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A recap of NameJet’s record month
NameJet set a record during January with the most sales over $2k it has ever reported – 148 domain auctions in all. Its previous record was 131 sales back in December 2013. To put that in perspective, NameJet’s top month during all o...
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A recap of NameJet’s record month
NameJet set a record during January with the most sales over $2k it has ever reported – 148 domain auctions in all. Its previous record was 131 sales back in December 2013. To put that in perspective, NameJet’s top month during all o...
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February 13, 2015, 5:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
34 new top level domains meet their fate in the next 45 days
It’s auction mania for new TLDs. Winners and losers will be made in the new top level domain name program over the next 45 days as 34 domain names reach their deadline for contention set resolution. ICANN has scheduled 14 domain names for aucti...
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34 new top level domains meet their fate in the next 45 days
It’s auction mania for new TLDs. Winners and losers will be made in the new top level domain name program over the next 45 days as 34 domain names reach their deadline for contention set resolution. ICANN has scheduled 14 domain names for aucti...
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February 13, 2015, 2:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines gets .DDS, pockets millions from .store and .blog
Company adds to its cash pile as .dds, .store and .blog are settled. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines announced today that it has won the contention set for the .dds domain name, beating Google. DDS is short for “Doctor of Den...
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Minds + Machines gets .DDS, pockets millions from .store and .blog
Company adds to its cash pile as .dds, .store and .blog are settled. New top level domain name company Minds + Machines announced today that it has won the contention set for the .dds domain name, beating Google. DDS is short for “Doctor of Den...
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February 13, 2015, 1:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Texas Rangers get Rangers.com for $375k, MLB now missing just 3 team names
Major League Baseball adds one domain name to its collection, but three still elude it. DNJournal’s weekly domain name sales list includes Major League Baseball’s $375,000 purchase of Rangers.com, making it the 28th team name the league h...
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Texas Rangers get Rangers.com for $375k, MLB now missing just 3 team names
Major League Baseball adds one domain name to its collection, but three still elude it. DNJournal’s weekly domain name sales list includes Major League Baseball’s $375,000 purchase of Rangers.com, making it the 28th team name the league h...
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February 12, 2015, 5:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why Sonic.net rebranded as Sonic, and how it got Sonic.com
Nearly decades after it was founded, Sonic.net acquired the matching .com domain name and rebranded. When Dane Jasper co-founded California ISP and telecom company Sonic.net in 1994, he settled on .net because the .com was already taken. Another Cali...
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Why Sonic.net rebranded as Sonic, and how it got Sonic.com
Nearly decades after it was founded, Sonic.net acquired the matching .com domain name and rebranded. When Dane Jasper co-founded California ISP and telecom company Sonic.net in 1994, he settled on .net because the .com was already taken. Another Cali...
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February 12, 2015, 3:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
36 End User Domain Name Purchases
Here are 36 domain names sold at Sedo recently that were acquired by end users. Sedo had another strong batch of sales last week: 12 spanning $10k – $18k and another 4 ranging from $35k all the way up to $150k. Most of ...
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36 End User Domain Name Purchases
Here are 36 domain names sold at Sedo recently that were acquired by end users. Sedo had another strong batch of sales last week: 12 spanning $10k – $18k and another 4 ranging from $35k all the way up to $150k. Most of ...
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February 12, 2015, 2:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Online partnership splits, one company will operate new TLD
Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Rad...
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.Online partnership splits, one company will operate new TLD
Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Rad...
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February 12, 2015, 2:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Taylor Swift registers ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com (no joke)
Domain name registered at MarkMonitor today after guitar teacher domain name makes the news. New York Daily News reported yesterday about Taylor Swift going after her former guitar teacher, who registered the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. Her m...
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Taylor Swift registers ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com (no joke)
Domain name registered at MarkMonitor today after guitar teacher domain name makes the news. New York Daily News reported yesterday about Taylor Swift going after her former guitar teacher, who registered the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. Her m...
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February 11, 2015, 4:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Email domain name owner YoYo sues three Banks over UDRP
YoYo.email asks UK court to reverse UDRP decision. YoYo.email has sued RBS Bank (Royal Bank of Scotland), Natwest Bank and Coutts & Co in the United Kingdom in an effort to overturn an adverse UDRP decision. YoYo registered about 4,000 .email dom...
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.Email domain name owner YoYo sues three Banks over UDRP
YoYo.email asks UK court to reverse UDRP decision. YoYo.email has sued RBS Bank (Royal Bank of Scotland), Natwest Bank and Coutts & Co in the United Kingdom in an effort to overturn an adverse UDRP decision. YoYo registered about 4,000 .email dom...
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February 11, 2015, 3:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy amends IPO filing
GoDaddy updates S-1, but it doesn’t include final 2014 financials. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission today. I’ll save you a couple hours of combing over the new document for changes&helli...
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GoDaddy amends IPO filing
GoDaddy updates S-1, but it doesn’t include final 2014 financials. GoDaddy filed an amended S-1 statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission today. I’ll save you a couple hours of combing over the new document for changes&helli...
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February 11, 2015, 2:36 pm
