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Domain Name Wire
.Com’s latest winners and losers
Registrar results with .com are in for July ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from July. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s monthly look at how registrars performed with .com. Keep in mind that these reports are publishe...
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.Com’s latest winners and losers
Registrar results with .com are in for July ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from July. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s monthly look at how registrars performed with .com. Keep in mind that these reports are publishe...
Discussion
November 4, 2015, 5:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name sales up to $100,000 including AOL
AOL was among the companies buying domain names in the aftermarket last week. Sedo had a great sales week last week, handling $1.7 million of domain name sales on 688 transactions. End users were a big reason for this solid sales week. An Austin comp...
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End user domain name sales up to $100,000 including AOL
AOL was among the companies buying domain names in the aftermarket last week. Sedo had a great sales week last week, handling $1.7 million of domain name sales on 688 transactions. End users were a big reason for this solid sales week. An Austin comp...
Discussion
November 4, 2015, 3:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sony uses .Sony domain name instead of .Com for microsite
Company puts .brand to work. Last week I wrote about the .Brand challenge to .Com, and how it doesn’t come in the form of big companies giving up their .com domains. For example, Sony is never going to let Sony.com expire. Instead, challenge is...
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Sony uses .Sony domain name instead of .Com for microsite
Company puts .brand to work. Last week I wrote about the .Brand challenge to .Com, and how it doesn’t come in the form of big companies giving up their .com domains. For example, Sony is never going to let Sony.com expire. Instead, challenge is...
Discussion
November 3, 2015, 8:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club is batting 1.000 on 2 letter domain name auctions
.Club is setting a new standard for two letter domain name values in new TLDs. .Club’s two letter domain name auctions are off to a good start, with all 15 of the domain names that have closed so far reaching their reserves. The 15 domain names...
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.Club is batting 1.000 on 2 letter domain name auctions
.Club is setting a new standard for two letter domain name values in new TLDs. .Club’s two letter domain name auctions are off to a good start, with all 15 of the domain names that have closed so far reaching their reserves. The 15 domain names...
Discussion
November 3, 2015, 5:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
October’s Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories
Here’s what was hot in October. 1. The Adam Dicker Saga – One of the bigger personalities in the domain name industry had his comeuppance last month. Many of Adam Dicker’s revenue and prowess claims were called into question, people...
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October’s Top 5 Domain Name Wire Stories
Here’s what was hot in October. 1. The Adam Dicker Saga – One of the bigger personalities in the domain name industry had his comeuppance last month. Many of Adam Dicker’s revenue and prowess claims were called into question, people...
Discussion
November 3, 2015, 3:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Here’s why the MySchool.com lawsuit was dismissed (Transcript)
Transcript reveals Judge’s reasoning for granting summary judgment to MySchool.com owner. Last week, Judge John F. Anderson granted Original Web Ventures’ motion for summary judgment in a fight over the domain name MySchool.com. In doing ...
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Here’s why the MySchool.com lawsuit was dismissed (Transcript)
Transcript reveals Judge’s reasoning for granting summary judgment to MySchool.com owner. Last week, Judge John F. Anderson granted Original Web Ventures’ motion for summary judgment in a fight over the domain name MySchool.com. In doing ...
Discussion
November 3, 2015, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new domain name: Let’s talk about .Sex
.Sex domain names become available on Wednesday. There’s only one new domain name entering general availability this week according to Calzone.org, but it’s a big one: .Sex. ICM Registry launches the domain name on Wednesday, August 4. Yo...
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This week’s new domain name: Let’s talk about .Sex
.Sex domain names become available on Wednesday. There’s only one new domain name entering general availability this week according to Calzone.org, but it’s a big one: .Sex. ICM Registry launches the domain name on Wednesday, August 4. Yo...
Discussion
November 2, 2015, 9:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com default disappears in iOS 9 on iPad
Keyboard loses its .com shortcut. Something weird happened when I updated our iPads to iOS 9.1. I’m not sure if it is an intentional change or a bug. Here’s the deal: When you press and hold the period “.” key on the iOS keybo...
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.Com default disappears in iOS 9 on iPad
Keyboard loses its .com shortcut. Something weird happened when I updated our iPads to iOS 9.1. I’m not sure if it is an intentional change or a bug. Here’s the deal: When you press and hold the period “.” key on the iOS keybo...
Discussion
November 2, 2015, 5:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Congo.io, miffed and price of Congo.Com, is rebranding to a different .Com
Company crowdsources an aftermarket domain name purchase. A Domain Name Wire reader sent me an amusing press release issued on Friday. Boulder, Colorado startup Congo is upset that Digimedia, owners of Congo.com, want an “egregiously overinflat...
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Congo.io, miffed and price of Congo.Com, is rebranding to a different .Com
Company crowdsources an aftermarket domain name purchase. A Domain Name Wire reader sent me an amusing press release issued on Friday. Boulder, Colorado startup Congo is upset that Digimedia, owners of Congo.com, want an “egregiously overinflat...
Discussion
November 2, 2015, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
4 Letter .Com Domains with Giuseppe Graziano – DNW Podcast #57
3 and 4 letter domain names are in high demand, and few people know more about the market than Giuseppe Graziano. His domain brokerage firm GGRG.com works exclusively on these domains. On today’s show he’ll tell you how to find and buy th...
Discussion
4 Letter .Com Domains with Giuseppe Graziano – DNW Podcast #57
3 and 4 letter domain names are in high demand, and few people know more about the market than Giuseppe Graziano. His domain brokerage firm GGRG.com works exclusively on these domains. On today’s show he’ll tell you how to find and buy th...
Discussion
November 2, 2015, 3:30 pm
