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How to Name a Company in 8 Hours
A guide and case study for naming a business. Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz, three partners with Google Ventures, released a new book Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days earlier this month. They’...
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How to Name a Company in 8 Hours
A guide and case study for naming a business. Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz, three partners with Google Ventures, released a new book Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days earlier this month. They’...
Discussion
March 15, 2016, 8:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Faroe Islands try to take down gruesome “Save the Whales” site
Blood-filled site has similar domain name to Faroe Islands’ tourism board site. Type in the domain name VisitFaroeIslands.com and you’ll see an image of undisturbed beauty. It’s a picturesque sales pitch for the 18 islands that make...
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Faroe Islands try to take down gruesome “Save the Whales” site
Blood-filled site has similar domain name to Faroe Islands’ tourism board site. Type in the domain name VisitFaroeIslands.com and you’ll see an image of undisturbed beauty. It’s a picturesque sales pitch for the 18 islands that make...
Discussion
March 15, 2016, 6:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside promotes new domain names at SXSW
Free beer, free domains and the bearglecorn. Rightside, along with its Name.com registrar, are promoting new top level domain names at SXSW in Austin this week. You can follow the company’s adventures at Interactive.Live. Here are some of the e...
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Rightside promotes new domain names at SXSW
Free beer, free domains and the bearglecorn. Rightside, along with its Name.com registrar, are promoting new top level domain names at SXSW in Austin this week. You can follow the company’s adventures at Interactive.Live. Here are some of the e...
Discussion
March 15, 2016, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Auction.com now part of Ten-X
The Auction.com brand will be retained as one of the company’s service lines. The company that bought the Auction.com domain name for $1.7 million in 2009 has rebranded away from the Auction.com…sort of. The company is now Ten-X instead ...
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Auction.com now part of Ten-X
The Auction.com brand will be retained as one of the company’s service lines. The company that bought the Auction.com domain name for $1.7 million in 2009 has rebranded away from the Auction.com…sort of. The company is now Ten-X instead ...
Discussion
March 15, 2016, 2:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Photos from Sedo Domain Village
Domain village attracts domainers and SXSW attendees. Today is day three of Sedo Domain Village in downtown Austin. I spent the afternoon there yesterday with a handful of other domain peeps. Lots of SXSW-goers stopped by for free lunch, free slushes...
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Photos from Sedo Domain Village
Domain village attracts domainers and SXSW attendees. Today is day three of Sedo Domain Village in downtown Austin. I spent the afternoon there yesterday with a handful of other domain peeps. Lots of SXSW-goers stopped by for free lunch, free slushes...
Discussion
March 14, 2016, 6:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Future Domain Opportunities – DNW Podcast #75
You might be able to make money investing in these types of domains. On this episode we talk about trends and future technologies, and some domain names you can register related to these technologies that might be worth a lot of money in the future. ...
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Future Domain Opportunities – DNW Podcast #75
You might be able to make money investing in these types of domains. On this episode we talk about trends and future technologies, and some domain names you can register related to these technologies that might be worth a lot of money in the future. ...
Discussion
March 14, 2016, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Video: a walk through Sedo Domain Village at SXSW 2016
Domain Village was a popular destination in downtown Austin yesterday. Sedo’s Domain Village in Austin, Texas opened up Saturday and runs through Thursday. The event coincides with the SXSW conference and festival. Yesterday I stopped by for a ...
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Video: a walk through Sedo Domain Village at SXSW 2016
Domain Village was a popular destination in downtown Austin yesterday. Sedo’s Domain Village in Austin, Texas opened up Saturday and runs through Thursday. The event coincides with the SXSW conference and festival. Yesterday I stopped by for a ...
Discussion
March 14, 2016, 1:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese regulations shut down DN.com domain name escrow service
“Requirements of the government” lead to sudden blackout at escrow company. Last week domain name escrow service DN.com suddenly went dark. The company sent out an explanation yesterday, which is copied in its entirety below. The company ...
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Chinese regulations shut down DN.com domain name escrow service
“Requirements of the government” lead to sudden blackout at escrow company. Last week domain name escrow service DN.com suddenly went dark. The company sent out an explanation yesterday, which is copied in its entirety below. The company ...
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March 14, 2016, 1:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
eNom lays out 2016 roadmap
Company plans to improve and modernize API. The user interfaces at eNom and Namejet look and feel clumsy and stale. Looking past the main page of NAME’s sites, the logged-in front-end infrastructure is untouched and acts like time capsule to wh...
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eNom lays out 2016 roadmap
Company plans to improve and modernize API. The user interfaces at eNom and Namejet look and feel clumsy and stale. Looking past the main page of NAME’s sites, the logged-in front-end infrastructure is untouched and acts like time capsule to wh...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 6:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Interesting domain name search stats
2/3rds of searches include a TLD, 44% of searches for new TLDs came back unavailable. eNom revealed some interested stats about domain name searches in its most recent newsletter: Users performed an average of 2.6 searches per session. One-third of a...
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Interesting domain name search stats
2/3rds of searches include a TLD, 44% of searches for new TLDs came back unavailable. eNom revealed some interested stats about domain name searches in its most recent newsletter: Users performed an average of 2.6 searches per session. One-third of a...
Discussion
March 11, 2016, 2:12 pm
