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CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more regist...
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CSC’s November New gTLD Report: New gTLD Sites in Alexa Top 1M Up 25% In a Month
Brand protection and domain name registrar, CSC (Corporation Service Company) has issued its “New gTLD Utilization Report” for November. According to CSC the number of active” .brands new gTLD’s (those with five or more regist...
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December 12, 2015, 3:41 pm
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For The 1st Time Registry Reserved .POKER Domains In Auction
According to a press release we just received, Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, and RightOfTheDot (“ROTD”), a leader in Internet domain name auctions, sales and consulting, have partnered to offer Super Premium .Poker (“...
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For The 1st Time Registry Reserved .POKER Domains In Auction
According to a press release we just received, Afilias, a leading domain registry operator, and RightOfTheDot (“ROTD”), a leader in Internet domain name auctions, sales and consulting, have partnered to offer Super Premium .Poker (“...
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December 11, 2015, 3:15 pm
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Donuts: We are not Going To Deleted New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primari...
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Donuts: We are not Going To Deleted New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primari...
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December 10, 2015, 6:54 pm
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Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com’s
Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com alr...
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Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com’s
Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com alr...
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December 10, 2015, 2:49 pm
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Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com
Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com Automattic.com has been u...
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Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com
Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com Automattic.com has been u...
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December 10, 2015, 4:31 am
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Sedo Weekly Transactions total $1.4 million led by Tonic.com at $80,000
Over the past week, 654 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4M. 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. HIGHLIGHTS OF PUBLIC SALES ARE: · Top .com: TONIC.COM at 80,000 USD · T...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions total $1.4 million led by Tonic.com at $80,000
Over the past week, 654 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4M. 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. HIGHLIGHTS OF PUBLIC SALES ARE: · Top .com: TONIC.COM at 80,000 USD · T...
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December 8, 2015, 11:28 pm
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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20%
CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release “the purch...
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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20%
CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release “the purch...
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December 8, 2015, 4:09 pm
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Uniregistry Put Premium New gTLD’s Domains In Auction @ No Reserve
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has put many premium new gTLD’s, at no reserve, in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon. Unlike many new gTLD’s, all of these domain names have normal renewal fees. None of these domain...
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Uniregistry Put Premium New gTLD’s Domains In Auction @ No Reserve
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry has put many premium new gTLD’s, at no reserve, in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon. Unlike many new gTLD’s, all of these domain names have normal renewal fees. None of these domain...
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December 8, 2015, 1:30 pm
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My Sale to Godaddy
By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can’t g...
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My Sale to Godaddy
By now I assume you have read the press release that my company Worldwide Media, Inc., more commonly known in the domain community as MostWantedDomains.com, has sold the vast majority of our domain portfolio to GoDaddy/Afternic. While I can’t g...
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December 7, 2015, 4:44 pm
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Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million
According to a report appearing in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today’s exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain...
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Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million
According to a report appearing in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today’s exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain...
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December 6, 2015, 8:41 pm