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NamesCon 2015 with Jothan Frakes – Domain Name Wire Podcast
NamesCon is just two months away. Learn about the upcoming show on this week’s podcast. NamesCon returns for its second edition this January. Its inaugural show brought together 600 people from the domain name industry, making it the largest no...
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NamesCon 2015 with Jothan Frakes – Domain Name Wire Podcast
NamesCon is just two months away. Learn about the upcoming show on this week’s podcast. NamesCon returns for its second edition this January. Its inaugural show brought together 600 people from the domain name industry, making it the largest no...
Discussion
November 17, 2014, 4:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Mike Mann and (more) economics of domain name portfolios
Washington Post article provides more data on about domain name portfolios. The Washington Post wrote about domain name investor Mike Mann yesterday, and the article sheds more light on the economics or large domain name portfolios. Really, it applie...
Discussion
Mike Mann and (more) economics of domain name portfolios
Washington Post article provides more data on about domain name portfolios. The Washington Post wrote about domain name investor Mike Mann yesterday, and the article sheds more light on the economics or large domain name portfolios. Really, it applie...
Discussion
November 17, 2014, 4:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Mobile.co owner pays dearly for Mobile.co.com
Company pays $32,000 for mobil.co.com and movil.co.com. The company that owns Mobile.co has spent $32,000 to acquired the third level domain names Mobile.co.com and Mobil.co.com, the .co.com registry reported this morning. Freelancing site Mobile Inc...
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Mobile.co owner pays dearly for Mobile.co.com
Company pays $32,000 for mobil.co.com and movil.co.com. The company that owns Mobile.co has spent $32,000 to acquired the third level domain names Mobile.co.com and Mobil.co.com, the .co.com registry reported this morning. Freelancing site Mobile Inc...
Discussion
November 17, 2014, 3:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs this week: .Quebec, .Top and .Engineer
A few new TLDs hit registrars’ shelves this week, including a large geo domain. A few top level domain names coming out in a week is the new normal, so I’m going to stop calling these “slow” weeks. Here’s a look at this ...
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New TLDs this week: .Quebec, .Top and .Engineer
A few new TLDs hit registrars’ shelves this week, including a large geo domain. A few top level domain names coming out in a week is the new normal, so I’m going to stop calling these “slow” weeks. Here’s a look at this ...
Discussion
November 17, 2014, 3:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reviewing last month’s NameJet sales
Joseph Peterson takes a look at some of last month’s notable domain name sales at NameJet. If I were to tell you that, by selling 66 domains at or above the $2,000 mark during October, NameJet recorded one of its lowest monthly domain counts&nb...
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Reviewing last month’s NameJet sales
Joseph Peterson takes a look at some of last month’s notable domain name sales at NameJet. If I were to tell you that, by selling 66 domains at or above the $2,000 mark during October, NameJet recorded one of its lowest monthly domain counts&nb...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bespoke.com saved in UDRP, but no RDNH and unbelievable dissent
Domain bought for $18,805 earlier this year saved in UDRP, but it was closer than it should have been. In September, I wrote about the domain name Bespoke.com being hit with a UDRP after the buyer paid $18,805 to buy it in an expired domain name auct...
Discussion
Bespoke.com saved in UDRP, but no RDNH and unbelievable dissent
Domain bought for $18,805 earlier this year saved in UDRP, but it was closer than it should have been. In September, I wrote about the domain name Bespoke.com being hit with a UDRP after the buyer paid $18,805 to buy it in an expired domain name auct...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why my North Dakota Trucking domain name pays for itself
Registering NorthDakotaTrucking.com probably didn’t make sense, but now I understand why it pays for itself each year. I registered the domain name NorthDakotaTrucking.com in 2007. I was on a bit of a geo domain kick at the time. But let’...
Discussion
Why my North Dakota Trucking domain name pays for itself
Registering NorthDakotaTrucking.com probably didn’t make sense, but now I understand why it pays for itself each year. I registered the domain name NorthDakotaTrucking.com in 2007. I was on a bit of a geo domain kick at the time. But let’...
Discussion
November 14, 2014, 2:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Last week’s 200+ expired domain name sales up to $27.1k
In this report, Joseph Peterson discusses over 200 expired domain name sales from last week. A picture is worth a thousand words, and these – depicting KPF’s architectural plan for the Meixi district of Changsha, a capital city in Ch...
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Last week’s 200+ expired domain name sales up to $27.1k
In this report, Joseph Peterson discusses over 200 expired domain name sales from last week. A picture is worth a thousand words, and these – depicting KPF’s architectural plan for the Meixi district of Changsha, a capital city in Ch...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 5:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
IDN.com owners will lose big if Verisign doesn’t get its way
They could be forced to buy transliterations within a limited time period. Verisign has been negotiating its contracts for transliterations of .com for a long time, and last week we got an idea about what the hold up is. ICM Registry, the domain regi...
Discussion
IDN.com owners will lose big if Verisign doesn’t get its way
They could be forced to buy transliterations within a limited time period. Verisign has been negotiating its contracts for transliterations of .com for a long time, and last week we got an idea about what the hold up is. ICM Registry, the domain regi...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 2:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Melbourne hits 2,775 registrations, .restaurant has solid first day
.Melbourne wins the day, but not by much. The .Melbourne domain name launched Wednesday in Australia — Tuesday night in the United States — and had 2,775 domain names registered at the close of business on day one of general availability....
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.Melbourne hits 2,775 registrations, .restaurant has solid first day
.Melbourne wins the day, but not by much. The .Melbourne domain name launched Wednesday in Australia — Tuesday night in the United States — and had 2,775 domain names registered at the close of business on day one of general availability....
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 2:33 pm
