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Expired Domain Reports: Pregnancy domain names and more
Pregnancy-related domains among past week’s expired domain inventory. This week, we answer the age-old conundrum, “Which came first – the chicken or the egg?” Sort of. No hens made the charts, and eggs did’t co...
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Expired Domain Reports: Pregnancy domain names and more
Pregnancy-related domains among past week’s expired domain inventory. This week, we answer the age-old conundrum, “Which came first – the chicken or the egg?” Sort of. No hens made the charts, and eggs did’t co...
Discussion
March 3, 2016, 4:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon loads up on Echo Dot domains
Company makes defensive registrations for new products. Amazon.com announced its new Echo Dot today, a smaller and stripped down version of its Amazon Echo. Of all of the smart home devices we have in our house (and we have a LOT), the Echo is by far...
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Amazon loads up on Echo Dot domains
Company makes defensive registrations for new products. Amazon.com announced its new Echo Dot today, a smaller and stripped down version of its Amazon Echo. Of all of the smart home devices we have in our house (and we have a LOT), the Echo is by far...
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March 3, 2016, 2:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy’s annual report re-confirms $35.5 million price for Berkens’ portfolio
Company paid about $500 per domain to acquire Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio. GoDaddy filed its annual report with the SEC today, and it confirms (or re-confirms) that the company paid $35.5 million to acquire Michael Berkens’ dom...
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GoDaddy’s annual report re-confirms $35.5 million price for Berkens’ portfolio
Company paid about $500 per domain to acquire Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio. GoDaddy filed its annual report with the SEC today, and it confirms (or re-confirms) that the company paid $35.5 million to acquire Michael Berkens’ dom...
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March 3, 2016, 1:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Michael Berkens resigns from Right of the Dot
After big sale, Berkens resigns from domain consulting group. Michael Berkens has resigned as a Director and officer of Right of the Dot, LLC, a consulting firm he co-founded with Monte Cahn. Berkens recently updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect t...
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Michael Berkens resigns from Right of the Dot
After big sale, Berkens resigns from domain consulting group. Michael Berkens has resigned as a Director and officer of Right of the Dot, LLC, a consulting firm he co-founded with Monte Cahn. Berkens recently updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect t...
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March 2, 2016, 5:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
LA Times Publisher acquires LA.com domain name
Tribune acquires valuable domain name, plans to offer customized email addresses. Tribune Publishing Company (NYSE:TPUB), publisher of the L.A. Times, has acquired the valuable domain name LA.com. The company has already created a landing page for th...
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LA Times Publisher acquires LA.com domain name
Tribune acquires valuable domain name, plans to offer customized email addresses. Tribune Publishing Company (NYSE:TPUB), publisher of the L.A. Times, has acquired the valuable domain name LA.com. The company has already created a landing page for th...
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March 2, 2016, 5:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese domain name registrar knocks GoDaddy off .Com Perch
eName was #1 in most recent published results. Chinese registrants helped .com surge toward the end of 2015 as they registered millions of short domain names. And, with official numbers just published by ICANN, we now know that this surge pushed GoDa...
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Chinese domain name registrar knocks GoDaddy off .Com Perch
eName was #1 in most recent published results. Chinese registrants helped .com surge toward the end of 2015 as they registered millions of short domain names. And, with official numbers just published by ICANN, we now know that this surge pushed GoDa...
Discussion
March 2, 2016, 3:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Fantastic: How to buy a domain name
A must-read guide about acquiring domain names. Giuseppe Graziano has published an excellent guide about how to buy a domain name. He promised, “Even if you are an industry pro, I promise you will learn at least a couple of strategies that can ...
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Fantastic: How to buy a domain name
A must-read guide about acquiring domain names. Giuseppe Graziano has published an excellent guide about how to buy a domain name. He promised, “Even if you are an industry pro, I promise you will learn at least a couple of strategies that can ...
Discussion
March 2, 2016, 2:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy gets Whois verification patent
Patent describes ways to make sure people don’t use invalid information in whois records. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent 9,275,040 to GoDaddy for “Validating user control over contact information in a domain name ...
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GoDaddy gets Whois verification patent
Patent describes ways to make sure people don’t use invalid information in whois records. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office has granted patent 9,275,040 to GoDaddy for “Validating user control over contact information in a domain name ...
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March 1, 2016, 6:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Major Rightside shareholder upset with focus on new TLDs
Shareholder asks company to fire 20% of staff, add update and unify company products under eNom. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) investor J. Carlo Cannell, who owns 7.32% of outstanding shares through investment funds, has sent a scathing letter to Rightside...
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Major Rightside shareholder upset with focus on new TLDs
Shareholder asks company to fire 20% of staff, add update and unify company products under eNom. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) investor J. Carlo Cannell, who owns 7.32% of outstanding shares through investment funds, has sent a scathing letter to Rightside...
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March 1, 2016, 3:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Radix begins sending expired domain inventory through SnapNames
.Website domain names are the first of the company’s domain names to be available through SnapNames. New top level domain name company Radix has struck a deal with SnapNames to send expired domain name inventory through the auction platform. .C...
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Radix begins sending expired domain inventory through SnapNames
.Website domain names are the first of the company’s domain names to be available through SnapNames. New top level domain name company Radix has struck a deal with SnapNames to send expired domain name inventory through the auction platform. .C...
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March 1, 2016, 3:27 pm
