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Domain Shane
Friday’s Big List of Domains At Auction or Dropping Around the Net 12/16/11
4.cn is about to put some Big Boy numbers on the weekly sales list. That is , if they were listed on the sales list. 48.com is up and it’s already reached $189,000 and fufu.com is at $25,000. They aren’t at reserve yet b...
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Friday’s Big List of Domains At Auction or Dropping Around the Net 12/16/11
4.cn is about to put some Big Boy numbers on the weekly sales list. That is , if they were listed on the sales list. 48.com is up and it’s already reached $189,000 and fufu.com is at $25,000. They aren’t at reserve yet b...
Discussion
December 16, 2011, 2:49 am
Elliot's Blog
Movie Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator (Republic of Wadiya)
One of my favorite comedy movies of all time is Borat, starring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. I recently learned that Cohen is starring in another movie coming out this summer, and I think the domain name choice is very interesting. The movi...
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Movie Trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator (Republic of Wadiya)
One of my favorite comedy movies of all time is Borat, starring comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. I recently learned that Cohen is starring in another movie coming out this summer, and I think the domain name choice is very interesting. The movi...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 10:16 pm
The Domains
Zynga Goes Public Tomorrow At $10 A Share & A $1 Billion Valuation
The gaming company Zynga is going public tomorrow morning after pricing its initial public offering top of its initially announced range of $8.50 to $10 per share. The $10 price means Zynga will have a valuation of roughly $7 billion. Zynga is the op...
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Zynga Goes Public Tomorrow At $10 A Share & A $1 Billion Valuation
The gaming company Zynga is going public tomorrow morning after pricing its initial public offering top of its initially announced range of $8.50 to $10 per share. The $10 price means Zynga will have a valuation of roughly $7 billion. Zynga is the op...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 8:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Even CSC doesn’t enforce whois accuracy
Two months later Cocomo.com still has bogus whois information. You would think that a brand management intellectual property company would enforce whois accuracy on its customers. But apparently not. Two months ago I wrote about the sale of Cocomo.co...
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Even CSC doesn’t enforce whois accuracy
Two months later Cocomo.com still has bogus whois information. You would think that a brand management intellectual property company would enforce whois accuracy on its customers. But apparently not. Two months ago I wrote about the sale of Cocomo.co...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 3:25 pm
Domain Shane
Today We May Have Gotten a First Glipse of the DomainShane Effect
I say it in jest but I really do think today proved what a little domain blog publicity can do for an auction or company. This morning, as I do every day, posted some names at auction ending today from around the net that I liked. While I...
Discussion
Today We May Have Gotten a First Glipse of the DomainShane Effect
I say it in jest but I really do think today proved what a little domain blog publicity can do for an auction or company. This morning, as I do every day, posted some names at auction ending today from around the net that I liked. While I...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 2:07 pm
The Domains
India Court Upholds Orders Canceling The Registration Of The Domain Internet.In Based Off Of Trademark
The High Court Of Delhi At New Delhi has just upheld an arbitrators determination that the domain name Internet.in should be taken away from the domain holder, its registration cancelled and ordered the domain to be held at the registry level, ...
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India Court Upholds Orders Canceling The Registration Of The Domain Internet.In Based Off Of Trademark
The High Court Of Delhi At New Delhi has just upheld an arbitrators determination that the domain name Internet.in should be taken away from the domain holder, its registration cancelled and ordered the domain to be held at the registry level, ...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 1:58 pm
Domain Shane
Nominet’s Domain Name Industry Report Reveals Some Nice Data
Nominet was nice enough to share some of the data they’ve compiled over the last year. The study was on .uk domains but I am going to assume that the data is very similar for most major tlds. Here are a few things I found interestin...
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Nominet’s Domain Name Industry Report Reveals Some Nice Data
Nominet was nice enough to share some of the data they’ve compiled over the last year. The study was on .uk domains but I am going to assume that the data is very similar for most major tlds. Here are a few things I found interestin...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 11:43 am
The Domains
House Markup Hearing ON SOPA Underway & Won’t End Today
With the following statement, “Its not going to be the shortest markup we ever had, so expect the markup to run throughout the day into the night and maybe into tomorrow”, the “House Judiciary Committee Markup of #SOPA: H.R. 3261, t...
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House Markup Hearing ON SOPA Underway & Won’t End Today
With the following statement, “Its not going to be the shortest markup we ever had, so expect the markup to run throughout the day into the night and maybe into tomorrow”, the “House Judiciary Committee Markup of #SOPA: H.R. 3261, t...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 10:18 am
Domain Name Wire
191 domain .co auction ends today
No reserve auction attracting lots of bidding attention. An auction of nearly 200 keyword .co domain names ends today at Sedo. With just two hours to go over 60% of the domain names in the no reserve auction already have bids. 31 bids have been place...
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191 domain .co auction ends today
No reserve auction attracting lots of bidding attention. An auction of nearly 200 keyword .co domain names ends today at Sedo. With just two hours to go over 60% of the domain names in the no reserve auction already have bids. 31 bids have been place...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 10:11 am
Domain Shane
Learning From Amazon’s Kindle Fire Mistakes To Make You A Better Domainer
by Chris Woodward When Amazon recently released it’s much hyped Kindle Fire, expectations were set very high. This was to be the device that everyone could afford, the device to compete with Apple’s iPad, and the device that really launch...
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Learning From Amazon’s Kindle Fire Mistakes To Make You A Better Domainer
by Chris Woodward When Amazon recently released it’s much hyped Kindle Fire, expectations were set very high. This was to be the device that everyone could afford, the device to compete with Apple’s iPad, and the device that really launch...
Discussion
December 15, 2011, 10:00 am
