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Domain Name Wire
Did P2P lending cause a Chinese bubble, and is it bursting?
Another high-profile P2P lending scam should give pause to Chinese domain investors. Remember those videos of the Chinese super bus making the rounds on social media a few months ago? The bus was designed to travel above car traffic on the street bel...
Discussion
Did P2P lending cause a Chinese bubble, and is it bursting?
Another high-profile P2P lending scam should give pause to Chinese domain investors. Remember those videos of the Chinese super bus making the rounds on social media a few months ago? The bus was designed to travel above car traffic on the street bel...
Discussion
August 25, 2016, 5:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chinese domain name investor getting out, dumps 70,000 .cc domains
Booksir announces to WeChat group that he’s exiting the domain name business. A prominent Chinese domain name investor has announced on WeChat that he’s getting out of the domain name investing business. Zhuang Liangji (庄良基), known ...
Discussion
Chinese domain name investor getting out, dumps 70,000 .cc domains
Booksir announces to WeChat group that he’s exiting the domain name business. A prominent Chinese domain name investor has announced on WeChat that he’s getting out of the domain name investing business. Zhuang Liangji (庄良基), known ...
Discussion
August 25, 2016, 2:43 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, August 25th
The good and the bad is the interest in my domains is picking up again. The good is I am getting a lot of emails and inquiries. Mixed in them are some legit people that are genuinely interested in the domain. The bad is 95% of the inquir...
Discussion
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, August 25th
The good and the bad is the interest in my domains is picking up again. The good is I am getting a lot of emails and inquiries. Mixed in them are some legit people that are genuinely interested in the domain. The bad is 95% of the inquir...
Discussion
August 25, 2016, 10:02 am
Domain Shane
Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Ends Soon, Headlined by LLL.com Domains
The August Great Domains Auction at Sedo ends tomorrow morning, and as has been typical recently, the big ticket names are primarily the short domains. Although no high-value names have yet met reserve (the domain with the highest bidding with reserv...
Discussion
Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Ends Soon, Headlined by LLL.com Domains
The August Great Domains Auction at Sedo ends tomorrow morning, and as has been typical recently, the big ticket names are primarily the short domains. Although no high-value names have yet met reserve (the domain with the highest bidding with reserv...
Discussion
August 25, 2016, 2:21 am
Domain Name Wire
Escrow.com handles over US$200 million in payments in H1, buys domain name for A$1 million
Escrow.com’s parent company recently reported financial results for the first half of 2016 and disclosed a major domain name purchase. This week I had Escrow.com GM Jackson Elsegood on the Domain Name Wire podcast to provide an update on what h...
Discussion
Escrow.com handles over US$200 million in payments in H1, buys domain name for A$1 million
Escrow.com’s parent company recently reported financial results for the first half of 2016 and disclosed a major domain name purchase. This week I had Escrow.com GM Jackson Elsegood on the Domain Name Wire podcast to provide an update on what h...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 7:49 pm
The Domains
.Guru After Hitting a High of Almost 85K Domains is Now Under 60K
.Guru which hit a high of over 84,000 domain names on April 1, 2015 now has less than 60,000 domains. .Guru was the first new gTLD to hit 50,000 registrations back in April 2014. .Guru was one of the first new gTLD’s Donuts released launched in...
Discussion
.Guru After Hitting a High of Almost 85K Domains is Now Under 60K
.Guru which hit a high of over 84,000 domain names on April 1, 2015 now has less than 60,000 domains. .Guru was the first new gTLD to hit 50,000 registrations back in April 2014. .Guru was one of the first new gTLD’s Donuts released launched in...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 7:33 pm
The Domains
LogicBoxes Launches the New Elite Reseller Program
LogicBoxes has launched the Elite Reseller Program which focuses on high potential Web Hosts, Domain Resellers and ICANN Registrars. LogicBoxes according to a press release we just received, will now be made available to Web Hosts from all the segmen...
Discussion
LogicBoxes Launches the New Elite Reseller Program
LogicBoxes has launched the Elite Reseller Program which focuses on high potential Web Hosts, Domain Resellers and ICANN Registrars. LogicBoxes according to a press release we just received, will now be made available to Web Hosts from all the segmen...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 7:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names that were purchased by end users on Sedo over the past week. It was a lot harder this week to find end user domain name sales within Sedo’s sales list. The list was shorter than usual, but the bigger issue was that ma...
Discussion
This week’s end user domain name sales
Here are some domain names that were purchased by end users on Sedo over the past week. It was a lot harder this week to find end user domain name sales within Sedo’s sales list. The list was shorter than usual, but the bigger issue was that ma...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 5:41 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF AUGUST 23, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on August 23, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an ...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF AUGUST 23, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on August 23, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an ...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 5:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain names that get around: are they worth less?
Rapid trading of domain names might reduce their value. We’ve seen a new phenomenon in domain names in the past couple years: domain names that get around. Chinese investors have piled in and helped turn short domain names into tradeable commod...
Discussion
Domain names that get around: are they worth less?
Rapid trading of domain names might reduce their value. We’ve seen a new phenomenon in domain names in the past couple years: domain names that get around. Chinese investors have piled in and helped turn short domain names into tradeable commod...
Discussion
August 24, 2016, 1:58 pm
