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June’s top domain name news stories
Top stories from the domain name business in June 2020. Here’s a look back at what happened in the domain name business last month. These were five of the top stories on Domain Name Wire: 1. Intel and Metlife terminate their top level domains &...
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June’s top domain name news stories
Top stories from the domain name business in June 2020. Here’s a look back at what happened in the domain name business last month. These were five of the top stories on Domain Name Wire: 1. Intel and Metlife terminate their top level domains &...
Discussion
July 8, 2020, 1:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
OneWord.Domains adds more top level domains and features
Domain discovery site adds more TLDs and monetization features. I’m having fun watching OneWord.Domains develop. Steven Tey developed the site to help people find available one word domain names. You can listen to an interview with him in DNW P...
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OneWord.Domains adds more top level domains and features
Domain discovery site adds more TLDs and monetization features. I’m having fun watching OneWord.Domains develop. Steven Tey developed the site to help people find available one word domain names. You can listen to an interview with him in DNW P...
Discussion
July 7, 2020, 6:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign has taken action against COVID-related domains
Domain name registry has taken action against domain names based on law enforcement requests. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, has taken action against some domain names related to COVID-19. In a blog post yesterd...
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Verisign has taken action against COVID-related domains
Domain name registry has taken action against domain names based on law enforcement requests. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), the registry for .com and .net domain names, has taken action against some domain names related to COVID-19. In a blog post yesterd...
Discussion
July 7, 2020, 4:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Elkhan Agamirza – DNW Podcast #293
How this domain investor has built his portfolio to over 5,000 domains. Elkhan Agamirza’s domain name portfolio has been doubling in size every year and now stands at over 5,000 domains. He takes a detailed view into what end users want to buy,...
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Elkhan Agamirza – DNW Podcast #293
How this domain investor has built his portfolio to over 5,000 domains. Elkhan Agamirza’s domain name portfolio has been doubling in size every year and now stands at over 5,000 domains. He takes a detailed view into what end users want to buy,...
Discussion
July 6, 2020, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy files patent applicaton for “recommending domains from free text”
Domain registrar wants to patent ways to suggest domains based on various non-search data. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has filed U.S. Patent and Trademark application number 16/235333 (pdf) for “recommending domains from free text”. The applicat...
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GoDaddy files patent applicaton for “recommending domains from free text”
Domain registrar wants to patent ways to suggest domains based on various non-search data. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has filed U.S. Patent and Trademark application number 16/235333 (pdf) for “recommending domains from free text”. The applicat...
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July 6, 2020, 3:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Here’s why 89CP .com sold for $5,000
Kassey Lee explains why this domain is valuable. I regularly listen to the Josh.co Daily Podcast to get daily updates on the domain market. In a recent episode, Josh mentioned the sale of 89CP .com for a very strong price of $5,000. Josh is right whe...
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Here’s why 89CP .com sold for $5,000
Kassey Lee explains why this domain is valuable. I regularly listen to the Josh.co Daily Podcast to get daily updates on the domain market. In a recent episode, Josh mentioned the sale of 89CP .com for a very strong price of $5,000. Josh is right whe...
Discussion
July 6, 2020, 1:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Decoding recent numeric domain name sales
Kassey Lee investigates recent numeric domain name sales. Numeric domains up to 4 digits (4N) are actually used by Chinese companies. However, those beyond 4N are not often found in use but mostly traded among investors. In this article, I’ll r...
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Decoding recent numeric domain name sales
Kassey Lee investigates recent numeric domain name sales. Numeric domains up to 4 digits (4N) are actually used by Chinese companies. However, those beyond 4N are not often found in use but mostly traded among investors. In this article, I’ll r...
Discussion
July 3, 2020, 1:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
12 end user domain name sales including 6 ccTLDs
A food manufacturer, a travel site, and a wallpaper company bought domain names. ccTLD domain purchases staked their claim among end users this week. Half of the end user sales at Sedo I uncovered were ccTLDs. Here’s a list of some of the end u...
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12 end user domain name sales including 6 ccTLDs
A food manufacturer, a travel site, and a wallpaper company bought domain names. ccTLD domain purchases staked their claim among end users this week. Half of the end user sales at Sedo I uncovered were ccTLDs. Here’s a list of some of the end u...
Discussion
July 2, 2020, 8:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Is the end user prospect for your domain a genuine one?
Make sure to do the research to verify it. I recently found a .com where the matching .cn is already developed. Because the second level domain is registered in another extension, does it mean I have a potential end user buyer for the .com? The domai...
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Is the end user prospect for your domain a genuine one?
Make sure to do the research to verify it. I recently found a .com where the matching .cn is already developed. Because the second level domain is registered in another extension, does it mean I have a potential end user buyer for the .com? The domai...
Discussion
July 2, 2020, 1:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Namecheap revenue continues its surge in Q2
Year-over-year revenue grows 38% in Q2. Domain name registrar Namecheap generated $49 million in revenue during Q2 2020, the company reported to Domain Name Wire. That’s up almost 38% over the same period last year and up 7.6% quarter-over-quar...
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Namecheap revenue continues its surge in Q2
Year-over-year revenue grows 38% in Q2. Domain name registrar Namecheap generated $49 million in revenue during Q2 2020, the company reported to Domain Name Wire. That’s up almost 38% over the same period last year and up 7.6% quarter-over-quar...
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July 1, 2020, 6:27 pm
