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Domain Shane
Update on Top 10 Sales from a Year Ago: CIN.com, GPV.com, MobileLoans.com, More
Listed below are updates on the top 10 domain sales from a year ago, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. Zhuanxue.com for $190,098 No site resolves. “Transfer” in Chinese pinyin. Picked up by the 360 Education Group of China. They bought 0060.co...
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Update on Top 10 Sales from a Year Ago: CIN.com, GPV.com, MobileLoans.com, More
Listed below are updates on the top 10 domain sales from a year ago, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. Zhuanxue.com for $190,098 No site resolves. “Transfer” in Chinese pinyin. Picked up by the 360 Education Group of China. They bought 0060.co...
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June 20, 2015, 7:22 pm

The Domains
Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn
Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. There have been a few high profile cases with Hunter Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com ...
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Google To Start Removing Links Related To Revenge Porn
Google is finally going to start removing content associating with revenge porn, back in March Twitter updated its TOS banning such content from their service. There have been a few high profile cases with Hunter Moore and his website IsAnyoneUp.com ...
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June 20, 2015, 6:54 pm

Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Saturday, June 20th, 2015
Saturday tends to be a strong day at Namejet. While there are some good even great names at auction today, there isn’t the depth that the past couple Saturdays have had. Still good enough of a list to be able to make some money off ...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Saturday, June 20th, 2015
Saturday tends to be a strong day at Namejet. While there are some good even great names at auction today, there isn’t the depth that the past couple Saturdays have had. Still good enough of a list to be able to make some money off ...
Discussion
June 20, 2015, 11:32 am

Domain Shane
DSAD DAILY AUCTION RECAP
Welcome to the Auction Recap. GoDaddy NightBlue.com This one is under $30 at press time and worth over $500 IMO NIGHTBLUE.COM: $510. Easy to spell but not easy to remember because your mind wants the words switched. HSCD.com The American version of t...
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DSAD DAILY AUCTION RECAP
Welcome to the Auction Recap. GoDaddy NightBlue.com This one is under $30 at press time and worth over $500 IMO NIGHTBLUE.COM: $510. Easy to spell but not easy to remember because your mind wants the words switched. HSCD.com The American version of t...
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June 20, 2015, 6:45 am

Domain Shane
Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): OneCoin.com, Bary.com, MakeItPop.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. MakeItPop.com sold for $25,000 at M...
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Recent Domain Sales That Have Been Developed (pics): OneCoin.com, Bary.com, MakeItPop.com, More
The screenshots below are examples of buyers of domains from the last few months that have either developed their sites, or purchased an upgrade domain and have redirected their acquisition to an existing website. MakeItPop.com sold for $25,000 at M...
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June 20, 2015, 1:13 am

The Domains
Stages.com Sold In January for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week
Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for ...
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Stages.com Sold In January for $14k+ Hit With UDRP By Co. That Filed a Trademark Last Week
Well now this UDRP/trademark thing is officially just getting silly. The domain name Stages.com, a generic domain name by any measure, has been hit with a UDRP after the domain was purchased in January for Over $14k, by a company that just filed for ...
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June 19, 2015, 10:24 pm

Domain Name Wire
Cheap domain names are spammers’ favorites
New report shows that spammers love some of the cheap new domain name options. Spammers churn through a lot of domain names. As soon as deliverability sinks with one, they move on to the next. That might explain this chart in Architelos’ June N...
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Cheap domain names are spammers’ favorites
New report shows that spammers love some of the cheap new domain name options. Spammers churn through a lot of domain names. As soon as deliverability sinks with one, they move on to the next. That might explain this chart in Architelos’ June N...
Discussion
June 19, 2015, 7:41 pm

The Domains
Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br
Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abus...
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Architelos Releases its NameSentry Abuse Report on Phishing For May 2015: Worst Offender .Br
Architelos released its NameSentry Abuse Report with a “Focus on Phishing” for all domain name extensions ccTLD, new gTLD’s and Legacy TLD’s like .com, .net and .org for the month of May 2015. .Com had the most reports of abus...
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June 19, 2015, 7:36 pm

Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Name Report
Joseph Peterson provides and in-depth review of the past week in the expired domain name market. And now for something completely different … Instead of a Chinese domain like the $62k giant that towered over the previous we...
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Expired Domain Name Report
Joseph Peterson provides and in-depth review of the past week in the expired domain name market. And now for something completely different … Instead of a Chinese domain like the $62k giant that towered over the previous we...
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June 19, 2015, 4:08 pm

The Domains
.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on June 24th
fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD ....
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.Bank Gets Over 700 Domain Registration @ $750+ Per In Sunrise: Goes Live Into GA on June 24th
fTLD Registry Services the registry behind the new gTLD .Bank announced today that it received over 700 domain name registrations during Sunrise period by trademark holders at a cost of $750+ per registration. General Availability (GA) for the gTLD ....
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June 19, 2015, 3:43 pm