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Domain Name Wire
Pepsi’s interesting $8,000 domain purchase
Pepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-L...
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Pepsi’s interesting $8,000 domain purchase
Pepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-L...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 3:14 pm
Elliot's Blog
Porn Stars Without Makeup Going Viral – Matching Domain Name is Cheap
There’s a series of photographs called “Porn Stars Without Makeup” making their rounds on the Internet today. I’ve seen it several times on various sites – from Barstool Sports to the New York Post. In case you haven&rsq...
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Porn Stars Without Makeup Going Viral – Matching Domain Name is Cheap
There’s a series of photographs called “Porn Stars Without Makeup” making their rounds on the Internet today. I’ve seen it several times on various sites – from Barstool Sports to the New York Post. In case you haven&rsq...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the dom...
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Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the dom...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 1:29 pm
Elliot's Blog
What Domain Tool Would You Like?
Every so often, I think of a domain tool that I would like to have, and I ask around to see if someone offers what I want. More often than not, I learn that an industry company already offers that tool, and I can decide whether it’s worth signi...
Discussion
What Domain Tool Would You Like?
Every so often, I think of a domain tool that I would like to have, and I ask around to see if someone offers what I want. More often than not, I learn that an industry company already offers that tool, and I can decide whether it’s worth signi...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 1:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
So much opposition to a closed .cloud, yet none of these companies bought Cloud.com?
Companies that are worried about competitive advantage should reexamine their own domain name strategies. An awful lot of big brands are speaking out against the prospect of “closed generic” top level domains, such as .cloud and .book. Th...
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So much opposition to a closed .cloud, yet none of these companies bought Cloud.com?
Companies that are worried about competitive advantage should reexamine their own domain name strategies. An awful lot of big brands are speaking out against the prospect of “closed generic” top level domains, such as .cloud and .book. Th...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 12:44 pm
The Domains
F*uckBook.Ca Sells For $30K on Sedo
The domain name Fuckbook.ca just sold on Sedo.com for $30,000 Although the Its not clear who the buyer is, they seem to be unrelated to the owners and operators of the site fuckbook.com Fuckbook.com is owned by the same company that operates socialse...
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F*uckBook.Ca Sells For $30K on Sedo
The domain name Fuckbook.ca just sold on Sedo.com for $30,000 Although the Its not clear who the buyer is, they seem to be unrelated to the owners and operators of the site fuckbook.com Fuckbook.com is owned by the same company that operates socialse...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 12:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains T. Rowe Price and others bought
Financial firm makes shrewd domain purchase. T. Rowe Price didn’t become an investment giant by overpaying for assets. So it’s fitting that it paid just $1,495 for the domain name MoneyConfident.com. Here are other end user domain sales f...
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What domains T. Rowe Price and others bought
Financial firm makes shrewd domain purchase. T. Rowe Price didn’t become an investment giant by overpaying for assets. So it’s fitting that it paid just $1,495 for the domain name MoneyConfident.com. Here are other end user domain sales f...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 12:20 pm
The Domains
Breaking: Registry Operator AdamsNames Hacked Locking Up .TC, .GD & .VC
According to a press release we just received by KSregistry GmbH, which is owned by Key-Systems GmbH, “a third party has executed a transfer of the domain name adamsnames.net and now operates a shadow registry under this domain”. Ad...
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Breaking: Registry Operator AdamsNames Hacked Locking Up .TC, .GD & .VC
According to a press release we just received by KSregistry GmbH, which is owned by Key-Systems GmbH, “a third party has executed a transfer of the domain name adamsnames.net and now operates a shadow registry under this domain”. Ad...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 12:01 pm
Elliot's Blog
StatCounter Down in Chrome
I use a premium version of StatCounter as one of my two traffic tracking tools for my blog. I think the data the service provides is excellent, and it allows me to review certain metrics much more quickly than Google Analytics can. I use both of...
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StatCounter Down in Chrome
I use a premium version of StatCounter as one of my two traffic tracking tools for my blog. I think the data the service provides is excellent, and it allows me to review certain metrics much more quickly than Google Analytics can. I use both of...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 11:26 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire is 8
Domain Name Wire turned 8 years old this past weekend. On March 8, 2005, I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. This post is number 6,250. I’d like to thank both my readers and advertisers for your continued support. Without both of you, t...
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Domain Name Wire is 8
Domain Name Wire turned 8 years old this past weekend. On March 8, 2005, I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. This post is number 6,250. I’d like to thank both my readers and advertisers for your continued support. Without both of you, t...
Discussion
March 11, 2013, 11:24 am
