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The Domains
Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside
Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here ...
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Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside
Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here ...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 4:33 pm
The Domains
RealSaltLake.com The Professional Sports Team (MLS) Buys RSL.com For $45K
The domain name RSL.com has been sold to the profession MLS Soccer Team “Real Salt Lake” which uses the domain name RealSaltLake.com Aron Meystedt the Director of the Intellectual Property Department of Heritage Auctions brokered the doma...
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RealSaltLake.com The Professional Sports Team (MLS) Buys RSL.com For $45K
The domain name RSL.com has been sold to the profession MLS Soccer Team “Real Salt Lake” which uses the domain name RealSaltLake.com Aron Meystedt the Director of the Intellectual Property Department of Heritage Auctions brokered the doma...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 3:17 pm
The Domains
Report: BufferApp Buys Buffer.com For $600,000 & It Took Almost 2 Years
inc42.com published a story about how BufferApp.com purchased the domain name Buffer.com for $600,000. Interestingly the company itself, Bufferapp.com, published a lot of details about the acquisition of the domain name which took almost 2 years to c...
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Report: BufferApp Buys Buffer.com For $600,000 & It Took Almost 2 Years
inc42.com published a story about how BufferApp.com purchased the domain name Buffer.com for $600,000. Interestingly the company itself, Bufferapp.com, published a lot of details about the acquisition of the domain name which took almost 2 years to c...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 2:17 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Saturday, March 14th, 2015
Sometimes I use the saying “I’m going to stick around like burnt popcorn” and most people have no idea what I’m talking about. Wednesday a lot of people figured it out. All our employees have started coming back to...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Saturday, March 14th, 2015
Sometimes I use the saying “I’m going to stick around like burnt popcorn” and most people have no idea what I’m talking about. Wednesday a lot of people figured it out. All our employees have started coming back to...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 10:55 am
Domain Shane
Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): Hueston.com, Vadacom.com, HappyFresh.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. Hueston.com sold for $25,000 at Dom...
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Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): Hueston.com, Vadacom.com, HappyFresh.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. Hueston.com sold for $25,000 at Dom...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 12:47 am
The Domains
Salesforce Paid $2.6 Million Dollars For Social.com & Now It Just To Redirects To Another URL
Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that “Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monit...
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Salesforce Paid $2.6 Million Dollars For Social.com & Now It Just To Redirects To Another URL
Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that “Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monit...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 7:17 pm
The Domains
TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the v...
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the v...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 6:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameJet Expired Domain Report
Frank Schilling made a comment yesterday regarding NameJet that I believe is significant – and not because it’s anything new … rather the opposite. Many people, myself included, have observed rising final auctio...
Discussion
NameJet Expired Domain Report
Frank Schilling made a comment yesterday regarding NameJet that I believe is significant – and not because it’s anything new … rather the opposite. Many people, myself included, have observed rising final auctio...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 6:17 pm
The Domains
International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
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International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 4:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Where to find Domain Name Companies at #SXSW
Find at least seven companies in Austin at #SXSW. Over the next 10 days about 400,000 people will come to Austin for SXSW and the many unofficial events that surround it. Here are some of the places you can find domain name companies in Austin during...
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Where to find Domain Name Companies at #SXSW
Find at least seven companies in Austin at #SXSW. Over the next 10 days about 400,000 people will come to Austin for SXSW and the many unofficial events that surround it. Here are some of the places you can find domain name companies in Austin during...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 2:51 pm
