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Sully's Blog
Over 40,000 domain names for lease
36names is a recently launched marketplace focused on leasing-to-own domain names. Entrepreneurs can test their website ideas on a great domain name at an affordable price. If the website succeeds, he or she can purchase the domain name at a pre-dete...
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Over 40,000 domain names for lease
36names is a recently launched marketplace focused on leasing-to-own domain names. Entrepreneurs can test their website ideas on a great domain name at an affordable price. If the website succeeds, he or she can purchase the domain name at a pre-dete...
Discussion
February 3, 2017, 12:51 pm
The Domains
Did Snap pay $5million for Snap.com ?
Snapchat now know as Snap Inc is going public. George Kirikos tweeted out a few minutes ago the following: Did @Snap pay USD $5 million to @Idealab for the https://t.co/OxMoFdZsEx domain name? See page F-21 of SEC filing https://t.co/MnkRDTl4Tw &mdas...
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Did Snap pay $5million for Snap.com ?
Snapchat now know as Snap Inc is going public. George Kirikos tweeted out a few minutes ago the following: Did @Snap pay USD $5 million to @Idealab for the https://t.co/OxMoFdZsEx domain name? See page F-21 of SEC filing https://t.co/MnkRDTl4Tw &mdas...
Discussion
February 3, 2017, 12:29 am
Domain Name Wire
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 4)
This is the fourth Joseph Peterson’s series examining new TLDs by country. Read parts one, two and three. This article continues our examination of GEO nTLDs – new domain suffixes, released since 2014, that describe a city, region, nation...
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Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 4)
This is the fourth Joseph Peterson’s series examining new TLDs by country. Read parts one, two and three. This article continues our examination of GEO nTLDs – new domain suffixes, released since 2014, that describe a city, region, nation...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 4:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Company lets domain name expire, files UDRP 10 years later
Yo, where have you been? A Brazilian company has lost a UDRP it filed against a domain name it let expire a decade ago. CIA. Industrial H. Carlos Schneider registered the domain name Ciser.com in 2003 but it expired in 2006. 10 years later, in 2016, ...
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Company lets domain name expire, files UDRP 10 years later
Yo, where have you been? A Brazilian company has lost a UDRP it filed against a domain name it let expire a decade ago. CIA. Industrial H. Carlos Schneider registered the domain name Ciser.com in 2003 but it expired in 2006. 10 years later, in 2016, ...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers: Big changes ahead
The Winners & Losers chart will be undergoing some shakeup. Every month I publish my .Com Winners & Losers report based on the most recent data Verisign has submitted to ICANN. This data is made public three months after the end of the releva...
Discussion
.Com Winners & Losers: Big changes ahead
The Winners & Losers chart will be undergoing some shakeup. Every month I publish my .Com Winners & Losers report based on the most recent data Verisign has submitted to ICANN. This data is made public three months after the end of the releva...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 2:44 pm
The Domains
The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”
The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to g...
Discussion
The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”
The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to g...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 3:20 am
The Domains
Arbel Arif posts largest .shop sale to date with Blade.shop
Domain investor Arbel Arif has posted the highest selling .shop name with his sale of Blade.Shop for $10,000. Arbel kept Namepros members in suspense for a few days while waiting for escrow to clear. There have only been 9 .shop sales reported by Nam...
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Arbel Arif posts largest .shop sale to date with Blade.shop
Domain investor Arbel Arif has posted the highest selling .shop name with his sale of Blade.Shop for $10,000. Arbel kept Namepros members in suspense for a few days while waiting for escrow to clear. There have only been 9 .shop sales reported by Nam...
Discussion
February 1, 2017, 10:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
A first hand account of being forced to change your domain name
An example of why you shouldn’t register “psuedo” domain names. Last year CentralNic announced it was closing down certain third level domain names that it allowed people to register. It sold these domains similar to how you can buy...
Discussion
A first hand account of being forced to change your domain name
An example of why you shouldn’t register “psuedo” domain names. Last year CentralNic announced it was closing down certain third level domain names that it allowed people to register. It sold these domains similar to how you can buy...
Discussion
February 1, 2017, 10:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
23 end user domain name sales up to $179,000
Here are 23 domain names that were purchased by end users over the past two weeks. I was so busy during NamesCon last week that I didn’t run my usual end user sales column, so this week you get two weeks worth of Sedo end user sales to peruse. ...
Discussion
23 end user domain name sales up to $179,000
Here are 23 domain names that were purchased by end users over the past two weeks. I was so busy during NamesCon last week that I didn’t run my usual end user sales column, so this week you get two weeks worth of Sedo end user sales to peruse. ...
Discussion
February 1, 2017, 3:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Video: GoDaddy 2017 Super Bowl Commercial
Here’s GoDaddy’s Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy debuted its 2017 Super Bowl ad last night on CBS’s Greatest Super Bowl Commercials Ever. Here it is: The Super Bowl commercial promotes GoDaddy’s new site builder called GoCentral. Accor...
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Video: GoDaddy 2017 Super Bowl Commercial
Here’s GoDaddy’s Super Bowl ad. GoDaddy debuted its 2017 Super Bowl ad last night on CBS’s Greatest Super Bowl Commercials Ever. Here it is: The Super Bowl commercial promotes GoDaddy’s new site builder called GoCentral. Accor...
Discussion
February 1, 2017, 2:04 pm
