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Elliot's Blog
Request a Fast Domain Transfer
Depending on the outgoing and incoming domain registrar, an inter-registrar transfer can take anywhere from a few moments to several days.When there’s quite a bit of money on the line, it seems that a domain name transfer can take forever. I&rs...
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Request a Fast Domain Transfer
Depending on the outgoing and incoming domain registrar, an inter-registrar transfer can take anywhere from a few moments to several days.When there’s quite a bit of money on the line, it seems that a domain name transfer can take forever. I&rs...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 1:08 pm
The Domains
Name.com Tells Customers To Change Password Due To Breach
Name.com sent an email to customers today regarding a potential security breach. The compromised data was said to potentially include usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and encrypted credit card data. The official notice ...
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Name.com Tells Customers To Change Password Due To Breach
Name.com sent an email to customers today regarding a potential security breach. The compromised data was said to potentially include usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords, and encrypted credit card data. The official notice ...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 1:00 pm
The Domains
DomainAgents.com Helps Startup Acquire Dream Domain Radius.com For $100K
DomainAgents.com just helped serial Entrepreneur Darian Shirazi company Radius to acquire Radius.com. “”Radius aggregates small business data on over 23 million companies to help businesses prospect and find targeted leads and...
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DomainAgents.com Helps Startup Acquire Dream Domain Radius.com For $100K
DomainAgents.com just helped serial Entrepreneur Darian Shirazi company Radius to acquire Radius.com. “”Radius aggregates small business data on over 23 million companies to help businesses prospect and find targeted leads and...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 10:37 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN sends breach notice to large Argentinian domain registrar
Dattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a number of provisions of the ...
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ICANN sends breach notice to large Argentinian domain registrar
Dattatec late on fees, slow to respond to whois inaccuracy claims. ICANN has sent a breach notice to a relatively large domain name registrar based in Argentina. ICANN claims (pdf) that Dattatec.com, SRL is in breach of a number of provisions of the ...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 10:15 am
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling: could be 20,000 or 30,000 TLDs in 20 years
Says “these are not pie-in-the-sky” numbers and second level domains could be seen as “antiquated”. Domain name investor Frank Schilling applied for 54 top level domains via his new TLD company Uniregistry. I remember asking h...
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Frank Schilling: could be 20,000 or 30,000 TLDs in 20 years
Says “these are not pie-in-the-sky” numbers and second level domains could be seen as “antiquated”. Domain name investor Frank Schilling applied for 54 top level domains via his new TLD company Uniregistry. I remember asking h...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 9:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Very active Moniker Spring Auction ends tomorrow
Domain name auction that ends tomorrow has lots of activity. The Moniker Spring Auction on SnapNames doesn’t end until tomorrow, but bidding is already very active. The auction features 199 domain names and 33 of them already have bids. 22 have...
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Very active Moniker Spring Auction ends tomorrow
Domain name auction that ends tomorrow has lots of activity. The Moniker Spring Auction on SnapNames doesn’t end until tomorrow, but bidding is already very active. The auction features 199 domain names and 33 of them already have bids. 22 have...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 9:40 am
Domain Name Wire
Electronic Arts buys BF4.com for Battlefield 4 (and other end user sales)
Electronic Arts among the big name buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo had some big sales last week, including Moms.com for $252,000. The whois record for Moms.com still shows Sedo, so we don’t yet know how bought the domain. Here are some of Sedo&r...
Discussion
Electronic Arts buys BF4.com for Battlefield 4 (and other end user sales)
Electronic Arts among the big name buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo had some big sales last week, including Moms.com for $252,000. The whois record for Moms.com still shows Sedo, so we don’t yet know how bought the domain. Here are some of Sedo&r...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 9:26 am
The Domains
SnapNames Spring Premium Auction Ends Tomorrow; High Bid StumpRemoval.com @ $11.7K
SnapNames.com Spring Premium Auction ends tomorrow on Thursday May 9th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with SnapNames.com normal closing procedure. As of 9 Am EST the highest bid on a domain name that has met reserve is stumpremoval.com which has a bid o...
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SnapNames Spring Premium Auction Ends Tomorrow; High Bid StumpRemoval.com @ $11.7K
SnapNames.com Spring Premium Auction ends tomorrow on Thursday May 9th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with SnapNames.com normal closing procedure. As of 9 Am EST the highest bid on a domain name that has met reserve is stumpremoval.com which has a bid o...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 9:10 am
Domain Name News
Hackers Break in to Prominent Domain Registrars, Moniker, Melbourne IT, Name.com and Xinnet
A story on Hacker News from earlier Tuesday mentions that a group of hackers , Hack The Planet (HTP), was able to hack in to several domain name registrars late last year . The registrars were not specifically targeted, rather they were h...
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Hackers Break in to Prominent Domain Registrars, Moniker, Melbourne IT, Name.com and Xinnet
A story on Hacker News from earlier Tuesday mentions that a group of hackers , Hack The Planet (HTP), was able to hack in to several domain name registrars late last year . The registrars were not specifically targeted, rather they were h...
Discussion
May 8, 2013, 8:49 am
The Domains
MarketLeader Buyer Of RealEstate.com For $8.25M Gets Buyout From Trulia For $355 Million
Trulia, Inc. (NYSE: TRLA, “Trulia”),announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Market Leader, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEDR, “Market Leader”), for approximately $355 million, or an implied price of $...
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MarketLeader Buyer Of RealEstate.com For $8.25M Gets Buyout From Trulia For $355 Million
Trulia, Inc. (NYSE: TRLA, “Trulia”),announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Market Leader, Inc. (NASDAQ: LEDR, “Market Leader”), for approximately $355 million, or an implied price of $...
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May 8, 2013, 8:15 am
