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Some great deals at SnapNames/NameJet in August
Here’s what sold at SnapNames and NameJet last month. Newfold Media, the parent company of SnapNames and NameJet, has released sales data for August. August is typically a slow month for domain sales as people take vacations. But the two auctio...
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Some great deals at SnapNames/NameJet in August
Here’s what sold at SnapNames and NameJet last month. Newfold Media, the parent company of SnapNames and NameJet, has released sales data for August. August is typically a slow month for domain sales as people take vacations. But the two auctio...
Discussion
September 12, 2022, 8:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Real domain investor results in 2022 – DNW Podcast #404
Here’s how two investors’ portfolios have fared so far this year. Last month at NamesCon, domain investors Logan Flatt and Mark Levine gave a detailed look at their sales numbers so far this year compared to the same period a year ago. It...
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Real domain investor results in 2022 – DNW Podcast #404
Here’s how two investors’ portfolios have fared so far this year. Last month at NamesCon, domain investors Logan Flatt and Mark Levine gave a detailed look at their sales numbers so far this year compared to the same period a year ago. It...
Discussion
September 12, 2022, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Newfold Digital is acquiring MarkMonitor from Clarivate for $302.5 million
Corporate brand protection registrar has a new owner. Newfold Digital, a large conglomerate of domain name registrars and hosting companies, is acquiring brand protection registrar MarkMonitor from Clarivate (NYSE:CLVT), an IP service roll-up. It wil...
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Newfold Digital is acquiring MarkMonitor from Clarivate for $302.5 million
Corporate brand protection registrar has a new owner. Newfold Digital, a large conglomerate of domain name registrars and hosting companies, is acquiring brand protection registrar MarkMonitor from Clarivate (NYSE:CLVT), an IP service roll-up. It wil...
Discussion
September 12, 2022, 3:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Judge halts sale of eth.link domain name
Temporary restraining order puts sale on hold. U.S. District Judge John Tuchi has issued a temporary restraining order (pdf) halting the sale of eth.link. As Domain Name Wire first reported on September 7, Ethereum Name Service and former eth.link re...
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Judge halts sale of eth.link domain name
Temporary restraining order puts sale on hold. U.S. District Judge John Tuchi has issued a temporary restraining order (pdf) halting the sale of eth.link. As Domain Name Wire first reported on September 7, Ethereum Name Service and former eth.link re...
Discussion
September 10, 2022, 7:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
August’s top 5 domain stories
Two big domain sales and more big stories from August. These were the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by pageviews. 1. Hubspot acquired connect.com domain for $10 million – The marketing company paid top dollar to purcha...
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August’s top 5 domain stories
Two big domain sales and more big stories from August. These were the top five stories on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by pageviews. 1. Hubspot acquired connect.com domain for $10 million – The marketing company paid top dollar to purcha...
Discussion
September 9, 2022, 2:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Placement secures Exec.com for new professional development platform
Company that owns placement.com starts using exec.com, too. A company already familiar with the potency of premium domain names has secured another for its next venture. Placement, founded in 2019, is a company with an ambitious plan to unlock human ...
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Placement secures Exec.com for new professional development platform
Company that owns placement.com starts using exec.com, too. A company already familiar with the potency of premium domain names has secured another for its next venture. Placement, founded in 2019, is a company with an ambitious plan to unlock human ...
Discussion
September 8, 2022, 2:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
Unstoppable Domains asks court not to let .wallet owner intervene
Unstoppable argues it’s too late and that the registrant (maybe) isn’t impacted by the injunction. Unstoppable Domains has asked a court not to let the owner of the .wallet Handshake domain intervene in a lawsuit filed against Gateway Reg...
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Unstoppable Domains asks court not to let .wallet owner intervene
Unstoppable argues it’s too late and that the registrant (maybe) isn’t impacted by the injunction. Unstoppable Domains has asked a court not to let the owner of the .wallet Handshake domain intervene in a lawsuit filed against Gateway Reg...
Discussion
September 8, 2022, 12:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: Ethereum Name Service sues to stop eth.link domain sale
Group sues after domain sells in Dynadot auction. True Names, Ltd. d/b/a Ethereum Name Service, and Virgil Griffith have sued (pdf) to stop the sale of eth.link. As I wrote about earlier today, eth.link sold in a Dynadot expired domain auction for $8...
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Breaking: Ethereum Name Service sues to stop eth.link domain sale
Group sues after domain sells in Dynadot auction. True Names, Ltd. d/b/a Ethereum Name Service, and Virgil Griffith have sued (pdf) to stop the sale of eth.link. As I wrote about earlier today, eth.link sold in a Dynadot expired domain auction for $8...
Discussion
September 7, 2022, 11:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Eth.link domain sold for $852k in unique situation
Dynadot auctioned the domain after the previous owner landed in prison. An auction for eth.link ended at a staggering $851,919.30 in a very odd scenario. The previous registrant of eth.link set the domain up as a resolving system for .eth domains in ...
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Eth.link domain sold for $852k in unique situation
Dynadot auctioned the domain after the previous owner landed in prison. An auction for eth.link ended at a staggering $851,919.30 in a very odd scenario. The previous registrant of eth.link set the domain up as a resolving system for .eth domains in ...
Discussion
September 7, 2022, 12:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain name sales
A robotics company, a jet charter business, and a Muslim clothing company bought domain names. Sedo’s top sale this week was betify.com for $110,000. There are a couple of potential buyers, but my guess is it’s related to the Betify web3 ...
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This week’s end user domain name sales
A robotics company, a jet charter business, and a Muslim clothing company bought domain names. Sedo’s top sale this week was betify.com for $110,000. There are a couple of potential buyers, but my guess is it’s related to the Betify web3 ...
Discussion
September 6, 2022, 6:44 pm
