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Domain Name Wire
Domain Registrar Offers Social Login to Registrar Account
Australian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you ca...
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Domain Registrar Offers Social Login to Registrar Account
Australian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you ca...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 11:42 am
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 9:52 am
Domain Name News
Google Removes the .CO.CC Domains its Search Index
As reported by The Register, Google removed over 11 million .co.cc subdomain from its search index, since the company considered too many of the sites “spammy”. Free .co.cc subdomains are offered by a Korean company. The company also offe...
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Google Removes the .CO.CC Domains its Search Index
As reported by The Register, Google removed over 11 million .co.cc subdomain from its search index, since the company considered too many of the sites “spammy”. Free .co.cc subdomains are offered by a Korean company. The company also offe...
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July 7, 2011, 6:39 am
Domain Shane
Thursday’s Daily Domain Auction and Drop Picks
I received a lot of emails yesterday regarding my domains civilunions and puddles being on the Media Options list. I can answer it fairly simply. I am looking to make a profit selling these two. I think civilunions is a VERY importa...
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Thursday’s Daily Domain Auction and Drop Picks
I received a lot of emails yesterday regarding my domains civilunions and puddles being on the Media Options list. I can answer it fairly simply. I am looking to make a profit selling these two. I think civilunions is a VERY importa...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 3:24 am
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 5:32 pm
Elliot's Blog
How I Speculate on “Future Trends”
Because my business model relies on quick flips, I don’t buy too many names with the hopes of selling them in a few years. Most of my acquisitions are made to capitalize on current services, products, and sometimes trends. However, sometimes I ...
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How I Speculate on “Future Trends”
Because my business model relies on quick flips, I don’t buy too many names with the hopes of selling them in a few years. Most of my acquisitions are made to capitalize on current services, products, and sometimes trends. However, sometimes I ...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 4:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition
Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market...
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For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition
Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 2:10 pm
The Domains
WindowFilm.com Sells For $17K On NameJet.com
The domain name WindowFilm.com sold on NameJet.com for $17,100. The auction had 3 bidders over $10K In some other auctions: 9091.com sold for $3,008 chafen.com sold for $4,509 TravelTown.com sold for $2,266 wqv.com, mxv.com and alf.net all have bids ...
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WindowFilm.com Sells For $17K On NameJet.com
The domain name WindowFilm.com sold on NameJet.com for $17,100. The auction had 3 bidders over $10K In some other auctions: 9091.com sold for $3,008 chafen.com sold for $4,509 TravelTown.com sold for $2,266 wqv.com, mxv.com and alf.net all have bids ...
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July 6, 2011, 1:49 pm
Elliot's Blog
Current State of the Market: Domain Broker Point of View
For those of us who frequently sell domain names, we know it can be challenging to do so in the current economic conditions. I reached out to several domain brokers to ask what they are currently experiencing in the domain aftermarket, and their insi...
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Current State of the Market: Domain Broker Point of View
For those of us who frequently sell domain names, we know it can be challenging to do so in the current economic conditions. I reached out to several domain brokers to ask what they are currently experiencing in the domain aftermarket, and their insi...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 1:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
French Company Wants to Cancel Adwords Trademark, Hit with UDRP
French company files to cancel one of Google’s trademarks, gets hit with UDRP over .mobi domain name. Google has filed a UDRP against the owner of a French trademark for “adwords” over his domain name ad-words.mobi. The domain owner...
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French Company Wants to Cancel Adwords Trademark, Hit with UDRP
French company files to cancel one of Google’s trademarks, gets hit with UDRP over .mobi domain name. Google has filed a UDRP against the owner of a French trademark for “adwords” over his domain name ad-words.mobi. The domain owner...
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July 6, 2011, 11:55 am
