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Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling discusses new TLDs and .Com – DNW Podcast #11
Legendary domain investor Frank Schilling explains where new TLDs fit into the domain market. Last week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast was the most popular yet. With this week’s guest, we might make that happen two weeks in a row. Frank Schil...
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Frank Schilling discusses new TLDs and .Com – DNW Podcast #11
Legendary domain investor Frank Schilling explains where new TLDs fit into the domain market. Last week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast was the most popular yet. With this week’s guest, we might make that happen two weeks in a row. Frank Schil...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lies, damned lies and new TLD statistics
Dig into statistics to understand how valuable they are. New top level domain name options have been out for less than a year, and everyone is clambering for data to make sense of the rollout. That includes me. I look at registration data from a numb...
Discussion
Lies, damned lies and new TLD statistics
Dig into statistics to understand how valuable they are. New top level domain name options have been out for less than a year, and everyone is clambering for data to make sense of the rollout. That includes me. I look at registration data from a numb...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 2:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Some people are successfully flipping new TLD registrations
Here are some cases where new TLD registrants flipped new domains for a nice return. It’s easy to come out and say new TLDs are a waste of time for domain name investors and that you won’t make any money with them. You can point to high i...
Discussion
Some people are successfully flipping new TLD registrations
Here are some cases where new TLD registrants flipped new domains for a nice return. It’s easy to come out and say new TLDs are a waste of time for domain name investors and that you won’t make any money with them. You can point to high i...
Discussion
December 12, 2014, 4:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
13 end user domain name sales from last week
RestaurantUniforms.com leads the list. Sedo handled 458 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. The biggest public sale was RestaurantUniforms.com, purchased by New York uniform company Paragon Uniform & App...
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13 end user domain name sales from last week
RestaurantUniforms.com leads the list. Sedo handled 458 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. The biggest public sale was RestaurantUniforms.com, purchased by New York uniform company Paragon Uniform & App...
Discussion
December 12, 2014, 2:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
6 new top level domain names launched yesterday, and the most popular is…
Six new domain options launched, and you might be surprised by which one had the best first day. Donuts and Rightside combined to launch six top level domain names yesterday. Rightside launched .auction and .software. Donuts launched .business, .immo...
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6 new top level domain names launched yesterday, and the most popular is…
Six new domain options launched, and you might be surprised by which one had the best first day. Donuts and Rightside combined to launch six top level domain names yesterday. Rightside launched .auction and .software. Donuts launched .business, .immo...
Discussion
December 11, 2014, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Blast from the past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it’s very different)
Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent d...
Discussion
Blast from the past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it’s very different)
Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent d...
Discussion
December 11, 2014, 2:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
Over 200 Expired Domain Sales Results, including Kickbox.com
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week’s expired domain name sales. The combat sport that brought Jean-Claude Van Damme to the silver screen (and eventually put “the Muscles from Brussels” to work in maracas-shaking GoDaddy commercia...
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Over 200 Expired Domain Sales Results, including Kickbox.com
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week’s expired domain name sales. The combat sport that brought Jean-Claude Van Damme to the silver screen (and eventually put “the Muscles from Brussels” to work in maracas-shaking GoDaddy commercia...
Discussion
December 11, 2014, 2:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Heritage Auctions to hold super-exclusive domain auction at Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Auction will be limited to 30 high quality domain names. Heritage Auctions is trying something different for its next domain name auction: it will be a super-exclusive event held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. What makes it so exclusive? T...
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Heritage Auctions to hold super-exclusive domain auction at Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Auction will be limited to 30 high quality domain names. Heritage Auctions is trying something different for its next domain name auction: it will be a super-exclusive event held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. What makes it so exclusive? T...
Discussion
December 10, 2014, 6:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
A summary of really interesting information in Rightside’s Investor Presentation
Investor presentation shows initial results from five of Rightside’s TLDs, explains how the company picked TLDs to acquire, and describes the method used to identify premium domain names. One of the great things about having publicly traded dom...
Discussion
A summary of really interesting information in Rightside’s Investor Presentation
Investor presentation shows initial results from five of Rightside’s TLDs, explains how the company picked TLDs to acquire, and describes the method used to identify premium domain names. One of the great things about having publicly traded dom...
Discussion
December 10, 2014, 3:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Which domain name registrars lost (and won) transfers according to most recent official data
Latest published data shows August performance of Moniker and other domain name registrars. ICANN just published Verisign’s official .com numbers from August, which gives us a chance to check in on how certain registrars are doing from a custom...
Discussion
Which domain name registrars lost (and won) transfers according to most recent official data
Latest published data shows August performance of Moniker and other domain name registrars. ICANN just published Verisign’s official .com numbers from August, which gives us a chance to check in on how certain registrars are doing from a custom...
Discussion
December 10, 2014, 2:55 pm
