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The Domains
USA Today: New Jersey To Start Online Gambling On November 26th
USA Today is reporting that New Jersey will allow Internet gambling starting on Nov. 26. Atlantic City’s 12 casinos may begin a “soft play” period on Nov. 21 for invited guests. If all goes well, the casinos can begin full Internet ...
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USA Today: New Jersey To Start Online Gambling On November 26th
USA Today is reporting that New Jersey will allow Internet gambling starting on Nov. 26. Atlantic City’s 12 casinos may begin a “soft play” period on Nov. 21 for invited guests. If all goes well, the casinos can begin full Internet ...
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October 4, 2013, 10:19 am

Elliot's Blog
At What Price Will DL.com Sell?
I’ve had a few offline discussions with friends about the DL.com auction. In my opinion, DL.com is the best domain name to come up for auction in a while and it will fetch a solid price. There are plenty of great names for sale at any given tim...
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At What Price Will DL.com Sell?
I’ve had a few offline discussions with friends about the DL.com auction. In my opinion, DL.com is the best domain name to come up for auction in a while and it will fetch a solid price. There are plenty of great names for sale at any given tim...
Discussion
October 4, 2013, 10:11 am

Domain Name Wire
31 more end user domain name sales
Several food companies among end user buyers at Afternic last week. Afternic had a strong sales week last week, tallying nearly $1.3 million in sales. Here are 31 of the sales that were to end users. Edlong Flavors, which creates concentrated dairy f...
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31 more end user domain name sales
Several food companies among end user buyers at Afternic last week. Afternic had a strong sales week last week, tallying nearly $1.3 million in sales. Here are 31 of the sales that were to end users. Edlong Flavors, which creates concentrated dairy f...
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October 4, 2013, 10:09 am

Domain Name Wire
Neustar faces its Verisign moment
Contract to run “telephone number registry” is out for bid. You may know Neustar as the registry for the .biz domain name, and the registry selected by many applicants for new top level domain names. But that’s not its bread and but...
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Neustar faces its Verisign moment
Contract to run “telephone number registry” is out for bid. You may know Neustar as the registry for the .biz domain name, and the registry selected by many applicants for new top level domain names. But that’s not its bread and but...
Discussion
October 4, 2013, 9:51 am

DomainSherpa
Domain Name News: October 4 Week in Review
The Week of Domaining In Review: October 4, 2013.The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.Deal Capital Acquires Key Domain..., CBS/CNET Quitely Sells Events.com to..., Bill Doshier is Creating Buzz..., Namejet Selected By Daniel Negari..., Sc...
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Domain Name News: October 4 Week in Review
The Week of Domaining In Review: October 4, 2013.The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.Deal Capital Acquires Key Domain..., CBS/CNET Quitely Sells Events.com to..., Bill Doshier is Creating Buzz..., Namejet Selected By Daniel Negari..., Sc...
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October 4, 2013, 5:00 am

Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on October 4th, 2013
I had an interesting comment regarding the recent sales of info. The commenter said “IMO the .info cash outs are happening in advance of Gtlds..people want to re-invest from .info to Gtlds“. It really surprised me that anyone ...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on October 4th, 2013
I had an interesting comment regarding the recent sales of info. The commenter said “IMO the .info cash outs are happening in advance of Gtlds..people want to re-invest from .info to Gtlds“. It really surprised me that anyone ...
Discussion
October 4, 2013, 3:57 am

Elliot's Blog
“Coach” Brandon Abbey Gives Escrow.com Post Game Press Conference
Escrow.com has made it to the second round of the “Small Business, Big Game” contest being held by Intuit. The overall winner of the contest will win a free commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. This would be huge for...
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“Coach” Brandon Abbey Gives Escrow.com Post Game Press Conference
Escrow.com has made it to the second round of the “Small Business, Big Game” contest being held by Intuit. The overall winner of the contest will win a free commercial that will air during the Super Bowl. This would be huge for...
Discussion
October 3, 2013, 4:01 pm

The Domains
CBS/Cnet Quitely Sells Events.com To Bump Network & Gets Ready To Launch
CBS Interactive quietly sold the Killer domain name Events.com sometime in late April of this year to BUMP Network, Inc. CBS Interactive is a subsidiary of CBS Corporation which owns CBS. CBS Interactive purchased Cnet in June 2008 and acquired this ...
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CBS/Cnet Quitely Sells Events.com To Bump Network & Gets Ready To Launch
CBS Interactive quietly sold the Killer domain name Events.com sometime in late April of this year to BUMP Network, Inc. CBS Interactive is a subsidiary of CBS Corporation which owns CBS. CBS Interactive purchased Cnet in June 2008 and acquired this ...
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October 3, 2013, 3:16 pm

Elliot's Blog
Interesting Way To Tell If a Domain Name is Only Used for SEO
I came across a keyword .com domain name that was being used by a publicly traded company as a mini portal to sell one of its products. The product did what the keyword domain name is, but neither the product nor the website were branded as the domai...
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Interesting Way To Tell If a Domain Name is Only Used for SEO
I came across a keyword .com domain name that was being used by a publicly traded company as a mini portal to sell one of its products. The product did what the keyword domain name is, but neither the product nor the website were branded as the domai...
Discussion
October 3, 2013, 2:22 pm

Domain Name Wire
Bill Doshier is creating Buzz around .Buzz
After signing ICANN contract, .buzz is readying its rollout plans. Yesterday I sat down with Bill Doshier, applicant for the .buzz top level domain, while he was in Austin. Doshier was all smiles as he had just finished signing his registry contract ...
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Bill Doshier is creating Buzz around .Buzz
After signing ICANN contract, .buzz is readying its rollout plans. Yesterday I sat down with Bill Doshier, applicant for the .buzz top level domain, while he was in Austin. Doshier was all smiles as he had just finished signing his registry contract ...
Discussion
October 3, 2013, 2:19 pm