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Domain Name Wire
2015’s Top 5: Taylor Swift
A story about Taylor Swift goes viral. Taylor Swift had some Bad Blood with a guy who claims he taught her how to play the guitar. A resulting story on Domain Name Wire went viral, coming in at the #2 most-read story on the site last year. The backst...
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2015’s Top 5: Taylor Swift
A story about Taylor Swift goes viral. Taylor Swift had some Bad Blood with a guy who claims he taught her how to play the guitar. A resulting story on Domain Name Wire went viral, coming in at the #2 most-read story on the site last year. The backst...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:54 pm
The Domains
XYZ Launches .Security, .Protection, & .Theatre: All Domain Including Single Character Are Avail
We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some registration requests for single character domain names were being rejected due to a technical e...
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XYZ Launches .Security, .Protection, & .Theatre: All Domain Including Single Character Are Avail
We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some registration requests for single character domain names were being rejected due to a technical e...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:36 pm
The Domains
.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains
Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domai...
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.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains
Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domai...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:13 pm
Domain Shane
Auction Recap, 27th of January 2016
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 27th of January Auction Quick Recap Looks like 4.cn auctioned off a almost 40 LLLL chips. While the price of many of them was less than $2k, I think it’s a good sign. This volume of names...
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Auction Recap, 27th of January 2016
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 27th of January Auction Quick Recap Looks like 4.cn auctioned off a almost 40 LLLL chips. While the price of many of them was less than $2k, I think it’s a good sign. This volume of names...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Wiz Khalifa’s record label and other businesses buy domain names
Rostrum Records and other end users bought domain names last week. Wiz Khalifa’s record label, Rostrum Records, paid 40,000 euros to pick up the shorter domain name Rostrum.com this past week. Its official website is RostrumRecords.com. Rostrum...
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Wiz Khalifa’s record label and other businesses buy domain names
Rostrum Records and other end users bought domain names last week. Wiz Khalifa’s record label, Rostrum Records, paid 40,000 euros to pick up the shorter domain name Rostrum.com this past week. Its official website is RostrumRecords.com. Rostrum...
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January 27, 2016, 5:37 pm
Domain Shane
CHINESE AUCTION TRENDS FOR JANUARY 27, 2016
Over 600 4L.cc names were unloaded today on the Chinese marketplace on top of an abnormally large day yesterday. From the history I can see, they were mainly sold by one seller who registered the names in November of last year. I wonder w...
Discussion
CHINESE AUCTION TRENDS FOR JANUARY 27, 2016
Over 600 4L.cc names were unloaded today on the Chinese marketplace on top of an abnormally large day yesterday. From the history I can see, they were mainly sold by one seller who registered the names in November of last year. I wonder w...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 5:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lendvo enters Domain Name Financing business
Company offers capital to owners of domain names and online businesses. A new company has entered the domain name lending space, offering loans to domain name owners and digital businesses. Lendvo was founded by Patrick Izzo and Ben Lichtman, nephew ...
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Lendvo enters Domain Name Financing business
Company offers capital to owners of domain names and online businesses. A new company has entered the domain name lending space, offering loans to domain name owners and digital businesses. Lendvo was founded by Patrick Izzo and Ben Lichtman, nephew ...
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January 27, 2016, 5:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines, FFM make push into China
Companies setting up subsidiaries in China. Two more new top level domain name companies are establishing ties in China to tap into the growing appetite for domain names there. Today, Minds + Machines announced it has appointed ZDNS as its local infr...
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Minds + Machines, FFM make push into China
Companies setting up subsidiaries in China. Two more new top level domain name companies are establishing ties in China to tap into the growing appetite for domain names there. Today, Minds + Machines announced it has appointed ZDNS as its local infr...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 3:00 pm
The Domains
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3 million led by Rostrum.com
589 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 64% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: rostrum.com at 40,000 EUR Top ccTLD: an.cc at 10,000 USD Top &l...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3 million led by Rostrum.com
589 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 64% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: rostrum.com at 40,000 EUR Top ccTLD: an.cc at 10,000 USD Top &l...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 1:37 pm
Domain Shane
Domain Shane’s List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, January 27th
First of all, I think they’re wrong. We are all tired of the attention grabbing headlines about the Chinese domains falling. And the sentence always ends with a question mark. They are guessing. This market started in 2...
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Domain Shane’s List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, January 27th
First of all, I think they’re wrong. We are all tired of the attention grabbing headlines about the Chinese domains falling. And the sentence always ends with a question mark. They are guessing. This market started in 2...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 11:52 am
