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Domain Name Wire
Starboard takes big stake in GoDaddy
Activist investor takes 6.5% stake in GoDaddy. Investment company Starboard has made a significant investment in shares of GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). Today, the group filed a 13D with the SEC, disclosing its ownership stake. Shares of GoDaddy are up about...
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Starboard takes big stake in GoDaddy
Activist investor takes 6.5% stake in GoDaddy. Investment company Starboard has made a significant investment in shares of GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY). Today, the group filed a 13D with the SEC, disclosing its ownership stake. Shares of GoDaddy are up about...
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December 27, 2021, 7:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Hire a domain attorney, exhibit #3205
A properly-argued UDRP would have likely negated reverse domain name hijacking and possibly ended in a transfer. My brother is a corporate attorney. When I ask him a legal question outside of his specialty, he tells me I might as well ask someone on ...
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Hire a domain attorney, exhibit #3205
A properly-argued UDRP would have likely negated reverse domain name hijacking and possibly ended in a transfer. My brother is a corporate attorney. When I ask him a legal question outside of his specialty, he tells me I might as well ask someone on ...
Discussion
December 27, 2021, 5:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Budapest top level domain to be deleted
MMX never launched the geo domain. MMX (Minds + Machines) (AIM: MMX) has filed a notice with ICANN to terminate its contract for running the .budapest top level domain name. The company applied for the domain with the support of the Budapest city gov...
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.Budapest top level domain to be deleted
MMX never launched the geo domain. MMX (Minds + Machines) (AIM: MMX) has filed a notice with ICANN to terminate its contract for running the .budapest top level domain name. The company applied for the domain with the support of the Budapest city gov...
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December 27, 2021, 1:55 pm
The Domains
Swetha has a very Merry Christmas with 9 sales including her highest reported ever .xyz
Swetha sold 9 .xyz domain names including Glow.xyz for $79,888. Quest.xyz was her previous high at $69,888. What a way to end what has been an incredible year for Swetha. Congrats. glow.xyz 79,888 USD 2021-12-25 Swetha.xyz heir.xyz 19,888 USD 2021-12...
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Swetha has a very Merry Christmas with 9 sales including her highest reported ever .xyz
Swetha sold 9 .xyz domain names including Glow.xyz for $79,888. Quest.xyz was her previous high at $69,888. What a way to end what has been an incredible year for Swetha. Congrats. glow.xyz 79,888 USD 2021-12-25 Swetha.xyz heir.xyz 19,888 USD 2021-12...
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December 27, 2021, 2:17 am
Domain Name Wire
Sports business personality sues rival for registering domain names
Joe Pomp sues podcaster who he alleges is forwarding domains to his competing website. Joe Pompliano, the publisher of a popular newsletter and podcast about sports business, has sued (pdf) a competing podcaster for cybersquatting. Pompliano writes t...
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Sports business personality sues rival for registering domain names
Joe Pomp sues podcaster who he alleges is forwarding domains to his competing website. Joe Pompliano, the publisher of a popular newsletter and podcast about sports business, has sued (pdf) a competing podcaster for cybersquatting. Pompliano writes t...
Discussion
December 23, 2021, 10:47 pm
DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa – Down The Rabbit Hole – December 23, 2021: All I Want For Christmas is NFTs
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And in the reverse, domains lead us "down the rabbit hole" for different topics all the time. This show is where we discuss a wide variety of subjects - with plenty of talk about domain...
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DomainSherpa – Down The Rabbit Hole – December 23, 2021: All I Want For Christmas is NFTs
As we say on DomainSherpa - all roads lead to domains. And in the reverse, domains lead us "down the rabbit hole" for different topics all the time. This show is where we discuss a wide variety of subjects - with plenty of talk about domain...
Discussion
December 23, 2021, 9:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Payment Rails rebrands to Trolley with Trolley.com
Company chooses a more generic name and gets the matching .com. Crunchbase’s Joanna Glasner called 2020 “the year of the noun,” after proclaiming that startup names were becoming “less silly.” Glasner reviewed data that ...
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Payment Rails rebrands to Trolley with Trolley.com
Company chooses a more generic name and gets the matching .com. Crunchbase’s Joanna Glasner called 2020 “the year of the noun,” after proclaiming that startup names were becoming “less silly.” Glasner reviewed data that ...
Discussion
December 23, 2021, 2:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Squadhelp releases treasure trove of data
Domain marketplace shares data about what’s selling and how. Domain name marketplace and branding site Squadhelp has published its 2021 in Review, disclosing valuable data about what type of domains are selling and how. The company reports that...
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Squadhelp releases treasure trove of data
Domain marketplace shares data about what’s selling and how. Domain name marketplace and branding site Squadhelp has published its 2021 in Review, disclosing valuable data about what type of domains are selling and how. The company reports that...
Discussion
December 22, 2021, 5:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Namecheap releases 2021 domain data
Registrar reports top TLDs, renewal rates, and aftermarket sales. Namecheap published its 2021 Namecheap Domain Insights & Trends report today. The report provides data on top domain choices, renewal rates, and early sales on its new marketplace....
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Namecheap releases 2021 domain data
Registrar reports top TLDs, renewal rates, and aftermarket sales. Namecheap published its 2021 Namecheap Domain Insights & Trends report today. The report provides data on top domain choices, renewal rates, and early sales on its new marketplace....
Discussion
December 22, 2021, 1:00 pm
The Domains
Charity focused NFT project PUL3E goes live to fight heart disease
There are so many NFT projects these days, I have been following the recent news on Paradise Trippies which to my novice NFT eyes looks like a cool project. I get emails all the time about different projects. One that caught my eye was for PUL3E. It&...
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Charity focused NFT project PUL3E goes live to fight heart disease
There are so many NFT projects these days, I have been following the recent news on Paradise Trippies which to my novice NFT eyes looks like a cool project. I get emails all the time about different projects. One that caught my eye was for PUL3E. It&...
Discussion
December 21, 2021, 9:10 pm
