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Domain Name Wire
Donuts completes acquisition of four financial top level domains
Company completes acquisition of four more top level domains. Top level domain name company Donuts has acquired four financial-themed top level domain names: markets, .trading, .forex, and .broker. A source told Kevin Murphy about the acquisition in ...
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Donuts completes acquisition of four financial top level domains
Company completes acquisition of four more top level domains. Top level domain name company Donuts has acquired four financial-themed top level domain names: markets, .trading, .forex, and .broker. A source told Kevin Murphy about the acquisition in ...
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August 18, 2021, 5:12 pm

Domain Name Wire
NamesCon delays in person event due to coronavirus
Organizers nix January in-person event. It’s been a tough couple of years for live event organizers due to the coronavirus. The last in-person NamesCon event was in January 2020. Some people canceled at the last minute due to the burgeoning vir...
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NamesCon delays in person event due to coronavirus
Organizers nix January in-person event. It’s been a tough couple of years for live event organizers due to the coronavirus. The last in-person NamesCon event was in January 2020. Some people canceled at the last minute due to the burgeoning vir...
Discussion
August 18, 2021, 3:34 pm

Domain Name Wire
Suggest a great domain for this upcoming global brand
How should this publicly traded company brand itself for an international audience? When you see the name “Li Auto”, what do you think of? It suggests to me a car repair shop operating in my neighborhood. Well, Li Auto is actually a risin...
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Suggest a great domain for this upcoming global brand
How should this publicly traded company brand itself for an international audience? When you see the name “Li Auto”, what do you think of? It suggests to me a car repair shop operating in my neighborhood. Well, Li Auto is actually a risin...
Discussion
August 18, 2021, 12:28 pm

DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Review – August 17, 2021: World-Class Domaining: Nuclear.vc, Hunt.io, IronSupply.com
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently and keep score to see which Sherpas do the best at guessing the values: Nuclear.vc, Hunt.io & IronSu...
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DomainSherpa Review – August 17, 2021: World-Class Domaining: Nuclear.vc, Hunt.io, IronSupply.com
What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names?In this show:• We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently and keep score to see which Sherpas do the best at guessing the values: Nuclear.vc, Hunt.io & IronSu...
Discussion
August 17, 2021, 5:52 pm

Domain Name Wire
17 domain names end users bought this week
A crypto company, a security tech provider, and a chatbot business bought domain names. Sedo had some nice end user domain name sales this week, including .jp, .ch, and .no domains that sold for solid prices. Here’s a list of end user domain na...
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17 domain names end users bought this week
A crypto company, a security tech provider, and a chatbot business bought domain names. Sedo had some nice end user domain name sales this week, including .jp, .ch, and .no domains that sold for solid prices. Here’s a list of end user domain na...
Discussion
August 17, 2021, 4:36 pm

The Domains
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Polity.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Polity.com led the way at $36,000. GoldenSection.com was tied for second with FinFast.com at $20,000. 35 .com sales 20 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: ...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Polity.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Polity.com led the way at $36,000. GoldenSection.com was tied for second with FinFast.com at $20,000. 35 .com sales 20 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: ...
Discussion
August 17, 2021, 4:11 pm

Domain Name Wire
Penn State loses UDRP in expired domain confusion
Panelist was confused by creation date in Whois record of direct-transfer expired domain. What happens when your UDRP panelist doesn’t understand the lifecycle of expired domains? Here’s one such case. Pennsylvania State University previo...
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Penn State loses UDRP in expired domain confusion
Panelist was confused by creation date in Whois record of direct-transfer expired domain. What happens when your UDRP panelist doesn’t understand the lifecycle of expired domains? Here’s one such case. Pennsylvania State University previo...
Discussion
August 17, 2021, 3:34 pm

Domain Name Wire
The smartphone champion’s wise domain strategy
Xiaomi started with a smart brand and bought Mi.com to make it better. In June, Jun Lei’s company Xiaomi sold more smartphones globally than Samsung and Apple. Lei is no ordinary entrepreneur. He’s outstanding when it comes to product and...
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The smartphone champion’s wise domain strategy
Xiaomi started with a smart brand and bought Mi.com to make it better. In June, Jun Lei’s company Xiaomi sold more smartphones globally than Samsung and Apple. Lei is no ordinary entrepreneur. He’s outstanding when it comes to product and...
Discussion
August 17, 2021, 12:49 pm

The Domains
The Curious case of Adventist.com
There has been an interesting legal battle brewing with regards to the domain name Adventist.com. Davide F. Schiavetti of Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. broke down parts of the case on Jdsupra.com. Mr. Schiavetti likes to refer to domain i...
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The Curious case of Adventist.com
There has been an interesting legal battle brewing with regards to the domain name Adventist.com. Davide F. Schiavetti of Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. broke down parts of the case on Jdsupra.com. Mr. Schiavetti likes to refer to domain i...
Discussion
August 17, 2021, 12:55 am

Domain Name Wire
Migrating WordPress sites between hosts is easier than it used to be
Moving WordPress sites is easier than it used to be. Here’s how it works at GoDaddy. Webhosting is a sticky service because it’s difficult for non-technical people to move their files from one host to the other. But it’s getting eas...
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Migrating WordPress sites between hosts is easier than it used to be
Moving WordPress sites is easier than it used to be. Here’s how it works at GoDaddy. Webhosting is a sticky service because it’s difficult for non-technical people to move their files from one host to the other. But it’s getting eas...
Discussion
August 16, 2021, 8:20 pm