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Elliot's Blog
Sedo Sells Nearly $1.5 Million in Domain Names Last Week
Sedo had a solid week last week, selling just about $1,500,000 USD in domain names. Leading the way was the sale of Nat Cohen’s Republic.com, which yielded $200,000. Sedo also sold SiteWeb.com for $100,000 on behalf of Frank Schilling’s c...
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Sedo Sells Nearly $1.5 Million in Domain Names Last Week
Sedo had a solid week last week, selling just about $1,500,000 USD in domain names. Leading the way was the sale of Nat Cohen’s Republic.com, which yielded $200,000. Sedo also sold SiteWeb.com for $100,000 on behalf of Frank Schilling’s c...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 6:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com Buys KindleFire.com Domain Name
Yes, Amazon.com owns KindleFire.com. Amazon is rumored to be launching the Kindle Fire tablet and eReader on Wednesday. But a lot of people have asked, “what about the domain name?” After all, the company owns a lot of other nature Kindle...
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Amazon.com Buys KindleFire.com Domain Name
Yes, Amazon.com owns KindleFire.com. Amazon is rumored to be launching the Kindle Fire tablet and eReader on Wednesday. But a lot of people have asked, “what about the domain name?” After all, the company owns a lot of other nature Kindle...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 5:47 pm
The Domains
Sedo.com Sells $1.3M In Domains Led By Republic.com For $200K
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday September 26th. All reportable domain sales totalled $1,262,569 USD. The top sellers of the week were Republic.com at $200,000 followed by siteweb.com & silvercoins.com, each for $1...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.3M In Domains Led By Republic.com For $200K
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday September 26th. All reportable domain sales totalled $1,262,569 USD. The top sellers of the week were Republic.com at $200,000 followed by siteweb.com & silvercoins.com, each for $1...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 5:07 pm
Elliot's Blog
Mike Zapolin & Deepak Chopra Seeking Funds on Kickstarter for Documentary
Kickstarter is a cool website where filmmakers, inventors, musicians, designers, and other artists can post a project to seek funding. If the requested amount of funding is raised, the project moves forward with people who pledge funds at varying lev...
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Mike Zapolin & Deepak Chopra Seeking Funds on Kickstarter for Documentary
Kickstarter is a cool website where filmmakers, inventors, musicians, designers, and other artists can post a project to seek funding. If the requested amount of funding is raised, the project moves forward with people who pledge funds at varying lev...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 3:17 pm
Elliot's Blog
Why Seamless Acquisition of MenuPages is Exciting to Me
It was announced yesterday that Seamless, the company that recently changed its name from Seamless Web, acquired MenuPages.com from New York Magazine. This news is exciting to me and I want to share why I think it’s exciting. If you aren’...
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Why Seamless Acquisition of MenuPages is Exciting to Me
It was announced yesterday that Seamless, the company that recently changed its name from Seamless Web, acquired MenuPages.com from New York Magazine. This news is exciting to me and I want to share why I think it’s exciting. If you aren’...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 12:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy’s Real Number: 225 Million
Registrar has 50 million domains on the books. But how about over time? This past weekend Go Daddy topped the 50 million domain name mark. This number is kind of like a balance sheet: it means the company has 50 million domain names currently registe...
Discussion
Go Daddy’s Real Number: 225 Million
Registrar has 50 million domains on the books. But how about over time? This past weekend Go Daddy topped the 50 million domain name mark. This number is kind of like a balance sheet: it means the company has 50 million domain names currently registe...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 12:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker Accepting Submissions for Premium Year-End Auction
Company to hold month long auction with just 50 domains. Moniker is holding a premium domain name auction starting next month that will be limited to 50 top domains. The auction will run for a full month beginning October 18. Domain submissions are d...
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Moniker Accepting Submissions for Premium Year-End Auction
Company to hold month long auction with just 50 domains. Moniker is holding a premium domain name auction starting next month that will be limited to 50 top domains. The auction will run for a full month beginning October 18. Domain submissions are d...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 12:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
The Return of WWW.
www. will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain. That’s why you usually see ads that just promote something l...
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The Return of WWW.
www. will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain. That’s why you usually see ads that just promote something l...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 10:33 am
Domain Name Wire
You Must Read This Before Developing Your Domains
Why developing your domain names might be a bad idea. From time to time I read excellent blog posts that explain aspects of domaining much better than I can. Nat Cohen delivered yesterday with a post titled “The Dangers of Optimism -or- Don&rsq...
Discussion
You Must Read This Before Developing Your Domains
Why developing your domain names might be a bad idea. From time to time I read excellent blog posts that explain aspects of domaining much better than I can. Nat Cohen delivered yesterday with a post titled “The Dangers of Optimism -or- Don&rsq...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 10:25 am
Domain Name Wire
.Mobi Turns Five
Mobile domain reaches five year anniversary. Five years ago yesterday .Mobi launched its landrush period, officially opening the doors to what would become a wild roller coaster for domain investors. Remember Flowers.mobi? I quickly came full circle ...
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.Mobi Turns Five
Mobile domain reaches five year anniversary. Five years ago yesterday .Mobi launched its landrush period, officially opening the doors to what would become a wild roller coaster for domain investors. Remember Flowers.mobi? I quickly came full circle ...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 10:12 am
