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The Domains
International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
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International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 4:53 pm
The Domains
Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of December 31
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as ...
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of December 31
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 8:46 pm
The Domains
VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
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VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 8:39 pm
The Domains
Is The Trademark Clearing House Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearing house program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read a...
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Is The Trademark Clearing House Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearing house program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read a...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 7:01 pm
The Domains
Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: “2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class”
In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of 11, and two word domains was ...
Discussion
Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: “2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class”
In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of 11, and two word domains was ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 4:42 pm
The Domains
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new ...
Discussion
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 4:28 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Money 327; .Legal 297: .Coach 123; ,Memorial 23
4 new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and between the 4 they have just over 750 domain name registrations. Including domain name registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those that paid an extra fee to r...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Money 327; .Legal 297: .Coach 123; ,Memorial 23
4 new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and between the 4 they have just over 750 domain name registrations. Including domain name registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those that paid an extra fee to r...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 2:08 pm
The Domains
UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder
The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated n...
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UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder
The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated n...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 1:44 pm
The Domains
March Madness? vvv.com Hits Reserve: High Bid Is Almost $89K
The domain name vvv.com, one of only 26 triple letter repeater .com is at auction at Namejet.com. The auction closes tomorrow and the high bid is now over $88K. At the time of publication the high bid is $88,998 There are 356 bidders but the auc...
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March Madness? vvv.com Hits Reserve: High Bid Is Almost $89K
The domain name vvv.com, one of only 26 triple letter repeater .com is at auction at Namejet.com. The auction closes tomorrow and the high bid is now over $88K. At the time of publication the high bid is $88,998 There are 356 bidders but the auc...
Discussion
March 11, 2015, 6:47 pm
The Domains
Sedo Publishes Infographic To Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com
Sedo published an infographic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com registered. The first registered .com domain was Symbolics.com, and it was registered 30th years ago on Sunday. Verisign the .Com registry is holding a contest to celeb...
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Sedo Publishes Infographic To Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com
Sedo published an infographic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com registered. The first registered .com domain was Symbolics.com, and it was registered 30th years ago on Sunday. Verisign the .Com registry is holding a contest to celeb...
Discussion
March 11, 2015, 3:06 pm
