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Domain Shane
Domain Shane’s Big List of Domain Auctions for Friday the 11th
You hear every day about Chaomi.com. It’s like the Beckett’s of short domain names. You remember Beckett’s? If you collected baseball cards you do. It came out every month and hit had the going prices for eve...
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Domain Shane’s Big List of Domain Auctions for Friday the 11th
You hear every day about Chaomi.com. It’s like the Beckett’s of short domain names. You remember Beckett’s? If you collected baseball cards you do. It came out every month and hit had the going prices for eve...
Discussion
December 11, 2015, 9:51 am
Domain Shane
Auction Recap, 10th of December
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 10th of December We went and cut down our Christmas tree this evening. The place we buy the tree makes it a nice experience, with hot chocolate, a fire, free hot dogs and marshmallows to roast...
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Auction Recap, 10th of December
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 10th of December We went and cut down our Christmas tree this evening. The place we buy the tree makes it a nice experience, with hot chocolate, a fire, free hot dogs and marshmallows to roast...
Discussion
December 11, 2015, 4:43 am
The Domains
Donuts: We are not Going To Deleted New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primari...
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Donuts: We are not Going To Deleted New gTLD Extensions
Donuts has responded to last Friday’s cybersecurity consulting firm Internet Identity (IID) report predicting “the eventual demise of any number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and the websites populated within them—primari...
Discussion
December 10, 2015, 6:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google Domains pitches new TLDs with Q&A post
See a new TLD in action by searching for “coffee club”, company suggests. It’s not from Google’s search team, but a new blog post today from Google Domains seeks to clear up any misunderstanding about new domain names and sear...
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Google Domains pitches new TLDs with Q&A post
See a new TLD in action by searching for “coffee club”, company suggests. It’s not from Google’s search team, but a new blog post today from Google Domains seeks to clear up any misunderstanding about new domain names and sear...
Discussion
December 10, 2015, 6:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
15 end user domain name sales that happened last week
A bus service, real estate firm and other companies that bought domain names last week. The end of 2015 is helping Sedo finish the year in style. Last week it handled 654 domain name transactions for a total of $1.4 million. Among the end users that ...
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15 end user domain name sales that happened last week
A bus service, real estate firm and other companies that bought domain names last week. The end of 2015 is helping Sedo finish the year in style. Last week it handled 654 domain name transactions for a total of $1.4 million. Among the end users that ...
Discussion
December 10, 2015, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Next Smurfs movie is likely “The Lost Village”, domain names suggest
Domain names are likely for third film due out in 2017. Papa Smurf is ready to make his return… Sony has registered a number of domain names suggesting its third film in the series will be called Smurfs The Lost Village. The company is plannin...
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Next Smurfs movie is likely “The Lost Village”, domain names suggest
Domain names are likely for third film due out in 2017. Papa Smurf is ready to make his return… Sony has registered a number of domain names suggesting its third film in the series will be called Smurfs The Lost Village. The company is plannin...
Discussion
December 10, 2015, 2:50 pm
The Domains
Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com’s
Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com alr...
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Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com’s
Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com alr...
Discussion
December 10, 2015, 2:49 pm
Domain Shane
Domain Shane’s Big List of Domain Auctions for Thursday the 10th
One word dot coms will continue to climb in value, they’re less and less available each year. But look at Godaddy’s first 5 pages of their top bidders. Virtually no words. All shorts. That tells you a lot about where the...
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Domain Shane’s Big List of Domain Auctions for Thursday the 10th
One word dot coms will continue to climb in value, they’re less and less available each year. But look at Godaddy’s first 5 pages of their top bidders. Virtually no words. All shorts. That tells you a lot about where the...
Discussion
December 10, 2015, 9:51 am
The Domains
Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com
Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com Automattic.com has been u...
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Automattic.com Owner of WordPress Acquires JetPack.com
Automattic.com which is the Owner of WordPress.com appears to have Acquired the domain name JetPack.com Jetpack is built into the WordPress Platform and also serves as the stat program for WordPress sites like TheDomains.com Automattic.com has been u...
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December 10, 2015, 4:31 am
Domain Name Wire
Why Marchex and WWM domain name acquisitions make sense for GoDaddy
Unique characteristics make these portfolios valuable to GoDaddy. GoDaddy made the surprising announcement on Monday that it had purchased Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio. It was surprising because I had no idea Michael Berkens’ Wo...
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Why Marchex and WWM domain name acquisitions make sense for GoDaddy
Unique characteristics make these portfolios valuable to GoDaddy. GoDaddy made the surprising announcement on Monday that it had purchased Michael Berkens’ domain name portfolio. It was surprising because I had no idea Michael Berkens’ Wo...
Discussion
December 9, 2015, 6:34 pm
