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The Daily Roundup for 9/1/16
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for September 1, 2016 We took a break for the month of August with so many out doing other things but now we will be back with a Daily post. Domain movements spotted by Mike Former Marchex domain names sold by @GoDaddy/ @...
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The Daily Roundup for 9/1/16
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for September 1, 2016 We took a break for the month of August with so many out doing other things but now we will be back with a Daily post. Domain movements spotted by Mike Former Marchex domain names sold by @GoDaddy/ @...
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September 2, 2016, 1:18 am

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Ransom Paid for DavidAndGoliath.com
Usually a company wants to find it’s way to owning a short LL or LLL.com domain name. They have a long multi word name that many find arduous to constantly type out, especially on mobile. Well one El Segundo-based ad agency wanted the exact opp...
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Ransom Paid for DavidAndGoliath.com
Usually a company wants to find it’s way to owning a short LL or LLL.com domain name. They have a long multi word name that many find arduous to constantly type out, especially on mobile. Well one El Segundo-based ad agency wanted the exact opp...
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August 31, 2016, 10:27 pm

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Sabal Capital Management Reduces It Stake In Rightside by 10%
According to tradecalls.com; Sabal Capital Management reduced its stake in Rightside Group Ltd by 10.0% during the most recent quarter end. The investment management company now holds a total of 312,868 shares of Rightside Group Ltd which is valued a...
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Sabal Capital Management Reduces It Stake In Rightside by 10%
According to tradecalls.com; Sabal Capital Management reduced its stake in Rightside Group Ltd by 10.0% during the most recent quarter end. The investment management company now holds a total of 312,868 shares of Rightside Group Ltd which is valued a...
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August 31, 2016, 10:48 am

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Sedo Weekly Sales Led by DataMesh.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales this week and the top sale was DataMesh.com for $25,000. Very few other gtld sales this week, acutally only three. Top .com: datamesh.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD: cycle.in at 16,500 USD Top “other” TLD: eh...
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Sedo Weekly Sales Led by DataMesh.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales this week and the top sale was DataMesh.com for $25,000. Very few other gtld sales this week, acutally only three. Top .com: datamesh.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD: cycle.in at 16,500 USD Top “other” TLD: eh...
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August 30, 2016, 9:50 pm

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Verisign Announces Korean .닷컴 and .닷넷 Domains Are Now Available for General Registration
Today, Verisign announce that .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) in Hangul script, are now open for the registration of domain names by the general public on a first-come, first-served basis, sub...
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Verisign Announces Korean .닷컴 and .닷넷 Domains Are Now Available for General Registration
Today, Verisign announce that .닷컴 and .닷넷, the localized versions of the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) in Hangul script, are now open for the registration of domain names by the general public on a first-come, first-served basis, sub...
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August 30, 2016, 8:22 pm

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Rightside Closes Down 12.92% on Heavy Volume
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) closed down $1.41 or 12.92% on Monday. The volume was substantially higher than the average daily volume of 52,197 coming in at 865,348. The shares traded as low as $8.79. This was the biggest volume day since June 24 and one...
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Rightside Closes Down 12.92% on Heavy Volume
Rightside (Nasdaq: NAME) closed down $1.41 or 12.92% on Monday. The volume was substantially higher than the average daily volume of 52,197 coming in at 865,348. The shares traded as low as $8.79. This was the biggest volume day since June 24 and one...
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August 29, 2016, 10:52 pm

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Conference Attendees Will Be Able to Ask that Man “Why you drop 70,000 .cc domains ?”
One of the hot stories last week was that a Chinese investor known as “Booksir” was dropping 70,000 .cc domains that he paid 120 CNY for. This works out to approximately $1.25 in domain spend. He announced this on WeChat. Booksir’s ...
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Conference Attendees Will Be Able to Ask that Man “Why you drop 70,000 .cc domains ?”
One of the hot stories last week was that a Chinese investor known as “Booksir” was dropping 70,000 .cc domains that he paid 120 CNY for. This works out to approximately $1.25 in domain spend. He announced this on WeChat. Booksir’s ...
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August 28, 2016, 11:54 pm

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Losing 2,000 Bitcoins and the potential of $1.8 million
As the J Geils Band said “Love Stinks” and sometimes it can cost you the potential for a lot of money. There was a post recently on Steemit by user “Store” in which he details how he lost 2,000 Bitcoins and the potential for $...
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Losing 2,000 Bitcoins and the potential of $1.8 million
As the J Geils Band said “Love Stinks” and sometimes it can cost you the potential for a lot of money. There was a post recently on Steemit by user “Store” in which he details how he lost 2,000 Bitcoins and the potential for $...
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August 26, 2016, 11:49 pm

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AutoNews.com: Amazon May Roll Out Its Car Portal Using a New gTLD
According to AutoNews.com, Amazon launched Amazon Vehicles, a “car research portal where consumers can view and reviews of thousands of new and classic cars, while being able to upload photos and videos of their own rides.” AutoNews...
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AutoNews.com: Amazon May Roll Out Its Car Portal Using a New gTLD
According to AutoNews.com, Amazon launched Amazon Vehicles, a “car research portal where consumers can view and reviews of thousands of new and classic cars, while being able to upload photos and videos of their own rides.” AutoNews...
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August 25, 2016, 9:10 pm

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.Guru After Hitting a High of Almost 85K Domains is Now Under 60K
.Guru which hit a high of over 84,000 domain names on April 1, 2015 now has less than 60,000 domains. .Guru was the first new gTLD to hit 50,000 registrations back in April 2014. .Guru was one of the first new gTLD’s Donuts released launched in...
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.Guru After Hitting a High of Almost 85K Domains is Now Under 60K
.Guru which hit a high of over 84,000 domain names on April 1, 2015 now has less than 60,000 domains. .Guru was the first new gTLD to hit 50,000 registrations back in April 2014. .Guru was one of the first new gTLD’s Donuts released launched in...
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August 24, 2016, 7:33 pm