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The Domains
ICYMI: The top posts of October on TheDomains
In October a lot of the focus was on registrars, and on all the definitions when it comes to brandables. The top 5 posts by views for October: Gab.com lands at Uniregistry Would you like to own a domain forever? It would have been better to lose this...
Discussion
ICYMI: The top posts of October on TheDomains
In October a lot of the focus was on registrars, and on all the definitions when it comes to brandables. The top 5 posts by views for October: Gab.com lands at Uniregistry Would you like to own a domain forever? It would have been better to lose this...
Discussion
November 4, 2018, 8:26 pm
The Domains
Where will one of the best names at auction in 2018 close?
One of the best domains at auction this year at GoDaddy is running currently. Lane.com, this is a public auction. I live in Philadelphia and a local retailer for many years was a company called Charming Shoppes out of Bensalem. The company was founde...
Discussion
Where will one of the best names at auction in 2018 close?
One of the best domains at auction this year at GoDaddy is running currently. Lane.com, this is a public auction. I live in Philadelphia and a local retailer for many years was a company called Charming Shoppes out of Bensalem. The company was founde...
Discussion
November 4, 2018, 8:18 am
The Domains
John Berryhill explains why moving to an offshore registrar is not always a good idea
One of the thoughts behind the reason why Gab.com moved to Uniregistry was that they wanted to get out from U.S. jurisdiction, a common thought among many when dealing with a controversial website. John Berryhill explained why that is not really a gr...
Discussion
John Berryhill explains why moving to an offshore registrar is not always a good idea
One of the thoughts behind the reason why Gab.com moved to Uniregistry was that they wanted to get out from U.S. jurisdiction, a common thought among many when dealing with a controversial website. John Berryhill explained why that is not really a gr...
Discussion
November 3, 2018, 10:35 pm
The Domains
Now that’s a quick flip from $310 to $9,680
While looking at the top sales from yesterday on Namebio, I saw that MyEthWallet.com sold for $9,680. The domain was just registered in August of this year after being caught on the drop by DropCatch. The name sold for $310 and it looks like Media Op...
Discussion
Now that’s a quick flip from $310 to $9,680
While looking at the top sales from yesterday on Namebio, I saw that MyEthWallet.com sold for $9,680. The domain was just registered in August of this year after being caught on the drop by DropCatch. The name sold for $310 and it looks like Media Op...
Discussion
November 3, 2018, 2:05 pm
The Domains
VeriSign’s potential long term goal
Mike and I were discussing the VeriSign blog post today and the subsequent outrage in the domain investor community. Mike might be onto something though, these were his takes about the post, the disparaging language of calling some of your biggest cu...
Discussion
VeriSign’s potential long term goal
Mike and I were discussing the VeriSign blog post today and the subsequent outrage in the domain investor community. Mike might be onto something though, these were his takes about the post, the disparaging language of calling some of your biggest cu...
Discussion
November 2, 2018, 8:51 pm
The Domains
Without domain speculators VeriSign’s profit outlook would look a lot different
Reading the blog post by Jeannie McPherson VeriSign’s Director of Product Management, Social Media and Mobile Applications, one has to wonder if she understands the business of domain names. Ms. McPherson doesn’t like that TurnCommer...
Discussion
Without domain speculators VeriSign’s profit outlook would look a lot different
Reading the blog post by Jeannie McPherson VeriSign’s Director of Product Management, Social Media and Mobile Applications, one has to wonder if she understands the business of domain names. Ms. McPherson doesn’t like that TurnCommer...
Discussion
November 2, 2018, 6:29 pm
The Domains
Wall Street is showing Verisign a lot of love today
With the news of Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) getting the ok to raise prices on .com shares are taking off today. The stock is currently up close to 30 points. Here is the statement from the NTIA NTIA and Verisign have agreed to extend and modify the Coop...
Discussion
Wall Street is showing Verisign a lot of love today
With the news of Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) getting the ok to raise prices on .com shares are taking off today. The stock is currently up close to 30 points. Here is the statement from the NTIA NTIA and Verisign have agreed to extend and modify the Coop...
Discussion
November 2, 2018, 2:31 pm
The Domains
Radix’s .ONLINE surpasses 1 million domains
Radix (an advertiser here) had one of their strings reach a milestone today. .Online hit 1 million registrations. Over the last month there have been some notable .online sales: chefs.online 10,000 USD 2018-10-21 GoDaddy dmv.online 5,101 USD 2018-10-...
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Radix’s .ONLINE surpasses 1 million domains
Radix (an advertiser here) had one of their strings reach a milestone today. .Online hit 1 million registrations. Over the last month there have been some notable .online sales: chefs.online 10,000 USD 2018-10-21 GoDaddy dmv.online 5,101 USD 2018-10-...
Discussion
November 2, 2018, 2:19 pm
The Domains
.Club releases sales data for the first 6 months of 2018
.Club released some sales data on their blog today, they sold 2,072 premium names sold via registrars during the first six months of 2018, for a total of $379,972.93. As we roll in toward the end of 2018, we took a look at our premium name sales for ...
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.Club releases sales data for the first 6 months of 2018
.Club released some sales data on their blog today, they sold 2,072 premium names sold via registrars during the first six months of 2018, for a total of $379,972.93. As we roll in toward the end of 2018, we took a look at our premium name sales for ...
Discussion
November 1, 2018, 2:50 pm
The Domains
Gab.com lands at Uniregistry
Gab.com which was informed by GoDaddy they had to hit the road has found a new home at Uniregistry. In a hotly contentious thread on Namepros Rob Monster updated the new whois info. The thread posted as a domain discussion thread turned political wit...
Discussion
Gab.com lands at Uniregistry
Gab.com which was informed by GoDaddy they had to hit the road has found a new home at Uniregistry. In a hotly contentious thread on Namepros Rob Monster updated the new whois info. The thread posted as a domain discussion thread turned political wit...
Discussion
October 31, 2018, 3:23 am
