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Domain Name Wire
2013 Top Stories: A new direction for GoDaddy
GoDaddy has a new CEO and is moving in a new direction. Blake Irving took the helm of domain name registrar and webhosting giant GoDaddy this year. It was a big shift for the company, which had been run by insiders until an investment group bought in...
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2013 Top Stories: A new direction for GoDaddy
GoDaddy has a new CEO and is moving in a new direction. Blake Irving took the helm of domain name registrar and webhosting giant GoDaddy this year. It was a big shift for the company, which had been run by insiders until an investment group bought in...
Discussion
December 30, 2013, 4:40 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Sunday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 30th, 2013
It’s been a good year but it’s been a long year. To celebrate I’m taking the rest of the year off. Going to sleep in, watch a bunch of movies, and relax and get ready for next year. I’ll also be hoping for no snow ...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Sunday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 30th, 2013
It’s been a good year but it’s been a long year. To celebrate I’m taking the rest of the year off. Going to sleep in, watch a bunch of movies, and relax and get ready for next year. I’ll also be hoping for no snow ...
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December 30, 2013, 11:01 am
Domain Shane
NoMoreRacks.com Reaches Final Price of $20,250 but Looks to be Renewed
As many of you domain auction lovers already knew, NoMoreRacks.com a domain owned by No More Rack, went to auction at Godaddy after they failed to renew the domain before Godaddy had their Storage Wars auction. The final price today settled at...
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NoMoreRacks.com Reaches Final Price of $20,250 but Looks to be Renewed
As many of you domain auction lovers already knew, NoMoreRacks.com a domain owned by No More Rack, went to auction at Godaddy after they failed to renew the domain before Godaddy had their Storage Wars auction. The final price today settled at...
Discussion
December 29, 2013, 7:51 pm
The Domains
Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program
ICANN released its 1st quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com, pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds).” “As of Se...
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Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program
ICANN released its 1st quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com, pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds).” “As of Se...
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December 29, 2013, 1:57 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Sunday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 29th, 2013
This is where the world has come to. As I’m writing this list I’m watching two girls try and beat each other up in a UFC MMA fight in Vegas. Winner gets $40K. The first thing I do when I see a girl doing anything is ask ...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Sunday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 29th, 2013
This is where the world has come to. As I’m writing this list I’m watching two girls try and beat each other up in a UFC MMA fight in Vegas. Winner gets $40K. The first thing I do when I see a girl doing anything is ask ...
Discussion
December 29, 2013, 10:45 am
The Domains
Buy Of The Year? 3-D.com Sells For $5K On Sedo; 3d.com sold For $500K
Just crossing the Sedo.com wire might just be one of the best buys of 2013, 3-D.com for $5,000 There are 293,000,000 search results in Google for the term 3-d with the hyphen. While we typically don’t love hyphenated domain names, in this case ...
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Buy Of The Year? 3-D.com Sells For $5K On Sedo; 3d.com sold For $500K
Just crossing the Sedo.com wire might just be one of the best buys of 2013, 3-D.com for $5,000 There are 293,000,000 search results in Google for the term 3-d with the hyphen. While we typically don’t love hyphenated domain names, in this case ...
Discussion
December 28, 2013, 2:52 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 28th, 2013
Not sure if anyone noticed but Xili.com sold for $32,000 yesterday at Namjet. Just one more reason you want to own Chinese names. They bid high and they bid often. There are a few Chinese names in the list today but doubt any will h...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 28th, 2013
Not sure if anyone noticed but Xili.com sold for $32,000 yesterday at Namjet. Just one more reason you want to own Chinese names. They bid high and they bid often. There are a few Chinese names in the list today but doubt any will h...
Discussion
December 28, 2013, 10:44 am
The Domains
Matt Cutts Spends Christmas Talking Domains and Wikipedia Content
Search Engine Roundtable covered a couple topics from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt apparently took the time during the Christmas holiday to go over a couple of questions that concerned webmasters on the Google Webmaster Help forums. The first question...
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Matt Cutts Spends Christmas Talking Domains and Wikipedia Content
Search Engine Roundtable covered a couple topics from Matt Cutts of Google. Matt apparently took the time during the Christmas holiday to go over a couple of questions that concerned webmasters on the Google Webmaster Help forums. The first question...
Discussion
December 27, 2013, 6:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
2013 Top Stories: First new top level domain name contracts signed
A big milestone in the new top level domain name program. It’s been a long at winding road to the introduction of new top level domain names on the internet. It’s taken many more years than some applicants expected. For some companies, th...
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2013 Top Stories: First new top level domain name contracts signed
A big milestone in the new top level domain name program. It’s been a long at winding road to the introduction of new top level domain names on the internet. It’s taken many more years than some applicants expected. For some companies, th...
Discussion
December 27, 2013, 3:56 pm
The Domains
Verisign Is Taking Back Expired Two Letter & Two Number .TV Domains
Verisign the registry for the .TV registry is appearently taking back any expired new Two letter (LL.TV) .TV domain names as well as any two numbered (NNTV) domain names. Recently a domainer that had a back order on a two letter .Tv domain and a two ...
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Verisign Is Taking Back Expired Two Letter & Two Number .TV Domains
Verisign the registry for the .TV registry is appearently taking back any expired new Two letter (LL.TV) .TV domain names as well as any two numbered (NNTV) domain names. Recently a domainer that had a back order on a two letter .Tv domain and a two ...
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December 27, 2013, 2:54 pm
