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Domain Shane
Where New Internet Users Will Come From, and How They’re Accessing the Web
I enjoy flipping through Kleiner Perkins’ annual internet trends report, and they released their 2014 version last week. This year’s report covers topics like internet growth, online video, opportunities in healthcare and education, data...
Discussion
Where New Internet Users Will Come From, and How They’re Accessing the Web
I enjoy flipping through Kleiner Perkins’ annual internet trends report, and they released their 2014 version last week. This year’s report covers topics like internet growth, online video, opportunities in healthcare and education, data...
Discussion
June 5, 2014, 4:59 am

Domain Name Wire
Try Uniregistry’s slick bulk domain name search
A simple, yet powerful, bulk searching tool. “Bulk search” for domain names is very useful when you’re scavenging for domain names to hand register. I recently used Uniregistry’s search to look up both individual keywords acro...
Discussion
Try Uniregistry’s slick bulk domain name search
A simple, yet powerful, bulk searching tool. “Bulk search” for domain names is very useful when you’re scavenging for domain names to hand register. I recently used Uniregistry’s search to look up both individual keywords acro...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 7:27 pm

Domain Name Wire
Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for company called HealthKit
Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offeri...
Discussion
Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for company called HealthKit
Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offeri...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 4:04 pm

Domain Name Wire
New Top Level Domain registration numbers are increasingly misleading
Reporting aggregate numbers for new TLD registrations is misleading. Some day this month one or more companies will proclaim that new top level domain name registrations have topped one million domain names. It will be very misleading when they annou...
Discussion
New Top Level Domain registration numbers are increasingly misleading
Reporting aggregate numbers for new TLD registrations is misleading. Some day this month one or more companies will proclaim that new top level domain name registrations have topped one million domain names. It will be very misleading when they annou...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 3:45 pm

The Domains
.XYZ Moves Into 4th Most Registered New gTLD Topping 38K But 72% Are From NetSol
Ntldstats.com, has updated this morning and .XYZ is now the 4th most popular gTLD with over 38,000 registrations. However over 72% of these, or over 27,500 domains are at Network Solutions (NSI), which as we discussed yesterday and today, offered fre...
Discussion
.XYZ Moves Into 4th Most Registered New gTLD Topping 38K But 72% Are From NetSol
Ntldstats.com, has updated this morning and .XYZ is now the 4th most popular gTLD with over 38,000 registrations. However over 72% of these, or over 27,500 domains are at Network Solutions (NSI), which as we discussed yesterday and today, offered fre...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 3:32 pm

Domain Name Wire
What domain names Fujitsu and 18 others bought last week
19 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy/Afternic. Fujitsu finally got around to buying a domain to match a brand it launched last year. Here are details on that sale and 18 other end user sales that took place at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. (See p...
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What domain names Fujitsu and 18 others bought last week
19 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy/Afternic. Fujitsu finally got around to buying a domain to match a brand it launched last year. Here are details on that sale and 18 other end user sales that took place at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. (See p...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 1:48 pm

Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 3rd, 2014
You know when you go to a party with a group of friends and one of those friends gets in a fight? The guy that’s in your group that’s a friend of a friend That’s what I’ve felt like with the latest .XYZ thing. &nbs...
Discussion
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 3rd, 2014
You know when you go to a party with a group of friends and one of those friends gets in a fight? The guy that’s in your group that’s a friend of a friend That’s what I’ve felt like with the latest .XYZ thing. &nbs...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 11:39 am

Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Thursday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 3rd, 2014
You know when you go to a party with a group of friends and one of those friends gets in a fight? The guy that’s in your group that’s a friend of a friend That’s what I’ve felt like with the latest .XYZ thing. &nbs...
Discussion
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Thursday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 3rd, 2014
You know when you go to a party with a group of friends and one of those friends gets in a fight? The guy that’s in your group that’s a friend of a friend That’s what I’ve felt like with the latest .XYZ thing. &nbs...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 10:39 am

The Domains
Network Solutions Has No Idea What I am talking about
So there was a lot of talk about Network Solutions and .XYZ yesterday. We had a comment in one thread which led to Michael doing a follow up post and mentioning that specific comment. The comment was : “I recently got the email from Netsol offe...
Discussion
Network Solutions Has No Idea What I am talking about
So there was a lot of talk about Network Solutions and .XYZ yesterday. We had a comment in one thread which led to Michael doing a follow up post and mentioning that specific comment. The comment was : “I recently got the email from Netsol offe...
Discussion
June 4, 2014, 6:19 am

Domain Shane
Namejet May Sales Results: And YES the Deals.XYZ Went Through
Namejet’s May sales results are in and the month was led by the LLL.coms and the NNNN.coms. I can officially verify that the Deals.XYZ result went through and was paid for 5/3/2014 8:14:01 PM, to be exact. I think I get most ...
Discussion
Namejet May Sales Results: And YES the Deals.XYZ Went Through
Namejet’s May sales results are in and the month was led by the LLL.coms and the NNNN.coms. I can officially verify that the Deals.XYZ result went through and was paid for 5/3/2014 8:14:01 PM, to be exact. I think I get most ...
Discussion
June 3, 2014, 11:53 pm