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What is Freelancer.com and why did it buy Escrow.com?
Publicly traded freelance marketplace owns a number of businesses, including a website and domain name marketplace. Yesterday (United States time), Freelancer.com announced that it acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5 million. Freelancer.com is a publicly...
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What is Freelancer.com and why did it buy Escrow.com?
Publicly traded freelance marketplace owns a number of businesses, including a website and domain name marketplace. Yesterday (United States time), Freelancer.com announced that it acquired Escrow.com for US $7.5 million. Freelancer.com is a publicly...
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April 27, 2015, 1:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Escrow.com acquired for $7.5 million
Company known for securing domain name transactions is acquired by Australian company. Freelancer.com, an online marketplace for freelance services, has acquired escrow service Escrow.com for $7.5 million. Escrow.com is a popular service among domain...
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Escrow.com acquired for $7.5 million
Company known for securing domain name transactions is acquired by Australian company. Freelancer.com, an online marketplace for freelance services, has acquired escrow service Escrow.com for $7.5 million. Escrow.com is a popular service among domain...
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April 27, 2015, 1:15 am
Domain Name Wire
Digging into .xyz’s domain name registrations
A look at how .xyz domain names are being used. .xyz is big — about 900,000 domains — but it’s also controversial since many of the domains were given away for free. Even stripping away the freebies, .xyz is still big. I called upon...
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Digging into .xyz’s domain name registrations
A look at how .xyz domain names are being used. .xyz is big — about 900,000 domains — but it’s also controversial since many of the domains were given away for free. Even stripping away the freebies, .xyz is still big. I called upon...
Discussion
April 24, 2015, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Orient Express Travel Group engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Australian company didn’t disclose prior purchase attempt and its rights post-dated domain registration. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Australian travel company Orient Express Travel Group to have engag...
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Orient Express Travel Group engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Australian company didn’t disclose prior purchase attempt and its rights post-dated domain registration. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Australian travel company Orient Express Travel Group to have engag...
Discussion
April 24, 2015, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report: Breaking down Chinese buyers
Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales on NameJet, including which short domains were picked up by Chinese buyers. Anyone who reads these weekly reports on the expired domain market (or, rather, NameJet’s share of it) will hav...
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Expired Domain Report: Breaking down Chinese buyers
Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales on NameJet, including which short domains were picked up by Chinese buyers. Anyone who reads these weekly reports on the expired domain market (or, rather, NameJet’s share of it) will hav...
Discussion
April 24, 2015, 1:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds
Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and ...
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Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds
Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and ...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 8:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
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...
Discussion
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...
Discussion
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...
Discussion
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
