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DropCatch.com enters the expired domain business with a bang
As it expands its private beta, DropCatch.com is off to a fast start: it caught and auctioned off Bespoke.com for $18,805 today. When the team behind HugeDomains launched its domain name registrar NameBright last year, it quickly became clear that a ...
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DropCatch.com enters the expired domain business with a bang
As it expands its private beta, DropCatch.com is off to a fast start: it caught and auctioned off Bespoke.com for $18,805 today. When the team behind HugeDomains launched its domain name registrar NameBright last year, it quickly became clear that a ...
Discussion
May 12, 2014, 7:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sega buys a video game domain name and 24 other end user sales
Sega among notable domain name buyers over past week. There are several notable end user domain name sales on GoDaddy/Afternic’s sales list from last week. First, Sega bought DawnofWar.com for the video game title. Video game companies often bu...
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Sega buys a video game domain name and 24 other end user sales
Sega among notable domain name buyers over past week. There are several notable end user domain name sales on GoDaddy/Afternic’s sales list from last week. First, Sega bought DawnofWar.com for the video game title. Video game companies often bu...
Discussion
May 12, 2014, 4:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
A glimpse of what will happen when new TLDs hit their first renewal date?
Joseph Peterson considers what will happen when new TLDs come around for renewal. 2014 will be remembered — by those conscious of the domain industry at least — as the year of the TLD experiment. To what extent extensions such as .GURU, ....
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A glimpse of what will happen when new TLDs hit their first renewal date?
Joseph Peterson considers what will happen when new TLDs come around for renewal. 2014 will be remembered — by those conscious of the domain industry at least — as the year of the TLD experiment. To what extent extensions such as .GURU, ....
Discussion
May 12, 2014, 2:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
People care about one thing when picking a domain name escrow company: Reputation
Reputation first. Everything else is just details. What matters to domain name investors when they select a domain name escrow company? The biggest factor by far is reputation, according to participants in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. S...
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People care about one thing when picking a domain name escrow company: Reputation
Reputation first. Everything else is just details. What matters to domain name investors when they select a domain name escrow company? The biggest factor by far is reputation, according to participants in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey. S...
Discussion
May 12, 2014, 1:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
How many registrations can GoDaddy’s home page drive to a new TLD? Here’s the answer.
.Club picks up 2,500 registrations with prominent promotion on GoDaddy.com. How many domain name registrations can GoDaddy generate by placing a TLD on top of its website for a day? Here’s one case study. All day yesterday (and still today) GoD...
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How many registrations can GoDaddy’s home page drive to a new TLD? Here’s the answer.
.Club picks up 2,500 registrations with prominent promotion on GoDaddy.com. How many domain name registrations can GoDaddy generate by placing a TLD on top of its website for a day? Here’s one case study. All day yesterday (and still today) GoD...
Discussion
May 9, 2014, 2:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Only one new TLD “auction of last resort” to take place in June
Other auctions deferred until later months. ICANN’s first official auction to resolve a new top level domain name contention set will take place on June 4…but with only one TLD. Participants in at least six TLD contention sets eligible f...
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Only one new TLD “auction of last resort” to take place in June
Other auctions deferred until later months. ICANN’s first official auction to resolve a new top level domain name contention set will take place on June 4…but with only one TLD. Participants in at least six TLD contention sets eligible f...
Discussion
May 9, 2014, 1:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
EDR: Weird expired domain sales (partially) explained
This week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR) explains why some domains sell for what they do, plus a preview of domains you might want to backorder. Why do people bid on expired domain auctions? The number of bidders and the prices are often surpris...
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EDR: Weird expired domain sales (partially) explained
This week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR) explains why some domains sell for what they do, plus a preview of domains you might want to backorder. Why do people bid on expired domain auctions? The number of bidders and the prices are often surpris...
Discussion
May 8, 2014, 4:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains Microsoft, HBO and others bought last week
Microsoft buys a .co domain and other end user domain name sales. Sedo sold $1.2 million worth of domain names last week. That seems to include about $200k from the Chinese IDN auction it held in China a while back. Here are some of Sedo’s sale...
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What domains Microsoft, HBO and others bought last week
Microsoft buys a .co domain and other end user domain name sales. Sedo sold $1.2 million worth of domain names last week. That seems to include about $200k from the Chinese IDN auction it held in China a while back. Here are some of Sedo’s sale...
Discussion
May 8, 2014, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
After 15 years of trying, company uses UDRP to get HoldOn.com domain name
Hold on just a minute… Amicus Trade AB has been trying to get the domain name Holdon.com for its Holdon brand of fasteners since at least 1999. That’s when the company sent a letter to the (then) owner of the domain with an offer to buy ...
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After 15 years of trying, company uses UDRP to get HoldOn.com domain name
Hold on just a minute… Amicus Trade AB has been trying to get the domain name Holdon.com for its Holdon brand of fasteners since at least 1999. That’s when the company sent a letter to the (then) owner of the domain with an offer to buy ...
Discussion
May 8, 2014, 2:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club domain name debuts at #6, here are the Top 10
.Club goes clubbing with over 25,000 registrations.
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.Club domain name debuts at #6, here are the Top 10
.Club goes clubbing with over 25,000 registrations.
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May 8, 2014, 1:45 pm
