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Amazon and chonkpur cheetahs? Your guess is as good as mine
Amazon.com just registered 28 weird domain names. Amazon.com does a good job buying up new product names and typos of them the moment before it releases a new service. This latest one has me baffled. Yesterday the company registered 28 domain names r...
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Amazon and chonkpur cheetahs? Your guess is as good as mine
Amazon.com just registered 28 weird domain names. Amazon.com does a good job buying up new product names and typos of them the moment before it releases a new service. This latest one has me baffled. Yesterday the company registered 28 domain names r...
Discussion
March 16, 2017, 1:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Blockchain is trending in domain names
Lots of .com domains with “blockchain” in them were registered last month. “Block” and “chain” were among the top ten trending words in new .com domain name registrations last month, according to .com registry Veri...
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Blockchain is trending in domain names
Lots of .com domains with “blockchain” in them were registered last month. “Block” and “chain” were among the top ten trending words in new .com domain name registrations last month, according to .com registry Veri...
Discussion
March 15, 2017, 6:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
20 End User Domain Name Sales
Company that “forgot” a letter returns to buy the right domain name. There were no headline-grabbing sales on Sedo’s domain sales list this week. But that’s OK; most of us make sales that won’t make headlines, anyway. Am...
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20 End User Domain Name Sales
Company that “forgot” a letter returns to buy the right domain name. There were no headline-grabbing sales on Sedo’s domain sales list this week. But that’s OK; most of us make sales that won’t make headlines, anyway. Am...
Discussion
March 15, 2017, 4:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
A TLD registry just slashed its wholesale prices up to 97%
This company is taking the opposite approach of Uniregistry. Will it work? In light of Uniregistry’s sharp price increases for registering and renewing many of its top level domain names, it was interesting to learn this week that another regis...
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A TLD registry just slashed its wholesale prices up to 97%
This company is taking the opposite approach of Uniregistry. Will it work? In light of Uniregistry’s sharp price increases for registering and renewing many of its top level domain names, it was interesting to learn this week that another regis...
Discussion
March 15, 2017, 1:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Valuable domain name Bespoke.com hit with another cybersquatting complaint
Yet another company called Bespoke wants to get Bespoke.com without paying for it. When Garth Piesse paid $18,805 to acquire the domain name Bespoke.com in an expired domain name auction in 2014, I bet he didn’t expect to be hit with a couple c...
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Valuable domain name Bespoke.com hit with another cybersquatting complaint
Yet another company called Bespoke wants to get Bespoke.com without paying for it. When Garth Piesse paid $18,805 to acquire the domain name Bespoke.com in an expired domain name auction in 2014, I bet he didn’t expect to be hit with a couple c...
Discussion
March 14, 2017, 2:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy drops Uniregistry domain names due to price hike
World’s largest domain name registrar will no longer carry Uniregistry’s top level domains. GoDaddy has stopped selling Uniregistry top level domain names after Uniregistry announced a wholesale price hike effective this coming August. Th...
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GoDaddy drops Uniregistry domain names due to price hike
World’s largest domain name registrar will no longer carry Uniregistry’s top level domains. GoDaddy has stopped selling Uniregistry top level domain names after Uniregistry announced a wholesale price hike effective this coming August. Th...
Discussion
March 13, 2017, 11:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
There are lots of ways to make money with domain name investing
There are lots of domain investing business models. I’m always amazed at the niches people find within our relatively small industry of buying and selling domain names. Yesterday, Elliot Silver posted an update about the types of domains he&rsq...
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There are lots of ways to make money with domain name investing
There are lots of domain investing business models. I’m always amazed at the niches people find within our relatively small industry of buying and selling domain names. Yesterday, Elliot Silver posted an update about the types of domains he&rsq...
Discussion
March 13, 2017, 7:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling explains price hike – DNW Podcast #127
Schilling explains why he decided to increase prices on some of Uniregistry’s TLDs. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry created an uproar last week when news leaked that the company was preparing to drastically increase the cost of some of its ...
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Frank Schilling explains price hike – DNW Podcast #127
Schilling explains why he decided to increase prices on some of Uniregistry’s TLDs. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry created an uproar last week when news leaked that the company was preparing to drastically increase the cost of some of its ...
Discussion
March 13, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Getting linguistic with new top level domains
Joseph Peterson digs into the language of new TLDs in this continuing series. Actors unsure how to play a scene will sometimes ask the director, “What’s my motivation?” OK. Let me explain why I’m writing this somewhat technica...
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Getting linguistic with new top level domains
Joseph Peterson digs into the language of new TLDs in this continuing series. Actors unsure how to play a scene will sometimes ask the director, “What’s my motivation?” OK. Let me explain why I’m writing this somewhat technica...
Discussion
March 10, 2017, 2:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Here are Uniregistry new TLD prices
This is how much registrars will pay Uniregistry for TLDs after the price change. I’ve written a lot this week about Uniregistry’s upcoming price change. I’ll have Frank Schilling on my podcast Monday to discuss in greater detail. B...
Discussion
Here are Uniregistry new TLD prices
This is how much registrars will pay Uniregistry for TLDs after the price change. I’ve written a lot this week about Uniregistry’s upcoming price change. I’ll have Frank Schilling on my podcast Monday to discuss in greater detail. B...
Discussion
March 9, 2017, 9:00 pm
