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Pizzeria, music academy and other end user domain sales
A Boston pizzeria was among end user buyers at Uniregistry. I’ve reviewed Uniregistry’s last two sales reports to find end user domain name purchases. You’ll especially like the last one. Flapp.com $22,500 – Travel company Tra...
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Pizzeria, music academy and other end user domain sales
A Boston pizzeria was among end user buyers at Uniregistry. I’ve reviewed Uniregistry’s last two sales reports to find end user domain name purchases. You’ll especially like the last one. Flapp.com $22,500 – Travel company Tra...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 7:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Shakeup on the .com leader boards, Namecheap tops 5 million
Lots of shifting and Namecheap hits a milestone. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2019. There was a lot of shakeup this month. On t...
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Shakeup on the .com leader boards, Namecheap tops 5 million
Lots of shifting and Namecheap hits a milestone. ICANN has published the latest official data from Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) about the .com namespace. This registrar-by-registrar report covers September 2019. There was a lot of shakeup this month. On t...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 5:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
The biggest problem with Verisign’s .com deal
It’s not the billion-dollar bonus for Verisign. As expected, ICANN has agreed* to let Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) increase prices on .com domain names starting this year. The U.S. government had already agreed to the price increases, but these incr...
Discussion
The biggest problem with Verisign’s .com deal
It’s not the billion-dollar bonus for Verisign. As expected, ICANN has agreed* to let Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) increase prices on .com domain names starting this year. The U.S. government had already agreed to the price increases, but these incr...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 5:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reviewing the 4 character domains that sold in December
Kassey Lee reviews the market for four character domain names. I’m starting this monthly series to look at 4C (four character) .com domains. Thanks to the ripple effect which began with 2C and then continued on to 3C, I believe many 4C will bec...
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Reviewing the 4 character domains that sold in December
Kassey Lee reviews the market for four character domain names. I’m starting this monthly series to look at 4C (four character) .com domains. Thanks to the ripple effect which began with 2C and then continued on to 3C, I believe many 4C will bec...
Discussion
January 7, 2020, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Another reverse domain hijacking finding against DePenning & DePenning
Law firm is behind another reverse domain name hijacking case. DePenning & DePenning, a law firm in India, has filed another UDRP that was found to be reverse domain name hijacking. Previous reverse domain name hijacking findings against the firm...
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Another reverse domain hijacking finding against DePenning & DePenning
Law firm is behind another reverse domain name hijacking case. DePenning & DePenning, a law firm in India, has filed another UDRP that was found to be reverse domain name hijacking. Previous reverse domain name hijacking findings against the firm...
Discussion
January 6, 2020, 4:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
The domain sales lander OG – DNW Podcast #267
Here’s what you need on your domain sales landers, according to someone who’s been helping domainers created them since 2006. My guest this week is kind of the OG of domain name sales landers. Tom Klosowski created a script back in 2006 t...
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The domain sales lander OG – DNW Podcast #267
Here’s what you need on your domain sales landers, according to someone who’s been helping domainers created them since 2006. My guest this week is kind of the OG of domain name sales landers. Tom Klosowski created a script back in 2006 t...
Discussion
January 6, 2020, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
This company’s domain name is a ten digit domain!
A Chinese company uses its phone number as its domain name. I enjoy reading venture capital news. I also study some of the startups highlighted in the news to find out what domains these future business leaders are using and also what domains they ma...
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This company’s domain name is a ten digit domain!
A Chinese company uses its phone number as its domain name. I enjoy reading venture capital news. I also study some of the startups highlighted in the news to find out what domains these future business leaders are using and also what domains they ma...
Discussion
January 6, 2020, 2:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Two interesting .cc domain sales
These two sales seem to be outliers. I was quite surprised to see two .cc domains sold for very high prices recently. That aroused my interest in finding out more about the .cc extension. West.cn reported on December 25 that 1377.cc and 1877.cc were ...
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Two interesting .cc domain sales
These two sales seem to be outliers. I was quite surprised to see two .cc domains sold for very high prices recently. That aroused my interest in finding out more about the .cc extension. West.cn reported on December 25 that 1377.cc and 1877.cc were ...
Discussion
January 3, 2020, 7:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top Stories: Private equity company acquires .Org
Ethos Capital acquires .org for $1.135 billion. The biggest shock to many people in the domain industry in 2019 was Ethos Capital acquiring the .org registry contract from Internet Society for $1.135 billion. The deal was announced soon after ICANN r...
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Top Stories: Private equity company acquires .Org
Ethos Capital acquires .org for $1.135 billion. The biggest shock to many people in the domain industry in 2019 was Ethos Capital acquiring the .org registry contract from Internet Society for $1.135 billion. The deal was announced soon after ICANN r...
Discussion
January 3, 2020, 6:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Com prices are going up after Verisign pays off ICANN
Verisign will put $20 million in the kitty in return for multi-billion dollar windfall. Last year I made a prediction in my annual predictions podcast: ICANN would let Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) raise prices on .com, but Verisign would pay it extra mone...
Discussion
.Com prices are going up after Verisign pays off ICANN
Verisign will put $20 million in the kitty in return for multi-billion dollar windfall. Last year I made a prediction in my annual predictions podcast: ICANN would let Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) raise prices on .com, but Verisign would pay it extra mone...
Discussion
January 3, 2020, 4:03 pm
