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Not Counting NSI, .XYZ Is Still The Fastest Growing New gTLD According to Namestat.org
I had a long chat with Andrew Brier of Namestat.org about their service, the other day and one of the interesting things I learned it that .XYZ even throwing out all of the Network Solutions (NSI) free registrations, its still the fastest growing new...
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Not Counting NSI, .XYZ Is Still The Fastest Growing New gTLD According to Namestat.org
I had a long chat with Andrew Brier of Namestat.org about their service, the other day and one of the interesting things I learned it that .XYZ even throwing out all of the Network Solutions (NSI) free registrations, its still the fastest growing new...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 2:39 pm
The Domains
Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
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Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 3:59 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
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1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:57 pm
The Domains
UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
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UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:26 pm
The Domains
Domain Guardians To Broker BTC.com
Domain Guardians put out a press release on the domain BTC.com going up for sale. In the currency markets USD of course stands for the U.S. Dollar, JPY, Japanese Yen, AUD Australian Dollar, etc… In cryptocurrency markets the symbol for Bitcoin...
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Domain Guardians To Broker BTC.com
Domain Guardians put out a press release on the domain BTC.com going up for sale. In the currency markets USD of course stands for the U.S. Dollar, JPY, Japanese Yen, AUD Australian Dollar, etc… In cryptocurrency markets the symbol for Bitcoin...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 11:32 am
The Domains
Portfolio of 240 .LY domains Goes Unsold with High bid of $100,500 on Flippa
There one letter and two letter .ly domains, along with some top keywords but in the end there was no sale Description: View full WHOIS data as collected at listing time Description The winner of this auction and new owner of the following 240 premiu...
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Portfolio of 240 .LY domains Goes Unsold with High bid of $100,500 on Flippa
There one letter and two letter .ly domains, along with some top keywords but in the end there was no sale Description: View full WHOIS data as collected at listing time Description The winner of this auction and new owner of the following 240 premiu...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 10:23 pm
The Domains
Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week
Please find the weekly sales list attached to this message. Over the past week, 633 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1MM. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sal...
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week
Please find the weekly sales list attached to this message. Over the past week, 633 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1MM. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sal...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 8:24 pm
The Domains
.UK Gets Over 50,000 Registrations On It’s 1st Day
According to itproportal.com, UK surpass 50,000 domain registrations in the first 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, expects 10 million domain name registrations and why not? There are over 10 million existing domain...
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.UK Gets Over 50,000 Registrations On It’s 1st Day
According to itproportal.com, UK surpass 50,000 domain registrations in the first 24 hours following its launch. Nominet, the UK domain name registry, expects 10 million domain name registrations and why not? There are over 10 million existing domain...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 5:13 pm
The Domains
Light.Co Bought For $25K In May On Afternic/Godaddy Raises $9.7 Million
Back in May of this year we reported that the domain name Light.co sold on Afternic/Godaddy for $25,000 A nice price for a nice .Co domain name. Today the Term Sheet is reporting that Light.co, a digital photography startup, has raised $9.7 million i...
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Light.Co Bought For $25K In May On Afternic/Godaddy Raises $9.7 Million
Back in May of this year we reported that the domain name Light.co sold on Afternic/Godaddy for $25,000 A nice price for a nice .Co domain name. Today the Term Sheet is reporting that Light.co, a digital photography startup, has raised $9.7 million i...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 3:14 pm
The Domains
Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings
One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Soluti...
Discussion
Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings
One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Soluti...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 1:47 pm
