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The Domains
Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For Lawyers
Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant for .Adogado) are expected to launch in early 2015. Both .Law and .Abogado will be restric...
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Minds + Machines Says .Law & .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer) Will Only Be For Lawyers
Minds + Machines, which won the private auction for .Law a couple of weeks ago announced that .Law and .Abogado (Spanish for Lawyer, M+M was the only applicant for .Adogado) are expected to launch in early 2015. Both .Law and .Abogado will be restric...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 1:54 pm
The Domains
Public Comany Acquires Internships.com For $10M in Cash & $1M In Stock
Chegg, Inc. (CHGG), the Student Hub, today announced it has acquired Internships.com, a division of CareerArc Group LLC for $10 million in cash and approximately $1 million in shares of Chegg Common Stock. Internships.com is not just a domain name, b...
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Public Comany Acquires Internships.com For $10M in Cash & $1M In Stock
Chegg, Inc. (CHGG), the Student Hub, today announced it has acquired Internships.com, a division of CareerArc Group LLC for $10 million in cash and approximately $1 million in shares of Chegg Common Stock. Internships.com is not just a domain name, b...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 1:44 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2,592: .Bayern 20,396
One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register their domain during the Early Access Program (EAP), .Deals ended its...
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1st Day New gTLD For .Deals 2,592: .Bayern 20,396
One new gTLD went into general availability yesterday, .Deals. Including domain registered during the Sunrise Period by trademark holders and those who paid an extra fee to register their domain during the Early Access Program (EAP), .Deals ended its...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 1:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts aims for Million domain name milestone this month
Customers have registered 960,000 second level domain names under Donuts’ domain names. Donuts, the largest registry for new top level domain names, hopes to sell its millionth domain name registration this month. The company’s latest new...
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Donuts aims for Million domain name milestone this month
Customers have registered 960,000 second level domain names under Donuts’ domain names. Donuts, the largest registry for new top level domain names, hopes to sell its millionth domain name registration this month. The company’s latest new...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 1:15 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday 10/2
I was asked what I thought about the values of LLLL.coms and how they’ve moved over the last year or so. In my opinion, compared to numerics and other short domains, they have not joined in. But the “better letter” ...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday 10/2
I was asked what I thought about the values of LLLL.coms and how they’ve moved over the last year or so. In my opinion, compared to numerics and other short domains, they have not joined in. But the “better letter” ...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 11:45 am
DomainSherpa
HugeDomains Wins $25K Settlement; Chinese Own 80% of LL.com; Ammar Kubba’s Dating Requirements…
In this DomainSherpa Discussion:• HugeDomains loses a UDRP, fights back and gets a big settlement - how much?• Chinese investors have snatched up 80% of two number .COMs - what's next?• What's next for Ammar Kubba after selli...
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HugeDomains Wins $25K Settlement; Chinese Own 80% of LL.com; Ammar Kubba’s Dating Requirements…
In this DomainSherpa Discussion:• HugeDomains loses a UDRP, fights back and gets a big settlement - how much?• Chinese investors have snatched up 80% of two number .COMs - what's next?• What's next for Ammar Kubba after selli...
Discussion
October 2, 2014, 7:02 am
The Domains
Google Entering the Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com
David Hernandez wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha that Google entering the domain business may not be as bad as thought for competitor Web.com. Web.com owns Register.com and Network Solutions. The stock is down 37.7 % year to date. Here is the summary o...
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Google Entering the Domain Business May Have Less of an Impact on Web.com
David Hernandez wrote a piece on Seeking Alpha that Google entering the domain business may not be as bad as thought for competitor Web.com. Web.com owns Register.com and Network Solutions. The stock is down 37.7 % year to date. Here is the summary o...
Discussion
October 1, 2014, 10:18 pm
The Domains
Results of our Numeric Dot Com Readers Poll
Our poll question for September was where you the reader, saw the value of numeric dot com domains going. We had 188 votes and the majority of voters see prices going higher. Where do you think values are going for Numeric .com domains ? Up (52%, 98 ...
Discussion
Results of our Numeric Dot Com Readers Poll
Our poll question for September was where you the reader, saw the value of numeric dot com domains going. We had 188 votes and the majority of voters see prices going higher. Where do you think values are going for Numeric .com domains ? Up (52%, 98 ...
Discussion
October 1, 2014, 8:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Warning: do you know where your parked domain traffic is going?
Zero click traffic may lead to scam and installer sites. “Zero click” monetization for parked domains, in which domain traffic is forwarded to another site rather than landing on a page full of ads, is nothing new in the domain name indus...
Discussion
Warning: do you know where your parked domain traffic is going?
Zero click traffic may lead to scam and installer sites. “Zero click” monetization for parked domains, in which domain traffic is forwarded to another site rather than landing on a page full of ads, is nothing new in the domain name indus...
Discussion
October 1, 2014, 7:49 pm
The Domains
Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By North Sound Names
We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and.or controlled by Frank Schilling registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owned by another Frank Schilling Company, Uniregistry. About 10,000 domain names were re...
Discussion
Frank T. Schilling Registers 12K+ New gTLD In Addition to The 75K Owned By North Sound Names
We noted last week that North Sound Names a company owned and.or controlled by Frank Schilling registered some 31,000 domain names in new gTLD’s extensions owned by another Frank Schilling Company, Uniregistry. About 10,000 domain names were re...
Discussion
October 1, 2014, 4:26 pm
