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Domain Name Wire
Microsoft Adds More Domains to Sedo
Company adds typo, .co, and other domains up for sale. Microsoft has added more domain names for sale on domain name brokerage site Sedo. Abdu Tarabichi, who spotted the initial batch of Microsoft domains listed for sale, noticed that Microsoft added...
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Microsoft Adds More Domains to Sedo
Company adds typo, .co, and other domains up for sale. Microsoft has added more domain names for sale on domain name brokerage site Sedo. Abdu Tarabichi, who spotted the initial batch of Microsoft domains listed for sale, noticed that Microsoft added...
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July 19, 2011, 6:08 pm

Domain Name Wire
Samsung Buys Chaton.com and Other End User Sales This Week
Samsung among biggest names buying domain names on the secondary market this week. Afternic tallied over $650,000 in “announceable” domain sales over the past week. Here are some of the more interesting end user purchases: Samsung bought ...
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Samsung Buys Chaton.com and Other End User Sales This Week
Samsung among biggest names buying domain names on the secondary market this week. Afternic tallied over $650,000 in “announceable” domain sales over the past week. Here are some of the more interesting end user purchases: Samsung bought ...
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July 19, 2011, 6:07 pm

The Domains
Sedo.com Sells $755k In Domains Led By Sadara.com For $70k
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday July 18th. All reportable domain sales totalled $754,616. The top seller of the week was Sadara.com at $70,800 followed by Fietsen.com at $35,000. Sadara.com is huge sale at $70,0...
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Sedo.com Sells $755k In Domains Led By Sadara.com For $70k
Sedo.com just released its sales list for the week ending Monday July 18th. All reportable domain sales totalled $754,616. The top seller of the week was Sadara.com at $70,800 followed by Fietsen.com at $35,000. Sadara.com is huge sale at $70,0...
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July 19, 2011, 5:34 pm

The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $670K In Domain Names Led By NursePractitioner.com at $36,300
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday July 17th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totaled $669,466. NursePractitioner.com led the way selling at $36,300 with Full Contact.com closely behind at $30,800 Iea.net led the...
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Afternic.com Sells $670K In Domain Names Led By NursePractitioner.com at $36,300
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday July 17th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totaled $669,466. NursePractitioner.com led the way selling at $36,300 with Full Contact.com closely behind at $30,800 Iea.net led the...
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July 19, 2011, 5:32 pm

Domain Name Wire
Domain Holdings Grabs $2.9 Million Investment, Releases Improved Domain Builder
Domain name company lands outside investment and releases upgraded domain development platform. Domain name development company Domain Holdings has raised $2.9 million in funding. The company was founded by domainer Chad Folkening, who was later join...
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Domain Holdings Grabs $2.9 Million Investment, Releases Improved Domain Builder
Domain name company lands outside investment and releases upgraded domain development platform. Domain name development company Domain Holdings has raised $2.9 million in funding. The company was founded by domainer Chad Folkening, who was later join...
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July 19, 2011, 1:18 pm

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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