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Domain Name Wire
Dissecting Deloitte’s .deloitte press release
Deloitte’s benefits from .deloitte seem murky at best. Global consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited put out a press release today announcing its application for the .deloitte top level domain. (That the company was applying for .delo...
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Dissecting Deloitte’s .deloitte press release
Deloitte’s benefits from .deloitte seem murky at best. Global consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited put out a press release today announcing its application for the .deloitte top level domain. (That the company was applying for .delo...
Discussion
April 18, 2012, 10:17 am

The Domains
Mike Mann Registered 11,000 New Domain Names Yesterday
I’ve been following Mike Mann’s Facebook page where yesterday he said he wound up registering almost 11,000 domain names. The Facebook post started off by saying that Mike registered 4,793 domain names, at the next update the number...
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Mike Mann Registered 11,000 New Domain Names Yesterday
I’ve been following Mike Mann’s Facebook page where yesterday he said he wound up registering almost 11,000 domain names. The Facebook post started off by saying that Mike registered 4,793 domain names, at the next update the number...
Discussion
April 18, 2012, 10:03 am

Elliot's Blog
Deloitte Announces Application for .deloitte
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), better known to most as Deloitte, has announced that it applied for the .deloitte gTLD. The company provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services for companies of all sizes. Heather Han...
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Deloitte Announces Application for .deloitte
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL), better known to most as Deloitte, has announced that it applied for the .deloitte gTLD. The company provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services for companies of all sizes. Heather Han...
Discussion
April 18, 2012, 9:30 am

The Domains
DomainHoldings.com Brokers The Sale Of Mergers.com Sells For $50K + 140K In Other Domains
Domain Holdings made a few announcements today including that it brokered or co-brokered around $200,000 in domain names. The sales were led by WirelessPhones.com for $70,000 which was co-broked with BuyDomains, which is why you saw it on the A...
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DomainHoldings.com Brokers The Sale Of Mergers.com Sells For $50K + 140K In Other Domains
Domain Holdings made a few announcements today including that it brokered or co-brokered around $200,000 in domain names. The sales were led by WirelessPhones.com for $70,000 which was co-broked with BuyDomains, which is why you saw it on the A...
Discussion
April 18, 2012, 9:16 am

Domain Shane
Wednesday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-18-12
Hand registering 6600 domains in a day? That’s what Mike Mann did recently and does regularly. Anyone else think the economics won’t work out? Funny. Frank Schilling is concentrating on selling domains and Mann is ...
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Wednesday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around Town 4-18-12
Hand registering 6600 domains in a day? That’s what Mike Mann did recently and does regularly. Anyone else think the economics won’t work out? Funny. Frank Schilling is concentrating on selling domains and Mann is ...
Discussion
April 18, 2012, 5:04 am

Domain Name Wire
California Toyota dealer guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Hooman Toyota of Long Beach chastised by National Arbitration Forum. A California Toyota dealer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a National Arbitration Forum panel. Hooman Toyota of Long Beach, also known as HTL Automotive, I...
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California Toyota dealer guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Hooman Toyota of Long Beach chastised by National Arbitration Forum. A California Toyota dealer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a National Arbitration Forum panel. Hooman Toyota of Long Beach, also known as HTL Automotive, I...
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April 17, 2012, 10:01 pm

IDN Blog
Big IDN Sales Headline a Monster April
If you are asking what happened in the IDN world recently in terms of progress, please look at the following sales: -Блог.com (Blog.com in Russian) sold for $3,435.37 dollars. (Link) -山东.com (Shandong.com in Chinese) is currently in auction a...
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Big IDN Sales Headline a Monster April
If you are asking what happened in the IDN world recently in terms of progress, please look at the following sales: -Блог.com (Blog.com in Russian) sold for $3,435.37 dollars. (Link) -山东.com (Shandong.com in Chinese) is currently in auction a...
Discussion
April 17, 2012, 9:46 pm

The Domains
Footloose Drinking Ban Comes To FL; ICANN Fails; GSA Pisses Your Tax $ Away & Hookers In Colombia?
I took a couple of days off to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary so I thought I would catch up on a few stories I wasn’t around to cover. The “big” news is that ICANN once again pushed back the re-opening of the TAS system last ...
Discussion
Footloose Drinking Ban Comes To FL; ICANN Fails; GSA Pisses Your Tax $ Away & Hookers In Colombia?
I took a couple of days off to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary so I thought I would catch up on a few stories I wasn’t around to cover. The “big” news is that ICANN once again pushed back the re-opening of the TAS system last ...
Discussion
April 17, 2012, 9:05 pm

Domain Shane
$1.3 Million in Sales for Sedo This Week With a Film Package Topping the Charts at $65,000
Sedo has been pretty consistent in their weekly totals with this week’s totals being $1.3 million with 39% being Buy It Now deals. Not too much to talk about in the dot coms with Salade.com (salad in French) being the top sale ant $19,708...
Discussion
$1.3 Million in Sales for Sedo This Week With a Film Package Topping the Charts at $65,000
Sedo has been pretty consistent in their weekly totals with this week’s totals being $1.3 million with 39% being Buy It Now deals. Not too much to talk about in the dot coms with Salade.com (salad in French) being the top sale ant $19,708...
Discussion
April 17, 2012, 8:20 pm

The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By WirelessPhones.com At $70K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,034,065 for the week ending April 15th. The publicly reportable sales were led by WirelessPhones.com at $70,000 followed by Cyclist.com at $35,000. Below is the complete ...
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By WirelessPhones.com At $70K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,034,065 for the week ending April 15th. The publicly reportable sales were led by WirelessPhones.com at $70,000 followed by Cyclist.com at $35,000. Below is the complete ...
Discussion
April 17, 2012, 6:03 pm