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Domain Name Wire
Epik becomes latest owner of DNForum
Domain forum finds its fourth owner in five years. Domain name company Epik has acquired DNForum, the company announced before the holiday weekend. DNForum was once the domain industry’s most active forum but was supplanted by NamePros. The for...
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Epik becomes latest owner of DNForum
Domain forum finds its fourth owner in five years. Domain name company Epik has acquired DNForum, the company announced before the holiday weekend. DNForum was once the domain industry’s most active forum but was supplanted by NamePros. The for...
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July 5, 2021, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
System1 to go public through SPAC
Company with connection to domain name industry will become a public company later this year. System1, a company with roots in the domain name industry, will become a public company later this year. The business is combining with Trebia Acquisition C...
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System1 to go public through SPAC
Company with connection to domain name industry will become a public company later this year. System1, a company with roots in the domain name industry, will become a public company later this year. The business is combining with Trebia Acquisition C...
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July 5, 2021, 1:24 pm
The Domains
At the halfway point of 2021 .com is ahead of 2020 pace – .io has surpassed 2019 and 2020 combined
As we are now at the halfway point of 2021, taking a look at domain name sales for the first 6 months, shows .com on pace to surpass 2020 if things keep up. .Com did 108,800 total sales in 2020. These sales brought in $103.4m. Average sales price $95...
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At the halfway point of 2021 .com is ahead of 2020 pace – .io has surpassed 2019 and 2020 combined
As we are now at the halfway point of 2021, taking a look at domain name sales for the first 6 months, shows .com on pace to surpass 2020 if things keep up. .Com did 108,800 total sales in 2020. These sales brought in $103.4m. Average sales price $95...
Discussion
July 5, 2021, 8:26 am
Domain Name Wire
Some companies use number-word domains, but be cautious
Number-word domains probably aren’t good domain investments. We know corporate China loves numeric domains. For example, 6.cn, 37.com, 360.com, and 2345.com are all owned by Top 100 internet companies in China. But how about a number mixed with...
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Some companies use number-word domains, but be cautious
Number-word domains probably aren’t good domain investments. We know corporate China loves numeric domains. For example, 6.cn, 37.com, 360.com, and 2345.com are all owned by Top 100 internet companies in China. But how about a number mixed with...
Discussion
July 2, 2021, 12:58 pm
The Domains
Top stories on TheDomains.com for June dominated by the Domain King
The top posts of June 2021 on TheDomains Rick Schwartz was a focal point in June, three of the most popular posts dealt with Rick. Rick won greatest domain investor of all time here Rick announced he will be starting a domain brokerage Rick announced...
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Top stories on TheDomains.com for June dominated by the Domain King
The top posts of June 2021 on TheDomains Rick Schwartz was a focal point in June, three of the most popular posts dealt with Rick. Rick won greatest domain investor of all time here Rick announced he will be starting a domain brokerage Rick announced...
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July 2, 2021, 7:45 am
Domain Name Wire
Income Store assets fail to sell in liquidation auction
No one was willing to pay $2.5 million for The Income Store’s remaining assets. A collection of websites and domain names owned by the defunct company The Income Store failed to sell in an auction last month. The assets included income-producin...
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Income Store assets fail to sell in liquidation auction
No one was willing to pay $2.5 million for The Income Store’s remaining assets. A collection of websites and domain names owned by the defunct company The Income Store failed to sell in an auction last month. The assets included income-producin...
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July 1, 2021, 10:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
PayPal is increasing its fees next month
Accepting PayPal for a domain sale? Get ready to pay a larger transaction fee. You’d think that increased competition in the FinTech space, particularly with payments, would drive costs down. But PayPal is increasing rates next month for digita...
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PayPal is increasing its fees next month
Accepting PayPal for a domain sale? Get ready to pay a larger transaction fee. You’d think that increased competition in the FinTech space, particularly with payments, would drive costs down. But PayPal is increasing rates next month for digita...
Discussion
July 1, 2021, 4:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
I wish there was an easier way to report scam websites
Could there be an easier way to alert domain registrars about domains being used for scams? This morning I woke up to a spam SMS message promoting a scam site (see picture). The scam tries to trick people into disclosing their social security number ...
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I wish there was an easier way to report scam websites
Could there be an easier way to alert domain registrars about domains being used for scams? This morning I woke up to a spam SMS message promoting a scam site (see picture). The scam tries to trick people into disclosing their social security number ...
Discussion
July 1, 2021, 3:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Taking a look at an early IDN top level domain
IDNs haven’t been as successful as backers hoped. One of the purported benefits of expanding top level domain options last decade was to offers domains in native scripts and languages to their users, so-called Internationalized Domain Names (ID...
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Taking a look at an early IDN top level domain
IDNs haven’t been as successful as backers hoped. One of the purported benefits of expanding top level domain options last decade was to offers domains in native scripts and languages to their users, so-called Internationalized Domain Names (ID...
Discussion
July 1, 2021, 1:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sotheby’s auction of WWW NFT by Sir Tim Berners-Lee ends at $5,434,500
Someone paid a lot of money for an NFT commemorating the creation of the world wide web. A buyer has paid $5,434,500 for a non-fungible token (NFT) commemorating the creation of the world wide web. Auction house Sotheby’s auctioned the NFT by S...
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Sotheby’s auction of WWW NFT by Sir Tim Berners-Lee ends at $5,434,500
Someone paid a lot of money for an NFT commemorating the creation of the world wide web. A buyer has paid $5,434,500 for a non-fungible token (NFT) commemorating the creation of the world wide web. Auction house Sotheby’s auctioned the NFT by S...
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June 30, 2021, 6:08 pm
