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Hockey teams own 9 of 30 NHL team domain names
NHL lags MLB, but teams still own a good number of direct match domain names. In my book, there’s nothing more exciting and intense in sport than NHL playoff hockey. With the playoffs in full swing, I thought it would be interesting to take a l...
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Hockey teams own 9 of 30 NHL team domain names
NHL lags MLB, but teams still own a good number of direct match domain names. In my book, there’s nothing more exciting and intense in sport than NHL playoff hockey. With the playoffs in full swing, I thought it would be interesting to take a l...
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April 23, 2015, 5:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Another fake TLD sighting: .Calm
Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling arou...
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Another fake TLD sighting: .Calm
Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling arou...
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April 23, 2015, 2:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
More Amazon new TLD reg’s and Google’s odd domain names
I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to pa...
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More Amazon new TLD reg’s and Google’s odd domain names
I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to pa...
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April 23, 2015, 1:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
15 end user domain name buyers including Univision
Univision buys a domain name and a lighting company pays big bucks for a co.uk domain. Sedo handled 568 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. The company turned in some solid sales to end users, including Spanish-la...
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15 end user domain name buyers including Univision
Univision buys a domain name and a lighting company pays big bucks for a co.uk domain. Sedo handled 568 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. The company turned in some solid sales to end users, including Spanish-la...
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April 22, 2015, 4:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking down Minds + Machines’ domain name Portfolio
Registry releases detailed stats on domain name registrations. Top level domain name registry Minds + Machines released an update on its progress today, including a detailed breakdown of how its top level domain names have fared so far. The company h...
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Breaking down Minds + Machines’ domain name Portfolio
Registry releases detailed stats on domain name registrations. Top level domain name registry Minds + Machines released an update on its progress today, including a detailed breakdown of how its top level domain names have fared so far. The company h...
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April 22, 2015, 1:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy acquires Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million
An in-depth look at GoDaddy’s purchase of over 200,000 domain names and what it means for domain name investors. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired about 200,000 domain names from Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) for $28.1 million, plus a potential earnou...
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GoDaddy acquires Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million
An in-depth look at GoDaddy’s purchase of over 200,000 domain names and what it means for domain name investors. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired about 200,000 domain names from Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) for $28.1 million, plus a potential earnou...
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April 22, 2015, 12:30 pm
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Virtual .US Town Hall meeting takes place Wednesday
.US owners should tune in and ask questions at online event tomorrow. Neustar, the registry that runs the .US country code domain name for the United States, is holding a .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall tomorrow, April 22. The virtual town hall take...
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Virtual .US Town Hall meeting takes place Wednesday
.US owners should tune in and ask questions at online event tomorrow. Neustar, the registry that runs the .US country code domain name for the United States, is holding a .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall tomorrow, April 22. The virtual town hall take...
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April 21, 2015, 5:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google begins mobile search rankings shakeup
Search rankings on mobile devices are shifting starting today. Today is the day. Google has begun changing search results on mobile phones based on if sites are mobile friendly or not. According to a blog post from the company, the search rankings ro...
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Google begins mobile search rankings shakeup
Search rankings on mobile devices are shifting starting today. Today is the day. Google has begun changing search results on mobile phones based on if sites are mobile friendly or not. According to a blog post from the company, the search rankings ro...
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April 21, 2015, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
.London, .NYC and new ways to calculate the success of a TLD
A deep dive into how .London and .NYC are being used. The .London and .NYC top level domain names were both launched last year and have risen to the top of new TLD leaderboards. .London currently has about 60,000 registrations and .NYC has topped 75,...
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.London, .NYC and new ways to calculate the success of a TLD
A deep dive into how .London and .NYC are being used. The .London and .NYC top level domain names were both launched last year and have risen to the top of new TLD leaderboards. .London currently has about 60,000 registrations and .NYC has topped 75,...
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April 21, 2015, 1:43 pm
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New Domain this week: .Poker
Afilias launches .poker this week, and it is the only new TLD launch I could find. I can only find one new top level domain name on Calzone.org that’s launching this week, so it will get a little extra focus. Afilias launches .Poker on Tuesday ...
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New Domain this week: .Poker
Afilias launches .poker this week, and it is the only new TLD launch I could find. I can only find one new top level domain name on Calzone.org that’s launching this week, so it will get a little extra focus. Afilias launches .Poker on Tuesday ...
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April 20, 2015, 7:40 pm
