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Domain Shane
Domain Shane + Accidental Domainer : Weekly Book of 10 (8711.com, 1642.com, 5961.com )
If you see something on this list that you’d like to make an offer on, use the contact form and I’ll get it to the owner to start the conversation. If you’d like to see your name on next week’s list let us know. AutosForSale.c...
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Domain Shane + Accidental Domainer : Weekly Book of 10 (8711.com, 1642.com, 5961.com )
If you see something on this list that you’d like to make an offer on, use the contact form and I’ll get it to the owner to start the conversation. If you’d like to see your name on next week’s list let us know. AutosForSale.c...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 2:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Wow: .Hotel contention set resolved after CPE
.Hotel applicant wipes out competition by winning community status. In what is sure to be a shocker to many new TLD applicants, HOTEL Top-Level Domain s.a.r.l has prevailed in its Community Priority Evaluation for the .hotel domain name. It was the o...
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Wow: .Hotel contention set resolved after CPE
.Hotel applicant wipes out competition by winning community status. In what is sure to be a shocker to many new TLD applicants, HOTEL Top-Level Domain s.a.r.l has prevailed in its Community Priority Evaluation for the .hotel domain name. It was the o...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 1:58 am
Domain Shane
My First BIN Sale at Afternic
My first buy-it-now transaction at Afternic was smooooooooth. One of my most pain-free sales ever. Sure, sure, sure, it sure took me a long time to get my first BIN sale, but that’s my fault, not Afternic’s……I chalk it up to...
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My First BIN Sale at Afternic
My first buy-it-now transaction at Afternic was smooooooooth. One of my most pain-free sales ever. Sure, sure, sure, it sure took me a long time to get my first BIN sale, but that’s my fault, not Afternic’s……I chalk it up to...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 1:09 am
Domain Name Wire
EDR: Results and analysis from over 150 expired domain name auctions
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy. It’s not ...
Discussion
EDR: Results and analysis from over 150 expired domain name auctions
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy. It’s not ...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 6:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
Discussion
Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 5:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, but it should have been reverse domain name hijacking
Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularl...
Discussion
Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, but it should have been reverse domain name hijacking
Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularl...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 4:48 pm
The Domains
Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
Discussion
Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 3:59 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
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1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:57 pm
The Domains
UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
Discussion
UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy End User domain name sales
A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple wee...
Discussion
GoDaddy End User domain name sales
A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple wee...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:11 pm
