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Word Press Now Powers 70 Million Sites
According to a story in AllthingsD.com today, Word Press now powers 70 million sites, up from 35 million sites a year ago. “Almost half of the biggest blogs in the world are hosted by WordPress.com” The company behind WordPress is A...
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Word Press Now Powers 70 Million Sites
According to a story in AllthingsD.com today, Word Press now powers 70 million sites, up from 35 million sites a year ago. “Almost half of the biggest blogs in the world are hosted by WordPress.com” The company behind WordPress is A...
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April 25, 2012, 11:02 am
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Bloomberg & Reuters Adds Sedo’s IDNX To Their Covered Financial Markets
According to a press release today, Sedo, announced that Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the industry’s leading domain price index, to the financial markets covered on their respective Web sites. “”IDNX provides critical insi...
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Bloomberg & Reuters Adds Sedo’s IDNX To Their Covered Financial Markets
According to a press release today, Sedo, announced that Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the industry’s leading domain price index, to the financial markets covered on their respective Web sites. “”IDNX provides critical insi...
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April 25, 2012, 9:38 am
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Sedo.com Sells sommerhus.dk For $115K; Hot.Net For $75,000
Although Sedo.com just published it weekly list of sale just an hour ago, two new domain sales just crossed the Sedo wire. The domain name Sommerhus.dk just sold for 87,500 Euro’s or about $115,000. .Dk is the ccTLD for Demark. sommerhus is&nbs...
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Sedo.com Sells sommerhus.dk For $115K; Hot.Net For $75,000
Although Sedo.com just published it weekly list of sale just an hour ago, two new domain sales just crossed the Sedo wire. The domain name Sommerhus.dk just sold for 87,500 Euro’s or about $115,000. .Dk is the ccTLD for Demark. sommerhus is&nbs...
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April 25, 2012, 9:30 am
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Sedo.com Sells $1.5MM+ In Domains
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending April 23. In all over $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top seller was gameglobe.com at $50,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were geschenkideen.de for €50,000 & racenet.c...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.5MM+ In Domains
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending April 23. In all over $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top seller was gameglobe.com at $50,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were geschenkideen.de for €50,000 & racenet.c...
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April 25, 2012, 7:58 am
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Afternic.com Sells $1.01MM In Domains Led By GreenJuice.com At $35K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,014,184 for the week ending April 22. The publicly reportable sales were led by GreenJuice.com at $35K, followed by pinmyride.com and beenz.com each at $20K. Below is the...
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Afternic.com Sells $1.01MM In Domains Led By GreenJuice.com At $35K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,014,184 for the week ending April 22. The publicly reportable sales were led by GreenJuice.com at $35K, followed by pinmyride.com and beenz.com each at $20K. Below is the...
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April 24, 2012, 5:26 pm
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33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame including The Chairman Of ICANN Steve Crocker
33 people were just inducted as the inaugural group into the Internet Hall of Fame. Included in the group is the current Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker. “Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and ...
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33 Inducted Into The Internet Hall of Fame including The Chairman Of ICANN Steve Crocker
33 people were just inducted as the inaugural group into the Internet Hall of Fame. Included in the group is the current Chairman of ICANN Steve Crocker. “Dr. Crocker has been involved in the Internet since its inception. In the late 1960s and ...
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April 23, 2012, 5:24 pm
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ICANN’s Public Comment Period On Renewal Of Verisign Contract Closes Thursday
ICANN public comment period for the .com Registry Agreement renewal, which ends on Thursday April 26th. As you know, under the terms of the renewal contract Verisign will be able to raise their wholesale price on .com registration 7% in 4 out of the ...
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ICANN’s Public Comment Period On Renewal Of Verisign Contract Closes Thursday
ICANN public comment period for the .com Registry Agreement renewal, which ends on Thursday April 26th. As you know, under the terms of the renewal contract Verisign will be able to raise their wholesale price on .com registration 7% in 4 out of the ...
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April 23, 2012, 9:51 am
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Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearl...
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Lawley Tells Bloomberg There Are 250K .XXX Domains Under Management & Applied For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult To Protect Holders
Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry who operates the .XXX TLD had an interview on Bloomberg TV on Friday to chat not only about .XXX but its application to run multiple new gTLD’s. (You can watch the interview here) “We have nearl...
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April 22, 2012, 8:45 am
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Cnet Does Feature Story On Mike Mann: “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours”
Cnet.comjust published a feature story all about the Mann, Mike Mann. In the story entitled “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours” recounts how Mike Mann started in the domain business, built and sold BuyD...
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Cnet Does Feature Story On Mike Mann: “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours”
Cnet.comjust published a feature story all about the Mann, Mike Mann. In the story entitled “Meet the ‘Mann’ who registered 14,962 domains in 24 hours” recounts how Mike Mann started in the domain business, built and sold BuyD...
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April 21, 2012, 10:55 am
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WOW: ICANN Now Pushes UPDATE On TAS & New gTLD Program Off Until April 27th
In a release by ICANN tonight they are now giving themselves until April 27th to give update on when the TAS system will even re-open and an a updated for the date of the “Big Reveal” where ICANN will announce who applied for what. Also i...
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WOW: ICANN Now Pushes UPDATE On TAS & New gTLD Program Off Until April 27th
In a release by ICANN tonight they are now giving themselves until April 27th to give update on when the TAS system will even re-open and an a updated for the date of the “Big Reveal” where ICANN will announce who applied for what. Also i...
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April 21, 2012, 3:12 am
