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Apartments.com sells for $585 Million in Cash
Apartments.com the business was sold for $585 million. The current owner put out a press release announcing the sale today. The registrant info has not yet changed according to whois records. Apartments.com was registered in 1996, interestingly the d...
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Apartments.com sells for $585 Million in Cash
Apartments.com the business was sold for $585 million. The current owner put out a press release announcing the sale today. The registrant info has not yet changed according to whois records. Apartments.com was registered in 1996, interestingly the d...
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March 4, 2014, 3:21 am
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DiscoverIndia.com closes at $106,000 on Go Daddy Auctions
DiscoverIndia.com closed at $106,000 today on Go Daddy Auctions. The 15 year old domain had 139 bids. There were 14 bidders with the auction ending in a duel between bidder 11 and the eventual winner bidder 13. Now the question is will it get ...
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DiscoverIndia.com closes at $106,000 on Go Daddy Auctions
DiscoverIndia.com closed at $106,000 today on Go Daddy Auctions. The 15 year old domain had 139 bids. There were 14 bidders with the auction ending in a duel between bidder 11 and the eventual winner bidder 13. Now the question is will it get ...
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March 3, 2014, 9:32 pm
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Wired: The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin’s $460 Million Disaster
Wired is out today with an excellent piece by Robert McMillan on the Rise and Fall of Mt.Gox. For anyone interested in what happened with Mt.Gox or just Bitcoin in general, this is worth your time. The article touches upon how Karpeles was not equip...
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Wired: The Inside Story of Mt. Gox, Bitcoin’s $460 Million Disaster
Wired is out today with an excellent piece by Robert McMillan on the Rise and Fall of Mt.Gox. For anyone interested in what happened with Mt.Gox or just Bitcoin in general, this is worth your time. The article touches upon how Karpeles was not equip...
Discussion
March 3, 2014, 8:14 pm
The Domains
Apple Announces Car Play Without Securing the .Com
Apple announced a new iPhone in car integration system and named it Car Play. Vlad Sanov reported for The Verge As was rumored on Friday, Apple is today finally ready to launch a new iPhone integration setup for car infotainment systems....
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Apple Announces Car Play Without Securing the .Com
Apple announced a new iPhone in car integration system and named it Car Play. Vlad Sanov reported for The Verge As was rumored on Friday, Apple is today finally ready to launch a new iPhone integration setup for car infotainment systems....
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March 3, 2014, 7:21 pm
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Afilias Wins .Green To Add To Its Collection Of New gTLD Colors
United TLD Holdco Ltd has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Green leaving Afilias as the sole applicant for the .Green Extension. Last week it was revealed that some private auctions had been settled and Minds + Machines announced they had ...
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Afilias Wins .Green To Add To Its Collection Of New gTLD Colors
United TLD Holdco Ltd has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Green leaving Afilias as the sole applicant for the .Green Extension. Last week it was revealed that some private auctions had been settled and Minds + Machines announced they had ...
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March 3, 2014, 2:44 pm
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20 .Guru Sites Make Alexa’s Top 1M List
Its been only a few week since .Guru fully launched and already sites built on .Guru domains have cracked the Alexa Top 1 Million domain mark. Alexa.org ranks websites based on estimated traffic each site receives. I went through the Alexa top 1,000,...
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20 .Guru Sites Make Alexa’s Top 1M List
Its been only a few week since .Guru fully launched and already sites built on .Guru domains have cracked the Alexa Top 1 Million domain mark. Alexa.org ranks websites based on estimated traffic each site receives. I went through the Alexa top 1,000,...
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March 3, 2014, 2:28 pm
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Web.com Officially Announces The Acquisition of SnapNames.com
Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW) officially announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. SnapNames is a drop service and online auction houseincluding expiring, deleting and privately-owned domain names. “We are very pleased to ...
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Web.com Officially Announces The Acquisition of SnapNames.com
Web.com Group, Inc. (WWWW) officially announced today that it has acquired SnapNames from KeyDrive S.A. SnapNames is a drop service and online auction houseincluding expiring, deleting and privately-owned domain names. “We are very pleased to ...
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March 3, 2014, 2:08 pm
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iSchool Will Make Their Proposal to End U.S. Control of ICANN in Brazil
It is no secret that the U.S. having full control over ICANN has rubbed a lot of foreign governments the wrong way. There have been a whole host of proposals on the table as to who and how the Internet should be managed. The latest proposal which wil...
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iSchool Will Make Their Proposal to End U.S. Control of ICANN in Brazil
It is no secret that the U.S. having full control over ICANN has rubbed a lot of foreign governments the wrong way. There have been a whole host of proposals on the table as to who and how the Internet should be managed. The latest proposal which wil...
Discussion
March 3, 2014, 7:55 am
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Top10.com purchased in 2010 for $1million in Cash and Equity, Receives $8 Million in Funding
Tech Crunch reported about an hour ago that Top10.com received $8 million in Series B funding. The article also touched upon when the domain Top10.com was purchased back in 2010. Frank Michlick from Domain Name News had the exact facts back in 2010 o...
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Top10.com purchased in 2010 for $1million in Cash and Equity, Receives $8 Million in Funding
Tech Crunch reported about an hour ago that Top10.com received $8 million in Series B funding. The article also touched upon when the domain Top10.com was purchased back in 2010. Frank Michlick from Domain Name News had the exact facts back in 2010 o...
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March 3, 2014, 1:02 am
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15 Year Old AGL.com Saved In UDRP; But 1 Panelist Wanted To Give It To The TM Holder
AGL Energy Limited of Melbourne, Australia just lost its attempt to grab the 15 year old domain name AGL.com. ESQwire.com represented the domain owner John M. Van John. Its a pretty interesting case because one member of the three member panel, Andr...
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15 Year Old AGL.com Saved In UDRP; But 1 Panelist Wanted To Give It To The TM Holder
AGL Energy Limited of Melbourne, Australia just lost its attempt to grab the 15 year old domain name AGL.com. ESQwire.com represented the domain owner John M. Van John. Its a pretty interesting case because one member of the three member panel, Andr...
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March 2, 2014, 3:58 pm
