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Cuba domain names take off after yesterday’s announcement
Yesterday was a good day for Rob Sequin’s domain name portfolio. Yesterday, President Obama announced renewed relations with the government of Cuba. The announcement has immediate ramifications for trade and travel between the two countries, an...
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Cuba domain names take off after yesterday’s announcement
Yesterday was a good day for Rob Sequin’s domain name portfolio. Yesterday, President Obama announced renewed relations with the government of Cuba. The announcement has immediate ramifications for trade and travel between the two countries, an...
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December 18, 2014, 3:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Johnson & Johnson pays $3.1M for .Baby, CREA $3.4M for .MLS
.Baby and .MLS new TLDs awarded. Two new top level domain names contention sets were resolved at auction today. The auction with six participants ended with a lower price than the one with just two. Consumer products company Johnson & Johnson won...
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Johnson & Johnson pays $3.1M for .Baby, CREA $3.4M for .MLS
.Baby and .MLS new TLDs awarded. Two new top level domain names contention sets were resolved at auction today. The auction with six participants ended with a lower price than the one with just two. Consumer products company Johnson & Johnson won...
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December 17, 2014, 11:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Last week’s end user domain name sales at Sedo
Some end user sales…and some probable end user sales. Sedo handled 573 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. This week’s end user list is shorter than usual, but that doesn’t mean there were...
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Last week’s end user domain name sales at Sedo
Some end user sales…and some probable end user sales. Sedo handled 573 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. This week’s end user list is shorter than usual, but that doesn’t mean there were...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 8:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Could new TLDs have an SEO benefit in the future?
Only if it improves search results. Using a new top level domain name instead of a .com or other gTLD does not give you a benefit in Google search results. Ditto for using a .com instead of a new TLD. They’re basically the same. That’s wh...
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Could new TLDs have an SEO benefit in the future?
Only if it improves search results. Using a new top level domain name instead of a .com or other gTLD does not give you a benefit in Google search results. Ditto for using a .com instead of a new TLD. They’re basically the same. That’s wh...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 4:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN hacked, zone file system among victims
Hackers phished ICANN employees to gain access to systems. ICANN revealed today that its systems were compromised by a phishing attack. The attack involved emails designed to look like they came from ICANN’s own domain name being sent to member...
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ICANN hacked, zone file system among victims
Hackers phished ICANN employees to gain access to systems. ICANN revealed today that its systems were compromised by a phishing attack. The attack involved emails designed to look like they came from ICANN’s own domain name being sent to member...
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December 17, 2014, 1:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Brown Shoe Co. sells Shoes.com busines
Owners of SHOEme and OnlineShoes.com buy Shoes.com. Publicly traded Brown Shoe Co has sold its Shoes.com online business to online shoe-seller SHOEme. SHOEme operates Shoeme.ca/com and OnlineShoes.com. Hardy Capital acquired both of these companies e...
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Brown Shoe Co. sells Shoes.com busines
Owners of SHOEme and OnlineShoes.com buy Shoes.com. Publicly traded Brown Shoe Co has sold its Shoes.com online business to online shoe-seller SHOEme. SHOEme operates Shoeme.ca/com and OnlineShoes.com. Hardy Capital acquired both of these companies e...
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December 16, 2014, 8:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
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See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
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December 16, 2014, 3:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name
Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CE...
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CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name
Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CE...
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December 16, 2014, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how you might think
Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search e...
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New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how you might think
Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search e...
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December 16, 2014, 1:39 am
Domain Name Wire
Best fake name used in a domain name scam. Ever.
I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to b...
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Best fake name used in a domain name scam. Ever.
I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to b...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 7:03 pm
