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The Domains
After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows its most popular site Gamecoins.com TO Drop
American Express acquired Sometrics for $30 million and the most popular site, GameCoins.com has been allowed to expire and dropped by the company.
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After spending $30MM for Sometrics, Amex allows its most popular site Gamecoins.com TO Drop
American Express acquired Sometrics for $30 million and the most popular site, GameCoins.com has been allowed to expire and dropped by the company.
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June 19, 2015, 3:36 pm

Domain Name Wire
Horrible domain name alert: QuiQui.me
Good luck pronouncing this domain name without an explanation. A San Francisco startup hopes to start delivering pharmacy items by drone soon. But finding the company via word-of-mouth (or even on the app store) might be a bit challenging. The compan...
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Horrible domain name alert: QuiQui.me
Good luck pronouncing this domain name without an explanation. A San Francisco startup hopes to start delivering pharmacy items by drone soon. But finding the company via word-of-mouth (or even on the app store) might be a bit challenging. The compan...
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June 19, 2015, 3:32 pm

Domain Name Wire
WordPress Foundation sues owner of WordPress domain names
Group goes after company promoting WordPress assistance with domain names that include “WordPress”. WordPress Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg for the WordPress open source project, has sued the owner of T...
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WordPress Foundation sues owner of WordPress domain names
Group goes after company promoting WordPress assistance with domain names that include “WordPress”. WordPress Foundation, the charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg for the WordPress open source project, has sued the owner of T...
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June 19, 2015, 2:18 pm

The Domains
Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells at Sedo
The two letter .com domain name We.com has been sold at Sedo.
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Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells at Sedo
The two letter .com domain name We.com has been sold at Sedo.
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June 19, 2015, 12:17 pm

Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Friday, June 19th, 2015
You don’t know. Don’t pretend you know how this whole LLLL.com and LLL.com thing is going to play out. The easy call is China is going to crash. But since you didn’t tell anyone that it was going to fly high and wh...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Friday, June 19th, 2015
You don’t know. Don’t pretend you know how this whole LLLL.com and LLL.com thing is going to play out. The easy call is China is going to crash. But since you didn’t tell anyone that it was going to fly high and wh...
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June 19, 2015, 11:22 am

Domain Shane
DSAD DAILY AUCTION RECAP
Welcome to the Daily Recap. A brandable took the high spot today at GD. I like it but I personally would have gone after others that I think would appeal to a larger potential enduser base. Could be wrong. GoDaddy PCSA.com 18 years old. And the A at ...
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DSAD DAILY AUCTION RECAP
Welcome to the Daily Recap. A brandable took the high spot today at GD. I like it but I personally would have gone after others that I think would appeal to a larger potential enduser base. Could be wrong. GoDaddy PCSA.com 18 years old. And the A at ...
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June 19, 2015, 6:31 am

Domain Shane
Flippa Recap: Hosting.io, Anoraks.com, AppDesigners.com, PowerLeads.com, More
Some Domains That Sold Hosting.io @ $5,000 (via Buy It Now) // [Confirmation Pending] – Seems almost cheap compared to Flippa’s recent sale of Cloud.io for $45,000. A site is live, and a screenshot is below. For what it’s worth, Ho...
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Flippa Recap: Hosting.io, Anoraks.com, AppDesigners.com, PowerLeads.com, More
Some Domains That Sold Hosting.io @ $5,000 (via Buy It Now) // [Confirmation Pending] – Seems almost cheap compared to Flippa’s recent sale of Cloud.io for $45,000. A site is live, and a screenshot is below. For what it’s worth, Ho...
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June 19, 2015, 12:40 am

The Domains
Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn assets under management
Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of th...
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Henderson Global Investors Acquires Over 20% Of Minds + Machines: Has £89.4bn assets under management
Henderson Global Investors has acquires over 20% Of the voting shares of Minds + Machines. Since Fred Krueger announced he was leaving the company around 3 weeks ago, his ownership of Minds + Machines has now fallen to under 9%, sitting as of th...
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June 18, 2015, 5:02 pm

Domain Name Wire
Another sign of the three letter .com domain name boom…
Sedo Great Domains mailer shows only three letter .com domain names. DNJournal’s sales charts have been dominated by three letter domain names lately. The domain names are hot, and they’re very liquid. As an owner of a three letter .com, ...
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Another sign of the three letter .com domain name boom…
Sedo Great Domains mailer shows only three letter .com domain names. DNJournal’s sales charts have been dominated by three letter domain names lately. The domain names are hot, and they’re very liquid. As an owner of a three letter .com, ...
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June 18, 2015, 5:02 pm

Domain Name Wire
Here are some creative Donald Trump for President domain names
Verisign and domain name registrars are laughing all the way to the bank. There’s nothing like another Donald Trump run for president to spur people to register Trump-related domain names! I count 182 .com Trump domain name registrations from h...
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Here are some creative Donald Trump for President domain names
Verisign and domain name registrars are laughing all the way to the bank. There’s nothing like another Donald Trump run for president to spur people to register Trump-related domain names! I count 182 .com Trump domain name registrations from h...
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June 18, 2015, 3:25 pm