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Domain Shane
The Right Of The Dot / NamesCon Auction List is Live, and It’s Absolutely Loaded
When reading through the NamesCon site tonight looking at the upcoming agenda, I stumbled across the link to the Right Of The Dot / NamesCon auction pre-bidding that is already ongoing at SnapNames. As expected when domain industry veterans Monte Ca...
Discussion
The Right Of The Dot / NamesCon Auction List is Live, and It’s Absolutely Loaded
When reading through the NamesCon site tonight looking at the upcoming agenda, I stumbled across the link to the Right Of The Dot / NamesCon auction pre-bidding that is already ongoing at SnapNames. As expected when domain industry veterans Monte Ca...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 5:00 am
Domain Shane
Flippa Recap: HackerMagazine.com, Buttercups.com, and a $95k Website Sell. Left.com, Sell.org Do Not
Some Domains That Sold Last Past Week HackerMagazine.com – $6,000 – Quickly sold at the BIN, when the bidding was only at $51. Also included the .net/org/info and HackerMag.com/net/org/info. This follows on ITMagazine.com for $10,000 rec...
Discussion
Flippa Recap: HackerMagazine.com, Buttercups.com, and a $95k Website Sell. Left.com, Sell.org Do Not
Some Domains That Sold Last Past Week HackerMagazine.com – $6,000 – Quickly sold at the BIN, when the bidding was only at $51. Also included the .net/org/info and HackerMag.com/net/org/info. This follows on ITMagazine.com for $10,000 rec...
Discussion
December 17, 2014, 12:01 am
The Domains
NamesCon Acquires DomainFest & Will Be Part of NamesCon 2015 Las Vegas!
Well our hunch was right yesterday, as today NamesCon announced they have acquired DomainFest from Oversee.net in a press release we just received. “Starting with small conferences in LA and Barcelona, Oversee grew Domainfest into a large, glob...
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NamesCon Acquires DomainFest & Will Be Part of NamesCon 2015 Las Vegas!
Well our hunch was right yesterday, as today NamesCon announced they have acquired DomainFest from Oversee.net in a press release we just received. “Starting with small conferences in LA and Barcelona, Oversee grew Domainfest into a large, glob...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 10:58 pm
Domain Name News
DomainFest will be part of NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas
A change on the Namescon Agenda lead The Domains to ask if NamesCon had bought out domainFEST – well, here’s the official press Release and reply. DomainFest becomes the first day of the conference geared towards newcomers: DomainFest is ...
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DomainFest will be part of NamesCon 2015 in Las Vegas
A change on the Namescon Agenda lead The Domains to ask if NamesCon had bought out domainFEST – well, here’s the official press Release and reply. DomainFest becomes the first day of the conference geared towards newcomers: DomainFest is ...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 10:43 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million
Over the past week just 573 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: competitiveintell...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million
Over the past week just 573 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: competitiveintell...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 10:02 pm
The Domains
Shoes.com Sold
According to Bloomberg.com, Shoes.com has sold “Brown Shoe Co. (BWS), owner of the Famous Footwear retail chain, sold its Shoes.com online division to a closely held Seattle company pushing into a market Shoeme, parent of OnlineShoes.com and Sh...
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Shoes.com Sold
According to Bloomberg.com, Shoes.com has sold “Brown Shoe Co. (BWS), owner of the Famous Footwear retail chain, sold its Shoes.com online division to a closely held Seattle company pushing into a market Shoeme, parent of OnlineShoes.com and Sh...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 9:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Brown Shoe Co. sells Shoes.com busines
Owners of SHOEme and OnlineShoes.com buy Shoes.com. Publicly traded Brown Shoe Co has sold its Shoes.com online business to online shoe-seller SHOEme. SHOEme operates Shoeme.ca/com and OnlineShoes.com. Hardy Capital acquired both of these companies e...
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Brown Shoe Co. sells Shoes.com busines
Owners of SHOEme and OnlineShoes.com buy Shoes.com. Publicly traded Brown Shoe Co has sold its Shoes.com online business to online shoe-seller SHOEme. SHOEme operates Shoeme.ca/com and OnlineShoes.com. Hardy Capital acquired both of these companies e...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 8:21 pm
The Domains
.XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750,000 Registered Domains
.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073 The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was regis...
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.XYZ Is The 1st New gTLD To Break 750,000 Registered Domains
.XYZ has become the first new gTLD to break through the 750,000 mark for domain name registrations. According to the .XYZ registry the number of registered domain names is 750,073 The 750,000th domain name to be registered was Chez.XYZ that was regis...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 7:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
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See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 3:36 pm
The Domains
RiskIQ.com Files Suit Again Risk.io For Federal Trademark Infringement
RiskIQ.com. sued Risk.IO, for trademark infringement and unfair competition based upon Risk IO’s having improperly and willfully used the names, yesterday in the United States District Court in the Northern District Of California San Francisco ...
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RiskIQ.com Files Suit Again Risk.io For Federal Trademark Infringement
RiskIQ.com. sued Risk.IO, for trademark infringement and unfair competition based upon Risk IO’s having improperly and willfully used the names, yesterday in the United States District Court in the Northern District Of California San Francisco ...
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December 16, 2014, 3:24 pm
