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LIU.com Sells For $155K on NameJet.com
The domain name LIU.com just sold for $155,688 on Namejet.com The auction was basically between 2 bidders from the reserve price which seemed to be around $133K. The last few days have seen some nice domain name sales at Namejet.com Jhao.com sold for...
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LIU.com Sells For $155K on NameJet.com
The domain name LIU.com just sold for $155,688 on Namejet.com The auction was basically between 2 bidders from the reserve price which seemed to be around $133K. The last few days have seen some nice domain name sales at Namejet.com Jhao.com sold for...
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January 15, 2014, 1:08 am
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Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule
Uniregistry, Corp. (“Uniregistry”), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD La...
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Uniregistry Wants ICANN To Slow Down The Last Resort Auction Schedule
Uniregistry, Corp. (“Uniregistry”), an applicant for 52 top-level domains has gone against many other new gTLD applicants in asking ICANN to slow down the new gTLD Last Resort Auction Schedule. In its comments to ICANN on the new gTLD La...
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January 15, 2014, 12:35 am
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Sedo’s Transactions Total Over $2.5 Million In Domains On Just 572 Domains
Sedo just released its weekly report. In all just 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.5 Million Dollars. All sales were let by JCT.com which sold for $98,000 In a very nice .biz sale the domain llc.bi...
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Sedo’s Transactions Total Over $2.5 Million In Domains On Just 572 Domains
Sedo just released its weekly report. In all just 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.5 Million Dollars. All sales were let by JCT.com which sold for $98,000 In a very nice .biz sale the domain llc.bi...
Discussion
January 14, 2014, 11:22 pm
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Net Neutrality Ruled Unenforceable
Net Neutrality looks like it could be in danger of being defeated. From NPR: In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court has struck down key parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s open-Internet rules, effectively ruling that...
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Net Neutrality Ruled Unenforceable
Net Neutrality looks like it could be in danger of being defeated. From NPR: In a landmark ruling Tuesday, a federal appeals court has struck down key parts of the Federal Communications Commission’s open-Internet rules, effectively ruling that...
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January 14, 2014, 8:04 pm
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Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013
Sedo put out a press release today looking back at their 2013 as related to domain sales. Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013 Leading Marketplace Books Nearly Twice as Many Top 100 Sales as Nearest Competitor and Four Times More Non-.Com ...
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Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013
Sedo put out a press release today looking back at their 2013 as related to domain sales. Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013 Leading Marketplace Books Nearly Twice as Many Top 100 Sales as Nearest Competitor and Four Times More Non-.Com ...
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January 14, 2014, 5:45 pm
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Chicago Sun-Times to test Bitcoin and Twitter paywall with startup BitWall
The Chicago Sun-Times, the 9th largest newspaper in the USA, is testing a social paywall that will accept both Tweets and Bitcoin in partnership with the content monetization startup BitWall. For 24 hours on February 1st, 2014, Chicago Sun-Ti...
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Chicago Sun-Times to test Bitcoin and Twitter paywall with startup BitWall
The Chicago Sun-Times, the 9th largest newspaper in the USA, is testing a social paywall that will accept both Tweets and Bitcoin in partnership with the content monetization startup BitWall. For 24 hours on February 1st, 2014, Chicago Sun-Ti...
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January 14, 2014, 11:16 am
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“In the face of confusion, people will default to something they trust and understand”
George Pongas is the general manager for Aus Registry, AusRegistry is the current registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial .au (Australia) domain names including .com.au and .net.au, and non commercial domain names .gov.au and edu...
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“In the face of confusion, people will default to something they trust and understand”
George Pongas is the general manager for Aus Registry, AusRegistry is the current registry operator and wholesale provider for all commercial .au (Australia) domain names including .com.au and .net.au, and non commercial domain names .gov.au and edu...
Discussion
January 14, 2014, 12:32 am
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Go Daddy CEO calls current domain space polluted and not descriptive
Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza,...
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Go Daddy CEO calls current domain space polluted and not descriptive
Blake Irving CEO of Go Daddy sat down at the Consumer Electronics Show and gave a talk about the changes taking place in the domain space. Irving calls the current space polluted and talks about the new names being descriptive. He talks about pizza,...
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January 13, 2014, 7:24 pm
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New gTLD Domains & Contention Auctions
Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium do...
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Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot.com Partner On Live Auctions Of New gTLD Domains & Contention Auctions
Heritage Auctions and RightOfTheDot, LLC announced today an exclusive joint partnership to provide live and online auction services for premium domains in new gTLD extensions that are being launched over the next several years. Examples of premium do...
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January 13, 2014, 5:16 pm
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Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars Into Rightside
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the ...
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Demand Media Files With SEC To Spin Off Domain Registries and Registrars Into Rightside
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD), a leading media and domain name services company, today announced that its newly formed wholly owned subsidiary, Rightside Group, Ltd. (“Rightside”), has filed a Form 10 registration statement with the ...
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January 13, 2014, 4:59 pm
