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EDR: GoDaddy’s 4 letter, $42,500 domain name auction
This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson. The gap between last week’s most expensive expired domain auction and the rest of the “stragglers” was roughly a factor of 10 – a full digit difference. Now, in a r...
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EDR: GoDaddy’s 4 letter, $42,500 domain name auction
This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson. The gap between last week’s most expensive expired domain auction and the rest of the “stragglers” was roughly a factor of 10 – a full digit difference. Now, in a r...
Discussion
November 6, 2014, 3:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Web.com says new TLDs hurting .com resales
Company lowers guidance on weaker demand from its domain portfolio. Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the fourth quarter. One of the reasons for lowering the guidance is that the new supply of TLDs is cau...
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Web.com says new TLDs hurting .com resales
Company lowers guidance on weaker demand from its domain portfolio. Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) reported earnings yesterday and lowered its guidance for the fourth quarter. One of the reasons for lowering the guidance is that the new supply of TLDs is cau...
Discussion
November 6, 2014, 2:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Yoyo.email, owner of 4,000 .email domain names, gets a “win” in court
Company reaches agreement with company that won URS case against it. Yoyo.email, the controversial company that registered over 4,000 .email domain names, got a win in court today after settling with one of the companies that filed a Uniform Rapid Su...
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Yoyo.email, owner of 4,000 .email domain names, gets a “win” in court
Company reaches agreement with company that won URS case against it. Yoyo.email, the controversial company that registered over 4,000 .email domain names, got a win in court today after settling with one of the companies that filed a Uniform Rapid Su...
Discussion
November 5, 2014, 9:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
CyclingTips.com.au owner guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Company went after CyclingTips.com. Law firm ESQwire.com has scored yet another Reverse Domain Name Hijacking victory on behalf of a client. Wallace Media Pty Ltd, which operates the cycling website CyclingTips.com.au, filed the case against the owne...
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CyclingTips.com.au owner guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Company went after CyclingTips.com. Law firm ESQwire.com has scored yet another Reverse Domain Name Hijacking victory on behalf of a client. Wallace Media Pty Ltd, which operates the cycling website CyclingTips.com.au, filed the case against the owne...
Discussion
November 5, 2014, 6:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Should new TLDs be judged as startups or just top level domains?
How you view TLD companies frames how you view their success so far. This week I received a note along with a press release from a new top level domain name company. The note read: In less than 11 months, Internet users worldwide have registered more...
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Should new TLDs be judged as startups or just top level domains?
How you view TLD companies frames how you view their success so far. This week I received a note along with a press release from a new top level domain name company. The note read: In less than 11 months, Internet users worldwide have registered more...
Discussion
November 5, 2014, 3:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Cool site lets you see what new TLD domains were registered yesterday
DomainPunch’s latest tool is eye-opening. There are a lot of new top level domain names out there. Most of them grow by a dozen or so registrations every day. Now that the brand protection and investor rush is over, who is registering these dom...
Discussion
Cool site lets you see what new TLD domains were registered yesterday
DomainPunch’s latest tool is eye-opening. There are a lot of new top level domain names out there. Most of them grow by a dozen or so registrations every day. Now that the brand protection and investor rush is over, who is registering these dom...
Discussion
November 5, 2014, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker lost just 18,057 .com domains to transfers in July
Customer losses still fairly low after switch to new system. Last month I reported that Moniker only lost 17,506 .com domain names to transfers in June after its disastrous switch to a new registrar platform. I predicted that the number would shoot u...
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Moniker lost just 18,057 .com domains to transfers in July
Customer losses still fairly low after switch to new system. Last month I reported that Moniker only lost 17,506 .com domain names to transfers in June after its disastrous switch to a new registrar platform. I predicted that the number would shoot u...
Discussion
November 5, 2014, 12:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why Endurance bought BuyDomains, and why the price might make sense
BuyDomains is a natural fit for Endurance, and you need to look at more than price-per-domain to understand its value. Endurance International, a $2.1 billion (market cap) rollup of hosting and domain name companies, announced this morning that it ac...
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Why Endurance bought BuyDomains, and why the price might make sense
BuyDomains is a natural fit for Endurance, and you need to look at more than price-per-domain to understand its value. Endurance International, a $2.1 billion (market cap) rollup of hosting and domain name companies, announced this morning that it ac...
Discussion
November 4, 2014, 8:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
John Berryhill fills Noah’s Arc, gets another reverse domain name hijacking win
Domain attorney defends owner of Squirrels.com in his latest animal-related UDRP. Domain name attorney John Berryhill is either Noah, busily filling up his arc, or he has a fetish with animals. He’s successfully defended UDRP filings against Pi...
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John Berryhill fills Noah’s Arc, gets another reverse domain name hijacking win
Domain attorney defends owner of Squirrels.com in his latest animal-related UDRP. Domain name attorney John Berryhill is either Noah, busily filling up his arc, or he has a fetish with animals. He’s successfully defended UDRP filings against Pi...
Discussion
November 4, 2014, 6:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Ebola forces ICANN to move meeting from Morocco to Singapore
Without specifically citing Ebola, ICANN moves meeting due to Ebola-inflicted attendance concerns. That “confidential agenda item” at last week’s ICANN Board meeting? A decision to move the next ICANN meeting, which was scheduled fo...
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Ebola forces ICANN to move meeting from Morocco to Singapore
Without specifically citing Ebola, ICANN moves meeting due to Ebola-inflicted attendance concerns. That “confidential agenda item” at last week’s ICANN Board meeting? A decision to move the next ICANN meeting, which was scheduled fo...
Discussion
November 4, 2014, 3:06 pm
