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Marchex’s Archeo Clarifies 4th Q Sales
Last week we reported on Marchex earnings which included its Archeo division sold a total of 262 domain names in the 4th Quarter that yielded $1.6 million. At the time we noted that the average sales price of domain names in 4Q was just over $6...
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Marchex’s Archeo Clarifies 4th Q Sales
Last week we reported on Marchex earnings which included its Archeo division sold a total of 262 domain names in the 4th Quarter that yielded $1.6 million. At the time we noted that the average sales price of domain names in 4Q was just over $6...
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February 27, 2014, 6:26 pm
The Domains
AO.com Founder Now Worth $900 Million Purchased The Domain For Around $600K Last Year
Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was acquired by the recently acquired by the company in March 2013 for approximately £391,000, which based on ...
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AO.com Founder Now Worth $900 Million Purchased The Domain For Around $600K Last Year
Earlier today we wrote about AO.com going public making the founder a very wealthy guy. George Kirikos just found out that the domain was acquired by the recently acquired by the company in March 2013 for approximately £391,000, which based on ...
Discussion
February 27, 2014, 5:21 pm
The Domains
The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names
The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only ones using .Paris domain names, and will participate in all events around the launch of .P...
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The French Really Are Different: .Paris Announces 100 Pioneer Domain Names
The city of Paris released today the names of 100 Pioneers (Les pionniers ambassadeurs) for the new gTLD .Paris. For 6 months, these Pioneers will be the only ones using .Paris domain names, and will participate in all events around the launch of .P...
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February 27, 2014, 4:18 pm
The Domains
AO.com Goes Public In London; Founder Is Now Worth Over $915 Million
The dailymail.co.uk, ran an interesting rags to riches story about a about a 40 year old former kitchen sales businessman who had no business schooling started AO.com which just went public in London. “John Roberts, 40, founder of online applia...
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AO.com Goes Public In London; Founder Is Now Worth Over $915 Million
The dailymail.co.uk, ran an interesting rags to riches story about a about a 40 year old former kitchen sales businessman who had no business schooling started AO.com which just went public in London. “John Roberts, 40, founder of online applia...
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February 27, 2014, 3:35 pm
The Domains
While Most of the domain industry debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it up selling numeric domains
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN for about h...
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While Most of the domain industry debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it up selling numeric domains
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN for about h...
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February 27, 2014, 8:38 am
The Domains
Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations
.Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has mo...
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Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations
.Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has mo...
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February 27, 2014, 5:40 am
The Domains
Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A+E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported t...
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Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A+E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported t...
Discussion
February 27, 2014, 3:50 am
The Domains
Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post
Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign published an answer to the study ICANN. On its company blog Verisign, in a post entitled “Uncontrol...
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Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post
Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign published an answer to the study ICANN. On its company blog Verisign, in a post entitled “Uncontrol...
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February 27, 2014, 12:56 am
The Domains
Endurance Reports: Revenue Up 17% in 4th Q 78% In 2013
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (EIGI), which owns Dotster.com, Domain.com and most recently acquired Direct, along with many hosting company’s, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ende...
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Endurance Reports: Revenue Up 17% in 4th Q 78% In 2013
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (EIGI), which owns Dotster.com, Domain.com and most recently acquired Direct, along with many hosting company’s, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ende...
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February 27, 2014, 12:34 am
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ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment Period
An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolv...
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ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment Period
An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolv...
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February 26, 2014, 6:40 pm
