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NameJet.com Reports $368K In Sales in June Led BY XCW.com for $30K
Namejet.com just reported $368,421 in domain name sales in July Only those domains that sold for $2,000 or more are included in the report Name Jet Auction Activity Date: 06/01/2014 to 06/30/2014 Prepared on 06/30/2014 Domain Name Payment Amount xcw....
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NameJet.com Reports $368K In Sales in June Led BY XCW.com for $30K
Namejet.com just reported $368,421 in domain name sales in July Only those domains that sold for $2,000 or more are included in the report Name Jet Auction Activity Date: 06/01/2014 to 06/30/2014 Prepared on 06/30/2014 Domain Name Payment Amount xcw....
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July 10, 2014, 7:08 pm
The Domains
New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Services 4,584 .Pub 1,285 & .GOP Zone’s File is Still Empty
The new gTLD extension .Services had the best first 1st day registrations numbers in a month, Including the 565 Sunrise Registrations .Services total after the first day of General Availability is 4,584. Two domain name Registrars, United-Domai...
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New gTLD 1st Day Totals: .Services 4,584 .Pub 1,285 & .GOP Zone’s File is Still Empty
The new gTLD extension .Services had the best first 1st day registrations numbers in a month, Including the 565 Sunrise Registrations .Services total after the first day of General Availability is 4,584. Two domain name Registrars, United-Domai...
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July 10, 2014, 2:15 pm
The Domains
Yelp Joins The List of Companies Looking to Undo Google – European Union Antitrust Settlement
Yelp would like to see the antitrust settlement between Google and the European Union have a complete overhaul. Yelp has had many things to say about Google over the years and even rebuffed a buyout attempt a few years ago. Greg Sterling wrote a piec...
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Yelp Joins The List of Companies Looking to Undo Google – European Union Antitrust Settlement
Yelp would like to see the antitrust settlement between Google and the European Union have a complete overhaul. Yelp has had many things to say about Google over the years and even rebuffed a buyout attempt a few years ago. Greg Sterling wrote a piec...
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July 10, 2014, 9:01 am
The Domains
After Just 12 Short Years Discover Finally Files A UDRP ON DiscoverCards.com
The credit card company Discover Financial Services, Inc. filed a UDRP on the domain names DiscoverCards.com and DiscoverCredit.com. Discover uses two main domain names to access it services and promote its c...
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After Just 12 Short Years Discover Finally Files A UDRP ON DiscoverCards.com
The credit card company Discover Financial Services, Inc. filed a UDRP on the domain names DiscoverCards.com and DiscoverCredit.com. Discover uses two main domain names to access it services and promote its c...
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July 10, 2014, 1:03 am
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Experiment Shows Up to 60 % of Direct Traffic is Really Organic Search
Gene McKenna wrote an interesting article on Search Engine Land, that referenced an experiment that showed up to 60 % of direct traffic was actually organic search. In testing with default browser settings, they found differences based on whether som...
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Experiment Shows Up to 60 % of Direct Traffic is Really Organic Search
Gene McKenna wrote an interesting article on Search Engine Land, that referenced an experiment that showed up to 60 % of direct traffic was actually organic search. In testing with default browser settings, they found differences based on whether som...
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July 9, 2014, 8:18 pm
The Domains
.Global NameJet.com Auction Closes in 3 Hours; Invest.global Is Leading The Pact @ $1,400
The .Global premium domain auction starts to close at 3PM EST on NameJet.com The domains in this auction are domain names that were in the live auction that was held in London during ICANN a couple of weeks ago and produced over $63,000 in sales Many...
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.Global NameJet.com Auction Closes in 3 Hours; Invest.global Is Leading The Pact @ $1,400
The .Global premium domain auction starts to close at 3PM EST on NameJet.com The domains in this auction are domain names that were in the live auction that was held in London during ICANN a couple of weeks ago and produced over $63,000 in sales Many...
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July 9, 2014, 3:55 pm
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Christmas In July? Not So Much; 1st Day Domain Totals .Christmas 422; BlackFriday 146
Two of Uniregistry new gTLD strings had their first day of general availability yesterday and put up pretty horrible numbers according to ntldstats.com. Including Sunrise registrations .Christmas ended its first day with just 422 registrations, 18 of...
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Christmas In July? Not So Much; 1st Day Domain Totals .Christmas 422; BlackFriday 146
Two of Uniregistry new gTLD strings had their first day of general availability yesterday and put up pretty horrible numbers according to ntldstats.com. Including Sunrise registrations .Christmas ended its first day with just 422 registrations, 18 of...
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July 9, 2014, 2:22 pm
The Domains
.GOP Is Willing To Let You Call Them Crooks But It Will Cost You $250
The .GOP is apparently willing to let opponents and haters to call it all sorts of unflattering names but only if they pay enough. Unlike the .Democrat and .Republican registry which is being operated b...
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.GOP Is Willing To Let You Call Them Crooks But It Will Cost You $250
The .GOP is apparently willing to let opponents and haters to call it all sorts of unflattering names but only if they pay enough. Unlike the .Democrat and .Republican registry which is being operated b...
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July 9, 2014, 12:52 pm
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Xbiz.com Asks Google To Reverse Ban On Advertising For Adult Websites
Alec Helmyb President & Publisher of xBiz.com sent a letter to Google yesterday asking the company to reconsider its “recent decision to no longer accept ads from adult oriented websites” We reported a week ago that Goog...
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Xbiz.com Asks Google To Reverse Ban On Advertising For Adult Websites
Alec Helmyb President & Publisher of xBiz.com sent a letter to Google yesterday asking the company to reconsider its “recent decision to no longer accept ads from adult oriented websites” We reported a week ago that Goog...
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July 9, 2014, 10:36 am
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ICANN Selects Marrakesh, Morocco As The Site for ICANN 52 To Be Held In February 2015
The ICANN Board has selected Marrakesh, Morocco as the site for ICANN 52 to be held February 8th-12th, 2015. In the Preliminary Report of the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board released last nig...
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ICANN Selects Marrakesh, Morocco As The Site for ICANN 52 To Be Held In February 2015
The ICANN Board has selected Marrakesh, Morocco as the site for ICANN 52 to be held February 8th-12th, 2015. In the Preliminary Report of the Regular Meeting of the ICANN Board released last nig...
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July 9, 2014, 10:23 am
