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Domain Name Wire
Tucows customers can now list domains in AfternicDLS Premium
Potential inventory boon for Afternic. Customers of Tucows can now list their domains for sale on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, Afternic announced this morning. This means customers can list their domains with “buy now” prices and the...
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Tucows customers can now list domains in AfternicDLS Premium
Potential inventory boon for Afternic. Customers of Tucows can now list their domains for sale on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, Afternic announced this morning. This means customers can list their domains with “buy now” prices and the...
Discussion
January 26, 2012, 10:42 am
Domain Shane
You Know Why You Can’t Find An Available Dot Com? Because 100 Million of Them are Already Taken
According to DomainTools.com , there are now over 100 million dot com domains under registration with Verisign. Currently the dot com tld add 22,000 new registrations per day and as of yesterday there were 99,837,548 domains shown taken using D...
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You Know Why You Can’t Find An Available Dot Com? Because 100 Million of Them are Already Taken
According to DomainTools.com , there are now over 100 million dot com domains under registration with Verisign. Currently the dot com tld add 22,000 new registrations per day and as of yesterday there were 99,837,548 domains shown taken using D...
Discussion
January 26, 2012, 9:51 am
The Domains
Tucows Joins Afternic.com’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Promotion Network
According to A press release this morning “Tucows, a top 3 ICANN accredited registrar with over 11 million domains under management, will join Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Promotion network. “We strongly believe s...
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Tucows Joins Afternic.com’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Promotion Network
According to A press release this morning “Tucows, a top 3 ICANN accredited registrar with over 11 million domains under management, will join Afternic’s Domain Listing Service (DLS) Premium Promotion network. “We strongly believe s...
Discussion
January 26, 2012, 9:03 am
Domain Name News
Sedo Greatdomains Auction Ends Today
Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends today. At the time of this post, 53 out of the listed 71 domains have received bids. The auction ends today (Jan 26) at noon Eastern Time. Domain Current Bid Price Range # of Bids received Bid now zimbab...
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Sedo Greatdomains Auction Ends Today
Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends today. At the time of this post, 53 out of the listed 71 domains have received bids. The auction ends today (Jan 26) at noon Eastern Time. Domain Current Bid Price Range # of Bids received Bid now zimbab...
Discussion
January 26, 2012, 7:47 am
Domain Shane
Thursday’s Big List
Sedo has a pretty good auction closing today. Going after a few names myself. Of course you won’t see those names on my list. That would be silly. While I have you. Anyone interested in me doing a daily newsl...
Discussion
Thursday’s Big List
Sedo has a pretty good auction closing today. Going after a few names myself. Of course you won’t see those names on my list. That would be silly. While I have you. Anyone interested in me doing a daily newsl...
Discussion
January 26, 2012, 3:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Is Marchex considering selling its domain name portfolio?
Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at...
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Is Marchex considering selling its domain name portfolio?
Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at...
Discussion
January 25, 2012, 4:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
115 Top level domain trademarks and their current status
I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis o...
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115 Top level domain trademarks and their current status
I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis o...
Discussion
January 25, 2012, 3:41 pm
Elliot's Blog
What Does Google Know About You?
I saw an article on Business Insider with a link to a page within your Google account where you can see what information Google believes it knows about you based on your browsing habits. Topics they monitor include things like news preferences, ...
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What Does Google Know About You?
I saw an article on Business Insider with a link to a page within your Google account where you can see what information Google believes it knows about you based on your browsing habits. Topics they monitor include things like news preferences, ...
Discussion
January 25, 2012, 3:31 pm
Domain Name News
Sedo and .ME Registry partner to auction previously unreleased premium .me domain names
Sedo today announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domain names. The company has successfully brokered the sale of more than 1,000 .ME domain names, totaling nearly two million U.S. dollars, including such premier names as Business.Me for &euro...
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Sedo and .ME Registry partner to auction previously unreleased premium .me domain names
Sedo today announced an exclusive auction of premium .ME domain names. The company has successfully brokered the sale of more than 1,000 .ME domain names, totaling nearly two million U.S. dollars, including such premier names as Business.Me for &euro...
Discussion
January 25, 2012, 2:58 pm
Domain Shane
Real Estate Developers Spend $50 Billion On Projects, Don’t Bother To Secure One .COM For $8
Very interesting article today over at a website Vietnam based website describing a situation that I have well documented as one of my biggest pet-peeves. Apparently the Vietnamese are simply behind the times (according to the article, not me) when i...
Discussion
Real Estate Developers Spend $50 Billion On Projects, Don’t Bother To Secure One .COM For $8
Very interesting article today over at a website Vietnam based website describing a situation that I have well documented as one of my biggest pet-peeves. Apparently the Vietnamese are simply behind the times (according to the article, not me) when i...
Discussion
January 25, 2012, 1:59 pm
