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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million led by Boardroom.com
Over the past week, 542 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: boardroom.com at 75,000 USD Top ccTL...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.5million led by Boardroom.com
Over the past week, 542 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.5m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: boardroom.com at 75,000 USD Top ccTL...
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May 18, 2016, 1:55 pm
The Domains
.Top Blows Past .Biz To Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain
The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain name registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with...
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.Top Blows Past .Biz To Become The 6th Most Registered Top Level Domain
The new gTLD .TOP has become the 6th most registered domain extension passing .biz. As of today according to RegistrarStats.com, .Top has 2,241,164 domain name registered, passing .biz which drops down to the 7th most registered top-level domain with...
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May 17, 2016, 9:43 pm
The Domains
Firefox Surpasses Microsoft For First Time in Browser Usage
While Chrome continues to be the number one browser worldwide, StatCounter reported that Firefox surpassed Microsoft for the first time ever. Andrii Degeler wrote on ArsTechnica, “StatCounter, which analysed data from three million websites, fo...
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Firefox Surpasses Microsoft For First Time in Browser Usage
While Chrome continues to be the number one browser worldwide, StatCounter reported that Firefox surpassed Microsoft for the first time ever. Andrii Degeler wrote on ArsTechnica, “StatCounter, which analysed data from three million websites, fo...
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May 17, 2016, 5:41 pm
The Domains
Warning: With Namejet/Snapnames Joint Backorder You Can Windup Bidding Against Yourself
A few weeks ago Namejet.com and SnapNames.com announced that if you placed a backorder on one of the systems for a deleting domain name backorders would be placed for the deleting domain names on both systems. It makes a lot of sense since saves the ...
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Warning: With Namejet/Snapnames Joint Backorder You Can Windup Bidding Against Yourself
A few weeks ago Namejet.com and SnapNames.com announced that if you placed a backorder on one of the systems for a deleting domain name backorders would be placed for the deleting domain names on both systems. It makes a lot of sense since saves the ...
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May 16, 2016, 3:58 pm
The Domains
Verisign: Landrush for the 1st internationalized version of .Com in Japanese script, .コム is Opened
Verisign today announced the opening of the Landrush Program period for the first internationalized version of the .com top-level domain (TLD) in Japanese script, .コム , is open for anyone to register on a first come, first served basis until June...
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Verisign: Landrush for the 1st internationalized version of .Com in Japanese script, .コム is Opened
Verisign today announced the opening of the Landrush Program period for the first internationalized version of the .com top-level domain (TLD) in Japanese script, .コム , is open for anyone to register on a first come, first served basis until June...
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May 16, 2016, 2:00 pm
The Domains
Google Unveils GBoard
Google unveils GBoard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard. The company blogged about their new app available surprisingly only for iOS and currently only available in t...
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Google Unveils GBoard
Google unveils GBoard, a new app for your iPhone that lets you search and send information, GIFs, emojis and more, right from your keyboard. The company blogged about their new app available surprisingly only for iOS and currently only available in t...
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May 16, 2016, 12:28 am
The Domains
How Much of What You Read Do You Believe ?
There is a lot of information disseminated daily in the domain business. Talk of sales, auction reports, past successes, etc… Sorting through the 95,000 plus comments here at TheDomains, there have been a number of comments that question the v...
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How Much of What You Read Do You Believe ?
There is a lot of information disseminated daily in the domain business. Talk of sales, auction reports, past successes, etc… Sorting through the 95,000 plus comments here at TheDomains, there have been a number of comments that question the v...
Discussion
May 13, 2016, 6:31 pm
The Domains
27.CN sells for seven figures CNY
27.com hit a high bid of $1,510,702 and failed to sell this week on NameJet. 27.CN has managed to sell for seven figures CNY. The news was reported on Admin5.com. The sale took place on A5.net. The domain was registered in 2003. Kassey Lee from Corei...
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27.CN sells for seven figures CNY
27.com hit a high bid of $1,510,702 and failed to sell this week on NameJet. 27.CN has managed to sell for seven figures CNY. The news was reported on Admin5.com. The sale took place on A5.net. The domain was registered in 2003. Kassey Lee from Corei...
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May 13, 2016, 4:37 pm
The Domains
Swedish Court Gives Pirate Bay domains back to the Government
So last week we wrote about another game of whack – a- mole pertaining to Sci-Hub and their jumping from one extension to another. I used The Pirate Bay as an example of this game. A reader accurately pointed out that the site was back on it&rs...
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Swedish Court Gives Pirate Bay domains back to the Government
So last week we wrote about another game of whack – a- mole pertaining to Sci-Hub and their jumping from one extension to another. I used The Pirate Bay as an example of this game. A reader accurately pointed out that the site was back on it&rs...
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May 13, 2016, 4:18 am
The Domains
.Com Passes 127 Million Registrations For 1st Time
According to Verisign, the number of .Com registration passed 127 million for the first time. It was on March 5th 2016 that the number of .Com registrations passed 126 million, so .Com added a net of 1 Million domain names in just over 2 months. Out ...
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.Com Passes 127 Million Registrations For 1st Time
According to Verisign, the number of .Com registration passed 127 million for the first time. It was on March 5th 2016 that the number of .Com registrations passed 126 million, so .Com added a net of 1 Million domain names in just over 2 months. Out ...
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May 12, 2016, 2:15 pm
