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The Domains
Sedo.com Sells Cloud.Me For $21K; Domains.in For $15K & More
Sedo has a few impressive non-.com’s sales in the last day or so. Clouds.me sold for 15,000 Euro’s or around $21K Domains.in sold for $15K. translations.co.uk sold for 26,000 GBP which is over $40K. girokonto.eu sold for 9,000 Euro’...
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Sedo.com Sells Cloud.Me For $21K; Domains.in For $15K & More
Sedo has a few impressive non-.com’s sales in the last day or so. Clouds.me sold for 15,000 Euro’s or around $21K Domains.in sold for $15K. translations.co.uk sold for 26,000 GBP which is over $40K. girokonto.eu sold for 9,000 Euro’...
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July 7, 2011, 2:21 pm
The Domains
Judge Refuses To Grant Apple An Injunction Against Amazon’s Use Of “App Store”
A judge has just rejected Apple’s claim for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon from using the term App Store This comes out of the case where Apple suited Amazon for trademark infringement saying that Amazon improperly used Apple&rsqu...
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Judge Refuses To Grant Apple An Injunction Against Amazon’s Use Of “App Store”
A judge has just rejected Apple’s claim for a preliminary injunction to stop Amazon from using the term App Store This comes out of the case where Apple suited Amazon for trademark infringement saying that Amazon improperly used Apple&rsqu...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 2:13 pm
Elliot's Blog
Guest Post from Ashley Forker: Name.com, Now With Mint Flavor
This is a guest post from Ashley Forker, Marketing Coordinator at Name.com. I asked Ashley to give some insight into the re-design of the Name.com website and tell you what’s new and what’s changed. A big thank you to Elliot for the oppor...
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Guest Post from Ashley Forker: Name.com, Now With Mint Flavor
This is a guest post from Ashley Forker, Marketing Coordinator at Name.com. I asked Ashley to give some insight into the re-design of the Name.com website and tell you what’s new and what’s changed. A big thank you to Elliot for the oppor...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 1:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign’s Pat Kane Discusses New TLDs and IDNs
With new TLDs approved, VeriSign gets ready to move forward. Domain name registries are getting down to business now that ICANN has finally approved the new top level domain name program. I recently caught up with Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and ...
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VeriSign’s Pat Kane Discusses New TLDs and IDNs
With new TLDs approved, VeriSign gets ready to move forward. Domain name registries are getting down to business now that ICANN has finally approved the new top level domain name program. I recently caught up with Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and ...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 12:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Registrar Offers Social Login to Registrar Account
Australian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you ca...
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Domain Registrar Offers Social Login to Registrar Account
Australian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you ca...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 11:42 am
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 9:52 am
Domain Name News
Google Removes the .CO.CC Domains its Search Index
As reported by The Register, Google removed over 11 million .co.cc subdomain from its search index, since the company considered too many of the sites “spammy”. Free .co.cc subdomains are offered by a Korean company. The company also offe...
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Google Removes the .CO.CC Domains its Search Index
As reported by The Register, Google removed over 11 million .co.cc subdomain from its search index, since the company considered too many of the sites “spammy”. Free .co.cc subdomains are offered by a Korean company. The company also offe...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 6:39 am
Domain Shane
Thursday’s Daily Domain Auction and Drop Picks
I received a lot of emails yesterday regarding my domains civilunions and puddles being on the Media Options list. I can answer it fairly simply. I am looking to make a profit selling these two. I think civilunions is a VERY importa...
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Thursday’s Daily Domain Auction and Drop Picks
I received a lot of emails yesterday regarding my domains civilunions and puddles being on the Media Options list. I can answer it fairly simply. I am looking to make a profit selling these two. I think civilunions is a VERY importa...
Discussion
July 7, 2011, 3:24 am
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 5:32 pm
Elliot's Blog
How I Speculate on “Future Trends”
Because my business model relies on quick flips, I don’t buy too many names with the hopes of selling them in a few years. Most of my acquisitions are made to capitalize on current services, products, and sometimes trends. However, sometimes I ...
Discussion
How I Speculate on “Future Trends”
Because my business model relies on quick flips, I don’t buy too many names with the hopes of selling them in a few years. Most of my acquisitions are made to capitalize on current services, products, and sometimes trends. However, sometimes I ...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 4:41 pm
