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13 end user domain name sales up to $40,000
An interesting play on coworking, a leadership training company, and a mortgage company bought domains this week. This week, Sedo’s top public domain sale was Codi.com, and it looks like the buyer is making an interesting play in the coworking ...
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13 end user domain name sales up to $40,000
An interesting play on coworking, a leadership training company, and a mortgage company bought domains this week. This week, Sedo’s top public domain sale was Codi.com, and it looks like the buyer is making an interesting play in the coworking ...
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March 6, 2020, 2:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Three steps to Chinese end user research
Kassey Lee explains how he finds end users in China. A reader asked me recently to do an end user search for one of his domains. Instead, I decided to share my method in this article so that other investors can also try. For this exercise, I’ll...
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Three steps to Chinese end user research
Kassey Lee explains how he finds end users in China. A reader asked me recently to do an end user search for one of his domains. Instead, I decided to share my method in this article so that other investors can also try. For this exercise, I’ll...
Discussion
March 5, 2020, 6:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pioneer Banks square off over .Bank domain name
Both banks have a bigger problem than Pioneer.bank. Two things caught my eye when Pioneer.Bank was hit with a UDRP in January. First, I’m familiar with the domain owner, Pioneer Bank, which is based in my old hometown of Austin. Second, I wonde...
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Pioneer Banks square off over .Bank domain name
Both banks have a bigger problem than Pioneer.bank. Two things caught my eye when Pioneer.Bank was hit with a UDRP in January. First, I’m familiar with the domain owner, Pioneer Bank, which is based in my old hometown of Austin. Second, I wonde...
Discussion
March 5, 2020, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
No response to an inquiry? Try a text.
Get faster responses with text messages. When I get an inquiry on a domain at Uniregistry, I quickly respond via Uniregistry’s platform, which sends an email. This tends to work for the initial response. I either get a “yes”, &ldquo...
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No response to an inquiry? Try a text.
Get faster responses with text messages. When I get an inquiry on a domain at Uniregistry, I quickly respond via Uniregistry’s platform, which sends an email. This tends to work for the initial response. I either get a “yes”, &ldquo...
Discussion
March 5, 2020, 2:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Org update: Two more opportunities to comment on proposed takeover
PIR and ICANN offering more opportunities to provide feedback. People with opinions on Ethos Capital’s planned takeover of Public Interest Registry (PIR), the group that operates the .org top level domain name, have two upcoming opportunities t...
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.Org update: Two more opportunities to comment on proposed takeover
PIR and ICANN offering more opportunities to provide feedback. People with opinions on Ethos Capital’s planned takeover of Public Interest Registry (PIR), the group that operates the .org top level domain name, have two upcoming opportunities t...
Discussion
March 4, 2020, 9:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Buy a domain and get a free mask—and a gun
This domain name registrar has an interesting promotion to combat the novel coronavirus. When you watch news about China these days, you may often see a masked nurse pointing a gun at a patient’s forehead. It’s not a real gun but actually...
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Buy a domain and get a free mask—and a gun
This domain name registrar has an interesting promotion to combat the novel coronavirus. When you watch news about China these days, you may often see a masked nurse pointing a gun at a patient’s forehead. It’s not a real gun but actually...
Discussion
March 4, 2020, 6:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain name company Radix posts $21 million revenue in 2019
Profits surge 54% in the latest year. New top level domain name company Radix generated over $21 million in revenue in 2019, growing 26% compared to 2018. Net profit grew 54% year-over-year, and the company says that Q4 was its strongest quarter so f...
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Domain name company Radix posts $21 million revenue in 2019
Profits surge 54% in the latest year. New top level domain name company Radix generated over $21 million in revenue in 2019, growing 26% compared to 2018. Net profit grew 54% year-over-year, and the company says that Q4 was its strongest quarter so f...
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March 4, 2020, 4:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
These Chinese companies use English brands and domains only
No Pinyin here. There is a misconception that corporate China only buys Pinyin domains. That is not true. Chinese companies do use English domains, and, in some cases, they use only English brands and domains. Here are some examples. Fiture sells sma...
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These Chinese companies use English brands and domains only
No Pinyin here. There is a misconception that corporate China only buys Pinyin domains. That is not true. Chinese companies do use English domains, and, in some cases, they use only English brands and domains. Here are some examples. Fiture sells sma...
Discussion
March 4, 2020, 2:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Virus domain name registrations surge with novel coronavirus fears
Another crisis, another surge in domain registrations. If Verisign still published its monthly lists of top trending keywords (it stopped with August’s list), ‘virus’ would certainly be on the list. According to Verisign DomainScope...
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Virus domain name registrations surge with novel coronavirus fears
Another crisis, another surge in domain registrations. If Verisign still published its monthly lists of top trending keywords (it stopped with August’s list), ‘virus’ would certainly be on the list. According to Verisign DomainScope...
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March 3, 2020, 10:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts hires CMO, signifying upshift in marketing strategy
New CMO brought in as part of a marketing shift. Top level domain name company Donuts has named Mina Neuberg its Chief Marketing Officer. Neuberg comes from Revolution Math, where she was CMO of the online math education service. Before that, she was...
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Donuts hires CMO, signifying upshift in marketing strategy
New CMO brought in as part of a marketing shift. Top level domain name company Donuts has named Mina Neuberg its Chief Marketing Officer. Neuberg comes from Revolution Math, where she was CMO of the online math education service. Before that, she was...
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March 3, 2020, 7:30 pm
