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GoDaddy making moves on the registry side acquiring .club and others
Big news on the registry side of the business. GoDaddy is acquiring .Club, .design and 28 extensions from Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX). .Club has seen a lot of press lately due to Clubhouse and people registering .club domain names for their ...
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GoDaddy making moves on the registry side acquiring .club and others
Big news on the registry side of the business. GoDaddy is acquiring .Club, .design and 28 extensions from Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX). .Club has seen a lot of press lately due to Clubhouse and people registering .club domain names for their ...
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April 7, 2021, 9:26 pm

The Domains
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Spine.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Spline.com led the way at $62,500. Multitude.com was second at $50,000 and psilocybin.org was third at $49,000. 55 .com sales 22 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales ...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Spine.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Spline.com led the way at $62,500. Multitude.com was second at $50,000 and psilocybin.org was third at $49,000. 55 .com sales 22 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales ...
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April 6, 2021, 8:25 pm

The Domains
GoDaddy takes down $100m listing for Bitcoin.com
So Mike Sallese pointed this one out to me, a story on TheBlockCrypto.com posted an article about Bitcoin.com being listed for sale on GoDaddy for $100 million. Yogita Khatri wrote: Roger Ver, the owner of the domain, said it is in fact not for sale....
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GoDaddy takes down $100m listing for Bitcoin.com
So Mike Sallese pointed this one out to me, a story on TheBlockCrypto.com posted an article about Bitcoin.com being listed for sale on GoDaddy for $100 million. Yogita Khatri wrote: Roger Ver, the owner of the domain, said it is in fact not for sale....
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April 5, 2021, 10:43 pm

The Domains
NameSilo “March set a new record in monthly revenue”
NameSilo (an advertiser on TheDomains) released a corporate update. The company does trade publicly for those who didn’t know on the OTC market under OTC :URLOF and the Canadian market under CSE:URL. The company has now surpassed 3.8m domains u...
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NameSilo “March set a new record in monthly revenue”
NameSilo (an advertiser on TheDomains) released a corporate update. The company does trade publicly for those who didn’t know on the OTC market under OTC :URLOF and the Canadian market under CSE:URL. The company has now surpassed 3.8m domains u...
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April 5, 2021, 6:50 pm

The Domains
Did Boxing.com sell for $1.15m?
George Kirikos put his research hat on and tweeted out that Live Current Media sold a domain name on March 22, 2021 for USD $1,150,000. See page F-13 of their SEC filing at: sec.gov/Archives/edgar… From what I can tell, it appears to be the Bo...
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Did Boxing.com sell for $1.15m?
George Kirikos put his research hat on and tweeted out that Live Current Media sold a domain name on March 22, 2021 for USD $1,150,000. See page F-13 of their SEC filing at: sec.gov/Archives/edgar… From what I can tell, it appears to be the Bo...
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April 4, 2021, 12:42 am

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Paul Nicks on the Looking Forward Podcast
Jeff Ostroff hosts a podcast called Looking Forward, yesterday he spoke with Paul Nicks of GoDaddy. It’s a pretty good listen. Paul just doesn’t talk domain names but his background and how he got interested in domain names. The post Paul...
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Paul Nicks on the Looking Forward Podcast
Jeff Ostroff hosts a podcast called Looking Forward, yesterday he spoke with Paul Nicks of GoDaddy. It’s a pretty good listen. Paul just doesn’t talk domain names but his background and how he got interested in domain names. The post Paul...
Discussion
April 3, 2021, 11:21 am

The Domains
Ethos Capital completes deal for controlling interest of Donuts Inc.
Back on January 22 the news broke that Ethos Capital, LLC would acquire the controlling interest in Donuts Inc. Acquisition includes world’s largest portfolio of top-level domain names. Today they put out a press release BOSTON–(BUSINESS ...
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Ethos Capital completes deal for controlling interest of Donuts Inc.
Back on January 22 the news broke that Ethos Capital, LLC would acquire the controlling interest in Donuts Inc. Acquisition includes world’s largest portfolio of top-level domain names. Today they put out a press release BOSTON–(BUSINESS ...
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March 31, 2021, 11:09 pm

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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by GWi.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and GWI.com led the way at $105,000. 717.com was right behind at $101,000. Showing how numerics have dropped off as I think 2016-2017 that name is triple. 1588.com was third at $25,388. 50 .com sales 22 cc...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by GWi.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and GWI.com led the way at $105,000. 717.com was right behind at $101,000. Showing how numerics have dropped off as I think 2016-2017 that name is triple. 1588.com was third at $25,388. 50 .com sales 22 cc...
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March 30, 2021, 8:21 pm

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Dial Source rebrands and moves from a .com to a .io
DialSource.com is rebranding to Conquer.io. The move from a .com to a .io will send some screaming from the rafters. In 2019 Agentology.com rebranded to Verse.io. Conquer published a lengthy blog post on the change. It’s important to note they ...
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Dial Source rebrands and moves from a .com to a .io
DialSource.com is rebranding to Conquer.io. The move from a .com to a .io will send some screaming from the rafters. In 2019 Agentology.com rebranded to Verse.io. Conquer published a lengthy blog post on the change. It’s important to note they ...
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March 29, 2021, 12:02 am

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RB rebrands as Reckitt
Owning a two letter .com is a symbol of exclusivity and prestige. There are only 676 available, one company is moving on from their special domain and redirecting it. The company is rebranding from RB.com to Reckitt. The new company website is Reckit...
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RB rebrands as Reckitt
Owning a two letter .com is a symbol of exclusivity and prestige. There are only 676 available, one company is moving on from their special domain and redirecting it. The company is rebranding from RB.com to Reckitt. The new company website is Reckit...
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March 25, 2021, 5:19 am