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Domain Shane
Auction Recap, 17th of December
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 17th of December Yesterday’s Average 4L Chip Sales as listed on Namebio.com and LLLLsales.com was $2,441.60 Auction Quick Recap You would think people would have enough courtesy to ...
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Auction Recap, 17th of December
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 17th of December Yesterday’s Average 4L Chip Sales as listed on Namebio.com and LLLLsales.com was $2,441.60 Auction Quick Recap You would think people would have enough courtesy to ...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 7:13 am
The Domains
Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase...
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Verisign DNIB Q3 2015 Registrations have grown by 14.8 million, or 5.2 percent, year over year
Verisign (VRSN) released their 2015 Q3 Industry Brief Some takeaways: The total number of registered domain names rose to 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in Q3 2015: This increase...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 9:58 pm
The Domains
.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out
Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to reg...
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.XYZ Registry Reports Nearly All 5 Number Domains Sold Out
Daniel Negari, CEO of the .xyz registry has reported to TheDomains.com that there are less than 10,000 five number .xyz domain name combinations left before they are all registered! To be exact, at time of publication, only 9.59% are available to reg...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 9:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Gazetteer profiles 1,200 top level domain names
Guide covers the growing number of top level domain options. Domain name registrar Com Laude and sister company Valideus, both in the business of managing domain names for brands, released the third edition of the Domain Name Gazetteer today. A gazet...
Discussion
Domain Name Gazetteer profiles 1,200 top level domain names
Guide covers the growing number of top level domain options. Domain name registrar Com Laude and sister company Valideus, both in the business of managing domain names for brands, released the third edition of the Domain Name Gazetteer today. A gazet...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 8:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo links up with .EU whois to sell domains
Name not available? Whois searchers will now see if it’s for sale. EURid is now showing if a domain name is listed for sale at Sedo when someone does a whois lookup, and linking directly to the sale listing. This is a nifty deal. Keep in mind t...
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Sedo links up with .EU whois to sell domains
Name not available? Whois searchers will now see if it’s for sale. EURid is now showing if a domain name is listed for sale at Sedo when someone does a whois lookup, and linking directly to the sale listing. This is a nifty deal. Keep in mind t...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 5:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sunday might be the best day of NamesCon
Topic tables, networking and a wine bar greet attendees on Sunday. I typically get to Las Vegas for NamesCon on Sunday evening, and I’ve already booked the same travel for this year. Now that I’ve taken a closer look at the schedule, I re...
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Sunday might be the best day of NamesCon
Topic tables, networking and a wine bar greet attendees on Sunday. I typically get to Las Vegas for NamesCon on Sunday evening, and I’ve already booked the same travel for this year. Now that I’ve taken a closer look at the schedule, I re...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 4:15 pm
The Domains
Com Laude published its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”
Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Do...
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Com Laude published its 3rd Report “Gazetteer of Domain Names”
Corporate domain name brand protection company and registrar, Com Laude published its third Gazetteer of domain names, highlighting the key changes in another significant year for the industry. The 135 page report, covers all new generic Top Level Do...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 3:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines has completed 1/3 of planned £15 share buyback
Company purchased another two million shares yesterday, bringing total to 59 million. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines bought another two million of its own shares for cancellation yesterday, pushing its total buybacks to £5.1...
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Minds + Machines has completed 1/3 of planned £15 share buyback
Company purchased another two million shares yesterday, bringing total to 59 million. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines bought another two million of its own shares for cancellation yesterday, pushing its total buybacks to £5.1...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 2:44 pm
The Domains
Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com
Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original...
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Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com
Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 2:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
SEC investigating Endurance International Group
Webhosting and domain name company reveals SEC investigation. Endurance International Group, a rollup of domain name and webhosting companies, announced today that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The com...
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SEC investigating Endurance International Group
Webhosting and domain name company reveals SEC investigation. Endurance International Group, a rollup of domain name and webhosting companies, announced today that it is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The com...
Discussion
December 17, 2015, 2:28 pm