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How can we bring liquidity to the domain name business?
Is there a way to make domain names a more efficient market? Domain name investing is an incredibly inefficient and illiquid business compared to many markets. There have been times and certain segments when domains were liquid, such as traffic domai...
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How can we bring liquidity to the domain name business?
Is there a way to make domain names a more efficient market? Domain name investing is an incredibly inefficient and illiquid business compared to many markets. There have been times and certain segments when domains were liquid, such as traffic domai...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 4:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameJet’s August in Review – 3 character slow down?
Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of domain sales at NameJet. August was a slow month at NameJet – where sales above $2000 are concerned anyway. With that upper price range contributing a total of $399.5k, the auction house ...
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NameJet’s August in Review – 3 character slow down?
Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of domain sales at NameJet. August was a slow month at NameJet – where sales above $2000 are concerned anyway. With that upper price range contributing a total of $399.5k, the auction house ...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 2:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Jothan Frakes to lead Moniker
Frakes to the rescue? Domain name industry veteran Jothan Frakes is set to take over the helm of Moniker as interim CEO later this month. Frakes will have a tough challenge ahead of him. Moniker has been in a tailspin ever since it switched from its ...
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Jothan Frakes to lead Moniker
Frakes to the rescue? Domain name industry veteran Jothan Frakes is set to take over the helm of Moniker as interim CEO later this month. Frakes will have a tough challenge ahead of him. Moniker has been in a tailspin ever since it switched from its ...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 1:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Trump is still trending…in .com
Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, &l...
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Trump is still trending…in .com
Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, &l...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 1:18 am
Domain Name Wire
Symantec issued patent for rating domain registrars
Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells t...
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Symantec issued patent for rating domain registrars
Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells t...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 5:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lead Gen and Domain Names with Braden Pollock – DNW Podcast #49
Can domainers make money with lead gen? Is there a scaleable way to monetize domain names with lead generation? Today’s guest, Braden Pollock, runs lead generation company Legal Brand Marketing. We’ll chat about monetizing domains with le...
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Lead Gen and Domain Names with Braden Pollock – DNW Podcast #49
Can domainers make money with lead gen? Is there a scaleable way to monetize domain names with lead generation? Today’s guest, Braden Pollock, runs lead generation company Legal Brand Marketing. We’ll chat about monetizing domains with le...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club banks with more premium sales in August
.Club sells another $100k in premium domain names. The .Club registry has released premium domain sales totals from August, much like it did for the previous month. This provides great insight into premium sales by registries. .Club’s domains c...
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.Club banks with more premium sales in August
.Club sells another $100k in premium domain names. The .Club registry has released premium domain sales totals from August, much like it did for the previous month. This provides great insight into premium sales by registries. .Club’s domains c...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 2:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts releasing 2 character domain names this week
TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two l...
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Donuts releasing 2 character domain names this week
TV.show, RX.delivery and other domains are available for registration on Wednesday. Have your eye on a two character domain name in one of Donuts’ domain names? You can start registering them on Wednesday, September 9. Previously withheld two l...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 1:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week: .Ski and .Lotto domain names
Hit the slopes with .Ski this week. Two new top level domain names launch today, the most anticipated of which is .ski. .Ski got 1,000 registrations during a combined Sunrise and Limited Registration Period. A number of entities and people that are k...
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This week: .Ski and .Lotto domain names
Hit the slopes with .Ski this week. Two new top level domain names launch today, the most anticipated of which is .ski. .Ski got 1,000 registrations during a combined Sunrise and Limited Registration Period. A number of entities and people that are k...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 1:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Panel rules that Rightside’s .Cam application is still in the mix
String confusion objection ruling is overturned. Verisign’s successful string confusion objection against Rightside’s .cam top level domain name has been overturned. ICANN was put in a sticky situation after Verisign’s string confus...
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Panel rules that Rightside’s .Cam application is still in the mix
String confusion objection ruling is overturned. Verisign’s successful string confusion objection against Rightside’s .cam top level domain name has been overturned. ICANN was put in a sticky situation after Verisign’s string confus...
Discussion
September 4, 2015, 4:41 pm
