feel free to post and I have more sales to report soon. Kick.com...
Discussion
June 16, 2020, 7:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy’s domain privacy email buries the lede
GoDaddy customers are unlikely to understand their options. GoDaddy has begun sending emails to customers about changes to domain privacy. As I wrote about on June 8, the company has started redacting personal information from Whois records. T...
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GoDaddy’s domain privacy email buries the lede
GoDaddy customers are unlikely to understand their options. GoDaddy has begun sending emails to customers about changes to domain privacy. As I wrote about on June 8, the company has started redacting personal information from Whois records. T...
Discussion
June 16, 2020, 7:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets IDN suggestion patent
Patent helps domain searchers find translations and transliterations. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,686,750 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Alternate character set domain name suggestion and registration using...
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Verisign gets IDN suggestion patent
Patent helps domain searchers find translations and transliterations. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,686,750 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for Alternate character set domain name suggestion and registration using...
Discussion
June 16, 2020, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google continues to tinker with URLs in Chrome
New test obscures the full URL. Google is at it again, tinkering with how it displays URLs in the Chrome browser. The company has tested different ways of showing a site’s identity in search as well as Chrome. Android Police notes that a new te...
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Google continues to tinker with URLs in Chrome
New test obscures the full URL. Google is at it again, tinkering with how it displays URLs in the Chrome browser. The company has tested different ways of showing a site’s identity in search as well as Chrome. Android Police notes that a new te...
Discussion
June 16, 2020, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
38 spam calls in four days
This is what happens when you register a domain name without Whois privacy or redaction. I’ve written a lot lately about the robocalls and telemarketing calls you get after registering a domain that doesn’t have redacted Whois information...
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38 spam calls in four days
This is what happens when you register a domain name without Whois privacy or redaction. I’ve written a lot lately about the robocalls and telemarketing calls you get after registering a domain that doesn’t have redacted Whois information...
Discussion
June 16, 2020, 1:22 pm
The Domains
OnionWebsite.com has a $999,999 bid on Sedo
Back on May 22 we had a 2 million pound bid on Lifestyle.com at Sedo. That auction was later cancelled. After seeing this and asking Sedo why a bid was cancelled? What about verification? It turned out that when someone gets an offer and pushes to au...
Discussion
OnionWebsite.com has a $999,999 bid on Sedo
Back on May 22 we had a 2 million pound bid on Lifestyle.com at Sedo. That auction was later cancelled. After seeing this and asking Sedo why a bid was cancelled? What about verification? It turned out that when someone gets an offer and pushes to au...
Discussion
June 16, 2020, 4:56 am
The Domains
Bunch of .app transactions lately
Prior to last week there were 63 reported .app sales on Namebio. Since June 10 there has been a flurry of action and 29 reported transactions. These have been taking place at Dynadot. There are also some .app trading hands over at eName. Names like D...
Discussion
Bunch of .app transactions lately
Prior to last week there were 63 reported .app sales on Namebio. Since June 10 there has been a flurry of action and 29 reported transactions. These have been taking place at Dynadot. There are also some .app trading hands over at eName. Names like D...
Discussion
June 15, 2020, 11:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
One Word Domains site releases version 2.0
Upgrades include synonyms, premium tags. A new and popular site for finding one-word domain names has released version 2.0. I interview the site’s creator, Steven Tey, on DNW Podcast #287. OneWord.Domains helps you find available one-word domai...
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One Word Domains site releases version 2.0
Upgrades include synonyms, premium tags. A new and popular site for finding one-word domain names has released version 2.0. I interview the site’s creator, Steven Tey, on DNW Podcast #287. OneWord.Domains helps you find available one-word domai...
Discussion
June 15, 2020, 9:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Codebank.com sold for low 6 figures
Chinese domain company reports six-figure English-language domain sale. According to West.cn via eName, Codebank.com recently sold for about 1 million yuan (about $150,000). Whois record shows the domain was registered in 2002. Wayback machine’...
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Codebank.com sold for low 6 figures
Chinese domain company reports six-figure English-language domain sale. According to West.cn via eName, Codebank.com recently sold for about 1 million yuan (about $150,000). Whois record shows the domain was registered in 2002. Wayback machine’...
Discussion
June 15, 2020, 9:07 pm
DomainSherpa
Sherpa Founders Series: Gateway.io as Cypherpunk Activism: Decentralizing the Internet – with Mike Carson
Mike Carson, the savvy programmer and founder of Park.io, explains the launch of Gateway.io and what that means as an opportunity both for new types of domain name investing as well as decentralization of domain names and/or DNS.Frankly, anyone who u...
Discussion
Sherpa Founders Series: Gateway.io as Cypherpunk Activism: Decentralizing the Internet – with Mike Carson
Mike Carson, the savvy programmer and founder of Park.io, explains the launch of Gateway.io and what that means as an opportunity both for new types of domain name investing as well as decentralization of domain names and/or DNS.Frankly, anyone who u...
Discussion
June 15, 2020, 8:19 pm
