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Looks Like At Least 4 Brands Paid Tens of Thousands Each To Register 6 .Shop Domain
Yesterday, September 1, 2016, was the first day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .Shop. I found six .Shop domain registrations that were made on September 1 by 4 brand-holders. It’s possible these registrations could have been made in the ...
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Looks Like At Least 4 Brands Paid Tens of Thousands Each To Register 6 .Shop Domain
Yesterday, September 1, 2016, was the first day of the Early Access Program (EAP) for .Shop. I found six .Shop domain registrations that were made on September 1 by 4 brand-holders. It’s possible these registrations could have been made in the ...
Discussion
September 2, 2016, 5:35 pm
The Domains
DOJ Says .Com Price Cap Will Remain At $7.85 Until 2024
The Department of Justice in a letter sent on August 31stto Senator Cruz and his colleagues in response to their August 12th letter inquiring on antitrust and Verisign after the transition and .Com RA extension makes clear that NTIA, in consultation ...
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DOJ Says .Com Price Cap Will Remain At $7.85 Until 2024
The Department of Justice in a letter sent on August 31stto Senator Cruz and his colleagues in response to their August 12th letter inquiring on antitrust and Verisign after the transition and .Com RA extension makes clear that NTIA, in consultation ...
Discussion
September 2, 2016, 4:17 pm
The Domains
Namejet.com Reports 570K in Sales In August
Namejet.com released all of its sales for August 2016 of $2,000 or more which totaled just under $570,000. Only those domains that were paid for by August 31 were included in the report All domain names were lead by Cock.com which sold for $93,000 He...
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Namejet.com Reports 570K in Sales In August
Namejet.com released all of its sales for August 2016 of $2,000 or more which totaled just under $570,000. Only those domains that were paid for by August 31 were included in the report All domain names were lead by Cock.com which sold for $93,000 He...
Discussion
September 2, 2016, 2:41 pm
The Domains
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/ @...
Discussion
September 2, 2016, 12:18 am
The Domains
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...
Discussion
August 31, 2016, 9:27 pm
The Domains
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...
Discussion
August 31, 2016, 9:48 am
The Domains
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...
Discussion
August 30, 2016, 8:50 pm
The Domains
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, 7:22 pm
The Domains
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...
Discussion
August 29, 2016, 9:52 pm
The Domains
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 ...
Discussion
August 28, 2016, 10:54 pm
