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Barri.com sells to end user for $100,000+
Shane Kinsch strikes again with six-figure sale. A Texas-based financial services company has smartly purchased the domain name Barri.com, which it forwards to its website at BarriGroup.com. Shane Kinsch, who sold Cumberland.com last year for $250,00...
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Barri.com sells to end user for $100,000+
Shane Kinsch strikes again with six-figure sale. A Texas-based financial services company has smartly purchased the domain name Barri.com, which it forwards to its website at BarriGroup.com. Shane Kinsch, who sold Cumberland.com last year for $250,00...
Discussion
January 8, 2020, 4:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Cryptocurrency business tries to reverse hijack domain name
Netherlands company brought case in abuse of the policy, panelist rules. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found fintech/cryptocurrency business Feev Holding B.V. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybe...
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Cryptocurrency business tries to reverse hijack domain name
Netherlands company brought case in abuse of the policy, panelist rules. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found fintech/cryptocurrency business Feev Holding B.V. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a cybe...
Discussion
January 8, 2020, 4:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
The curious case of a 7 letter acronym domain
It’s a mouthful. I enjoy end user research because it is quite entertaining. I get to discover all sorts of reasons why a company chooses a corporate domain. However, sometimes the reason can be hard to understand. A recent case will illustrate...
Discussion
The curious case of a 7 letter acronym domain
It’s a mouthful. I enjoy end user research because it is quite entertaining. I get to discover all sorts of reasons why a company chooses a corporate domain. However, sometimes the reason can be hard to understand. A recent case will illustrate...
Discussion
January 8, 2020, 2:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pizzeria, music academy and other end user domain sales
A Boston pizzeria was among end user buyers at Uniregistry. I’ve reviewed Uniregistry’s last two sales reports to find end user domain name purchases. You’ll especially like the last one. Flapp.com $22,500 – Travel company Tra...
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Pizzeria, music academy and other end user domain sales
A Boston pizzeria was among end user buyers at Uniregistry. I’ve reviewed Uniregistry’s last two sales reports to find end user domain name purchases. You’ll especially like the last one. Flapp.com $22,500 – Travel company Tra...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 7:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Shakeup on the .com leader boards, Namecheap tops 5 million
Lots of shifting and Namecheap hits a milestone. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2019. There was a lot of shakeup this month. On t...
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Shakeup on the .com leader boards, Namecheap tops 5 million
Lots of shifting and Namecheap hits a milestone. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2019. There was a lot of shakeup this month. On t...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 5:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
The biggest problem with Verisign’s .com deal
It’s not the billion-dollar bonus for Verisign. As expected, ICANN has agreed* to let Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) increase prices on .com domain names starting this year. The U.S. government had already agreed to the price increases, but these incr...
Discussion
The biggest problem with Verisign’s .com deal
It’s not the billion-dollar bonus for Verisign. As expected, ICANN has agreed* to let Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) increase prices on .com domain names starting this year. The U.S. government had already agreed to the price increases, but these incr...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 5:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reviewing the 4 character domains that sold in December
Kassey Lee reviews the market for four character domain names. I’m starting this monthly series to look at 4C (four character) .com domains. Thanks to the ripple effect which began with 2C and then continued on to 3C, I believe many 4C will bec...
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Reviewing the 4 character domains that sold in December
Kassey Lee reviews the market for four character domain names. I’m starting this monthly series to look at 4C (four character) .com domains. Thanks to the ripple effect which began with 2C and then continued on to 3C, I believe many 4C will bec...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Another reverse domain hijacking finding against DePenning & DePenning
Law firm is behind another reverse domain name hijacking case. DePenning & DePenning, a law firm in India, has filed another UDRP that was found to be reverse domain name hijacking. Previous reverse domain name hijacking findings against the firm...
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Another reverse domain hijacking finding against DePenning & DePenning
Law firm is behind another reverse domain name hijacking case. DePenning & DePenning, a law firm in India, has filed another UDRP that was found to be reverse domain name hijacking. Previous reverse domain name hijacking findings against the firm...
Discussion
January 6, 2020, 4:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
The domain sales lander OG – DNW Podcast #267
Here’s what you need on your domain sales landers, according to someone who’s been helping domainers created them since 2006. My guest this week is kind of the OG of domain name sales landers. Tom Klosowski created a script back in 2006 t...
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The domain sales lander OG – DNW Podcast #267
Here’s what you need on your domain sales landers, according to someone who’s been helping domainers created them since 2006. My guest this week is kind of the OG of domain name sales landers. Tom Klosowski created a script back in 2006 t...
Discussion
January 6, 2020, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
This company’s domain name is a ten digit domain!
A Chinese company uses its phone number as its domain name. I enjoy reading venture capital news. I also study some of the startups highlighted in the news to find out what domains these future business leaders are using and also what domains they ma...
Discussion
This company’s domain name is a ten digit domain!
A Chinese company uses its phone number as its domain name. I enjoy reading venture capital news. I also study some of the startups highlighted in the news to find out what domains these future business leaders are using and also what domains they ma...
Discussion
January 6, 2020, 2:11 pm