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SportsAuthority.com With Over 100 Million Visitors a Year Hits The Auction Block
Hilco Streambank is auctioning off the intellectual property assets of The Sports Authority, Inc.., including its brands, trademarks, patents and web and customer assets and the domain names owned by the company (the “Assets”). On the dom...
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SportsAuthority.com With Over 100 Million Visitors a Year Hits The Auction Block
Hilco Streambank is auctioning off the intellectual property assets of The Sports Authority, Inc.., including its brands, trademarks, patents and web and customer assets and the domain names owned by the company (the “Assets”). On the dom...
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June 8, 2016, 8:26 pm
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3million – Purple.co.uk leads the way
Over the past week, 526 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: souse.com at 40,000 USD ...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.3million – Purple.co.uk leads the way
Over the past week, 526 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: souse.com at 40,000 USD ...
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June 8, 2016, 9:21 am
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Eric Lyon’s Latest Domain Comic
Eric Lyon put out his latest comic, Eric really does a great job and is a really talented dude. The inspiration for this comic was all of the times I’ve seen people ask each other how to monetize a domain while it sat parked, waiting to be sold...
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Eric Lyon’s Latest Domain Comic
Eric Lyon put out his latest comic, Eric really does a great job and is a really talented dude. The inspiration for this comic was all of the times I’ve seen people ask each other how to monetize a domain while it sat parked, waiting to be sold...
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June 7, 2016, 4:09 am
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Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin has taken a real shine to 99.co
There was a story published on Bloomberg that featured a short numeric .co. 99.co a Singaporean house-hunting service has caught the eye of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Now a resident of Singapore for close to seven years, Saverin the venture...
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Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin has taken a real shine to 99.co
There was a story published on Bloomberg that featured a short numeric .co. 99.co a Singaporean house-hunting service has caught the eye of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. Now a resident of Singapore for close to seven years, Saverin the venture...
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June 6, 2016, 9:23 pm
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Over 600 .Group Domains Registered Through Sunrise & EAP; Let’s Take a Look
The new gTLD .Group which goes into General Availability (GA) on Wednesday has, as of publication, over 600 domain name registered through Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) I thought I would take a look at some of the better and more interes...
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Over 600 .Group Domains Registered Through Sunrise & EAP; Let’s Take a Look
The new gTLD .Group which goes into General Availability (GA) on Wednesday has, as of publication, over 600 domain name registered through Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) I thought I would take a look at some of the better and more interes...
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June 6, 2016, 7:38 pm
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How Bill Simmons Settled on TheRinger.com
Bill Simmons formerly of Grantland and ESPN has new show coming out on HBO called “Any Given Wednesday.” In February Simmons started a new website called “The Ringer” he hired several former Grantland staff to work with him on...
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How Bill Simmons Settled on TheRinger.com
Bill Simmons formerly of Grantland and ESPN has new show coming out on HBO called “Any Given Wednesday.” In February Simmons started a new website called “The Ringer” he hired several former Grantland staff to work with him on...
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June 5, 2016, 9:17 pm
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Six .VIP premium domains Total 1,334,000 CNY at Auction
6 .VIP domains sold for 1,334,000 CNY at West.cn according to a press release from Minds + Machines. The news was also reported on Ename.cn. Press release from MMX.co Six .VIP premium domains were auctioned on West.CN—a Chengdu-based registrar ...
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Six .VIP premium domains Total 1,334,000 CNY at Auction
6 .VIP domains sold for 1,334,000 CNY at West.cn according to a press release from Minds + Machines. The news was also reported on Ename.cn. Press release from MMX.co Six .VIP premium domains were auctioned on West.CN—a Chengdu-based registrar ...
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June 5, 2016, 3:06 am
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New gTLD’s Registrations Blows Past The 21 Million Mark; Chinese Registrants Fall to 46%
The zone files finally updated for Thursday and Friday,and there are now more than 21 million new gTLD domain names registered. Yesterday we reported the .XYZ passed .info but did not have the actual number of registrations. Today we know the actual ...
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New gTLD’s Registrations Blows Past The 21 Million Mark; Chinese Registrants Fall to 46%
The zone files finally updated for Thursday and Friday,and there are now more than 21 million new gTLD domain names registered. Yesterday we reported the .XYZ passed .info but did not have the actual number of registrations. Today we know the actual ...
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June 4, 2016, 3:16 pm
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Breaking: .XYZ Passes .Info With Over 5.5 Million Registrations; Now 4th Biggest TLD In the World
The new gTLD .XYZ has passed .info to become the 4th most registered Top Level Domain Extension in the world. According to RegistrarStats.com, .info has 5,508,922 domain names registered. The zone files for yesterday have not updated but TheDomains.c...
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Breaking: .XYZ Passes .Info With Over 5.5 Million Registrations; Now 4th Biggest TLD In the World
The new gTLD .XYZ has passed .info to become the 4th most registered Top Level Domain Extension in the world. According to RegistrarStats.com, .info has 5,508,922 domain names registered. The zone files for yesterday have not updated but TheDomains.c...
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June 3, 2016, 7:35 pm
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This Time Mark Monitor Has to Protect it’s own Intellectual Property
Mark Monitor is usually out there to protect the intellectual interests of their clients. Recently they had to look out for their own ip assets and won a UDRP with regards to the name MarkMonitors.com. This was an obvious slam dunk as the respondent ...
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This Time Mark Monitor Has to Protect it’s own Intellectual Property
Mark Monitor is usually out there to protect the intellectual interests of their clients. Recently they had to look out for their own ip assets and won a UDRP with regards to the name MarkMonitors.com. This was an obvious slam dunk as the respondent ...
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June 3, 2016, 6:27 pm
