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The Domains
Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for the week
GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/21/14 – 4/27/14. The top sale for the week was Modernize.com at $25,000. Prostate.info was the top non .com sale at $15,000 Total Sales $1,778,547 for the week. Buffa...
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for the week
GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 4/21/14 – 4/27/14. The top sale for the week was Modernize.com at $25,000. Prostate.info was the top non .com sale at $15,000 Total Sales $1,778,547 for the week. Buffa...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 10:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy eliminates email support in favor of phone, chat
Company says customer satisfaction is higher with phone and chat support. GoDaddy has stopped offering support by email for U.S. customers, instead pushing them to phone and chat support options. Nick Fuller, Communications Manager at GoDaddy.com, to...
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GoDaddy eliminates email support in favor of phone, chat
Company says customer satisfaction is higher with phone and chat support. GoDaddy has stopped offering support by email for U.S. customers, instead pushing them to phone and chat support options. Nick Fuller, Communications Manager at GoDaddy.com, to...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 8:32 pm
The Domains
Twitter Reports Earnings – Stock Down 9 % in after hours trading
Twitter just released their earnings for Q1 2014, Twitter just released its earnings report for the first quarter of 2014, saying it has grown its monthly active user base to 255 million. Will that be enough to avert more awkward questions abo...
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Twitter Reports Earnings – Stock Down 9 % in after hours trading
Twitter just released their earnings for Q1 2014, Twitter just released its earnings report for the first quarter of 2014, saying it has grown its monthly active user base to 255 million. Will that be enough to avert more awkward questions abo...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 8:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
DomainAgents’ new system might accelerate your domain name sales
DomainAgents adds system for domain name sellers. Domain sales platform DomainAgents has made a major upgrade with the hopes of helping domain name investors sell more inventory. DomainAgents launched as a “certified offer” service in 201...
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DomainAgents’ new system might accelerate your domain name sales
DomainAgents adds system for domain name sellers. Domain sales platform DomainAgents has made a major upgrade with the hopes of helping domain name investors sell more inventory. DomainAgents launched as a “certified offer” service in 201...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 6:45 pm
The Domains
Uniregstry’s Affiliate Program To Date: 5,367 Clicks No Transactions, No Revenue
We turned on the Uniregisty’s Affiliate program about 10 days ago, that places a banner on the bottom of parked pages marketing new gTLD’s registrations. So fat the results have been less than impressive As you can see below we have had a...
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Uniregstry’s Affiliate Program To Date: 5,367 Clicks No Transactions, No Revenue
We turned on the Uniregisty’s Affiliate program about 10 days ago, that places a banner on the bottom of parked pages marketing new gTLD’s registrations. So fat the results have been less than impressive As you can see below we have had a...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 6:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
3 new domain registries ask ICANN for two character domain names
.Wiki, .globo, and .ceo registries want to offer two character domain names. Three new top level domain name registries have asked ICANN to allow them to register two character domain names under their TLDs. New TLD registries aren’t allowed to...
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3 new domain registries ask ICANN for two character domain names
.Wiki, .globo, and .ceo registries want to offer two character domain names. Three new top level domain name registries have asked ICANN to allow them to register two character domain names under their TLDs. New TLD registries aren’t allowed to...
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April 29, 2014, 3:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Villa.com changes registrars as part of Villa landgrab
Who’s behind this Villa landgrab? Last year I wrote about how someone was buying up lots of country code domain names with villa and villas at the second level. Since then I’ve continued to watch dozens of similar domain names get purchas...
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Villa.com changes registrars as part of Villa landgrab
Who’s behind this Villa landgrab? Last year I wrote about how someone was buying up lots of country code domain names with villa and villas at the second level. Since then I’ve continued to watch dozens of similar domain names get purchas...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 2:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
FICEP SPA guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in dirty UDRP case
This case is particularly dirty. Italian machine tool manufacturing company FICEP SPA has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for FICEP.com. Czech Arbitration Court panelist Jane Seager got the call right as this is a very cl...
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FICEP SPA guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in dirty UDRP case
This case is particularly dirty. Italian machine tool manufacturing company FICEP SPA has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for FICEP.com. Czech Arbitration Court panelist Jane Seager got the call right as this is a very cl...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 2:18 pm
The Domains
NetNames Acquires WebIP
NetNames, an online brand protection and corporate domain name management, has acquired WebIP, a leader in corporate domain name management in the Australian market. This acquisition provides access for Australian corporations to NetNames’ onli...
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NetNames Acquires WebIP
NetNames, an online brand protection and corporate domain name management, has acquired WebIP, a leader in corporate domain name management in the Australian market. This acquisition provides access for Australian corporations to NetNames’ onli...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 1:25 pm
The Domains
I Gave Up Bahamas.Tv With a $500 Annual Bill & Got The .Com For $98
So as the new gTLD are rolling out and we see the pricing that many are carrying some of them with an annual renewal fees that reminds us of the .TV days I wanted to share a couple of personal decisions we made regarding our own portfolio. As m...
Discussion
I Gave Up Bahamas.Tv With a $500 Annual Bill & Got The .Com For $98
So as the new gTLD are rolling out and we see the pricing that many are carrying some of them with an annual renewal fees that reminds us of the .TV days I wanted to share a couple of personal decisions we made regarding our own portfolio. As m...
Discussion
April 29, 2014, 12:38 pm
