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.Top domain apparently using spam to get to the Top
New TLD registry sends spam to people who have registered other new TLDs. How do you get attention for your new top level domain name in a crowded field? One new top level domain name company has apparently resorted to sending lots of unsolicited ema...
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.Top domain apparently using spam to get to the Top
New TLD registry sends spam to people who have registered other new TLDs. How do you get attention for your new top level domain name in a crowded field? One new top level domain name company has apparently resorted to sending lots of unsolicited ema...
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February 18, 2015, 5:29 pm

Domain Name Wire
Amazon goes big on city .Delivery domain names
Company registers major city domain names in new .delivery top level domain name. Amazon.com is obsessed with improving delivery, from its local locker pickup to Sunday delivery to delivery by drone. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a big surpri...
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Amazon goes big on city .Delivery domain names
Company registers major city domain names in new .delivery top level domain name. Amazon.com is obsessed with improving delivery, from its local locker pickup to Sunday delivery to delivery by drone. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a big surpri...
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February 18, 2015, 4:45 pm

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Domain definitions: FLD for “Free Level Domain”
Joseph Peterson suggests a new term for what we frequently call “second level domains”…because second level isn’t always accurate. Last month I suggested the term nTLD to categorize certain domain names. This month I’d ...
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Domain definitions: FLD for “Free Level Domain”
Joseph Peterson suggests a new term for what we frequently call “second level domains”…because second level isn’t always accurate. Last month I suggested the term nTLD to categorize certain domain names. This month I’d ...
Discussion
February 18, 2015, 3:05 pm

Domain Name Wire
Donuts launches Name.Kitchen to market new domains
Site promotes alternatives to .com domain names. Donuts, the largest new top level domain name company, promised it would rev up its marketing in 2015. Here’s one example of that, in the form of content marketing: Name.Kitchen. The new site has...
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Donuts launches Name.Kitchen to market new domains
Site promotes alternatives to .com domain names. Donuts, the largest new top level domain name company, promised it would rev up its marketing in 2015. Here’s one example of that, in the form of content marketing: Name.Kitchen. The new site has...
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February 17, 2015, 9:11 pm

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Xixia.com at $19k and other NameJet Expired Domain Name Sales
Reviewing the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. China reclaims the top spot among this past week’s expired domain auctions at NameJet. For 12 out of the past 30 weeks, the top sale (out of the auctions I’ve cove...
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Xixia.com at $19k and other NameJet Expired Domain Name Sales
Reviewing the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. China reclaims the top spot among this past week’s expired domain auctions at NameJet. For 12 out of the past 30 weeks, the top sale (out of the auctions I’ve cove...
Discussion
February 17, 2015, 4:50 pm

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New TLDs on tap this week: .Yoga, .Sydney, .Cricket & more
A half dozen more new TLDs make their entrance this week. Six new top level domain names debut this week, with .Sydney already having launched yesterday. Here’s a rundown. .Sydney – this Australian geo domain name launched yesterday. The ...
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New TLDs on tap this week: .Yoga, .Sydney, .Cricket & more
A half dozen more new TLDs make their entrance this week. Six new top level domain names debut this week, with .Sydney already having launched yesterday. Here’s a rundown. .Sydney – this Australian geo domain name launched yesterday. The ...
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February 17, 2015, 2:50 pm

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NameBio upgraded with key new comps feature
Upgraded domain name sales database makes it easier to find comps when buying and selling domain names. Domain name sales database NameBio.com has been overhauled, and one of the new features should prove useful when searching for sales comps for dom...
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NameBio upgraded with key new comps feature
Upgraded domain name sales database makes it easier to find comps when buying and selling domain names. Domain name sales database NameBio.com has been overhauled, and one of the new features should prove useful when searching for sales comps for dom...
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February 17, 2015, 2:23 pm

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Watch Daniel Negari discuss new TLDs on NBC Bay Area
Negari goes on NBC’s Press:Here to discuss .xyz and new top level domains. Just over one year ago ICANN’s Akram Atallah went on NBC Bay Area’s Press:Here show to discuss new top level domain names. The same program interviewed .XYZ ...
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Watch Daniel Negari discuss new TLDs on NBC Bay Area
Negari goes on NBC’s Press:Here to discuss .xyz and new top level domains. Just over one year ago ICANN’s Akram Atallah went on NBC Bay Area’s Press:Here show to discuss new top level domain names. The same program interviewed .XYZ ...
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February 16, 2015, 8:17 pm

Domain Name Wire
Just how much did .Blog and .Store sell for?
Here’s a rough idea. On Friday I wrote about Minds + Machines and its payoff for losing the .blog and .store domain name auctions. Primer Nivel won the auction for .blog and Radix walked home with .Store. How much did they pay for these domain ...
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Just how much did .Blog and .Store sell for?
Here’s a rough idea. On Friday I wrote about Minds + Machines and its payoff for losing the .blog and .store domain name auctions. Primer Nivel won the auction for .blog and Radix walked home with .Store. How much did they pay for these domain ...
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February 16, 2015, 4:58 pm

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.XYZ and new TLDs with Daniel Negari – DNW Podcast #20
How .XYZ became the most registered new top level domain name. Daniel Negari’s .XYZ domain name is the most registered new top level domain name by far, with about 800,000 registrations. But this hasn’t come without controversy. In this e...
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.XYZ and new TLDs with Daniel Negari – DNW Podcast #20
How .XYZ became the most registered new top level domain name. Daniel Negari’s .XYZ domain name is the most registered new top level domain name by far, with about 800,000 registrations. But this hasn’t come without controversy. In this e...
Discussion
February 16, 2015, 4:29 pm