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The Domains
While Most of the domain industry debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it up selling numeric domains
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN for about h...
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While Most of the domain industry debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it up selling numeric domains
While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN for about h...
Discussion
February 27, 2014, 8:38 am

The Domains
Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations
.Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has mo...
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Say Hello To The Next Hit New gTLD .Tips, Breaks Out With Over 8K Registrations
.Tips went into General Availability today and from the zone file it appear the new gTLD has surpassed 8,000 registrations. Based on its numbers .Tips is already the 4th most popular new gTLD. .Tips to me is in the same category as .Guru which has mo...
Discussion
February 27, 2014, 5:40 am

The Domains
Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A+E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported t...
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Buyer Of FYI.TV Is A+E Network & It’s Rebranding Their Bio Network To FYI.TV
About a month ago we interviewed Kevin Lawrence is a successful entrepreneur, developer, and .TV investor who at the time had just sold the domain name FYI.TV for $30,000 making it the highest reported .TV sale of 2014. Tonight Kevin reported t...
Discussion
February 27, 2014, 3:50 am

The Domains
Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post
Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign published an answer to the study ICANN. On its company blog Verisign, in a post entitled “Uncontrol...
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Verisign Answers ICANN’s Name Collision Study With Its Own Blog Post
Earlier today we told you that ICANN Published A Study On Mitigating Risks Of Name Collisions from new gTLD domain names. Tonight Verisign published an answer to the study ICANN. On its company blog Verisign, in a post entitled “Uncontrol...
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February 27, 2014, 12:56 am

The Domains
Endurance Reports: Revenue Up 17% in 4th Q 78% In 2013
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (EIGI), which owns Dotster.com, Domain.com and most recently acquired Direct, along with many hosting company’s, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ende...
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Endurance Reports: Revenue Up 17% in 4th Q 78% In 2013
Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (EIGI), which owns Dotster.com, Domain.com and most recently acquired Direct, along with many hosting company’s, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ende...
Discussion
February 27, 2014, 12:34 am

Domain Shane
You’re On The Wrong Side of the Profitability Business Model
My Mom never told me to count my eggs or what basket to place them, she told me to I better learn to raise chickens if I wanted to always ensure that I had eggs. The new gTLD owners and the registrars own the chickens. And they’ve let yo...
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You’re On The Wrong Side of the Profitability Business Model
My Mom never told me to count my eggs or what basket to place them, she told me to I better learn to raise chickens if I wanted to always ensure that I had eggs. The new gTLD owners and the registrars own the chickens. And they’ve let yo...
Discussion
February 26, 2014, 10:28 pm

The Domains
ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment Period
An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolv...
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ICANN Publishes Study On Mitigating Risks of DNS Collisions & Opens Comment Period
An independent report commissioned by ICANN, Mitigating the Risk of DNS Namespace Collisions, has offered a set of concrete recommendations on how to mitigate potential risks of domain name collisions A name collision occurs when an attempt to resolv...
Discussion
February 26, 2014, 6:40 pm

The Domains
NameCheap.com Says Its Has 20% Of All .Sexy & .Tattoo Registrations
NameCheap.com has around 20% of all .Sexy and .Tattoo registrations. Based on the last zone file update, .Sexy and .Tattoo has around 2,600 domain name registered. NameCheap.com has registered 423 .sexy and 130 .Tattoo domain names as of the publicat...
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NameCheap.com Says Its Has 20% Of All .Sexy & .Tattoo Registrations
NameCheap.com has around 20% of all .Sexy and .Tattoo registrations. Based on the last zone file update, .Sexy and .Tattoo has around 2,600 domain name registered. NameCheap.com has registered 423 .sexy and 130 .Tattoo domain names as of the publicat...
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February 26, 2014, 6:09 pm

The Domains
Demand Media Fall Under $5 A Share Down 10%
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) released its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2013 as well 2013 numbers and the market apparently didn’t like them. Demand Media, Inc. is hovering around $5 a share down about 10% from the closing price last night hittin...
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Demand Media Fall Under $5 A Share Down 10%
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) released its earnings for the 4th Quarter of 2013 as well 2013 numbers and the market apparently didn’t like them. Demand Media, Inc. is hovering around $5 a share down about 10% from the closing price last night hittin...
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February 26, 2014, 5:25 pm

Domain Name Wire
15 domain names sell in .Club auction
Auction at Sedo closes with 15 domain names meeting their reserve. The .Club Winter Olympics-themed auction on Sedo has closed with 15 domain names selling. Most of the domain names had reserves near the low end of their reserve ranges, putting them ...
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15 domain names sell in .Club auction
Auction at Sedo closes with 15 domain names meeting their reserve. The .Club Winter Olympics-themed auction on Sedo has closed with 15 domain names selling. Most of the domain names had reserves near the low end of their reserve ranges, putting them ...
Discussion
February 26, 2014, 5:13 pm