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Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase...
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Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase...
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December 17, 2015, 9:58 pm
The Domains
.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out
Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to reg...
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.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out
Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to reg...
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December 17, 2015, 9:51 pm
The Domains
Com Laude published its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”
Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Do...
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Com Laude published its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”
Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Do...
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December 17, 2015, 3:29 pm
The Domains
Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com
Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original...
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Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com
Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original...
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December 17, 2015, 2:39 pm
The Domains
1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com’s At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction
Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I...
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1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com’s At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction
Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I...
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December 16, 2015, 8:02 pm
The Domains
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1 million
Over the past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: thehairshop.com & yo...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1 million
Over the past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 62% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: thehairshop.com & yo...
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December 15, 2015, 10:53 pm
The Domains
55 Three Letter .Com’s From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China
I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain ...
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55 Three Letter .Com’s From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China
I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain ...
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December 15, 2015, 4:10 pm
The Domains
UDRP Filed on Milano.com By Owner of Milano.com.mx
The domain name Milano.com has been hit with a UDRP. Milano as it is called in Italy, known to the rest of the world as Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world. The UDRP was filed by Grupo Milano, S.A. de C.V. whose website is Milano.com.mx. ...
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UDRP Filed on Milano.com By Owner of Milano.com.mx
The domain name Milano.com has been hit with a UDRP. Milano as it is called in Italy, known to the rest of the world as Milan, one of the fashion capitals of the world. The UDRP was filed by Grupo Milano, S.A. de C.V. whose website is Milano.com.mx. ...
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December 15, 2015, 3:11 pm
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DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion
DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other k...
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DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion
DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other k...
Discussion
December 14, 2015, 7:20 pm
The Domains
Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski
Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the Na...
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Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski
Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the Na...
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December 13, 2015, 5:05 pm
