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Domain Shane
Recent Domain Sales Under $8k That Have Been Developed (pics): FieldGo.com, OrientStar.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from this year that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. For today’s post, we’re looking on...
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Recent Domain Sales Under $8k That Have Been Developed (pics): FieldGo.com, OrientStar.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from this year that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. For today’s post, we’re looking on...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 10:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign signs .com contract extension, amends cooperative agreement
Company enters into three agreements today, including the .com contract extension. Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) today signed amended agreements with ICANN and the Department of Commerce (DOC) related to the U.S. government IANA functions transition. The comp...
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Verisign signs .com contract extension, amends cooperative agreement
Company enters into three agreements today, including the .com contract extension. Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) today signed amended agreements with ICANN and the Department of Commerce (DOC) related to the U.S. government IANA functions transition. The comp...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 8:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in GWG.com case
GWG Holdings guilty of abusing policy to try to get valuable three letter domain name. Insurance company GWG Holdings (NASDAQ: GWGH) has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain namd GWG.com. The co...
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Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in GWG.com case
GWG Holdings guilty of abusing policy to try to get valuable three letter domain name. Insurance company GWG Holdings (NASDAQ: GWGH) has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain namd GWG.com. The co...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 5:25 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 19, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 19, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 19, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 19, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 4:21 pm
The Domains
.Blog Gets Almost 950 Domain Registrations In The Sunrise Period
The Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Blog closed a few days ago on October 17th and it looks like .blog ended with just about 950 domain registrations (although the zone file maybe behind and more domains will be added Several two letter and three le...
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.Blog Gets Almost 950 Domain Registrations In The Sunrise Period
The Sunrise period for the new gTLD .Blog closed a few days ago on October 17th and it looks like .blog ended with just about 950 domain registrations (although the zone file maybe behind and more domains will be added Several two letter and three le...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 2:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
BadHombres.com and NastyWoman.com registered before debate, but Rick Schwartz got…
Key terms from last night’s debate were registered well before the debate, but Rick Schwartz snapped up one phrase. Donald Trump uttered some phrases in yesterday’s debate that are taking on a life of their own today. But the terms in .co...
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BadHombres.com and NastyWoman.com registered before debate, but Rick Schwartz got…
Key terms from last night’s debate were registered well before the debate, but Rick Schwartz snapped up one phrase. Donald Trump uttered some phrases in yesterday’s debate that are taking on a life of their own today. But the terms in .co...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 1:09 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, October 20th
I did something I don’t do a lot last night. I stayed up and watched the Cubs game. I grew up in Illinois, lived a block from Wrigley for a few years, and have always been a Cubs fan. I know the players, watch a lot of games,...
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DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, October 20th
I did something I don’t do a lot last night. I stayed up and watched the Cubs game. I grew up in Illinois, lived a block from Wrigley for a few years, and have always been a Cubs fan. I know the players, watch a lot of games,...
Discussion
October 20, 2016, 10:18 am
The Domains
Will more registrars stop supporting certain new gtlds ?
A little over a week ago Adam Yamada-Hanff broke the story about NameCheap no longer supporting .xyz. According to the article NameCheap made the decision to end their registration support for .xyz. Here is a chat transcript between Adam and NameChea...
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Will more registrars stop supporting certain new gtlds ?
A little over a week ago Adam Yamada-Hanff broke the story about NameCheap no longer supporting .xyz. According to the article NameCheap made the decision to end their registration support for .xyz. Here is a chat transcript between Adam and NameChea...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 11:29 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 18, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 18, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF OCTOBER 18, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on October 18, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 11:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
A BIG week for end user domain name sales
At least three $10 billion+ companies bought domain names last week. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sales list from Sedo this full of big end users. I count at least three companies with market caps of over $10 billion that bough...
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A BIG week for end user domain name sales
At least three $10 billion+ companies bought domain names last week. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sales list from Sedo this full of big end users. I count at least three companies with market caps of over $10 billion that bough...
Discussion
October 19, 2016, 2:43 pm
