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Domain Name Wire
Placement secures Exec.com for new professional development platform
Company that owns placement.com starts using exec.com, too. A company already familiar with the potency of premium domain names has secured another for its next venture. Placement, founded in 2019, is a company with an ambitious plan to unlock human ...
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Placement secures Exec.com for new professional development platform
Company that owns placement.com starts using exec.com, too. A company already familiar with the potency of premium domain names has secured another for its next venture. Placement, founded in 2019, is a company with an ambitious plan to unlock human ...
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September 8, 2022, 2:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
Unstoppable Domains asks court not to let .wallet owner intervene
Unstoppable argues it’s too late and that the registrant (maybe) isn’t impacted by the injunction. Unstoppable Domains has asked a court not to let the owner of the .wallet Handshake domain intervene in a lawsuit filed against Gateway Reg...
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Unstoppable Domains asks court not to let .wallet owner intervene
Unstoppable argues it’s too late and that the registrant (maybe) isn’t impacted by the injunction. Unstoppable Domains has asked a court not to let the owner of the .wallet Handshake domain intervene in a lawsuit filed against Gateway Reg...
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September 8, 2022, 12:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: Ethereum Name Service sues to stop eth.link domain sale
Group sues after domain sells in Dynadot auction. True Names, Ltd. d/b/a Ethereum Name Service, and Virgil Griffith have sued (pdf) to stop the sale of eth.link. As I wrote about earlier today, eth.link sold in a Dynadot expired domain auction for $8...
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Breaking: Ethereum Name Service sues to stop eth.link domain sale
Group sues after domain sells in Dynadot auction. True Names, Ltd. d/b/a Ethereum Name Service, and Virgil Griffith have sued (pdf) to stop the sale of eth.link. As I wrote about earlier today, eth.link sold in a Dynadot expired domain auction for $8...
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September 7, 2022, 11:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Eth.link domain sold for $852k in unique situation
Dynadot auctioned the domain after the previous owner landed in prison. An auction for eth.link ended at a staggering $851,919.30 in a very odd scenario. The previous registrant of eth.link set the domain up as a resolving system for .eth domains in ...
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Eth.link domain sold for $852k in unique situation
Dynadot auctioned the domain after the previous owner landed in prison. An auction for eth.link ended at a staggering $851,919.30 in a very odd scenario. The previous registrant of eth.link set the domain up as a resolving system for .eth domains in ...
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September 7, 2022, 12:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain name sales
A robotics company, a jet charter business, and a Muslim clothing company bought domain names. Sedo’s top sale this week was betify.com for $110,000. There are a couple of potential buyers, but my guess is it’s related to the Betify web3 ...
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This week’s end user domain name sales
A robotics company, a jet charter business, and a Muslim clothing company bought domain names. Sedo’s top sale this week was betify.com for $110,000. There are a couple of potential buyers, but my guess is it’s related to the Betify web3 ...
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September 6, 2022, 6:44 pm
The Domains
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Betify.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Betify.com led the way at 110,000 Euro, ($108,880). Arrears.com was second at $31,500 and ChillyBets.com was third at $20,000. 46 .com sales 24 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoML...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Betify.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Betify.com led the way at 110,000 Euro, ($108,880). Arrears.com was second at $31,500 and ChillyBets.com was third at $20,000. 46 .com sales 24 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoML...
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September 6, 2022, 2:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award means a lot to me
Last week, the Internet Commerce Association membership awarded me the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award. I’ve never been one to seek out awards, but this award has special meaning to me. First, I’m grateful to the community for acknowledging t...
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Why the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award means a lot to me
Last week, the Internet Commerce Association membership awarded me the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award. I’ve never been one to seek out awards, but this award has special meaning to me. First, I’m grateful to the community for acknowledging t...
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September 6, 2022, 1:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Case top level domain changes hands for a second time
Owner of Sav acquires top level domain name. Digity, LLC has acquired the .case top level domain name from Helium TLDs, LTD. Helium is a subsidiary of CentralNic. Anthos Chyrsanthou owns Digity. Chyrsanthou also owns Sav.com, a domain register popula...
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.Case top level domain changes hands for a second time
Owner of Sav acquires top level domain name. Digity, LLC has acquired the .case top level domain name from Helium TLDs, LTD. Helium is a subsidiary of CentralNic. Anthos Chyrsanthou owns Digity. Chyrsanthou also owns Sav.com, a domain register popula...
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September 6, 2022, 11:54 am
Domain Name Wire
13 interviews from NamesCon – DNW Podcast #403
Catch up with some of the people who attended NamesCon. It’s the NamesCon episode! NamesCon took place in person last week for the first time in 2 1/2 years. Today, you’ll hear from 13 people who attended the event. You’ll get their...
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13 interviews from NamesCon – DNW Podcast #403
Catch up with some of the people who attended NamesCon. It’s the NamesCon episode! NamesCon took place in person last week for the first time in 2 1/2 years. Today, you’ll hear from 13 people who attended the event. You’ll get their...
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September 5, 2022, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Epik gets new CEO as Rob Monster moves to non-executive role
Brian Royce takes over the helm at Epik. Rob Monster is no longer CEO of domain name registrar Epik. The company announced today that Brian Royce will succeed Monster in the CEO role. Monster will be Chairman of the Board. The executive change does n...
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Epik gets new CEO as Rob Monster moves to non-executive role
Brian Royce takes over the helm at Epik. Rob Monster is no longer CEO of domain name registrar Epik. The company announced today that Brian Royce will succeed Monster in the CEO role. Monster will be Chairman of the Board. The executive change does n...
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September 2, 2022, 6:45 pm
