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United Domains gets Punk’d
Members of ICANN community and competing domain registrars find themselves as new United Domains account holders. Someone is having a laugh at United Domains’ expense. Over the past few days an unknown perpetrator has set up roughly 500 empty a...
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United Domains gets Punk’d
Members of ICANN community and competing domain registrars find themselves as new United Domains account holders. Someone is having a laugh at United Domains’ expense. Over the past few days an unknown perpetrator has set up roughly 500 empty a...
Discussion
January 5, 2012, 10:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Social network buys Dudu.com domain name for $1 million
Dudu.com sells for an incredible $1 million. Wow. Social network DUDU has paid a whopping $1 million for the domain name Dudu.com, upgrading its domain name from GoDudu.com. The site “uses unique translation technology to allow its users from a...
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Social network buys Dudu.com domain name for $1 million
Dudu.com sells for an incredible $1 million. Wow. Social network DUDU has paid a whopping $1 million for the domain name Dudu.com, upgrading its domain name from GoDudu.com. The site “uses unique translation technology to allow its users from a...
Discussion
January 5, 2012, 10:08 am
Domain Name Wire
Google Chrome may have been demoted, but still has the first ad
Chrome still a top ad and Google.com itself hasn’t been demoted. So Google demoted Google.com/chrome in its web rankings after the pay-to-post fiasco. Or did it? If you search for “browser” in Google right now you probably won&rsquo...
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Google Chrome may have been demoted, but still has the first ad
Chrome still a top ad and Google.com itself hasn’t been demoted. So Google demoted Google.com/chrome in its web rankings after the pay-to-post fiasco. Or did it? If you search for “browser” in Google right now you probably won&rsquo...
Discussion
January 5, 2012, 9:59 am
Domain Name Wire
Braden Pollock joins ScienceFiction.com as traffic explodes
ScienceFiction.com tops 1 million monthly pageviews and reshuffles its ownership. Domain name investor Braden Pollock is now part owner of ScienceFiction.com, LLC, joining Patrick Ruddell in the online site that wants to be the “TechCrunch of s...
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Braden Pollock joins ScienceFiction.com as traffic explodes
ScienceFiction.com tops 1 million monthly pageviews and reshuffles its ownership. Domain name investor Braden Pollock is now part owner of ScienceFiction.com, LLC, joining Patrick Ruddell in the online site that wants to be the “TechCrunch of s...
Discussion
January 4, 2012, 6:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Simon & Schuster buys rights to Marc Ostrofsky’s Get Rich Click book
Famous domain investor sells his book to major publishing house. Simon & Schuster has purchased the rights to Marc Ostrofsky’s Get Rich Click book, sending him on new PR rounds. This means more evangelizing about the domain name industry. Y...
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Simon & Schuster buys rights to Marc Ostrofsky’s Get Rich Click book
Famous domain investor sells his book to major publishing house. Simon & Schuster has purchased the rights to Marc Ostrofsky’s Get Rich Click book, sending him on new PR rounds. This means more evangelizing about the domain name industry. Y...
Discussion
January 4, 2012, 3:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo perfectly executes trade show marketing
Major props to Sedo for a cool promotion at AdTech. I’ve written several “Domain Dunce” posts over the past week. Perhaps a “domain accolades” in in order. In November Sedo attended AdTech in New York City and executed w...
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Sedo perfectly executes trade show marketing
Major props to Sedo for a cool promotion at AdTech. I’ve written several “Domain Dunce” posts over the past week. Perhaps a “domain accolades” in in order. In November Sedo attended AdTech in New York City and executed w...
Discussion
January 4, 2012, 2:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
CAX “blogger” domain sales newsletter deadline is tomorrow
Lots of extra publicity for your domain name in next week’s newsletter. Francois Carrillo, the guy behind Domaining.com, has a cool promotion going on for his next domain sales newsletter — and it’s a win-win for you. The idea is th...
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CAX “blogger” domain sales newsletter deadline is tomorrow
Lots of extra publicity for your domain name in next week’s newsletter. Francois Carrillo, the guy behind Domaining.com, has a cool promotion going on for his next domain sales newsletter — and it’s a win-win for you. The idea is th...
Discussion
January 4, 2012, 12:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
DomainTools gets two trademarks
Domain and web hosting data company gets trademarks for “DomainTools”. Remember when DomainTools was called (the much less desirable) whois.sc? It was shorter, but running a domain name business on a Seychelles ccTLD is no bueno. It chang...
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DomainTools gets two trademarks
Domain and web hosting data company gets trademarks for “DomainTools”. Remember when DomainTools was called (the much less desirable) whois.sc? It was shorter, but running a domain name business on a Seychelles ccTLD is no bueno. It chang...
Discussion
January 4, 2012, 12:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Zooz uses 1% of its funding to buy Zooz.com
A start spends 1% of its recent funding round on a domain name and other interesting domain name purchases. It’s time for the weekly roundup of end user domain name purchases. Let’s start with in-app mobile payments startup Zooz. The comp...
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Zooz uses 1% of its funding to buy Zooz.com
A start spends 1% of its recent funding round on a domain name and other interesting domain name purchases. It’s time for the weekly roundup of end user domain name purchases. Let’s start with in-app mobile payments startup Zooz. The comp...
Discussion
January 4, 2012, 11:56 am
Domain Name Wire
2011 Domain Dunce: Vatican’s domain name misunderstanding
The Vatican says someone else bought Vatican.xxx when it was actually reserved by the registry. Catholics + Porn = headlines. Even if the information is wrong. That’s the lesson from recent misinformation from the Vatican about Vatican.xxx and ...
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2011 Domain Dunce: Vatican’s domain name misunderstanding
The Vatican says someone else bought Vatican.xxx when it was actually reserved by the registry. Catholics + Porn = headlines. Even if the information is wrong. That’s the lesson from recent misinformation from the Vatican about Vatican.xxx and ...
Discussion
January 4, 2012, 10:37 am
