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Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 22nd, 2014
Got quite a bit of feedback from me actually writing a few articles. I had made a promise to be more positive but people seemed to enjoy my articles that proposed changes or improvements to things in our industry. I look at them as opport...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 22nd, 2014
Got quite a bit of feedback from me actually writing a few articles. I had made a promise to be more positive but people seemed to enjoy my articles that proposed changes or improvements to things in our industry. I look at them as opport...
Discussion
January 22, 2014, 11:08 am
The Domains
Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ?
Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft notice...
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Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ?
Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft notice...
Discussion
January 22, 2014, 5:53 am
Domain Name Wire
Network Solutions auto enrolls customer into $1,850 “WebLock” service
Email to customer informs him that his credit card will be billed unless he opts out. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will ...
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Network Solutions auto enrolls customer into $1,850 “WebLock” service
Email to customer informs him that his credit card will be billed unless he opts out. Domain name registrar Network Solutions, part of Web.com, is taking some heat today for notifying a customer that it is auto enrolling him into a program that will ...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 11:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Big company’s website suspended thanks to 2013 RAA
Sports site suspended because someone didn’t click on a confirmation email. It’s not exactly Amazon.com, but a website belonging to a large company has been suspended thanks to a whois verification snafu. Fixtures365.com, a sports betting...
Discussion
Big company’s website suspended thanks to 2013 RAA
Sports site suspended because someone didn’t click on a confirmation email. It’s not exactly Amazon.com, but a website belonging to a large company has been suspended thanks to a whois verification snafu. Fixtures365.com, a sports betting...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 9:37 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million
Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million
Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 9:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
A Recap: My week at NamesCon
A recap of what I did, saw, and heard during NamesCon last week. Last week was the inaugural NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. In case you weren’t one of the close to 600 people who experienced it in person, everything you’ve heard is spo...
Discussion
A Recap: My week at NamesCon
A recap of what I did, saw, and heard during NamesCon last week. Last week was the inaugural NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. In case you weren’t one of the close to 600 people who experienced it in person, everything you’ve heard is spo...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 8:18 pm
The Domains
Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains
Forget about new gtlds we have Star domains W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using J...
Discussion
Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains
Forget about new gtlds we have Star domains W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using J...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 8:05 pm
Domain Shane
Godaddy Has Some Auction Problems: Including Losing Trust in the Completion of the Deal
In order for a company to be successful the most important thing that you can do is establish trust with your customer. Money is lost when the consumer doesn’t trust that the transaction with go smoothly from start to finish. There ...
Discussion
Godaddy Has Some Auction Problems: Including Losing Trust in the Completion of the Deal
In order for a company to be successful the most important thing that you can do is establish trust with your customer. Money is lost when the consumer doesn’t trust that the transaction with go smoothly from start to finish. There ...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 7:26 pm
The Domains
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.86 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/13/14 – 1/19/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,866,118. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Heg.net for $5,000. Below is the ...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.86 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/13/14 – 1/19/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,866,118. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Heg.net for $5,000. Below is the ...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 6:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Heritage Auctions accepting submissions for next domain name auction
Auction is scheduled to take place in late March. Heritage Auctions is planning its second domain name auction to take place in late March, and is seeking domain name owners to submit their domains for the auction. The company sold about $1.5 million...
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Heritage Auctions accepting submissions for next domain name auction
Auction is scheduled to take place in late March. Heritage Auctions is planning its second domain name auction to take place in late March, and is seeking domain name owners to submit their domains for the auction. The company sold about $1.5 million...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 6:06 pm
