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Domain Name Wire
How End User Domain Buyers Think – DNW Podcast #134
Listen to an entrepreneur explain why he paid $40,000 to upgrade his domain name. Domain name sellers need to understand how companies looking for domain names think. Today we talk with Christopher Gimmer, founder of Snappa, a company that just paid ...
Discussion
How End User Domain Buyers Think – DNW Podcast #134
Listen to an entrepreneur explain why he paid $40,000 to upgrade his domain name. Domain name sellers need to understand how companies looking for domain names think. Today we talk with Christopher Gimmer, founder of Snappa, a company that just paid ...
Discussion
May 1, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
What if Donald Trump tweeted about domain names?
It would probably look a lot like this. Twitter has given Donald Trump an easy and direct way to reach his fans at any time of day, even (especially) at 3 am. Wonder what it would look like if Trump tweeted about domain names? Probably something like...
Discussion
What if Donald Trump tweeted about domain names?
It would probably look a lot like this. Twitter has given Donald Trump an easy and direct way to reach his fans at any time of day, even (especially) at 3 am. Wonder what it would look like if Trump tweeted about domain names? Probably something like...
Discussion
May 1, 2017, 1:37 pm
Sully's Blog
The “Legal” side of TLDs
Brian Pendergraft is a Real Estate Attorney and Planlord® Attorney at tpf.legal that uses his most valuable resource, his time, on studying and practicing law to provide landlords and investors with a wide-range of services. Most real estate atto...
Discussion
The “Legal” side of TLDs
Brian Pendergraft is a Real Estate Attorney and Planlord® Attorney at tpf.legal that uses his most valuable resource, his time, on studying and practicing law to provide landlords and investors with a wide-range of services. Most real estate atto...
Discussion
May 1, 2017, 12:01 pm
DomainSherpa
How a Startup Founder Negotiated and Purchased Snappa.com – With Chris Gimmer
Chris Gimmer and his co-founder built a pretty slick piece of software called Snappa. I liked it so much I became a paying customer just nine months after their launch.But they launched on a .io domain name and – as Gimmer describes in "Ho...
Discussion
How a Startup Founder Negotiated and Purchased Snappa.com – With Chris Gimmer
Chris Gimmer and his co-founder built a pretty slick piece of software called Snappa. I liked it so much I became a paying customer just nine months after their launch.But they launched on a .io domain name and – as Gimmer describes in "Ho...
Discussion
May 1, 2017, 7:01 am
The Domains
A list of what people spammed Rick Schwartz this week
So the @DomainKing stirred things up this past week asking people to spam him their domains on Twitter. Rick started out with a $5k max and moved onto $25K and then finished up with $100K max. Someone here might see something they like and they can p...
Discussion
A list of what people spammed Rick Schwartz this week
So the @DomainKing stirred things up this past week asking people to spam him their domains on Twitter. Rick started out with a $5k max and moved onto $25K and then finished up with $100K max. Someone here might see something they like and they can p...
Discussion
April 30, 2017, 8:31 pm
The Domains
Let the fun begin, what do you have for $3,000 max ?
Well last week’s post was very successful, a number of sales took place and it brought about members engaging with one another to get some deals done below the stated price as well. I started tweeting out some names which led to a couple more s...
Discussion
Let the fun begin, what do you have for $3,000 max ?
Well last week’s post was very successful, a number of sales took place and it brought about members engaging with one another to get some deals done below the stated price as well. I started tweeting out some names which led to a couple more s...
Discussion
April 29, 2017, 7:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign credits Super Bowl for strong quarter
Super Bowl ads propel new domain registrations. Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) released earnings and business results for Q1 2016 yesterday after the closing bell. 9.5 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the quarter, beating expectations. Whi...
Discussion
Verisign credits Super Bowl for strong quarter
Super Bowl ads propel new domain registrations. Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) released earnings and business results for Q1 2016 yesterday after the closing bell. 9.5 million new .com and .net registrations occurred in the quarter, beating expectations. Whi...
Discussion
April 28, 2017, 4:02 pm
The Domains
Hum: 50K Domains Registered on The New gTLD .Realty at Uniregistry in 2 days; Almost All Under Privacy
The new gTLD .Realty which went into general availability on April 24th and has 53,705 registered domain names. On the face, it seems like .Realty is off to a great start however of those 53,705 registered domains, 99.43% of them are registered at Un...
Discussion
Hum: 50K Domains Registered on The New gTLD .Realty at Uniregistry in 2 days; Almost All Under Privacy
The new gTLD .Realty which went into general availability on April 24th and has 53,705 registered domain names. On the face, it seems like .Realty is off to a great start however of those 53,705 registered domains, 99.43% of them are registered at Un...
Discussion
April 28, 2017, 2:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
The EPA let NoAttacks.org expire. Then it blamed the new owner for cybersquatting.
Your tax dollars at work. Here’s a good example if you want to get a feel for how the federal government can work. For about 15 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used the domain name NoAttacks.com for an anti-asthma campaign. In l...
Discussion
The EPA let NoAttacks.org expire. Then it blamed the new owner for cybersquatting.
Your tax dollars at work. Here’s a good example if you want to get a feel for how the federal government can work. For about 15 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used the domain name NoAttacks.com for an anti-asthma campaign. In l...
Discussion
April 28, 2017, 1:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sevan Derderian to lead new Above.com domain brokerage
New service will be integrated with Above’s domain management system. Above.com, a domain monetization and sales platform for domain name investors, announced today that it’s getting into the domain brokerage business. The new service wil...
Discussion
Sevan Derderian to lead new Above.com domain brokerage
New service will be integrated with Above’s domain management system. Above.com, a domain monetization and sales platform for domain name investors, announced today that it’s getting into the domain brokerage business. The new service wil...
Discussion
April 27, 2017, 8:29 pm
