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Making Progress: Why Progress.ly bought Progressly.com
“Github for business people” bought a new domain name to make it easier for people to discover its service. This is the second in a new Domain Name Wire series covering end users that buy domain names. Nick Candito is founder of Progressl...
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Making Progress: Why Progress.ly bought Progressly.com
“Github for business people” bought a new domain name to make it easier for people to discover its service. This is the second in a new Domain Name Wire series covering end users that buy domain names. Nick Candito is founder of Progressl...
Discussion
September 11, 2015, 6:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Huge victory for Domain Registrars and Parking companies in GoDaddy court case
Case provides ammunition for domain name registrars and domain parking companies in cybersquatting claims. A court has found in GoDaddy’s favor in a long running cybersquatting battle brought by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ...
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Huge victory for Domain Registrars and Parking companies in GoDaddy court case
Case provides ammunition for domain name registrars and domain parking companies in cybersquatting claims. A court has found in GoDaddy’s favor in a long running cybersquatting battle brought by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ...
Discussion
September 11, 2015, 3:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Westland.com at $16.2k and other expired domain name sales
A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. Our planet’s dirt must be popular. At NameJet last week, 3 of the top 4 auctions contained words like “earth”, “world”, and “land”. Le...
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Westland.com at $16.2k and other expired domain name sales
A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. Our planet’s dirt must be popular. At NameJet last week, 3 of the top 4 auctions contained words like “earth”, “world”, and “land”. Le...
Discussion
September 10, 2015, 8:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lawsuit filed after Materia.com UDRP, and it’s an interesting case
Michele Dinoia has cybersquatted in the past, but was Materia.com different? Michele Dinoia has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against California company Materia, Inc., after Materia won a UDRP for Dinoia’s domain name Materia.com. The ...
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Lawsuit filed after Materia.com UDRP, and it’s an interesting case
Michele Dinoia has cybersquatted in the past, but was Materia.com different? Michele Dinoia has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against California company Materia, Inc., after Materia won a UDRP for Dinoia’s domain name Materia.com. The ...
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September 10, 2015, 2:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
17 end user sales including a .XYZ domain name
Sedo sold $1.1 million of domain names last week, including these end user sales. Sedo handled a higher-than-usual 647 domain name transactions last week totaling $1.1 million. 56% — slightly hire than usual — were “buy now” s...
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17 end user sales including a .XYZ domain name
Sedo sold $1.1 million of domain names last week, including these end user sales. Sedo handled a higher-than-usual 647 domain name transactions last week totaling $1.1 million. 56% — slightly hire than usual — were “buy now” s...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 6:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
How can we bring liquidity to the domain name business?
Is there a way to make domain names a more efficient market? Domain name investing is an incredibly inefficient and illiquid business compared to many markets. There have been times and certain segments when domains were liquid, such as traffic domai...
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How can we bring liquidity to the domain name business?
Is there a way to make domain names a more efficient market? Domain name investing is an incredibly inefficient and illiquid business compared to many markets. There have been times and certain segments when domains were liquid, such as traffic domai...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 4:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameJet’s August in Review – 3 character slow down?
Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of domain sales at NameJet. August was a slow month at NameJet – where sales above $2000 are concerned anyway. With that upper price range contributing a total of $399.5k, the auction house ...
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NameJet’s August in Review – 3 character slow down?
Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of domain sales at NameJet. August was a slow month at NameJet – where sales above $2000 are concerned anyway. With that upper price range contributing a total of $399.5k, the auction house ...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 2:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Jothan Frakes to lead Moniker
Frakes to the rescue? Domain name industry veteran Jothan Frakes is set to take over the helm of Moniker as interim CEO later this month. Frakes will have a tough challenge ahead of him. Moniker has been in a tailspin ever since it switched from its ...
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Jothan Frakes to lead Moniker
Frakes to the rescue? Domain name industry veteran Jothan Frakes is set to take over the helm of Moniker as interim CEO later this month. Frakes will have a tough challenge ahead of him. Moniker has been in a tailspin ever since it switched from its ...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 1:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Trump is still trending…in .com
Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, &l...
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Trump is still trending…in .com
Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, &l...
Discussion
September 9, 2015, 1:18 am
Domain Name Wire
Symantec issued patent for rating domain registrars
Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells t...
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Symantec issued patent for rating domain registrars
Does your registrars’ reputation matter? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 9,130,962 (pdf) to Symantec for “Calculating Domain Registrar Reputation by Analysis of Hosted Domains”. Symantec, which sells t...
Discussion
September 8, 2015, 5:33 pm
