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Who bought what? End user domain name purchases
End user buyers include Fluor, which has a $6 billion market cap. Sedo handled 588 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1 million. A number of these domain names were purchased by end users, including the pricey acquisition of Choose.co...
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Who bought what? End user domain name purchases
End user buyers include Fluor, which has a $6 billion market cap. Sedo handled 588 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1 million. A number of these domain names were purchased by end users, including the pricey acquisition of Choose.co...
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February 3, 2016, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers: Chinese registrars, Uniregistry continue surge
Chinese surge continues in latest .com reports ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from October, and it shows the continued surge of registrations in China. Last month I wrote about how two Chinese domain name registrars, HiC...
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.Com Winners & Losers: Chinese registrars, Uniregistry continue surge
Chinese surge continues in latest .com reports ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from October, and it shows the continued surge of registrations in China. Last month I wrote about how two Chinese domain name registrars, HiC...
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February 2, 2016, 6:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Huge C-Suite Shakeup at Sedo
Company will have new CMO, CSO and CFO. Sedo announced a slew of changes to its executive offices this morning. Solomon Amoako is stepping down from his role as North American Chief Sales Officer for personal reasons. Dima Beitzke will assume managem...
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Huge C-Suite Shakeup at Sedo
Company will have new CMO, CSO and CFO. Sedo announced a slew of changes to its executive offices this morning. Solomon Amoako is stepping down from his role as North American Chief Sales Officer for personal reasons. Dima Beitzke will assume managem...
Discussion
February 2, 2016, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain name investor wins domain on NameJet, then wins UDRP
DiamondTrust.com was hit with a UDRP just after selling on NameJet. A domain name investor has successfully defended the domain name DiamondTrust.com in a UDRP filed just after he won the domain name on NameJet. James Kim of SouthKorea.com won an auc...
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Domain name investor wins domain on NameJet, then wins UDRP
DiamondTrust.com was hit with a UDRP just after selling on NameJet. A domain name investor has successfully defended the domain name DiamondTrust.com in a UDRP filed just after he won the domain name on NameJet. James Kim of SouthKorea.com won an auc...
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February 2, 2016, 4:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bazaarvoice founder launching new company on .World domain name
Startup chooses data.world domain name. Austin entrepreneur Brett Hurt, who founded Bazaarvoice and later took it public, is launching a new startup on a new top level domain name. Hurt announced that he has joined up with a number of former Bazaarvo...
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Bazaarvoice founder launching new company on .World domain name
Startup chooses data.world domain name. Austin entrepreneur Brett Hurt, who founded Bazaarvoice and later took it public, is launching a new startup on a new top level domain name. Hurt announced that he has joined up with a number of former Bazaarvo...
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February 2, 2016, 2:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines Reports Q4 data
Billings surge in Q4. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has released some of its Q4 and full year 2015 results ahead of the publication of full results in April. The company generated $4.18 million in billings for domain name registr...
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Minds + Machines Reports Q4 data
Billings surge in Q4. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines has released some of its Q4 and full year 2015 results ahead of the publication of full results in April. The company generated $4.18 million in billings for domain name registr...
Discussion
February 2, 2016, 2:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Which Self-Driving Car Domains will Win?
Is there gold in self-driving car domain names? I’m optimistic about the future and the innovations it will bring. Last week I published a post on UpMoney about trends and technologies that are changing our world. One of these technologies is s...
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Which Self-Driving Car Domains will Win?
Is there gold in self-driving car domain names? I’m optimistic about the future and the innovations it will bring. Last week I published a post on UpMoney about trends and technologies that are changing our world. One of these technologies is s...
Discussion
February 1, 2016, 6:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Buying “Distressed” Domain Names – DNW Podcast #69
How to buy a domain from a company that hit hard times. Companies own a lot of great domain names, but prying them from their hands can be difficult. When companies go through bankruptcy or reorganization, however, there’s a buying opportunity ...
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Buying “Distressed” Domain Names – DNW Podcast #69
How to buy a domain from a company that hit hard times. Companies own a lot of great domain names, but prying them from their hands can be difficult. When companies go through bankruptcy or reorganization, however, there’s a buying opportunity ...
Discussion
February 1, 2016, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Parking page ads lead to a UDRP loss
What ads show up on a parked page make a big difference. Anyone can own the domain name MyEnterprise.com. Enterprise is a dictionary word, often referring to businesses and large organizations. But the owner of MyEnterprise.com just lost the domain n...
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Parking page ads lead to a UDRP loss
What ads show up on a parked page make a big difference. Anyone can own the domain name MyEnterprise.com. Enterprise is a dictionary word, often referring to businesses and large organizations. But the owner of MyEnterprise.com just lost the domain n...
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February 1, 2016, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report: NNN.net sells for $7.2k
A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. SnapNames turned in the top expiry result this week: 489.net ($7.2k). Such 3-digit .NETs are fairly rare in these charts, since only 1000 exist and those few rarely expire...
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Expired Domain Report: NNN.net sells for $7.2k
A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. SnapNames turned in the top expiry result this week: 489.net ($7.2k). Such 3-digit .NETs are fairly rare in these charts, since only 1000 exist and those few rarely expire...
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January 29, 2016, 4:30 pm
