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Domain Name Wire
How NOT to promote your domains for sale via email
Sending an unsolicited email to 25,000 people is NOT ok. I got an email over the weekend promoting a couple domains for sale over at Flippa. It was a nicely formatted HTML email that referred to a similar domain name I own. Then, at the bottom, the e...
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How NOT to promote your domains for sale via email
Sending an unsolicited email to 25,000 people is NOT ok. I got an email over the weekend promoting a couple domains for sale over at Flippa. It was a nicely formatted HTML email that referred to a similar domain name I own. Then, at the bottom, the e...
Discussion
April 23, 2012, 9:45 am
Domain Shane
Monday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-23-12
Damn! There are a ton of good names. I could have made the list twice as big. The aren’t as many bargains as there were a few months ago because people are hitting the lists so hard. Its a good time to be a seller right now and if you buy the r...
Discussion
Monday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-23-12
Damn! There are a ton of good names. I could have made the list twice as big. The aren’t as many bargains as there were a few months ago because people are hitting the lists so hard. Its a good time to be a seller right now and if you buy the r...
Discussion
April 23, 2012, 6:40 am
Domain Shane
Domain Names Are Mostly Irrelevant
This is the title of an article from Henry Cooke over at Stuff.co.nz. No doubt the title was created to draw attention but his article doesn’t stray very far from the headline. In a nutshell, he states the more generic the domain, the more irre...
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Domain Names Are Mostly Irrelevant
This is the title of an article from Henry Cooke over at Stuff.co.nz. No doubt the title was created to draw attention but his article doesn’t stray very far from the headline. In a nutshell, he states the more generic the domain, the more irre...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 9:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sunday evening domain reading
A ridiculous lawsuit, company naming, ICANN, and more. I was going to write an entire snarky post about this lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy. It’s alternately hilarious and, and the end of the day, sad. Basically this former employee sued with a ...
Discussion
Sunday evening domain reading
A ridiculous lawsuit, company naming, ICANN, and more. I was going to write an entire snarky post about this lawsuit (pdf) against GoDaddy. It’s alternately hilarious and, and the end of the day, sad. Basically this former employee sued with a ...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 9:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Site covering Bo Xilai scandal led to Name.com DDoS, eNom rejects domain as well
Name.com and eNom play hot potato with domain name. Name.com got hit with a massive distributed denial of service attack at the end of last week, and it appears this is because a site covering the downfall of Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai...
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Site covering Bo Xilai scandal led to Name.com DDoS, eNom rejects domain as well
Name.com and eNom play hot potato with domain name. Name.com got hit with a massive distributed denial of service attack at the end of last week, and it appears this is because a site covering the downfall of Chinese Communist Party official Bo Xilai...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 10:45 am
Elliot's Blog
Contest: Where Will Hotspur.com Auction End?
If you aren’t a fan of the English Premier League, you may not know that Hotspur is the nickname of the EPL football (soccer) team from Tottenham. The team website can be found on TottenhamHotspur.com, possibly because they didn’t have th...
Discussion
Contest: Where Will Hotspur.com Auction End?
If you aren’t a fan of the English Premier League, you may not know that Hotspur is the nickname of the EPL football (soccer) team from Tottenham. The team website can be found on TottenhamHotspur.com, possibly because they didn’t have th...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 10:19 am
The Domains
Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearl...
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Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearl...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 8:45 am
Domain Shane
Sunday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-22-12
I normally don’t do lists on Sunday but I couldn’t find anything to watch on TV and my wife and daughter wanted to watch Glee and Smash. I’m a man so now way I’m watching those girly shows. So after watching both o...
Discussion
Sunday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-22-12
I normally don’t do lists on Sunday but I couldn’t find anything to watch on TV and my wife and daughter wanted to watch Glee and Smash. I’m a man so now way I’m watching those girly shows. So after watching both o...
Discussion
April 22, 2012, 7:19 am
Domain Name News
This Week In Domains (week 17/2012)
Want to know what happened in the 17th week of 2012 week in the world of domain names? As reported… Here at DNN Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool ICANN Says ...
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This Week In Domains (week 17/2012)
Want to know what happened in the 17th week of 2012 week in the world of domain names? As reported… Here at DNN Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool ICANN Says ...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 1:30 pm
Domain Shane
Saturday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-21-12
Sorry about running a little late this morning. I reversed schedule and instead of getting up at 4 am I stayed up until 4am. Old friends, new stories, and a bunch of catching up. Its what life is all about. But you came here for domains not for my sa...
Discussion
Saturday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-21-12
Sorry about running a little late this morning. I reversed schedule and instead of getting up at 4 am I stayed up until 4am. Old friends, new stories, and a bunch of catching up. Its what life is all about. But you came here for domains not for my sa...
Discussion
April 21, 2012, 1:02 pm
