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.Tel Which Once Had 340K Registrations Slips To Under 100K
.Tel which is not a new gTLD but gTLD that was launched in 2005, by January 2011 .Tel had around 340,000 domain registrations. By February 2014, when the new gTLD’s started to launch .Tel had around 150,000 domain registrations. According to Re...
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.Tel Which Once Had 340K Registrations Slips To Under 100K
.Tel which is not a new gTLD but gTLD that was launched in 2005, by January 2011 .Tel had around 340,000 domain registrations. By February 2014, when the new gTLD’s started to launch .Tel had around 150,000 domain registrations. According to Re...
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July 20, 2016, 2:06 pm
The Domains
Sedo Weekly Transaction Total $1.7 million led by ADA.com
Over the past week, 503 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: ada.com at 200,000 USD T...
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Sedo Weekly Transaction Total $1.7 million led by ADA.com
Over the past week, 503 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: ada.com at 200,000 USD T...
Discussion
July 20, 2016, 8:59 am
The Domains
Verisign: Internet Grows to 326.4 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter of 2016
Verisign reported domain stats for the first quarter of 2016. The report not only breaks down .com and .net but cctld’s and new gtld’s. com and .net Breakdown The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total ...
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Verisign: Internet Grows to 326.4 Million Domain Names in the First Quarter of 2016
Verisign reported domain stats for the first quarter of 2016. The report not only breaks down .com and .net but cctld’s and new gtld’s. com and .net Breakdown The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total ...
Discussion
July 19, 2016, 8:54 pm
The Domains
The Daily Roundup for 7-18-16
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 18, 2016 Domain movements spotted by Mike Pfizer Inc. buys the domain name CoverMySkin.com from Morgan Creative Group out of Scottsdale. MeMe.co which had a Buy It Now Price of $10K just cleared @Sedo...
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The Daily Roundup for 7-18-16
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for July 18, 2016 Domain movements spotted by Mike Pfizer Inc. buys the domain name CoverMySkin.com from Morgan Creative Group out of Scottsdale. MeMe.co which had a Buy It Now Price of $10K just cleared @Sedo...
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July 19, 2016, 3:46 am
The Domains
Google Wiping Out 14 year old blog illustrates why you need to control your content
You always hear back up your work and most know they should but don’t. There are news reports out today about Dennis Cooper an artist who ran his blog on Google owned Blogger, has had his blog wiped away by Google. Cooper wrote on Facebook: Yes...
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Google Wiping Out 14 year old blog illustrates why you need to control your content
You always hear back up your work and most know they should but don’t. There are news reports out today about Dennis Cooper an artist who ran his blog on Google owned Blogger, has had his blog wiped away by Google. Cooper wrote on Facebook: Yes...
Discussion
July 18, 2016, 6:50 pm
The Domains
Guest Post: .WS Goes To China
This is a guest post by Alan Ezeir who is the Founder & President of Global Domains International, Inc which owns and operates the .WS registry which is the ccTLD of Samoa. I found it an interesting read not just for .WS domains but for all...
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Guest Post: .WS Goes To China
This is a guest post by Alan Ezeir who is the Founder & President of Global Domains International, Inc which owns and operates the .WS registry which is the ccTLD of Samoa. I found it an interesting read not just for .WS domains but for all...
Discussion
July 18, 2016, 3:47 pm
The Domains
Google Brings The Right To Be Forgotten to The U.S.
We started back in May of 2014 discussing the right to be forgotten. Back in in 2014, A European court, in an important test of the “right to be forgotten,” that Google must amend some of its search results at the request of ordinary peop...
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Google Brings The Right To Be Forgotten to The U.S.
We started back in May of 2014 discussing the right to be forgotten. Back in in 2014, A European court, in an important test of the “right to be forgotten,” that Google must amend some of its search results at the request of ordinary peop...
Discussion
July 16, 2016, 9:40 pm
The Domains
Playing The President/VP Domain Game? Asking Prices Up to $80K
TheHill.com published a story last night about an anti-Donald Trump super-PAC registering “a slew of web domains” in anticipation of the presumptive Republican nominee’s running mate announcement later this week. Well it appears a &...
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Playing The President/VP Domain Game? Asking Prices Up to $80K
TheHill.com published a story last night about an anti-Donald Trump super-PAC registering “a slew of web domains” in anticipation of the presumptive Republican nominee’s running mate announcement later this week. Well it appears a &...
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July 14, 2016, 4:43 pm
The Domains
URS Panel Finds The URS Complaint “Was An Abuse of Process” in Grey.email
In what be the first case, an Examiner found a “Complaint filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding was brought as abuse of the administrative proceeding or with material falsehoods”. The URS involved the generic domain na...
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URS Panel Finds The URS Complaint “Was An Abuse of Process” in Grey.email
In what be the first case, an Examiner found a “Complaint filed under the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) proceeding was brought as abuse of the administrative proceeding or with material falsehoods”. The URS involved the generic domain na...
Discussion
July 13, 2016, 10:41 pm
The Domains
Domain Tools Gets Some More Competition As Co-Founder of CA Launches Digital Associates
The co-founder of Computer Assoicates, (CA) Russell Artzt and longtime CA chief architect Vince Re today announced the launch of Digital Associates, a New York-based software company offering cloud-based digital-marketing solutions that help companie...
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Domain Tools Gets Some More Competition As Co-Founder of CA Launches Digital Associates
The co-founder of Computer Assoicates, (CA) Russell Artzt and longtime CA chief architect Vince Re today announced the launch of Digital Associates, a New York-based software company offering cloud-based digital-marketing solutions that help companie...
Discussion
July 13, 2016, 1:44 pm