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The Domains
Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong at $2.2million led by NKB.com
Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. $2.2 million is a big week as last week was only $1mill...
Discussion
Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong at $2.2million led by NKB.com
Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. $2.2 million is a big week as last week was only $1mill...
Discussion
June 16, 2015, 8:20 pm
Domain Shane
BIG Week for Sedo’s Weekly Sales. 999666.com at $10K, Dressa.com $7.7K
Take a look at all the great sales at Sedo this week. Always nice to see numerics and brandables reaching good prices. Here is the full list from this week’s sales Domain name Price Currency .COMs nkb.com 31,000 USD vinous.com 25,000 USD vty.co...
Discussion
BIG Week for Sedo’s Weekly Sales. 999666.com at $10K, Dressa.com $7.7K
Take a look at all the great sales at Sedo this week. Always nice to see numerics and brandables reaching good prices. Here is the full list from this week’s sales Domain name Price Currency .COMs nkb.com 31,000 USD vinous.com 25,000 USD vty.co...
Discussion
June 16, 2015, 8:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
10 new domain names you can register for $1.50 or less
Register these domain names without burning a hole in your wallet. Want some inexpensive domain names? You’re in luck. At least 10 new TLDs can be registered today for just $1.50 or less, and only two of them have any sort of limits on registra...
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10 new domain names you can register for $1.50 or less
Register these domain names without burning a hole in your wallet. Want some inexpensive domain names? You’re in luck. At least 10 new TLDs can be registered today for just $1.50 or less, and only two of them have any sort of limits on registra...
Discussion
June 16, 2015, 6:16 pm
The Domains
AT & T Researchers Look at Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation
Two researchers from AT & T, Wei Wang and Kenneth E. Shirley had a domain related paper published on the Cornell University website ArXiv.org. The paper looks at whether using certain word patterns and data can be useful in spotting malicious dom...
Discussion
AT & T Researchers Look at Spotting Malicious Domains Using Word Segmentation
Two researchers from AT & T, Wei Wang and Kenneth E. Shirley had a domain related paper published on the Cornell University website ArXiv.org. The paper looks at whether using certain word patterns and data can be useful in spotting malicious dom...
Discussion
June 16, 2015, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Commercial Connect fails miserably in Community Priority bid
Proving a community for “shop” proves very difficult. .Shop top level domain name applicant Commercial Connect has been denied (pdf) in its bid for Community Priority, scoring just five points out the necessary 14 required to prevail. Lik...
Discussion
Commercial Connect fails miserably in Community Priority bid
Proving a community for “shop” proves very difficult. .Shop top level domain name applicant Commercial Connect has been denied (pdf) in its bid for Community Priority, scoring just five points out the necessary 14 required to prevail. Lik...
Discussion
June 16, 2015, 1:03 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
A fellow domain investor and friend of mine Mike Sallese has made it to the final Round of 15 of Verisign’s 30th Anniversary Contest. It comes with big prizes ($30,000) and I’m sure Mike and the kids would love it if you&rsquo...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
A fellow domain investor and friend of mine Mike Sallese has made it to the final Round of 15 of Verisign’s 30th Anniversary Contest. It comes with big prizes ($30,000) and I’m sure Mike and the kids would love it if you&rsquo...
Discussion
June 16, 2015, 11:22 am
The Domains
Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD
On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain app...
Discussion
Uniregistry Announces Sale Of Pro.Flowers For $50K To FTD
On today’s DomainSherpa.com show, Frank Schilling the CEO of Uniregistry announced that the registry sold the new gTLD domain name Pro.Flowers To FTD for $50,000. The domain name transferred from Uniregistry to FTD on April 10th. The domain app...
Discussion
June 15, 2015, 5:59 pm
Domain Shane
Flippa – A Look Forward: DOBI.com, MUI.com, Gyrate.com, DropCatcher.com, More
Reserve Met and Will Sell DOBI.com – Most of the Domain Holdings listings that I’ve seen on Flippa haven’t met reserve — nice to see this LLLL.com hit reserve with a week to go. IOJO.com – Another LLLL.com that has hit ...
Discussion
Flippa – A Look Forward: DOBI.com, MUI.com, Gyrate.com, DropCatcher.com, More
Reserve Met and Will Sell DOBI.com – Most of the Domain Holdings listings that I’ve seen on Flippa haven’t met reserve — nice to see this LLLL.com hit reserve with a week to go. IOJO.com – Another LLLL.com that has hit ...
Discussion
June 15, 2015, 5:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy vs. Uniregistry – the Great Debate
Uniregistry is increasingly competing with GoDaddy, and stronger competition is good for everybody. Last week Doron Vermaat, a domain investor who writes the blog DNGeek, wrote a post explaining why he was moving his 600 domain names from GoDaddy to ...
Discussion
GoDaddy vs. Uniregistry – the Great Debate
Uniregistry is increasingly competing with GoDaddy, and stronger competition is good for everybody. Last week Doron Vermaat, a domain investor who writes the blog DNGeek, wrote a post explaining why he was moving his 600 domain names from GoDaddy to ...
Discussion
June 15, 2015, 5:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Neustar’s Sean Kaine on .US, .Co, new TLDs and ICANN – DNW Podcast #37
What’s the future of .US? What effect are new TLDs having on legacy domains? Find out in this podcast. Neustar has lots of experience with non-.com domains. It operates the registry for .co, .us and .biz, and is also the back end registry provi...
Discussion
Neustar’s Sean Kaine on .US, .Co, new TLDs and ICANN – DNW Podcast #37
What’s the future of .US? What effect are new TLDs having on legacy domains? Find out in this podcast. Neustar has lots of experience with non-.com domains. It operates the registry for .co, .us and .biz, and is also the back end registry provi...
Discussion
June 15, 2015, 3:42 pm
