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The Domains
Alexa top 500 website auction gets suspended on Flippa
Supposedly an Alexa top 500 (Top 100 in the U.S.) website was being auctioned on Flippa, this auction has been suspended the seller looks to now be banned. The URL was hidden and you needed to sign an NDA to gain access. The bidding originally had a ...
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Alexa top 500 website auction gets suspended on Flippa
Supposedly an Alexa top 500 (Top 100 in the U.S.) website was being auctioned on Flippa, this auction has been suspended the seller looks to now be banned. The URL was hidden and you needed to sign an NDA to gain access. The bidding originally had a ...
Discussion
August 5, 2017, 7:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Capital One just bought domains for a Washington DC stadium, too
Do the company’s naming rights plans expand beyond the Verizon Center? Earlier this week I broke the news that Capital One registered domain names suggesting it is buying the naming rights to what is now the Verizon Center in Washington DC. Now...
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Capital One just bought domains for a Washington DC stadium, too
Do the company’s naming rights plans expand beyond the Verizon Center? Earlier this week I broke the news that Capital One registered domain names suggesting it is buying the naming rights to what is now the Verizon Center in Washington DC. Now...
Discussion
August 5, 2017, 3:47 pm
The Domains
Where are you investing your domain dollars?
A lot of different niches en vogue and some slipping out The post Where are you investing your domain dollars? appeared first on TheDomains.com.
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Where are you investing your domain dollars?
A lot of different niches en vogue and some slipping out The post Where are you investing your domain dollars? appeared first on TheDomains.com.
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August 5, 2017, 3:59 am
Domain Name Wire
Quick and Easy Ways to Boost User Engagement on Your WordPress Website
Here are ways to improve user engagement on your website. Have you developed one of your domain names into a website built on WordPress? Now it’s time to build up traffic to the site and get people to stay and return. So now what? This post dis...
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Quick and Easy Ways to Boost User Engagement on Your WordPress Website
Here are ways to improve user engagement on your website. Have you developed one of your domain names into a website built on WordPress? Now it’s time to build up traffic to the site and get people to stay and return. So now what? This post dis...
Discussion
August 4, 2017, 3:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers
No change at the top other than fewer registrations. ICANN published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for April 2017. There was no change in the order of the top five registrars ranked by to...
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.Com Winners & Losers
No change at the top other than fewer registrations. ICANN published the latest official .com transactions report from Verisign, which includes data by registrar for April 2017. There was no change in the order of the top five registrars ranked by to...
Discussion
August 3, 2017, 5:58 pm
The Domains
Prices of .TV; .XXX, .Porn, .Sex, .Adult Domain Names all set to Rise on September 1st
The wholesale price set by the registry of .TV, .XXX, .Porn and .Adult are all increasing on September 1, 2017 and registrars are of course raising their prices on these extensions for registrations and renewals Of course the price of the domain name...
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Prices of .TV; .XXX, .Porn, .Sex, .Adult Domain Names all set to Rise on September 1st
The wholesale price set by the registry of .TV, .XXX, .Porn and .Adult are all increasing on September 1, 2017 and registrars are of course raising their prices on these extensions for registrations and renewals Of course the price of the domain name...
Discussion
August 3, 2017, 4:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 more end user domain name sales
A wireless company, lingerie seller and printing company bought domain names last month. This week’s Sedo sales list was headlined by opensourcecms.com. It was an operating site and the buyer is some sort of dev shop, so you might be able to ch...
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14 more end user domain name sales
A wireless company, lingerie seller and printing company bought domain names last month. This week’s Sedo sales list was headlined by opensourcecms.com. It was an operating site and the buyer is some sort of dev shop, so you might be able to ch...
Discussion
August 3, 2017, 1:43 pm
The Domains
Ethereum.com for sale reserve is just $10 million
It looks like Evergreen is brokering Ethereum.com the domain was registered in 2011. Asking price a cool $10 million. Tip of the cap to Joshua Schoen The post Ethereum.com for sale reserve is just $10 million appeared first on TheDomains.com.
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Ethereum.com for sale reserve is just $10 million
It looks like Evergreen is brokering Ethereum.com the domain was registered in 2011. Asking price a cool $10 million. Tip of the cap to Joshua Schoen The post Ethereum.com for sale reserve is just $10 million appeared first on TheDomains.com.
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August 3, 2017, 8:13 am
Domain Name Wire
Airbnb registered these outrageous domains after hotel industry launched outrageous ad campaign
AirBedandBombs, anyone? A hotel and union-backed group fighting short term vacation rentals launched an outrageous ad campaign this week linking Airbnb rentals to terrorism. Now Airbnb has made a bunch of defensive domain name registrations in respon...
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Airbnb registered these outrageous domains after hotel industry launched outrageous ad campaign
AirBedandBombs, anyone? A hotel and union-backed group fighting short term vacation rentals launched an outrageous ad campaign this week linking Airbnb rentals to terrorism. Now Airbnb has made a bunch of defensive domain name registrations in respon...
Discussion
August 2, 2017, 8:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Texas man sues Fortune 500 liquor company to overturn cybersquatting decision
Liquor company says that Rufino.com is a typo of its Ruffino brand. A Texas man who owns 60,000 domain names has sued Fortune 500 liquor company Constellation Brands, Inc in an effort to overturn an adverse Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Poli...
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Texas man sues Fortune 500 liquor company to overturn cybersquatting decision
Liquor company says that Rufino.com is a typo of its Ruffino brand. A Texas man who owns 60,000 domain names has sued Fortune 500 liquor company Constellation Brands, Inc in an effort to overturn an adverse Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Poli...
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August 2, 2017, 8:06 pm
