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Elliot's Blog
Sedo Sells Over $1m in Domain Names Led by WellnessFinder.com at 300,000 Euro
Last week, Sedo sold over $750,000 worth of domain names that could be revealed publicly. The sales report was led by WellnessFinder.com, which sold for 300,000 Euro, and that was followed by DJE.com, which sold for 32,000 Euro. BackupPlan.co.uk was ...
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Sedo Sells Over $1m in Domain Names Led by WellnessFinder.com at 300,000 Euro
Last week, Sedo sold over $750,000 worth of domain names that could be revealed publicly. The sales report was led by WellnessFinder.com, which sold for 300,000 Euro, and that was followed by DJE.com, which sold for 32,000 Euro. BackupPlan.co.uk was ...
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June 28, 2011, 6:11 pm
Elliot's Blog
Afternic Closes $700k in Sales
Following a strong showing last week, Afternic sold just a hair under $700,000 worth of domain names last week. Leading the way was SellCar.com for $26,056 and MonarchMortgage.com for $15,000. Both of these names were owned by private investors and w...
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Afternic Closes $700k in Sales
Following a strong showing last week, Afternic sold just a hair under $700,000 worth of domain names last week. Leading the way was SellCar.com for $26,056 and MonarchMortgage.com for $15,000. Both of these names were owned by private investors and w...
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June 28, 2011, 3:28 pm
Elliot's Blog
Watch Out for Conference “Freebies”
For those of you that use the freebie USB memory sticks and other computer peripherals given away at conferences, you should read an interesting article in The Register yesterday. I write this as I look at a few used memory drives I have laying aroun...
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Watch Out for Conference “Freebies”
For those of you that use the freebie USB memory sticks and other computer peripherals given away at conferences, you should read an interesting article in The Register yesterday. I write this as I look at a few used memory drives I have laying aroun...
Discussion
June 28, 2011, 10:43 am
Elliot's Blog
PPD.com UDRP – Owner Doesn’t Respond and Loses Domain Name
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about the pending UDRP for PPD.com. Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. and Pharmaco Investments, Inc. filed the UDRP for PPD.com in mid-April, and the decision was just posted online. For some rea...
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PPD.com UDRP – Owner Doesn’t Respond and Loses Domain Name
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about the pending UDRP for PPD.com. Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. and Pharmaco Investments, Inc. filed the UDRP for PPD.com in mid-April, and the decision was just posted online. For some rea...
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June 27, 2011, 1:25 pm
Elliot's Blog
Make Money With a Forum: Sell It
From what I’ve heard, it’s often hard to make money from a forum. Like other websites, the owner of a forum has two options to make money – find advertisers who want to reach out to the same group of people who visit the forum...
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Make Money With a Forum: Sell It
From what I’ve heard, it’s often hard to make money from a forum. Like other websites, the owner of a forum has two options to make money – find advertisers who want to reach out to the same group of people who visit the forum...
Discussion
June 27, 2011, 9:53 am
Elliot's Blog
2011 ccTLD UDRP Cases at WIPO
With .CO domain names now available to register for almost a year, I did some research on the number of UDRP cases for ccTLD domain names filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization so far in 2011. These numbers don’t reflect the actu...
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2011 ccTLD UDRP Cases at WIPO
With .CO domain names now available to register for almost a year, I did some research on the number of UDRP cases for ccTLD domain names filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization so far in 2011. These numbers don’t reflect the actu...
Discussion
June 26, 2011, 12:12 pm
Elliot's Blog
If Go Daddy Is Bought…
There have been reports that a team of private equity companies (led by Henry Kravis’ KKR) are in talks to acquire the world’s largest domain registrar, Go Daddy. I’ve been a customer of Go Daddy for about 8 years, and there are som...
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If Go Daddy Is Bought…
There have been reports that a team of private equity companies (led by Henry Kravis’ KKR) are in talks to acquire the world’s largest domain registrar, Go Daddy. I’ve been a customer of Go Daddy for about 8 years, and there are som...
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June 24, 2011, 12:47 pm
Elliot's Blog
Cost for Back End gTLD Services
It’s a fact that applying for a gTLD is going to be expensive. We know that the cost for a gTLD application is a non-refundable $185,000 payment to ICANN, and the cost will be considerably more if there are other companies that wish to operate ...
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Cost for Back End gTLD Services
It’s a fact that applying for a gTLD is going to be expensive. We know that the cost for a gTLD application is a non-refundable $185,000 payment to ICANN, and the cost will be considerably more if there are other companies that wish to operate ...
Discussion
June 24, 2011, 9:02 am
Elliot's Blog
Don’t Add Me To Your Email List
This should be common sense, or at least common sense to a marketing or public relations agency, but apparently it’s not. Do NOT put people onto email lists that you think might be interested in what you are trying to sell – be it a produ...
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Don’t Add Me To Your Email List
This should be common sense, or at least common sense to a marketing or public relations agency, but apparently it’s not. Do NOT put people onto email lists that you think might be interested in what you are trying to sell – be it a produ...
Discussion
June 23, 2011, 2:51 pm
Elliot's Blog
First UDRP Win for .CO Owner
A UDRP was filed for Champagne.CO by Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne of Épernay, France, and the complaint was denied by the sole panelist. I believe this marks the first successful defense of a .CO domain name in a U...
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First UDRP Win for .CO Owner
A UDRP was filed for Champagne.CO by Comité Interprofessionnel du vin de Champagne of Épernay, France, and the complaint was denied by the sole panelist. I believe this marks the first successful defense of a .CO domain name in a U...
Discussion
June 23, 2011, 11:51 am
