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DomainSherpa
Conquering the $15 Billion North America Battery Market with a Killer Exact-Match Domain, Batteries.com – With David Clements
Should you buy a killer, exact-match domain name and build a business?Or should you stick to the business of investing in domain names?If you want to know what goes into running a business—with employees, inventory, shipping/receiving and custo...
Discussion
Conquering the $15 Billion North America Battery Market with a Killer Exact-Match Domain, Batteries.com – With David Clements
Should you buy a killer, exact-match domain name and build a business?Or should you stick to the business of investing in domain names?If you want to know what goes into running a business—with employees, inventory, shipping/receiving and custo...
Discussion
February 6, 2017, 8:02 am
The Domains
The Top 5 for 2-4-17
The Top 5 is a daily look at the top 5 sales from the previous day. These are sales recorded by Namebio. GoDaddy took 4 out of the top 5 spots on Saturday. CheapSoftware.com closed at $12,250 on GoDaddy auctions to lead all other sales. The domain wa...
Discussion
The Top 5 for 2-4-17
The Top 5 is a daily look at the top 5 sales from the previous day. These are sales recorded by Namebio. GoDaddy took 4 out of the top 5 spots on Saturday. CheapSoftware.com closed at $12,250 on GoDaddy auctions to lead all other sales. The domain wa...
Discussion
February 5, 2017, 9:23 pm
The Domains
Bar.com Group of Domain Names At Auction At Namejet Gets a $2.1 Million Bid
The Bar.com group of premium domain names that are in the extended auction from the RightoftheDot.com/Namescon auction on Namejet.com now has a bid in excess of $2 Million dollars. The group of domain names is highlighted by Bar.com. In addition to B...
Discussion
Bar.com Group of Domain Names At Auction At Namejet Gets a $2.1 Million Bid
The Bar.com group of premium domain names that are in the extended auction from the RightoftheDot.com/Namescon auction on Namejet.com now has a bid in excess of $2 Million dollars. The group of domain names is highlighted by Bar.com. In addition to B...
Discussion
February 4, 2017, 9:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Snapchat’s first investor connected with it through Whois search
Investor used Whois search to connect the dots. Snapchat (or just Snap) has filed to go public and its IPO is sure to make its early investors a nice return. Lightspeed Ventures was the first venture capital firm to invest in the company. And how the...
Discussion
Snapchat’s first investor connected with it through Whois search
Investor used Whois search to connect the dots. Snapchat (or just Snap) has filed to go public and its IPO is sure to make its early investors a nice return. Lightspeed Ventures was the first venture capital firm to invest in the company. And how the...
Discussion
February 3, 2017, 2:17 pm
Sully's Blog
Over 40,000 domain names for lease
36names is a recently launched marketplace focused on leasing-to-own domain names. Entrepreneurs can test their website ideas on a great domain name at an affordable price. If the website succeeds, he or she can purchase the domain name at a pre-dete...
Discussion
Over 40,000 domain names for lease
36names is a recently launched marketplace focused on leasing-to-own domain names. Entrepreneurs can test their website ideas on a great domain name at an affordable price. If the website succeeds, he or she can purchase the domain name at a pre-dete...
Discussion
February 3, 2017, 12:51 pm
The Domains
Did Snap pay $5million for Snap.com ?
Snapchat now know as Snap Inc is going public. George Kirikos tweeted out a few minutes ago the following: Did @Snap pay USD $5 million to @Idealab for the https://t.co/OxMoFdZsEx domain name? See page F-21 of SEC filing https://t.co/MnkRDTl4Tw &mdas...
Discussion
Did Snap pay $5million for Snap.com ?
Snapchat now know as Snap Inc is going public. George Kirikos tweeted out a few minutes ago the following: Did @Snap pay USD $5 million to @Idealab for the https://t.co/OxMoFdZsEx domain name? See page F-21 of SEC filing https://t.co/MnkRDTl4Tw &mdas...
Discussion
February 3, 2017, 12:29 am
Domain Name Wire
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 4)
This is the fourth Joseph Peterson’s series examining new TLDs by country. Read parts one, two and three. This article continues our examination of GEO nTLDs – new domain suffixes, released since 2014, that describe a city, region, nation...
Discussion
Analyzing new top level domain registrations by country (Part 4)
This is the fourth Joseph Peterson’s series examining new TLDs by country. Read parts one, two and three. This article continues our examination of GEO nTLDs – new domain suffixes, released since 2014, that describe a city, region, nation...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 4:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Company lets domain name expire, files UDRP 10 years later
Yo, where have you been? A Brazilian company has lost a UDRP it filed against a domain name it let expire a decade ago. CIA. Industrial H. Carlos Schneider registered the domain name Ciser.com in 2003 but it expired in 2006. 10 years later, in 2016, ...
Discussion
Company lets domain name expire, files UDRP 10 years later
Yo, where have you been? A Brazilian company has lost a UDRP it filed against a domain name it let expire a decade ago. CIA. Industrial H. Carlos Schneider registered the domain name Ciser.com in 2003 but it expired in 2006. 10 years later, in 2016, ...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers: Big changes ahead
The Winners & Losers chart will be undergoing some shakeup. Every month I publish my .Com Winners & Losers report based on the most recent data Verisign has submitted to ICANN. This data is made public three months after the end of the releva...
Discussion
.Com Winners & Losers: Big changes ahead
The Winners & Losers chart will be undergoing some shakeup. Every month I publish my .Com Winners & Losers report based on the most recent data Verisign has submitted to ICANN. This data is made public three months after the end of the releva...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 2:44 pm
The Domains
The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”
The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to g...
Discussion
The Trademark ClearingHouse Worked So Well One Company Got 24 new gTLD using The Famous Trademark “The”
The Trademark ClearingHouse (TMCH) which was set up/ contracted by ICANN to protect those famous worldwide brand names from abuse by those nasty domain name squatters resulted in a whole new industry. Those playing the TMCH for their own benefit to g...
Discussion
February 2, 2017, 3:20 am
