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These keywords saw a spike in registrations last month
Options, Limos among popular keywords in new .com domains. Verisign has published its monthly “trending” keywords report, which finds keywords that have suddenly become more popular in .com domain name registrations. Based on the results,...
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These keywords saw a spike in registrations last month
Options, Limos among popular keywords in new .com domains. Verisign has published its monthly “trending” keywords report, which finds keywords that have suddenly become more popular in .com domain name registrations. Based on the results,...
Discussion
June 12, 2015, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Kevin Ham and Mike Mann let these prize-winning domain names expire
Domains that won $5,000 in Verisign contest used to be owned by well-known domain name investors. Verisign found some great domains for the final five $5,000 winners in its Internet Official contest. All five were previously registered. Interestingly...
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Kevin Ham and Mike Mann let these prize-winning domain names expire
Domains that won $5,000 in Verisign contest used to be owned by well-known domain name investors. Verisign found some great domains for the final five $5,000 winners in its Internet Official contest. All five were previously registered. Interestingly...
Discussion
June 12, 2015, 2:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Canada responds to ICANN about .Sucks
Move along, now… John Knubley, Deputy Minister of Industry Canada, has responded (pdf) to the letter ICANN sent to both the U.S. FTC and Canada regarding the .sucks domain name. Knubley basically states that this is not a matter for the govern...
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Canada responds to ICANN about .Sucks
Move along, now… John Knubley, Deputy Minister of Industry Canada, has responded (pdf) to the letter ICANN sent to both the U.S. FTC and Canada regarding the .sucks domain name. Knubley basically states that this is not a matter for the govern...
Discussion
June 11, 2015, 7:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Baotou.com sells for $62,000 and other expired domain name sales
A whopper of a sale at NameJet, as Joseph Peterson reports. This week it’s no contest. Between the top expired auction at NameJet and its runner up there yawns a chasm – a 7:1 ratio. At $9k, GameStars.com would be an impressive sale &hell...
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Baotou.com sells for $62,000 and other expired domain name sales
A whopper of a sale at NameJet, as Joseph Peterson reports. This week it’s no contest. Between the top expired auction at NameJet and its runner up there yawns a chasm – a 7:1 ratio. At $9k, GameStars.com would be an impressive sale &hell...
Discussion
June 11, 2015, 4:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts begins releasing name collision domains
First batch of domains is now available for registration. Donuts has begun releasing domain names that were originally held back due to name collision concerns. The first set of domain names, all related to photography, became available yesterday. Th...
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Donuts begins releasing name collision domains
First batch of domains is now available for registration. Donuts has begun releasing domain names that were originally held back due to name collision concerns. The first set of domain names, all related to photography, became available yesterday. Th...
Discussion
June 11, 2015, 3:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Salesforce registers over 100 subdomain typos
Salesforce registers .com domains corresponding to each of its instances. When you log in to Salesforce.com, you land on an instance, which is a subdomain of salesforce.com. As explained here, if you arrive from North America, your browser might load...
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Salesforce registers over 100 subdomain typos
Salesforce registers .com domains corresponding to each of its instances. When you log in to Salesforce.com, you land on an instance, which is a subdomain of salesforce.com. As explained here, if you arrive from North America, your browser might load...
Discussion
June 11, 2015, 2:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
(Some of) May’s top NameJet sales
Joseph Peterson takes a look back at the past month on NameJet. Each month, NameJet disseminates its list of domain auctions that closed above $2,000, and various domain blogs publish that list basically as is. Personally, I’ve tried to dig a b...
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(Some of) May’s top NameJet sales
Joseph Peterson takes a look back at the past month on NameJet. Each month, NameJet disseminates its list of domain auctions that closed above $2,000, and various domain blogs publish that list basically as is. Personally, I’ve tried to dig a b...
Discussion
June 10, 2015, 6:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Strong greenback provides domain name buying opportunity
Currency fluctuations have a big impact on domain name negotiations. If you keep your cash in the U.S. dollar, now might be a good time to by domain names from people outside of the U.S. It might also be worth revisiting failed purchases from the pas...
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Strong greenback provides domain name buying opportunity
Currency fluctuations have a big impact on domain name negotiations. If you keep your cash in the U.S. dollar, now might be a good time to by domain names from people outside of the U.S. It might also be worth revisiting failed purchases from the pas...
Discussion
June 10, 2015, 3:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
16 end user domain name sales up to $50,000
An end user (instead of a Chinese domain name investor) bought a three letter domain name last week. Sedo handled 560 transactions last week for total domain name sales of about $1 million. The biggest public sale was NBT.com, which was purchased by ...
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16 end user domain name sales up to $50,000
An end user (instead of a Chinese domain name investor) bought a three letter domain name last week. Sedo handled 560 transactions last week for total domain name sales of about $1 million. The biggest public sale was NBT.com, which was purchased by ...
Discussion
June 10, 2015, 3:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
The challenges of descriptive trademarks
Two lawsuits show that descriptive brands have a downside. I came across a couple recently filed trademark lawsuits that emphasize the challenge of building a brand around a descriptive term. The first was filed by Texas company Peanut Labs, Inc., wh...
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The challenges of descriptive trademarks
Two lawsuits show that descriptive brands have a downside. I came across a couple recently filed trademark lawsuits that emphasize the challenge of building a brand around a descriptive term. The first was filed by Texas company Peanut Labs, Inc., wh...
Discussion
June 10, 2015, 2:24 pm
