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Expired Domain Report: iiiii.com and more
Joseph Peterson looks at the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. Market value for repeating-character domains (on average) undergoes a stepwise descent as length increases. CCs outsell CCCs, which outperform CCCCs, which ...
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Expired Domain Report: iiiii.com and more
Joseph Peterson looks at the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. Market value for repeating-character domains (on average) undergoes a stepwise descent as length increases. CCs outsell CCCs, which outperform CCCCs, which ...
Discussion
February 6, 2015, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Web design company sues GoDaddy over “It’s Go Time” slogan
Company says it was using the slogan first. A small web development company is suing GoDaddy over its “It’s Go Time” slogan, arguing that it started using the moniker well before GoDaddy adopted it. Plaintiff The Easy Life, LLC runs...
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Web design company sues GoDaddy over “It’s Go Time” slogan
Company says it was using the slogan first. A small web development company is suing GoDaddy over its “It’s Go Time” slogan, arguing that it started using the moniker well before GoDaddy adopted it. Plaintiff The Easy Life, LLC runs...
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February 6, 2015, 3:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
How is .Com? Verisign discusses, and signs 11 IDN contracts
Verisign signs transliteration TLD contracts, discusses the state of .com. There was a lot of interesting information in yesterday’s Verisign quarterly investor conference call. First, the company said it signed 11 contracts for its IDN transli...
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How is .Com? Verisign discusses, and signs 11 IDN contracts
Verisign signs transliteration TLD contracts, discusses the state of .com. There was a lot of interesting information in yesterday’s Verisign quarterly investor conference call. First, the company said it signed 11 contracts for its IDN transli...
Discussion
February 6, 2015, 2:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
8.2 million .com/.net registrations in Q4
Verisign reports Q4 results. Verisign reported earnings for the 4th quarter of 2014 today. 8.2 million .com/.net domain names were registered in the quarter, the same as in the 4th quarter of 2013. When you take out deletions, the combined zones grew...
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8.2 million .com/.net registrations in Q4
Verisign reports Q4 results. Verisign reported earnings for the 4th quarter of 2014 today. 8.2 million .com/.net domain names were registered in the quarter, the same as in the 4th quarter of 2013. When you take out deletions, the combined zones grew...
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February 5, 2015, 9:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google: Become mobile friendly, or else…
Google sends warnings to website owners. Google has a message for you: it’s time to make your website mobile friendly or suffer the consequences. The search giant has started sending notices out to Webmaster Tools users notifying them if their ...
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Google: Become mobile friendly, or else…
Google sends warnings to website owners. Google has a message for you: it’s time to make your website mobile friendly or suffer the consequences. The search giant has started sending notices out to Webmaster Tools users notifying them if their ...
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February 5, 2015, 7:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy wants to patent domain suggestions based on geography, business type
Patents reflect techniques for better targeting domain name search results. GoDaddy has filed three patents for targeted domain name search results based on the user’s location or business type. Two of the patent applications were filed in Augu...
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GoDaddy wants to patent domain suggestions based on geography, business type
Patents reflect techniques for better targeting domain name search results. GoDaddy has filed three patents for targeted domain name search results based on the user’s location or business type. Two of the patent applications were filed in Augu...
Discussion
February 5, 2015, 4:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
40 End User Domain Name Sales
A fashion blog rebrands, a Chinese real estate company pays 6 figures and another company spends €5000 to drop a hyphen from its domain name. Last week Sedo scored a brace of 6-figure sales, one mid-5, and an additional 7 transactions ...
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40 End User Domain Name Sales
A fashion blog rebrands, a Chinese real estate company pays 6 figures and another company spends €5000 to drop a hyphen from its domain name. Last week Sedo scored a brace of 6-figure sales, one mid-5, and an additional 7 transactions ...
Discussion
February 5, 2015, 2:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
January’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
Super Bowl commercials and a two letter domain name registration attracted eyeballs in January. Between NamesCon and GoDaddy’s Super Bowl plans, there was a lot going on in the domain biz last month. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name...
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January’s Top 5 Domain Name Stories
Super Bowl commercials and a two letter domain name registration attracted eyeballs in January. Between NamesCon and GoDaddy’s Super Bowl plans, there was a lot going on in the domain biz last month. Here are the top five stories on Domain Name...
Discussion
February 4, 2015, 5:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
What the DNA report about new TLDs tells us
Few people know about them, but they like the idea of more choice. The Domain Name Association (DNA) released results of a survey this morning designed to understand consumer sentiment toward domain names, and especially new top level domain names. D...
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What the DNA report about new TLDs tells us
Few people know about them, but they like the idea of more choice. The Domain Name Association (DNA) released results of a survey this morning designed to understand consumer sentiment toward domain names, and especially new top level domain names. D...
Discussion
February 4, 2015, 3:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Neustar grossed about $2 million revenue from new TLDs in Q4
Company is “cautiously bullish” about new TLDs over next few quarters, but I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what that means. Domain name registry and telephone services company Neustar (NYSE: NSR) reported 4th quarter 201...
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Neustar grossed about $2 million revenue from new TLDs in Q4
Company is “cautiously bullish” about new TLDs over next few quarters, but I’m not the only one who doesn’t know what that means. Domain name registry and telephone services company Neustar (NYSE: NSR) reported 4th quarter 201...
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February 4, 2015, 2:32 pm
