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Elliot's Blog
Development Will Result in Fewer Offers
Based on my own experiences, I believe that developing your domain names will likely result in fewer unsolicited offers to purchase them. You may want to consider this before embarking on a domain name you’d ultimately like to sell. When I firs...
Discussion
Development Will Result in Fewer Offers
Based on my own experiences, I believe that developing your domain names will likely result in fewer unsolicited offers to purchase them. You may want to consider this before embarking on a domain name you’d ultimately like to sell. When I firs...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 1:08 pm
The Domains
MarkMonitor & Verisign Expect 1,000 – 1,500 New gTLD Applications In 1st Round Or More With Brands Making up 66%
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) attended the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) USA meeting yesterday at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC where the afternoon keynote address was by Larry Strickling, the Ass...
Discussion
MarkMonitor & Verisign Expect 1,000 – 1,500 New gTLD Applications In 1st Round Or More With Brands Making up 66%
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) attended the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) USA meeting yesterday at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, DC where the afternoon keynote address was by Larry Strickling, the Ass...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 1:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Peter Dengate Thrush Discusses His New Role with Top Level Domain Holdings
Peter Dengate Thrush and Antony Van Couvering discuss future of TLDH. Yesterday former ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced he was joining Top Level Domain Holdings (parent company of Minds + Machines) as Executive Chairman. I just got off t...
Discussion
Peter Dengate Thrush Discusses His New Role with Top Level Domain Holdings
Peter Dengate Thrush and Antony Van Couvering discuss future of TLDH. Yesterday former ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced he was joining Top Level Domain Holdings (parent company of Minds + Machines) as Executive Chairman. I just got off t...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 11:21 am
The Domains
Bill Kara Of Hall Pass Media To Be The KeyNote Speaker At TRAFFIC
Rich Schwartz has just tweeted that Bill Kara will be the keynote speaker at TRAFFIC. Bill Kara (Bill Karamouzis) is someone who should be known to everyone in the domain industry. Bill is head of Hall Pass Media, Inc., and was featured in a DN...
Discussion
Bill Kara Of Hall Pass Media To Be The KeyNote Speaker At TRAFFIC
Rich Schwartz has just tweeted that Bill Kara will be the keynote speaker at TRAFFIC. Bill Kara (Bill Karamouzis) is someone who should be known to everyone in the domain industry. Bill is head of Hall Pass Media, Inc., and was featured in a DN...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 9:56 am
Domain Name Wire
Latest Moniker Auction Tops $7.2 Million in Sales, Data.com Sales Price Around $4.5 Million
Although auction was boring, sales results are positive. Many people called Moniker‘s Barcelona domain name auction a failure. It’s easy to see why. After all, the auction didn’t end up taking place in Barcelona thanks to technical ...
Discussion
Latest Moniker Auction Tops $7.2 Million in Sales, Data.com Sales Price Around $4.5 Million
Although auction was boring, sales results are positive. Many people called Moniker‘s Barcelona domain name auction a failure. It’s easy to see why. After all, the auction didn’t end up taking place in Barcelona thanks to technical ...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 9:51 am
Elliot's Blog
Bill Karamouzis of HallPass Media to Keynote at TRAFFIC
Rick Schwartz just announced that the keynote speaker for October’s TRAFFIC conference in Ft. Lauderdale will be Bill Karamouzis, CEO of HallPass Media, The topic of the keynote speech will be “the challenge of developing our domains into...
Discussion
Bill Karamouzis of HallPass Media to Keynote at TRAFFIC
Rick Schwartz just announced that the keynote speaker for October’s TRAFFIC conference in Ft. Lauderdale will be Bill Karamouzis, CEO of HallPass Media, The topic of the keynote speech will be “the challenge of developing our domains into...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 9:25 am
The Domains
How Valuable Is The Info VeriSign Is Providing On “Domain Score”? Our Test Says Not: 80%+ of All Drop Domains Scored
There seemed to be a lot of excitement in the domain industry a couple of weeks ago when VeriSign Announced it’s Domain Score product and made it available to the public. One blogger even wrote about it calling it: “VeriSign Release...
Discussion
How Valuable Is The Info VeriSign Is Providing On “Domain Score”? Our Test Says Not: 80%+ of All Drop Domains Scored
There seemed to be a lot of excitement in the domain industry a couple of weeks ago when VeriSign Announced it’s Domain Score product and made it available to the public. One blogger even wrote about it calling it: “VeriSign Release...
Discussion
July 19, 2011, 8:35 am
Domain Name Wire
900,000 .XXX Domain Names? You Make The Call.
How many .xxx domain names will be registered in the first year? ICM Registry says it has received nearly 900,000 “expressions of interest” for its .xxx top level domain name. It has also extended the sunrise period for trademark holders,...
Discussion
900,000 .XXX Domain Names? You Make The Call.
How many .xxx domain names will be registered in the first year? ICM Registry says it has received nearly 900,000 “expressions of interest” for its .xxx top level domain name. It has also extended the sunrise period for trademark holders,...
Discussion
July 18, 2011, 9:42 pm
The Domains
VirtualPrivateServer.com Sells For $20K On NameJet; Muisc.com For $11K & Polygamy.com For $9K
A bunch of other domain name sold at auction today at NameJet.com in addition to GoCarts.com which I though deserved it own post. The domain VirtualPrivateServer.com sold for $20,550. If you don’t know what this is, you can check out the quite ...
Discussion
VirtualPrivateServer.com Sells For $20K On NameJet; Muisc.com For $11K & Polygamy.com For $9K
A bunch of other domain name sold at auction today at NameJet.com in addition to GoCarts.com which I though deserved it own post. The domain VirtualPrivateServer.com sold for $20,550. If you don’t know what this is, you can check out the quite ...
Discussion
July 18, 2011, 6:40 pm
Domain Name News
Google Launches g.co URL Shortener
After Google launched the goo.gl URL shortener in 2009, they have just announced that they will be using g.co as an official shortcut for their own websites. goo.gl will remain as is. The purchase price has not been revealed. The registry also announ...
Discussion
Google Launches g.co URL Shortener
After Google launched the goo.gl URL shortener in 2009, they have just announced that they will be using g.co as an official shortcut for their own websites. goo.gl will remain as is. The purchase price has not been revealed. The registry also announ...
Discussion
July 18, 2011, 5:20 pm
