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Elliot's Blog
Guest Post: Dynadot is Having a 10 Year Anniversary Sale Extravaganza!
The following is a guest post from Dynadot, a domain registrar that is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with a big sale. The company made a large donation to help support my fundraising effort for the Ronald McDonald House. If you could ...
Discussion
Guest Post: Dynadot is Having a 10 Year Anniversary Sale Extravaganza!
The following is a guest post from Dynadot, a domain registrar that is celebrating its 10 year anniversary with a big sale. The company made a large donation to help support my fundraising effort for the Ronald McDonald House. If you could ...
Discussion
September 5, 2012, 1:10 pm
The Domains
TeachBook.com Changes Its Name To TeachQuest.com, Bought For $1,950, As It Settles Its Lawsuit With Facebook.com
Back in August of 2010 we posted about Facebook.com suing the site, TeachBook.com alleging trademark infringement. Today comes word from chicagobusiness.com that TechBook.com has changed their name to TeachQuest.com. “Teachbook, the Northbrook-...
Discussion
TeachBook.com Changes Its Name To TeachQuest.com, Bought For $1,950, As It Settles Its Lawsuit With Facebook.com
Back in August of 2010 we posted about Facebook.com suing the site, TeachBook.com alleging trademark infringement. Today comes word from chicagobusiness.com that TechBook.com has changed their name to TeachQuest.com. “Teachbook, the Northbrook-...
Discussion
September 5, 2012, 12:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
AOL bought a new brand for $3,300 and AFL-CIO PAC buys a campaign domain name
End user sales report includes some big names. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes a purchase by AOL that’s likely for a new site and the Workers Voices PAC picking up a domain name for the upcoming campaign. Afternic T...
Discussion
AOL bought a new brand for $3,300 and AFL-CIO PAC buys a campaign domain name
End user sales report includes some big names. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes a purchase by AOL that’s likely for a new site and the Workers Voices PAC picking up a domain name for the upcoming campaign. Afternic T...
Discussion
September 5, 2012, 10:30 am
Elliot's Blog
Thanks to WeBuyThe.com
A couple weeks ago, I held an “auction” for the skyscraper banner on my blog, with the proceeds going to the Ronald McDonald House, a non-profit organization that helps children of all ages with cancer and their families. The winning bidd...
Discussion
Thanks to WeBuyThe.com
A couple weeks ago, I held an “auction” for the skyscraper banner on my blog, with the proceeds going to the Ronald McDonald House, a non-profit organization that helps children of all ages with cancer and their families. The winning bidd...
Discussion
September 5, 2012, 9:28 am
Domain Name Wire
Top Domain Name Wire stories of August
ccTLDs, domain parking, and more make the top five list. If August is over, why is it still 100 degrees in Austin? Sigh… Here are the top 5 news stories from Domain Name Wire last month. Oops, I entrusted my domain name to a tiny island nation...
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Top Domain Name Wire stories of August
ccTLDs, domain parking, and more make the top five list. If August is over, why is it still 100 degrees in Austin? Sigh… Here are the top 5 news stories from Domain Name Wire last month. Oops, I entrusted my domain name to a tiny island nation...
Discussion
September 5, 2012, 9:20 am
The Domains
Top 50 Most Pre-Registered New gTLD’s Domain Names From UnitedDomains.com
UnitedDomains.com an ICANN accredited registrar has taken almost 850,000 “pre-registrations” of new gTLD’s domain names. The registrar has been publishing a top 10 list of the new gTLD’s by number of “pre-registrations&r...
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Top 50 Most Pre-Registered New gTLD’s Domain Names From UnitedDomains.com
UnitedDomains.com an ICANN accredited registrar has taken almost 850,000 “pre-registrations” of new gTLD’s domain names. The registrar has been publishing a top 10 list of the new gTLD’s by number of “pre-registrations&r...
Discussion
September 5, 2012, 8:30 am
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 5th
Had my fantasy football draft last night and per usual, went with Charles Johnson of Detroit first (I was 11th of 12 in the first round). Also got Julio Jones and Matt Ryan . A hodge podge of running backs including Doug Martin, Darren Sp...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 5th
Had my fantasy football draft last night and per usual, went with Charles Johnson of Detroit first (I was 11th of 12 in the first round). Also got Julio Jones and Matt Ryan . A hodge podge of running backs including Doug Martin, Darren Sp...
Discussion
September 5, 2012, 6:52 am
The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $1.08MM in Domains Led By Elysium.com At $30K
Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,075,466 for the week ending September 2nd, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by Elysium.com for $30,000 followed by VideoConverter.com for $20,000. Below is the compl...
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Afternic.com Sells $1.08MM in Domains Led By Elysium.com At $30K
Afternic.com just published its report of domain name sales totalling $1,075,466 for the week ending September 2nd, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by Elysium.com for $30,000 followed by VideoConverter.com for $20,000. Below is the compl...
Discussion
September 4, 2012, 6:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Spotted: Four letter .com license plate in Texas
At least two .com license plates exist in Austin. I recently got a DNW.COM license plate thanks to Texas now allowing dots on license plates. This past weekend I was leaving a parking lot when I spied this: Yep, that’s a four character .com lic...
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Spotted: Four letter .com license plate in Texas
At least two .com license plates exist in Austin. I recently got a DNW.COM license plate thanks to Texas now allowing dots on license plates. This past weekend I was leaving a parking lot when I spied this: Yep, that’s a four character .com lic...
Discussion
September 4, 2012, 5:17 pm
Elliot's Blog
Guess Who Owns EmptyChair.com
Without looking at the Whois (unless you’ve already done that) guess who owns the EmptyChair.com domain name. If you guessed Mike Berkens, you’d be right. If you guessed that he was watching Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican...
Discussion
Guess Who Owns EmptyChair.com
Without looking at the Whois (unless you’ve already done that) guess who owns the EmptyChair.com domain name. If you guessed Mike Berkens, you’d be right. If you guessed that he was watching Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican...
Discussion
September 4, 2012, 4:55 pm
