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Domain name business will LOL tomorrow, but Facebook says LOL is dead
Facebook says LOL is dead, but the domain name comes out tomorrow. Get ready to LOL tomorrow. Uniregistry will launch the .lol top level domain name in general availability on Tuesday. Annual registration costs appear to be about $30 retail, but many...
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Domain name business will LOL tomorrow, but Facebook says LOL is dead
Facebook says LOL is dead, but the domain name comes out tomorrow. Get ready to LOL tomorrow. Uniregistry will launch the .lol top level domain name in general availability on Tuesday. Annual registration costs appear to be about $30 retail, but many...
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August 10, 2015, 3:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Back from Vacation
I’m back from summer vacation, and now it’s time to gear up for fall. I’m back from a two week vacation in Seattle. There are a lot of domain companies in Seattle, and if you’re feeling left out that I didn’t visit you&h...
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Back from Vacation
I’m back from summer vacation, and now it’s time to gear up for fall. I’m back from a two week vacation in Seattle. There are a lot of domain companies in Seattle, and if you’re feeling left out that I didn’t visit you&h...
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August 10, 2015, 2:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Paul Graham: Change your name. Get the .Com
Venture capitalist makes the argument for picking a good name and owning the matching .com. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has published an essay on his site about why it’s important to get a good company name and its matching .com. Is it ...
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Paul Graham: Change your name. Get the .Com
Venture capitalist makes the argument for picking a good name and owning the matching .com. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has published an essay on his site about why it’s important to get a good company name and its matching .com. Is it ...
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August 10, 2015, 12:23 am
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report: In-Depth on LLLL.com
Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain sales. During the past several months, LLLL.com domains (4 letters, for those just joining us) have multiplied in value among wholesale traders who expect to flip to China or resell to one...
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Expired Domain Report: In-Depth on LLLL.com
Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain sales. During the past several months, LLLL.com domains (4 letters, for those just joining us) have multiplied in value among wholesale traders who expect to flip to China or resell to one...
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August 9, 2015, 10:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club reveals registrar-sold premium domains
.Club registry releases unique sales data. In an unprecedented level of transparency, .Club has revealed which domain names it sold through registrars at premium prices last month. The registry began offering about 8,000 premium-priced domain names t...
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.Club reveals registrar-sold premium domains
.Club registry releases unique sales data. In an unprecedented level of transparency, .Club has revealed which domain names it sold through registrars at premium prices last month. The registry began offering about 8,000 premium-priced domain names t...
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August 7, 2015, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy customers have registered 850k new TLDs
GoDaddy leads the way for new domain names. On GoDaddy’s investor conference call this week, the company disclosed that its customers have registered 850,000 names in new top level domains. That’s over the course of about 18 months of ava...
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GoDaddy customers have registered 850k new TLDs
GoDaddy leads the way for new domain names. On GoDaddy’s investor conference call this week, the company disclosed that its customers have registered 850,000 names in new top level domains. That’s over the course of about 18 months of ava...
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August 7, 2015, 2:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines co-founder dumps another 30 million shares
Krueger now owns about 5% of the company. Minds + Machines co-founder Frederick Krueger, who was pushed out of the company at the end of May, has sold another 30 million shares in the company. He now owns about 41 million ordinary shares of the new t...
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Minds + Machines co-founder dumps another 30 million shares
Krueger now owns about 5% of the company. Minds + Machines co-founder Frederick Krueger, who was pushed out of the company at the end of May, has sold another 30 million shares in the company. He now owns about 41 million ordinary shares of the new t...
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August 7, 2015, 1:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Holdings sells $6.1 million in domains in Q2
Domain Holdings recovers from first quarter but is still down compared to last year. Domain Holdings reported sales numbers for Q2 2015 including $6.15 million in domain name sales. This is up from $4.75 million sold in Q1, but is less than half of w...
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Domain Holdings sells $6.1 million in domains in Q2
Domain Holdings recovers from first quarter but is still down compared to last year. Domain Holdings reported sales numbers for Q2 2015 including $6.15 million in domain name sales. This is up from $4.75 million sold in Q1, but is less than half of w...
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August 6, 2015, 4:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
50 End User Domain Name Sales up to $500,000
Here are recent domain name purchases by end users. During the past week, Sedo reported 550 public domain transactions, totaling around $1.6 million. At an even $500k, Give.com receives the laurels. Notably, a domain industry veteran w...
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50 End User Domain Name Sales up to $500,000
Here are recent domain name purchases by end users. During the past week, Sedo reported 550 public domain transactions, totaling around $1.6 million. At an even $500k, Give.com receives the laurels. Notably, a domain industry veteran w...
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August 6, 2015, 3:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
TLD Profile: .Beer
An ICANNWiki profile of .Beer. Considering that ICANNWiki is based out of Portland, Oregon, home to more breweries than any city in the world (61 in Portland and 91 in the greater metro area), I decided to profile a TLD that reflects our local cultur...
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TLD Profile: .Beer
An ICANNWiki profile of .Beer. Considering that ICANNWiki is based out of Portland, Oregon, home to more breweries than any city in the world (61 in Portland and 91 in the greater metro area), I decided to profile a TLD that reflects our local cultur...
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August 6, 2015, 2:21 pm
