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Post the best .com you have for sale for $500 or less
$500 or less .COM ONLY READ EVERYTHING FIRST so you are not surprised if your comment is not published ore removed. This post should be used to sell a name where you are making some money with no commission, and leave a little for the next buyer. Wit...
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Post the best .com you have for sale for $500 or less
$500 or less .COM ONLY READ EVERYTHING FIRST so you are not surprised if your comment is not published ore removed. This post should be used to sell a name where you are making some money with no commission, and leave a little for the next buyer. Wit...
Discussion
April 24, 2020, 8:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Ben Padnos launches Done.com to document COVID-19 response
Site will expand to cover other social and environmental responsibility responses. Ben Padnos has launched done.com as a social responsibility platform that will start by covering how key people are responding to the Covid-19 crisis. It will later ex...
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Ben Padnos launches Done.com to document COVID-19 response
Site will expand to cover other social and environmental responsibility responses. Ben Padnos has launched done.com as a social responsibility platform that will start by covering how key people are responding to the Covid-19 crisis. It will later ex...
Discussion
April 24, 2020, 3:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Redacted Whois at GoDaddy: a revenue hit but better customer experience
Privacy laws and bad customer experience are forcing GoDaddy to rethink a cash cow. Last Friday, Elliot Silver broke the news that GoDaddy is planning to limit personal information in Whois records starting later this year. GoDaddy is the largest dom...
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Redacted Whois at GoDaddy: a revenue hit but better customer experience
Privacy laws and bad customer experience are forcing GoDaddy to rethink a cash cow. Last Friday, Elliot Silver broke the news that GoDaddy is planning to limit personal information in Whois records starting later this year. GoDaddy is the largest dom...
Discussion
April 24, 2020, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign shrugs off Covid-19 so far
Revenue and earnings remain robust despite the pandemic. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter earnings yesterday after the market closed. The registry operator processed 10.0 million new .com and .net transactions during the quarter and the...
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Verisign shrugs off Covid-19 so far
Revenue and earnings remain robust despite the pandemic. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter earnings yesterday after the market closed. The registry operator processed 10.0 million new .com and .net transactions during the quarter and the...
Discussion
April 24, 2020, 12:59 pm
The Domains
Verisign reports Q1 2020 earnings Revenue up 2%
Verisign, Inc ((NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter 2020 earnings. Financial Highlights Verisign ended the first quarter of 2020 with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.14 billion, a decrease of $79 million from the end of 2019. ...
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Verisign reports Q1 2020 earnings Revenue up 2%
Verisign, Inc ((NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter 2020 earnings. Financial Highlights Verisign ended the first quarter of 2020 with cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $1.14 billion, a decrease of $79 million from the end of 2019. ...
Discussion
April 23, 2020, 9:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
.De registrations hit 16.3 million, 15 million in Germany
Data on one of the internet’s most successful country code domains. Germany’s .de domain name extension had 16.3 million domains registered at the end of 2019, .de registry DENIC disclosed today. 15 million of the domains are registered t...
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.De registrations hit 16.3 million, 15 million in Germany
Data on one of the internet’s most successful country code domains. Germany’s .de domain name extension had 16.3 million domains registered at the end of 2019, .de registry DENIC disclosed today. 15 million of the domains are registered t...
Discussion
April 23, 2020, 4:53 pm
The Domains
Google will now require advertisers to verify their identity
Google to require advertiser identities In a blog post today Google announced that advertisers must verify their identity. In a move for greater transparency and to stop bad actors. They will start this in the U.S. and then expand it globally. Here i...
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Google will now require advertisers to verify their identity
Google to require advertiser identities In a blog post today Google announced that advertisers must verify their identity. In a move for greater transparency and to stop bad actors. They will start this in the U.S. and then expand it globally. Here i...
Discussion
April 23, 2020, 3:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
What’s so special about LLNNN domains with HG prefix?
Kassey Lee explores why these domains are selling for so much money. I was checking auction results the other day and saw four LLNNN .com domains sold on the same day for quite good prices. That puzzled me. The domains are HG262.com ($4,000), HG232.c...
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What’s so special about LLNNN domains with HG prefix?
Kassey Lee explores why these domains are selling for so much money. I was checking auction results the other day and saw four LLNNN .com domains sold on the same day for quite good prices. That puzzled me. The domains are HG262.com ($4,000), HG232.c...
Discussion
April 23, 2020, 1:17 pm
The Domains
What they do right – what do they do wrong – Dynadot
Over the last few years we have published a series The good, the bad and the ugly. Readers have been able to leave their feedback and some companies have reached out over the years and let me know they took the posts to heart. This year I want to try...
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What they do right – what do they do wrong – Dynadot
Over the last few years we have published a series The good, the bad and the ugly. Readers have been able to leave their feedback and some companies have reached out over the years and let me know they took the posts to heart. This year I want to try...
Discussion
April 22, 2020, 6:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
SC Johnson cans .RightAtHome top level domain name
Company drops one of its dot-brand domains but still owns six. SC Johnson has informed ICANN that it no longer wants to operate the .rightathome top level domain name. The consumer products company never developed websites on the top level domain and...
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SC Johnson cans .RightAtHome top level domain name
Company drops one of its dot-brand domains but still owns six. SC Johnson has informed ICANN that it no longer wants to operate the .rightathome top level domain name. The consumer products company never developed websites on the top level domain and...
Discussion
April 22, 2020, 6:27 pm
