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Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines pays dearly for .Fashion top level domain name
Company essentially swaps five new TLD applications for .fashion. Minds + Machines has paid a significant sum to win a four way auction for the .fashion top level domain name. Although the company did not disclose the actual price, it disclosed this ...
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Minds + Machines pays dearly for .Fashion top level domain name
Company essentially swaps five new TLD applications for .fashion. Minds + Machines has paid a significant sum to win a four way auction for the .fashion top level domain name. Although the company did not disclose the actual price, it disclosed this ...
Discussion
June 17, 2014, 12:29 pm

Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 17th, 2014
I don’t talk about it much but before my running days, I was a soccer player. Every minute of my free time from 5 years old until 20 years old. I slept with the ball, I had it at my feet when I walked around. I was hooked early by t...
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THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 17th, 2014
I don’t talk about it much but before my running days, I was a soccer player. Every minute of my free time from 5 years old until 20 years old. I slept with the ball, I had it at my feet when I walked around. I was hooked early by t...
Discussion
June 17, 2014, 11:01 am

The Domains
CentralNic to Acquire Internet.BS
CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquires Internet.BS for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. The company put out a press release early this morning. They mentioned that Internet.BS is a top 30 domain registrar. Internet.BS is a profitable, cash gen...
Discussion
CentralNic to Acquire Internet.BS
CentralNic plc,(AIM:CNIC) acquires Internet.BS for a maximum consideration of USD 7.5 million. The company put out a press release early this morning. They mentioned that Internet.BS is a top 30 domain registrar. Internet.BS is a profitable, cash gen...
Discussion
June 17, 2014, 9:04 am

The Domains
Free Domains Anyone? .Berlin Adds 70K Domains & Tops 116K; .XYZ Adds 27K & Tops 125K
A huge day in the new gTLD program as .Berlin in its first day of offering free domain names, added some 70,000 domain names, more domains than were registered in the extension in the three months since .Berlin was launched. .Berlin passed .Clu...
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Free Domains Anyone? .Berlin Adds 70K Domains & Tops 116K; .XYZ Adds 27K & Tops 125K
A huge day in the new gTLD program as .Berlin in its first day of offering free domain names, added some 70,000 domain names, more domains than were registered in the extension in the three months since .Berlin was launched. .Berlin passed .Clu...
Discussion
June 17, 2014, 5:51 am

Domain Shane
Flippa – A Look Forward: EIV.com, OZN.com, Iraq.net, Kawaii.com, B.bike all hit reserve
Great to see some high quality domains matched with sellers with reasonable reserves. Reserve Met and Will Sell EIV.com – $7,050 and moving higher with under 10 hours to go. NameBio shows it sold for $7,101 in 2011. OZN.com – $5,250 and m...
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Flippa – A Look Forward: EIV.com, OZN.com, Iraq.net, Kawaii.com, B.bike all hit reserve
Great to see some high quality domains matched with sellers with reasonable reserves. Reserve Met and Will Sell EIV.com – $7,050 and moving higher with under 10 hours to go. NameBio shows it sold for $7,101 in 2011. OZN.com – $5,250 and m...
Discussion
June 17, 2014, 3:50 am

Domain Name Wire
CentralNic buys domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS)
CentralNic gobbles of up large domain name registrar. Publicly traded CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) has purchased Bahamian domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS). The move gives CentralNic, currently positioned as a registry, a strong entry in the retail r...
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CentralNic buys domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS)
CentralNic gobbles of up large domain name registrar. Publicly traded CentralNic (LSE: CNIC) has purchased Bahamian domain name registrar Internet.bs (IBS). The move gives CentralNic, currently positioned as a registry, a strong entry in the retail r...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 11:45 pm

The Domains
Namejet & RightOfTheDot Team Up For .Global Auction Event During ICANN London
Namejet.com just announced it has teamed up with RightoftheDot.com to hold a Online/Live auction during the ICANN London Conference for over 90 premium .Global domain names We will have more on this in the next few days leading up to the auction but ...
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Namejet & RightOfTheDot Team Up For .Global Auction Event During ICANN London
Namejet.com just announced it has teamed up with RightoftheDot.com to hold a Online/Live auction during the ICANN London Conference for over 90 premium .Global domain names We will have more on this in the next few days leading up to the auction but ...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 9:16 pm

Domain Name Wire
Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names
Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and...
Discussion
Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names
Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 9:12 pm

The Domains
14 Year Old eMoney.com Hit With UDRP; URS Filed On Sci.Technology
The owner of the domain name eMoney.com has just gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name according to DomainTools.com has an original registration date of 2000 and the registrant/administrative contact still as it was in 2000, a “E Will”....
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14 Year Old eMoney.com Hit With UDRP; URS Filed On Sci.Technology
The owner of the domain name eMoney.com has just gotten hit with a UDRP. The domain name according to DomainTools.com has an original registration date of 2000 and the registrant/administrative contact still as it was in 2000, a “E Will”....
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 8:55 pm

Domain Shane
How Will the Toby Clements Story End?
It’s one of the more sad stories in Domain Investing since I’ve been around. When I came on the scene the Rick Latona/Toby Clements newsletter was THE place to sell your domain. If you got your name on the newsletter it was an...
Discussion
How Will the Toby Clements Story End?
It’s one of the more sad stories in Domain Investing since I’ve been around. When I came on the scene the Rick Latona/Toby Clements newsletter was THE place to sell your domain. If you got your name on the newsletter it was an...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 7:47 pm