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Garry Chernoff sells Scada.com domain name for $110k
Domain investor strikes gold with SCADA.com. Domain name investor Garry Chernoff has sold the domain name Scada.com for $110,000. The buyer is B-Scada, Inc. (Beyond SCADA). SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, and is a field I k...
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Garry Chernoff sells Scada.com domain name for $110k
Domain investor strikes gold with SCADA.com. Domain name investor Garry Chernoff has sold the domain name Scada.com for $110,000. The buyer is B-Scada, Inc. (Beyond SCADA). SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, and is a field I k...
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May 20, 2014, 6:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs and a lack of price caps
Registries can jack up prices, but they must give notice. One issue many people think may be a ticking time bomb with consumers and new top level domain names is a lack of price controls. I was reminded of this today by some comments on another post....
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New TLDs and a lack of price caps
Registries can jack up prices, but they must give notice. One issue many people think may be a ticking time bomb with consumers and new top level domain names is a lack of price controls. I was reminded of this today by some comments on another post....
Discussion
May 20, 2014, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire is Growing
DNW continues to grow with additional features and services. Your feedback is welcomed. A lot has happened in the nine-plus years since Domain Name Wire launched in March 2005. The domain name business has gone through its ups and downs. Business mod...
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Domain Name Wire is Growing
DNW continues to grow with additional features and services. Your feedback is welcomed. A lot has happened in the nine-plus years since Domain Name Wire launched in March 2005. The domain name business has gone through its ups and downs. Business mod...
Discussion
May 20, 2014, 2:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Some of these new TLDs are doing quite well
Applicants with low overhead or a smart growth strategy are poised to make a healthy return. There are a lot of new top level domain names I’d like to own as a business right now. Many of them. Consider .guru, which has about 57,000 domains reg...
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Some of these new TLDs are doing quite well
Applicants with low overhead or a smart growth strategy are poised to make a healthy return. There are a lot of new top level domain names I’d like to own as a business right now. Many of them. Consider .guru, which has about 57,000 domains reg...
Discussion
May 20, 2014, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
FlyPrivate.com owner sues FlyPrvt.com over missing vowels
Company alleges competitor is infringing its trademarks by using vowel-less version of its own name. One of strangest ways companies have tried to cope with the lack of cheap available domain names in the past decade is to drop vowels. A prime exampl...
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FlyPrivate.com owner sues FlyPrvt.com over missing vowels
Company alleges competitor is infringing its trademarks by using vowel-less version of its own name. One of strangest ways companies have tried to cope with the lack of cheap available domain names in the past decade is to drop vowels. A prime exampl...
Discussion
May 19, 2014, 5:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Will DNA’s new TLD auction proposal kickstart contention set resolution?
New top level domain name applicants in contention sets have two remaining options for resolving who gets to “own” each string: Settle it amongst themselves or participate in an ICANN “auction of last resort”. So far a trickle...
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Will DNA’s new TLD auction proposal kickstart contention set resolution?
New top level domain name applicants in contention sets have two remaining options for resolving who gets to “own” each string: Settle it amongst themselves or participate in an ICANN “auction of last resort”. So far a trickle...
Discussion
May 19, 2014, 2:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Big new TLDs week: .Luxury, Rightside and Travel Bonanza
An $800-per-year domain launches, Rightside hits GA, Donuts has a travel-focused week, and .best tries not to be .worst. Another big week is on tap for new top level domain including some new faces. Things get rolling today with general availability ...
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Big new TLDs week: .Luxury, Rightside and Travel Bonanza
An $800-per-year domain launches, Rightside hits GA, Donuts has a travel-focused week, and .best tries not to be .worst. Another big week is on tap for new top level domain including some new faces. Things get rolling today with general availability ...
Discussion
May 19, 2014, 2:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
EDR: Guru renewals, NameJet, GoDaddy and more
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson takes a look at renewals of domains including the term “guru”, hits and misses in this week’s expired domain sales, and some domains to backorder for next week. Proba...
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EDR: Guru renewals, NameJet, GoDaddy and more
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson takes a look at renewals of domains including the term “guru”, hits and misses in this week’s expired domain sales, and some domains to backorder for next week. Proba...
Discussion
May 16, 2014, 2:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Holdings reports $3.4M domain name sales in Q1
Company releases sales data for first time ever. Domain name broker Domain Holdings has released statistics about its sales for the first time ever. The company plans to release data every quarter going forward. While not disclosing specific sale pri...
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Domain Holdings reports $3.4M domain name sales in Q1
Company releases sales data for first time ever. Domain name broker Domain Holdings has released statistics about its sales for the first time ever. The company plans to release data every quarter going forward. While not disclosing specific sale pri...
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May 16, 2014, 12:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
See Tucows’ new sales-focused parked page landers
Tucows pushes the envelope on sales-focused domain name landing pages. Yesterday domain name registrar and portfolio holder Tucows told analysts it was trying something new to generate more aftermarket domain name sales. CEO Elliot Noss said the comp...
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See Tucows’ new sales-focused parked page landers
Tucows pushes the envelope on sales-focused domain name landing pages. Yesterday domain name registrar and portfolio holder Tucows told analysts it was trying something new to generate more aftermarket domain name sales. CEO Elliot Noss said the comp...
Discussion
May 15, 2014, 6:07 pm
