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Site Goes From Longer .Com To Shorter. Net: ShareMyPlaylists.com Goes To Playlists.net
According to TechCrunch, ShareMyPlaylists.com which allows Spotify users to upload and share their Spotify playlists with other users has changed their domain name to Playlists.net. ShareMyPlaylists.com was launched in March 2009. While many b...
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Site Goes From Longer .Com To Shorter. Net: ShareMyPlaylists.com Goes To Playlists.net
According to TechCrunch, ShareMyPlaylists.com which allows Spotify users to upload and share their Spotify playlists with other users has changed their domain name to Playlists.net. ShareMyPlaylists.com was launched in March 2009. While many b...
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June 27, 2013, 9:43 am
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Guest Post By Dan Warner: New gTLD Registries Cannot Own Their Domains!
This is a Guest Post by Dan Warner. Dan in a domain industry veteran who has presented and spoken at many industry conferences. Dan is was part of the Exclusive team at Dark Blue Sea Ltd (Fabulous.com) for 8 years, which became the 14th larges...
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Guest Post By Dan Warner: New gTLD Registries Cannot Own Their Domains!
This is a Guest Post by Dan Warner. Dan in a domain industry veteran who has presented and spoken at many industry conferences. Dan is was part of the Exclusive team at Dark Blue Sea Ltd (Fabulous.com) for 8 years, which became the 14th larges...
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June 27, 2013, 9:21 am
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Brit.Co Bought For $4,750, Gets $6.3 Million In Funding Including Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer
Another .Co domain name is in the news today as Brit + Co., a San Francisco-based media company focused on DIY ideas for “creative living in the digital age,” has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding according to The Term Sheet. Oak In...
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Brit.Co Bought For $4,750, Gets $6.3 Million In Funding Including Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer
Another .Co domain name is in the news today as Brit + Co., a San Francisco-based media company focused on DIY ideas for “creative living in the digital age,” has raised $6.3 million in Series A funding according to The Term Sheet. Oak In...
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June 26, 2013, 10:50 am
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Japan’s Largest Registrar GMO To Use SnapNames Exclusively To Send All Dropping Domains
SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S.A. company announced today that GMO Internet Group, the largest domain registrar in Japan, entered into an exclusive partnership to provide all non-renewed domain names on the SnapNames marketplace for purchase on an excl...
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Japan’s Largest Registrar GMO To Use SnapNames Exclusively To Send All Dropping Domains
SnapNames®, a KeyDrive S.A. company announced today that GMO Internet Group, the largest domain registrar in Japan, entered into an exclusive partnership to provide all non-renewed domain names on the SnapNames marketplace for purchase on an excl...
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June 26, 2013, 9:40 am
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.BUZZ Goes With Afternic/NameJet
Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, and NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform, announced today have been selected by dotStrategy to launch the .BUZZ top level domain (TLD), which has just passed ICANN Initial Eva...
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.BUZZ Goes With Afternic/NameJet
Afternic, the world’s largest premium domain marketplace, and NameJet, a leading domain name auction platform, announced today have been selected by dotStrategy to launch the .BUZZ top level domain (TLD), which has just passed ICANN Initial Eva...
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June 26, 2013, 9:30 am
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FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appriasials For New gTLD’s Domain Names
DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highes...
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FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appriasials For New gTLD’s Domain Names
DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highes...
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June 26, 2013, 9:03 am
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Afternic Sells $1.6 Million In Domains Led By Emeraude.com $28K/ LuxuryClub.com $25K
Afternic.com reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 6/17/13 – 6/23/13 is out and total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,157,605. All sales were led by Emeraude.com which is the ...
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Afternic Sells $1.6 Million In Domains Led By Emeraude.com $28K/ LuxuryClub.com $25K
Afternic.com reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 6/17/13 – 6/23/13 is out and total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,157,605. All sales were led by Emeraude.com which is the ...
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June 25, 2013, 5:37 pm
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Sedo.com Sells $1.57M In Domains Led By offmarket.com For $41K
Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 06/16/13 – 06/23/13 totalling $1.57M. The highest priced transaction was offmarket.com at $41,000 followed by meaning.com and OSA.com which sold for $20,000 each. Off...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.57M In Domains Led By offmarket.com For $41K
Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 06/16/13 – 06/23/13 totalling $1.57M. The highest priced transaction was offmarket.com at $41,000 followed by meaning.com and OSA.com which sold for $20,000 each. Off...
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June 25, 2013, 4:58 pm
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6 Arbitration Providers Win 18 of 19 Arbitration Domains in One UDRP
Six Arbitration Panels brought a single UDRP seeking 19 domain names all owned by ICSID Lawyers, LLC and collectively won 18 of the domains. The Complainants are London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) of London, United Kingdom of Grea...
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6 Arbitration Providers Win 18 of 19 Arbitration Domains in One UDRP
Six Arbitration Panels brought a single UDRP seeking 19 domain names all owned by ICSID Lawyers, LLC and collectively won 18 of the domains. The Complainants are London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) of London, United Kingdom of Grea...
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June 25, 2013, 11:01 am
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Demand Media Shares Sink over 20% To 52 Week Low On Yesterday’s News
Shares of Demand Media, Inc (DMD) have hit a 52 week low, dropping over 20% in trading today. As of publication shares of Demand Media, Inc. are trading at $6.21 down $1.96 or 24% off of yesterday’s closing price. Yesterday after the market clo...
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Demand Media Shares Sink over 20% To 52 Week Low On Yesterday’s News
Shares of Demand Media, Inc (DMD) have hit a 52 week low, dropping over 20% in trading today. As of publication shares of Demand Media, Inc. are trading at $6.21 down $1.96 or 24% off of yesterday’s closing price. Yesterday after the market clo...
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June 25, 2013, 10:22 am
