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Another UDRP loss by a Gleissner company
Company loses UDRP for Flammea.com. CKL Holdings N.V has lost another UDRP. The company, which is tied to Michael Gleissner, unsuccessfully tried to get the domain name Flammea.com from a guy whose last name is Flammea. It put forth as evidence a Dom...
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Another UDRP loss by a Gleissner company
Company loses UDRP for Flammea.com. CKL Holdings N.V has lost another UDRP. The company, which is tied to Michael Gleissner, unsuccessfully tried to get the domain name Flammea.com from a guy whose last name is Flammea. It put forth as evidence a Dom...
Discussion
August 29, 2016, 5:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Ray King on Marketing Domain Names – DNW Podcast #99
Ray King returns to discuss how he’s marketing his TLDs. Ray King has a long history in domain names, and is now working hard to promote three top level domain names his company Top Level Design owns. Learn about how he’s getting people a...
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Ray King on Marketing Domain Names – DNW Podcast #99
Ray King returns to discuss how he’s marketing his TLDs. Ray King has a long history in domain names, and is now working hard to promote three top level domain names his company Top Level Design owns. Learn about how he’s getting people a...
Discussion
August 29, 2016, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Got $30k? Long and expensive .Shop Early Access opens Thursday
Have a spare $30,000 lying around? You can step to the front of the line. The first chance for non-trademark holders to get their hands on .shop domain names begins this Thursday, but it’s going to cost you. GMO Registry won an auction for righ...
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Got $30k? Long and expensive .Shop Early Access opens Thursday
Have a spare $30,000 lying around? You can step to the front of the line. The first chance for non-trademark holders to get their hands on .shop domain names begins this Thursday, but it’s going to cost you. GMO Registry won an auction for righ...
Discussion
August 29, 2016, 2:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Two domain name conferences on tap for September
THE Domain Conference and DomainFest Asia take place next month. We’re just a few days away from September, and that means we’re just a few weeks away from two domain name conferences. First up is THE Domain Conference, organized by the N...
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Two domain name conferences on tap for September
THE Domain Conference and DomainFest Asia take place next month. We’re just a few days away from September, and that means we’re just a few weeks away from two domain name conferences. First up is THE Domain Conference, organized by the N...
Discussion
August 26, 2016, 5:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Two domain name conference on tap for September
THE Domain Conference and DomainFest Asia take place next month. We’re just a few days away from September, and that means we’re just a few weeks away from two domain name conferences. First up is THE Domain Conference, organized by the N...
Discussion
Two domain name conference on tap for September
THE Domain Conference and DomainFest Asia take place next month. We’re just a few days away from September, and that means we’re just a few weeks away from two domain name conferences. First up is THE Domain Conference, organized by the N...
Discussion
August 26, 2016, 4:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Did P2P lending cause a Chinese bubble, and is it bursting?
Another high-profile P2P lending scam should give pause to Chinese domain investors. Remember those videos of the Chinese super bus making the rounds on social media a few months ago? The bus was designed to travel above car traffic on the street bel...
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Did P2P lending cause a Chinese bubble, and is it bursting?
Another high-profile P2P lending scam should give pause to Chinese domain investors. Remember those videos of the Chinese super bus making the rounds on social media a few months ago? The bus was designed to travel above car traffic on the street bel...
Discussion
August 25, 2016, 5:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese domain name investor getting out, dumps 70,000 .cc domains
Booksir announces to WeChat group that he’s exiting the domain name business. A prominent Chinese domain name investor has announced on WeChat that he’s getting out of the domain name investing business. Zhuang Liangji (庄良基), known ...
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Chinese domain name investor getting out, dumps 70,000 .cc domains
Booksir announces to WeChat group that he’s exiting the domain name business. A prominent Chinese domain name investor has announced on WeChat that he’s getting out of the domain name investing business. Zhuang Liangji (庄良基), known ...
Discussion
August 25, 2016, 2:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Escrow.com handles over US$200 million in payments in H1, buys domain name for A$1 million
Escrow.com’s parent company recently reported financial results for the first half of 2016 and disclosed a major domain name purchase. This week I had Escrow.com GM Jackson Elsegood on the Domain Name Wire podcast to provide an update on what h...
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Escrow.com handles over US$200 million in payments in H1, buys domain name for A$1 million
Escrow.com’s parent company recently reported financial results for the first half of 2016 and disclosed a major domain name purchase. This week I had Escrow.com GM Jackson Elsegood on the Domain Name Wire podcast to provide an update on what h...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 7:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names that were purchased by end users on Sedo over the past week. It was a lot harder this week to find end user domain name sales within Sedo’s sales list. The list was shorter than usual, but the bigger issue was that ma...
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This week’s end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names that were purchased by end users on Sedo over the past week. It was a lot harder this week to find end user domain name sales within Sedo’s sales list. The list was shorter than usual, but the bigger issue was that ma...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 5:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain names that get around: are they worth less?
Rapid trading of domain names might reduce their value. We’ve seen a new phenomenon in domain names in the past couple years: domain names that get around. Chinese investors have piled in and helped turn short domain names into tradeable commod...
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Domain names that get around: are they worth less?
Rapid trading of domain names might reduce their value. We’ve seen a new phenomenon in domain names in the past couple years: domain names that get around. Chinese investors have piled in and helped turn short domain names into tradeable commod...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 1:58 pm
