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Domain Name Wire
More recent end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names purchased on Sedo by end users over the past week. This week’s end user sales list is a bit shorter than usual. Sedo had some nice sales, but many more than usual are still in escrow so I don’t know who owns the...
Discussion
More recent end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names purchased on Sedo by end users over the past week. This week’s end user sales list is a bit shorter than usual. Sedo had some nice sales, but many more than usual are still in escrow so I don’t know who owns the...
Discussion
April 19, 2017, 5:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pirate Bay founder starts Whois Proxy service
For those times you really, really need to be private. Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has launched a new Whois Proxy service at Njal.la. The Njalla site explains that the founders believe other whois privacy services are lacking, so they created this...
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Pirate Bay founder starts Whois Proxy service
For those times you really, really need to be private. Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde has launched a new Whois Proxy service at Njal.la. The Njalla site explains that the founders believe other whois privacy services are lacking, so they created this...
Discussion
April 19, 2017, 4:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
MMX scores $500,000 domain name deal
Details are limited but deal will give MMX’s portfolio a nice bump. New top level domain name company MMX (Minds + Machines) has scored a $500,000 deal to register 90,000 second level domain names under its top level domain names within the nex...
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MMX scores $500,000 domain name deal
Details are limited but deal will give MMX’s portfolio a nice bump. New top level domain name company MMX (Minds + Machines) has scored a $500,000 deal to register 90,000 second level domain names under its top level domain names within the nex...
Discussion
April 19, 2017, 3:04 pm
The Domains
Ali Zandi regged 4600 domains in a .com promotion
Ali Zandi took some time to explain his recent strategy for hand registrations. In the very popular available domains thread, Ali lists which names he picked up from Bill Eisenmann’s lists. Ali went of topic a tad to detail how he picked up 460...
Discussion
Ali Zandi regged 4600 domains in a .com promotion
Ali Zandi took some time to explain his recent strategy for hand registrations. In the very popular available domains thread, Ali lists which names he picked up from Bill Eisenmann’s lists. Ali went of topic a tad to detail how he picked up 460...
Discussion
April 19, 2017, 2:06 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by ColorStreet.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and ColorStreet.com topped the list. The name sold for $16,000 and Porn4K.com sold for $15,000. Only 4 non .com gtld sales. Vector.org was the top sale at $8,999. Domain name Price Currency .COMs colorstreet.com 16,00...
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Sedo weekly sales led by ColorStreet.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and ColorStreet.com topped the list. The name sold for $16,000 and Porn4K.com sold for $15,000. Only 4 non .com gtld sales. Vector.org was the top sale at $8,999. Domain name Price Currency .COMs colorstreet.com 16,00...
Discussion
April 18, 2017, 10:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Court determines Oversee.net co-founder’s case can move forward
Opinion retains most of Frederick Hsu’s claims against Oversee.net investors, officers and board members. Last year, I wrote about a lawsuit that Oversee.net co-founder Frederick Hsu (through the Frederick Hsu Living Trust) filed against Overse...
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Court determines Oversee.net co-founder’s case can move forward
Opinion retains most of Frederick Hsu’s claims against Oversee.net investors, officers and board members. Last year, I wrote about a lawsuit that Oversee.net co-founder Frederick Hsu (through the Frederick Hsu Living Trust) filed against Overse...
Discussion
April 18, 2017, 7:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Egregious DCAC.com UDRP denied
Company was formed after domain was registered and complaint omitted key information. A dead-on-arrival “Plan B” UDRP complaint for DCAC.com has been denied, but the panelist didn’t bother to consider if it was reverse domain name h...
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Egregious DCAC.com UDRP denied
Company was formed after domain was registered and complaint omitted key information. A dead-on-arrival “Plan B” UDRP complaint for DCAC.com has been denied, but the panelist didn’t bother to consider if it was reverse domain name h...
Discussion
April 18, 2017, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
NBC registers funny Donald Trump domain names for Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon
Is Trump live tweeting Fox and Friends? Is he looking at a map and trying to figure out which one is North Korea? The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon has registered some domain names for what is likely an upcoming* joke about Donald Trump. The dom...
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NBC registers funny Donald Trump domain names for Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon
Is Trump live tweeting Fox and Friends? Is he looking at a map and trying to figure out which one is North Korea? The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon has registered some domain names for what is likely an upcoming* joke about Donald Trump. The dom...
Discussion
April 18, 2017, 1:57 pm
The Domains
Did DavidJones.com sell for $188K?
Mike found this one, a domain name owned by Frank Schilling with a buy it now of $188,000. The domain is DavidJones.com, the domain was registered in 2000. Surprisingly the .net was registered one year earlier in 1999. The domain now shows brand prot...
Discussion
Did DavidJones.com sell for $188K?
Mike found this one, a domain name owned by Frank Schilling with a buy it now of $188,000. The domain is DavidJones.com, the domain was registered in 2000. Surprisingly the .net was registered one year earlier in 1999. The domain now shows brand prot...
Discussion
April 18, 2017, 5:58 am
The Domains
Should Queen.dk being going after another domain ?
So the owners of Queen.dk have filed a UDRP on Queen.com. By most accounts this is seen as messing with the wrong dog at the pound. Rick Schwartz does not take kindly to people trying to wrongfully take his property. But when you listen to the last 6...
Discussion
Should Queen.dk being going after another domain ?
So the owners of Queen.dk have filed a UDRP on Queen.com. By most accounts this is seen as messing with the wrong dog at the pound. Rick Schwartz does not take kindly to people trying to wrongfully take his property. But when you listen to the last 6...
Discussion
April 17, 2017, 8:20 pm
