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The Domains
.Flowers Gets 24K+ Registrations; But Over 98% Are Registered By North Sound Names
Uniregistry launched .Flowers into general availability yesterday and ended the day with 24,194 registrations according to ntldstats.com However it appears that North Sound Names, owned by the principal of Uniregistry, registered over 98% of the doma...
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.Flowers Gets 24K+ Registrations; But Over 98% Are Registered By North Sound Names
Uniregistry launched .Flowers into general availability yesterday and ended the day with 24,194 registrations according to ntldstats.com However it appears that North Sound Names, owned by the principal of Uniregistry, registered over 98% of the doma...
Discussion
April 8, 2015, 6:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
16 end user domain name sales up to $109,000
End users buy domain names for up to $100,000. Domain name marketplace Sedo had a banner week, closing 543 transactions for a larger-than-normal $1.8 million tally. The sales were led by Mercari.com, bought by the maker of the Mercari app. Mercari ha...
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16 end user domain name sales up to $109,000
End users buy domain names for up to $100,000. Domain name marketplace Sedo had a banner week, closing 543 transactions for a larger-than-normal $1.8 million tally. The sales were led by Mercari.com, bought by the maker of the Mercari app. Mercari ha...
Discussion
April 8, 2015, 4:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Uniform Rapid Suspension by the numbers
A look at which new top level domain names are getting hit with the most URS cases. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was introduced along with new top level domains as a sort of faster, cheaper version of UDRP. Companies can make a cybersquatting claim...
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Uniform Rapid Suspension by the numbers
A look at which new top level domain names are getting hit with the most URS cases. Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) was introduced along with new top level domains as a sort of faster, cheaper version of UDRP. Companies can make a cybersquatting claim...
Discussion
April 8, 2015, 2:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts challenges .Charity decision
Company invokes Independent Review Process over year-old objection decision. New top level domain name company Donuts has filed for an Independent Review Process over a community objection decision for .Charity. The Independent Objector filed communi...
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Donuts challenges .Charity decision
Company invokes Independent Review Process over year-old objection decision. New top level domain name company Donuts has filed for an Independent Review Process over a community objection decision for .Charity. The Independent Objector filed communi...
Discussion
April 8, 2015, 2:10 pm
The Domains
FastCompany Covers The New gTLD’s: Highlights Coffee.Club
Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher i...
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FastCompany Covers The New gTLD’s: Highlights Coffee.Club
Fast Company just gave some love to the new gTLD program with a using Coffee.club as one of the success stories “Instead of having only a few meaningless TLDs like .com, .net, .biz, and country codes like .ly, the organization agreed to usher i...
Discussion
April 8, 2015, 12:22 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
I am going to say it. We are at a golden age for selling dot coms right now. Not saying its not going to get better, just saying that we are seeing some great prices on domains on all the platforms and if you have any kind of portfolio yo...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
I am going to say it. We are at a golden age for selling dot coms right now. Not saying its not going to get better, just saying that we are seeing some great prices on domains on all the platforms and if you have any kind of portfolio yo...
Discussion
April 8, 2015, 11:10 am
Domain Shane
Flippa Recap: Goliath.com, SUVS.com, FZV.com, NVL.com, DIYS.com, S70.com, More
Some Domains That Sold Last Week Goliath.com – $60,000 – Bidding was at $30,000 when someone came in and picked it up at the buy-it-now price. This was the second listing for the name…..it reached $18,000 the first time around. SU...
Discussion
Flippa Recap: Goliath.com, SUVS.com, FZV.com, NVL.com, DIYS.com, S70.com, More
Some Domains That Sold Last Week Goliath.com – $60,000 – Bidding was at $30,000 when someone came in and picked it up at the buy-it-now price. This was the second listing for the name…..it reached $18,000 the first time around. SU...
Discussion
April 8, 2015, 4:14 am
The Domains
Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.8 Million Led By Mercari.com at 100,000 Euros
Over the past week, 543 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: mercari.com at 100,000 EUR Top c...
Discussion
Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.8 Million Led By Mercari.com at 100,000 Euros
Over the past week, 543 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: mercari.com at 100,000 EUR Top c...
Discussion
April 7, 2015, 8:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs
In this guest post, Aditya Chauhan of LogicBoxes explains big challenges facing new top level domain name registries. When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the ...
Discussion
The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing New gTLDs
In this guest post, Aditya Chauhan of LogicBoxes explains big challenges facing new top level domain name registries. When ICANN announced the nTLD program, thousands of applicants threw their hats in the ring. It seemed pretty straight forward; the ...
Discussion
April 7, 2015, 7:41 pm
The Domains
The Bitcoin Foundation is “effectively bankrupt” according to one board member
Ars Technica published an article that the Bitcoin Foundation according to one board member, is bankrupt. The organization was created a couple of years ago to bring some sense of official community face for users and investors of Bitcoin. It seems t...
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The Bitcoin Foundation is “effectively bankrupt” according to one board member
Ars Technica published an article that the Bitcoin Foundation according to one board member, is bankrupt. The organization was created a couple of years ago to bring some sense of official community face for users and investors of Bitcoin. It seems t...
Discussion
April 7, 2015, 7:24 pm
