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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week
Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million dollars. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: zapping.com at 28,...
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week
Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million dollars. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: zapping.com at 28,...
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May 27, 2014, 7:23 pm
The Domains
Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.61 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 5/19/14 – 5/25/14. All sales for the week totalled $1,618,097. The top .com sale was lead by StandardInsurance.com for $25,000 followed by AppDay.com for $20,000. The top non-com sale l...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.61 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 5/19/14 – 5/25/14. All sales for the week totalled $1,618,097. The top .com sale was lead by StandardInsurance.com for $25,000 followed by AppDay.com for $20,000. The top non-com sale l...
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May 27, 2014, 5:49 pm
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Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After Taking My Money
Last week ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this doma...
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Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After Taking My Money
Last week ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this doma...
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May 27, 2014, 1:35 pm
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.CLub Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD
.Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growin...
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.CLub Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD
.Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growin...
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May 27, 2014, 12:58 pm
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today
“The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution&rdqu...
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PIR Registry (.Org) Launches 3 New gTLD IDN’s Of Organization Into General Availability Today
“The Public Interest Registry – the not-for-profit operator of the .org domain, launches General Availability for its three new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) which translate to “organization” or “institution&rdqu...
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May 27, 2014, 12:37 pm
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USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains”
USA Today just covered new gTLD’s in a story entitled “Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains” “Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you’ll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new...
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USA Today Covers New gTLDs: “Start-ups See Gold Mine in Burst of Net Domains”
USA Today just covered new gTLD’s in a story entitled “Start-ups see gold mine in burst of Net Domains” “Visit GoDaddy for a new Internet domain name and you’ll be greeted with an advertisement for one of at least 16 new...
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May 26, 2014, 3:43 pm
The Domains
Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Its 1st URS On Finn.Sexy
Finn.no AS of Oslo, Norway just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Finn.sexy. The domain name is owned by North Sound Names which is a company associated with Frank Schilling, who also owns Uniregistry and of course John Ber...
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Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names Wins Its 1st URS On Finn.Sexy
Finn.no AS of Oslo, Norway just lost a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) on the the domain name Finn.sexy. The domain name is owned by North Sound Names which is a company associated with Frank Schilling, who also owns Uniregistry and of course John Ber...
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May 26, 2014, 3:35 pm
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Bitcoin Set to Overtake Paypal
The IB Times did a piece on Bitcoin surpassing Paypal in terms of USD transactions. From the article: Popular digital currency bitcoin is expected to overtake e-commerce giant eBay’s payment processor PayPal in terms of US dollar transactions i...
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Bitcoin Set to Overtake Paypal
The IB Times did a piece on Bitcoin surpassing Paypal in terms of USD transactions. From the article: Popular digital currency bitcoin is expected to overtake e-commerce giant eBay’s payment processor PayPal in terms of US dollar transactions i...
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May 26, 2014, 6:52 am
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If You Want a Great .Vacations Domain Bring Your Wallet & These Are Gone
.Vacations which went into the 5th day of the Early Access Program today, goes into General Availability on Wednesday with a host of other domain extensions. In my opinion its the best of the Donuts domains this week. I was taking a look at some grea...
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If You Want a Great .Vacations Domain Bring Your Wallet & These Are Gone
.Vacations which went into the 5th day of the Early Access Program today, goes into General Availability on Wednesday with a host of other domain extensions. In my opinion its the best of the Donuts domains this week. I was taking a look at some grea...
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May 25, 2014, 4:19 pm
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1st .Ninja Domains Including Car.Ninja; Brand.Ninja, SEO.Ninja; Wine.Ninja & Fart.Ninja
I just review the .Ninja zone file which includes domain names registered in Sunrise and Landrush (with only 1 application). Note that some of these domain names carry a premium annual renewal and registration fee. Long time domain industry vet...
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1st .Ninja Domains Including Car.Ninja; Brand.Ninja, SEO.Ninja; Wine.Ninja & Fart.Ninja
I just review the .Ninja zone file which includes domain names registered in Sunrise and Landrush (with only 1 application). Note that some of these domain names carry a premium annual renewal and registration fee. Long time domain industry vet...
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May 24, 2014, 5:06 pm
