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Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 7th, 2014
I watched Silicon Valley and thought it was one of the funnier shows in a while. Absolutely captured the ridiculousness of people in the startup world. Everyone saying “we’re the _____ of ______” Pretending that th...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 7th, 2014
I watched Silicon Valley and thought it was one of the funnier shows in a while. Absolutely captured the ridiculousness of people in the startup world. Everyone saying “we’re the _____ of ______” Pretending that th...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 11:29 am

DomainSherpa
How a Fishmonger Lost $300K Learning the Domain Name Ropes – With Andrew Rosener
We all lose money when first starting out in domain name investing, because part of the process of figuring things out inevitably includes buying worthless or undesirable domain names. The same was true for today’s guest.But instead of just bu...
Discussion
How a Fishmonger Lost $300K Learning the Domain Name Ropes – With Andrew Rosener
We all lose money when first starting out in domain name investing, because part of the process of figuring things out inevitably includes buying worthless or undesirable domain names. The same was true for today’s guest.But instead of just bu...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 7:05 am

The Domains
Google to Launch Android TV – We Already Know They Don’t Own The Domain
According to a story on Mashable, Google is going to launch Android TV. Ten days ago Mike wrote a post about a UDRP that Google filed on AndroidTV.com. The panelists decided that this case was outside the scope of the UDRP. You can read the case and ...
Discussion
Google to Launch Android TV – We Already Know They Don’t Own The Domain
According to a story on Mashable, Google is going to launch Android TV. Ten days ago Mike wrote a post about a UDRP that Google filed on AndroidTV.com. The panelists decided that this case was outside the scope of the UDRP. You can read the case and ...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 6:38 am

The Domains
Uniregistry Reserved & Sunrise .Pics Domains You Won’t Be Able To Register
I went through the zone file for .Pics the next new gTLD of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry that will go live on April 15th. The registry gets to reserve 100 domain for its own use in the operation and promotion of the registry so far Uniregistry...
Discussion
Uniregistry Reserved & Sunrise .Pics Domains You Won’t Be Able To Register
I went through the zone file for .Pics the next new gTLD of Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry that will go live on April 15th. The registry gets to reserve 100 domain for its own use in the operation and promotion of the registry so far Uniregistry...
Discussion
April 6, 2014, 6:34 pm

Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Sunday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 6th, 2014
First nice weekend and last long run in training made this old man a tired boy. Woke up at 4 to run, worked all day, and then wrote this list gave me a nice 18 hour day. Normally not a problem but the first one puts me in night night mode...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Sunday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 6th, 2014
First nice weekend and last long run in training made this old man a tired boy. Woke up at 4 to run, worked all day, and then wrote this list gave me a nice 18 hour day. Normally not a problem but the first one puts me in night night mode...
Discussion
April 6, 2014, 11:54 am

The Domains
USPTO Views The Glass Half Empty When it Comes to Google
There is a lot of buzz around Google and their attempt to trademark the word glass. The Huffington Post and The Daily Mail wrote articles on Google having trouble getting their trademark approved which for the most part they were sourcing the Wall S...
Discussion
USPTO Views The Glass Half Empty When it Comes to Google
There is a lot of buzz around Google and their attempt to trademark the word glass. The Huffington Post and The Daily Mail wrote articles on Google having trouble getting their trademark approved which for the most part they were sourcing the Wall S...
Discussion
April 5, 2014, 9:10 pm

Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 5th, 2014
A few weeks into the new gTLDs and I still don’t own any. Been looking a little each day and still haven’t found any I think I can resell in the next 12 months. I am about flipping names and all my buy and hold names are horti...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 5th, 2014
A few weeks into the new gTLDs and I still don’t own any. Been looking a little each day and still haven’t found any I think I can resell in the next 12 months. I am about flipping names and all my buy and hold names are horti...
Discussion
April 5, 2014, 11:18 am

The Domains
Ebay to Create A Place For Virtual Currencies
Ebay has created a new category for Virtual Currency. People will be able to list crpyto currencies for sale along with mining related activities. It looks like the listings for actual currencies must be done as a classified ad. CoinDesk wrote: eBay...
Discussion
Ebay to Create A Place For Virtual Currencies
Ebay has created a new category for Virtual Currency. People will be able to list crpyto currencies for sale along with mining related activities. It looks like the listings for actual currencies must be done as a classified ad. CoinDesk wrote: eBay...
Discussion
April 5, 2014, 9:27 am

The Domains
Who Said There Would be No CyberSquatting In New gTLD? googl.glass, gogle.glass, gooogle.glass Anyone?
Who said there would be no cybersquatting in the new gTLD space? Plenty of Google Glass typos were registered on the 1st day of general availability. Interestingly all of the registrations are public not under privacy leading me to conclude that ther...
Discussion
Who Said There Would be No CyberSquatting In New gTLD? googl.glass, gogle.glass, gooogle.glass Anyone?
Who said there would be no cybersquatting in the new gTLD space? Plenty of Google Glass typos were registered on the 1st day of general availability. Interestingly all of the registrations are public not under privacy leading me to conclude that ther...
Discussion
April 4, 2014, 10:29 pm

The Domains
After 1st Days After Registration The new gTLD Experience.Glass Is Suspended By The Registry
Just noticed that the domain name Experience.Glass which was just registered on April 2nd 2014 has already been suspended by the registry, Donuts for Spam or Abuse. The domain name’s whois record was updated yesterday to the name severs: Name S...
Discussion
After 1st Days After Registration The new gTLD Experience.Glass Is Suspended By The Registry
Just noticed that the domain name Experience.Glass which was just registered on April 2nd 2014 has already been suspended by the registry, Donuts for Spam or Abuse. The domain name’s whois record was updated yesterday to the name severs: Name S...
Discussion
April 4, 2014, 9:45 pm