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Expired Domain Report: In-Depth on LLLL.com
Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain sales. During the past several months, LLLL.com domains (4 letters, for those just joining us) have multiplied in value among wholesale traders who expect to flip to China or resell to one...
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Expired Domain Report: In-Depth on LLLL.com
Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain sales. During the past several months, LLLL.com domains (4 letters, for those just joining us) have multiplied in value among wholesale traders who expect to flip to China or resell to one...
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August 9, 2015, 10:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club reveals registrar-sold premium domains
.Club registry releases unique sales data. In an unprecedented level of transparency, .Club has revealed which domain names it sold through registrars at premium prices last month. The registry began offering about 8,000 premium-priced domain names t...
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.Club reveals registrar-sold premium domains
.Club registry releases unique sales data. In an unprecedented level of transparency, .Club has revealed which domain names it sold through registrars at premium prices last month. The registry began offering about 8,000 premium-priced domain names t...
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August 7, 2015, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy customers have registered 850k new TLDs
GoDaddy leads the way for new domain names. On GoDaddy’s investor conference call this week, the company disclosed that its customers have registered 850,000 names in new top level domains. That’s over the course of about 18 months of ava...
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GoDaddy customers have registered 850k new TLDs
GoDaddy leads the way for new domain names. On GoDaddy’s investor conference call this week, the company disclosed that its customers have registered 850,000 names in new top level domains. That’s over the course of about 18 months of ava...
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August 7, 2015, 2:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines co-founder dumps another 30 million shares
Krueger now owns about 5% of the company. Minds + Machines co-founder Frederick Krueger, who was pushed out of the company at the end of May, has sold another 30 million shares in the company. He now owns about 41 million ordinary shares of the new t...
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Minds + Machines co-founder dumps another 30 million shares
Krueger now owns about 5% of the company. Minds + Machines co-founder Frederick Krueger, who was pushed out of the company at the end of May, has sold another 30 million shares in the company. He now owns about 41 million ordinary shares of the new t...
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August 7, 2015, 1:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Holdings sells $6.1 million in domains in Q2
Domain Holdings recovers from first quarter but is still down compared to last year. Domain Holdings reported sales numbers for Q2 2015 including $6.15 million in domain name sales. This is up from $4.75 million sold in Q1, but is less than half of w...
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Domain Holdings sells $6.1 million in domains in Q2
Domain Holdings recovers from first quarter but is still down compared to last year. Domain Holdings reported sales numbers for Q2 2015 including $6.15 million in domain name sales. This is up from $4.75 million sold in Q1, but is less than half of w...
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August 6, 2015, 4:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
50 End User Domain Name Sales up to $500,000
Here are recent domain name purchases by end users. During the past week, Sedo reported 550 public domain transactions, totaling around $1.6 million. At an even $500k, Give.com receives the laurels. Notably, a domain industry veteran w...
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50 End User Domain Name Sales up to $500,000
Here are recent domain name purchases by end users. During the past week, Sedo reported 550 public domain transactions, totaling around $1.6 million. At an even $500k, Give.com receives the laurels. Notably, a domain industry veteran w...
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August 6, 2015, 3:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
TLD Profile: .Beer
An ICANNWiki profile of .Beer. Considering that ICANNWiki is based out of Portland, Oregon, home to more breweries than any city in the world (61 in Portland and 91 in the greater metro area), I decided to profile a TLD that reflects our local cultur...
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TLD Profile: .Beer
An ICANNWiki profile of .Beer. Considering that ICANNWiki is based out of Portland, Oregon, home to more breweries than any city in the world (61 in Portland and 91 in the greater metro area), I decided to profile a TLD that reflects our local cultur...
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August 6, 2015, 2:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy reports 16.5% YoY revenue growth
GoDaddy’s topline growth continues. GoDaddy reported earnings after the bell today. The company posted 16.5% earnings growth in Q2 2015 compared to the same quarter a year ago. That’s a slight decline from the 17.5% year over year number ...
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GoDaddy reports 16.5% YoY revenue growth
GoDaddy’s topline growth continues. GoDaddy reported earnings after the bell today. The company posted 16.5% earnings growth in Q2 2015 compared to the same quarter a year ago. That’s a slight decline from the 17.5% year over year number ...
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August 5, 2015, 10:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers: Uniregistry posts a big gain
Here’s how registrars fared with .com in April. ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from April. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDad...
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.Com Winners & Losers: Uniregistry posts a big gain
Here’s how registrars fared with .com in April. ICANN has published the latest Verisign .com monthly report, containing data from April. Let’s start by reviewing which registrars added the most new .com domain name registrations: 1. GoDad...
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August 5, 2015, 6:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside: 2 $100k .Video Sales, $1M from .News and new TLD renewal rates
Rightside reveals three interesting numbers about its new top level domain names. Rightside held its quarterly analyst call yesterday after releasing second quarter results. Here are three interesting notes about new top level domain names that Right...
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Rightside: 2 $100k .Video Sales, $1M from .News and new TLD renewal rates
Rightside reveals three interesting numbers about its new top level domain names. Rightside held its quarterly analyst call yesterday after releasing second quarter results. Here are three interesting notes about new top level domain names that Right...
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August 5, 2015, 4:08 pm
