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Here Are The .Sexy Brands: Google, Chrysler; BWM; Godaddy; Rolex; Microsoft; Durex; Viagra
I just looked over the zone file for .Sexy to discover the brand holders that registered .Sexy domains. For one observation there are plenty of URS to come in .Sexy domains registered today. Godaddy which doesn’t carry .sexy domain names,...
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Here Are The .Sexy Brands: Google, Chrysler; BWM; Godaddy; Rolex; Microsoft; Durex; Viagra
I just looked over the zone file for .Sexy to discover the brand holders that registered .Sexy domains. For one observation there are plenty of URS to come in .Sexy domains registered today. Godaddy which doesn’t carry .sexy domain names,...
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February 26, 2014, 3:58 am
The Domains
Demand Reports: Registrar Revenue Increases 12% in 4Q and 10% Year-over-Year
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. Q4 2013 Financial Summary: Total revenue ex-TAC declined 3% year-over-year, with 12% year-over-year growth in Registrar reve...
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Demand Reports: Registrar Revenue Increases 12% in 4Q and 10% Year-over-Year
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2013. Q4 2013 Financial Summary: Total revenue ex-TAC declined 3% year-over-year, with 12% year-over-year growth in Registrar reve...
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February 25, 2014, 8:18 pm
The Domains
Network Solutions and .50 .TV Domains
Network Solutions needs to pay better attention to their Adwords campaigns or they are trying a bait and switch. When someone did a search for renew dot tv on Google, the search returned the following info. When you click through no option to...
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Network Solutions and .50 .TV Domains
Network Solutions needs to pay better attention to their Adwords campaigns or they are trying a bait and switch. When someone did a search for renew dot tv on Google, the search returned the following info. When you click through no option to...
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February 25, 2014, 6:06 pm
The Domains
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.85 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 2/17/14 – 2/23/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,848,381. The top .com sale was lead by ProjectBook.com for $20,000, with the top non-com sale lead by ILN.org for $9,800. Below is t...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.85 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 2/17/14 – 2/23/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,848,381. The top .com sale was lead by ProjectBook.com for $20,000, with the top non-com sale lead by ILN.org for $9,800. Below is t...
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February 25, 2014, 5:48 pm
The Domains
Moving A Penalized Website To A New Domain May Not Remove Your Google Penalty
Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the...
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Moving A Penalized Website To A New Domain May Not Remove Your Google Penalty
Barry Schwartz wrote a piece on Search Engine Roundtable about Google penalties following to a new website. So we know that if you have a penalty on your site and you move your site to a new domain and redirect the URLs to that new domain, the...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 4:03 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Wins Private Auction For Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00 The figure quoted includ...
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Minds + Machines Wins Private Auction For Wedding Loses .Green Costing a Net of Over $2.3M
Top Level Domain Holdings Limited (LON:TLDH) said on Tuesday it has won won the private auction for the new gTLD .Wedding and lost the auction for .Green The net cost of securing .Wedding after losing .Green was $2,321,300.00 The figure quoted includ...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 11:43 am
The Domains
Ga.Me Launches “Revolutionizing The Way People Play & Develop Games”
According to a press release out this morning by the .ME Registry the site Ga.ME, a product that is revolutionizing the way people play and develop games launched today. Developed by Turbulenz Limited in Guildford, UK, Ga.ME is the first unifie...
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Ga.Me Launches “Revolutionizing The Way People Play & Develop Games”
According to a press release out this morning by the .ME Registry the site Ga.ME, a product that is revolutionizing the way people play and develop games launched today. Developed by Turbulenz Limited in Guildford, UK, Ga.ME is the first unifie...
Discussion
February 25, 2014, 11:29 am
The Domains
Mt.Gox Goes Offline, Gox.com is sold and some interesting documents show up
While reading MattVukas.com tonight Matt mentioned that there was a blogger that was posting some interesting stuff. From the article: But tonight, we may have received the final chapter of Mt. Gox’s last saga, courtesy of a Bitcoin blogger kn...
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Mt.Gox Goes Offline, Gox.com is sold and some interesting documents show up
While reading MattVukas.com tonight Matt mentioned that there was a blogger that was posting some interesting stuff. From the article: But tonight, we may have received the final chapter of Mt. Gox’s last saga, courtesy of a Bitcoin blogger kn...
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February 25, 2014, 8:13 am
The Domains
Godaddy Is Not Bringing .Sexy Back; Nor Are 9 Of The Top 10 Registrars
Tomorrow Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry is launching their first 2 new gTLD extensions .Sexy and .Tattoo however if you want to register one you won’t be able to do it at Godaddy.com Godaddy.com is not carrying Uniregistry strings at the ...
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Godaddy Is Not Bringing .Sexy Back; Nor Are 9 Of The Top 10 Registrars
Tomorrow Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry is launching their first 2 new gTLD extensions .Sexy and .Tattoo however if you want to register one you won’t be able to do it at Godaddy.com Godaddy.com is not carrying Uniregistry strings at the ...
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February 24, 2014, 6:54 pm
The Domains
RightoftheDot.com Resolves Contention On New gTLD .One In Single Sealed Bid Auction
RightOfTheDot™, LLC, one of the most well-known domain industry auction Internet consulting and advisement firms, announced today that they and their partner have facilitated the contention set auction of the new gTLD Web address “....
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RightoftheDot.com Resolves Contention On New gTLD .One In Single Sealed Bid Auction
RightOfTheDot™, LLC, one of the most well-known domain industry auction Internet consulting and advisement firms, announced today that they and their partner have facilitated the contention set auction of the new gTLD Web address “....
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February 24, 2014, 4:05 pm
