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The Domains
.Club Offering Free Domains & $10K In Prizes At LAUNCH Hackathon in San Francisco
.Club announced today that they will be is awarding $10,000 in prizes to an entrant of this year’s LAUNCH Hackathon taking place February 27- March 1, 2015 in San Francisco. .CLUB is offering every LAUNCH Hackathon participant a free .CLUB doma...
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.Club Offering Free Domains & $10K In Prizes At LAUNCH Hackathon in San Francisco
.Club announced today that they will be is awarding $10,000 in prizes to an entrant of this year’s LAUNCH Hackathon taking place February 27- March 1, 2015 in San Francisco. .CLUB is offering every LAUNCH Hackathon participant a free .CLUB doma...
Discussion
February 24, 2015, 4:52 pm
The Domains
.Science is Live and AlpNames.com is Letting You Register Them For Free
.Science just launched into general availability this morning and at least one register is allowing you to register them for free. Alpnames.com isn’t advertising it on the front of their site, but if you try to register a .Science domain name y...
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.Science is Live and AlpNames.com is Letting You Register Them For Free
.Science just launched into general availability this morning and at least one register is allowing you to register them for free. Alpnames.com isn’t advertising it on the front of their site, but if you try to register a .Science domain name y...
Discussion
February 24, 2015, 4:37 pm
The Domains
Google Going To Make Blogger Platform Porn free
Google is saying goodbye to sexually explicit images and videos on their Blogger platform. The news has been covered by quite a few places obviously, I found the discussion in the comments on Engadget to be a bit entertaining. From the article: Many ...
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Google Going To Make Blogger Platform Porn free
Google is saying goodbye to sexually explicit images and videos on their Blogger platform. The news has been covered by quite a few places obviously, I found the discussion in the comments on Engadget to be a bit entertaining. From the article: Many ...
Discussion
February 24, 2015, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Oh my, Verisign is actually scared of new top level domains!
Company sues .XYZ and claims its marketing is hurting .com. If you listen to any of Verisign’s quarterly investor calls, you’ll often hear analysts asking what new TLDs are doing to .com. Well, new TLDs are creating confusion, the company...
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Oh my, Verisign is actually scared of new top level domains!
Company sues .XYZ and claims its marketing is hurting .com. If you listen to any of Verisign’s quarterly investor calls, you’ll often hear analysts asking what new TLDs are doing to .com. Well, new TLDs are creating confusion, the company...
Discussion
February 24, 2015, 2:55 pm
The Domains
Endurance International Reports That Revenue From Directi & BuyDomains Higher Than Expectations
Endurance International (EIGI) reported its earnings last night after the market closed In its earnings call, Endurance said that its acquisition of both Directi and BuyDomains.com were generating more revenue than expected. “At the time of acq...
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Endurance International Reports That Revenue From Directi & BuyDomains Higher Than Expectations
Endurance International (EIGI) reported its earnings last night after the market closed In its earnings call, Endurance said that its acquisition of both Directi and BuyDomains.com were generating more revenue than expected. “At the time of acq...
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February 24, 2015, 2:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines reports numbers, including $36M from auctions
Big 2014 numbers from losing auctions, but domain registration revenue starting to grow. Minds + Machines released some preliminary numbers for 2014 today. It can be summarized as: it pulled in a lot of cash from losing auctions, and registrations of...
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Minds + Machines reports numbers, including $36M from auctions
Big 2014 numbers from losing auctions, but domain registration revenue starting to grow. Minds + Machines released some preliminary numbers for 2014 today. It can be summarized as: it pulled in a lot of cash from losing auctions, and registrations of...
Discussion
February 24, 2015, 2:19 pm
The Domains
.ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark
According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered .ZA domain names has reached and exceeded 1 million for ths first time this week. .ZA become...
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.ZA Domain Registrations Pass The 1 Million Mark
According to itnewsafrica.com, the ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA), the regulator of .ZA, which is the ccTLD for South Africa, says the number of registered .ZA domain names has reached and exceeded 1 million for ths first time this week. .ZA become...
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February 24, 2015, 2:07 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Generates £2.29m From Operations: $36m From Losing Private gTLD Auctions & Spends $25.9M Winning
According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), the top-level domains owner and operator, “saw revenue surge from September when ten of its newly acquired Internet names became generally available. Sales totaled £2.9ml...
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Minds + Machines Generates £2.29m From Operations: $36m From Losing Private gTLD Auctions & Spends $25.9M Winning
According to a press release out today, Minds + Machines (LON:MMX), the top-level domains owner and operator, “saw revenue surge from September when ten of its newly acquired Internet names became generally available. Sales totaled £2.9ml...
Discussion
February 24, 2015, 1:44 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2015
I’m going to say it publicly. I don’t think that throwing a quick logo on a domain adds any value to the domain. A ton of “brand” sites have popped up that basically take a large group of names, logo them up, and t...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday, Feb 24th, 2015
I’m going to say it publicly. I don’t think that throwing a quick logo on a domain adds any value to the domain. A ton of “brand” sites have popped up that basically take a large group of names, logo them up, and t...
Discussion
February 24, 2015, 11:55 am
The Domains
Marijuana Now Legal In Alaska – A Few Related Domains Registered – Good Ones Long Gone
Huffington Post along with several other news outlets covered the legalization of Marijuana in Alaska. From the article: Marijuana is now legal for adults in Alaska. Alaska on Tuesday becomes the third U.S. state to end prohibition of marijuana, offi...
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Marijuana Now Legal In Alaska – A Few Related Domains Registered – Good Ones Long Gone
Huffington Post along with several other news outlets covered the legalization of Marijuana in Alaska. From the article: Marijuana is now legal for adults in Alaska. Alaska on Tuesday becomes the third U.S. state to end prohibition of marijuana, offi...
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February 24, 2015, 10:07 am
