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Wow: Nissan sells Z.com domain name to GMO for $6.8 million
GMO Internet, operator of Japan’s largest domain name registrar, has acquired the one letter domain name Z.co for JPY800 million ($6.8 million), the company announced today. Japanese car manufacturer Nissa sold the domain name, which it used to...
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Wow: Nissan sells Z.com domain name to GMO for $6.8 million
GMO Internet, operator of Japan’s largest domain name registrar, has acquired the one letter domain name Z.co for JPY800 million ($6.8 million), the company announced today. Japanese car manufacturer Nissa sold the domain name, which it used to...
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November 21, 2014, 2:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling changes strategy for .Click launch
NothingHeldBack.click. 5 more Uniregistry domain names go into general availability next week. And for one of them, .click, Frank Schilling is taking a different strategy when it comes to holding back domain names. In previous launches, Schilling&rsq...
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Frank Schilling changes strategy for .Click launch
NothingHeldBack.click. 5 more Uniregistry domain names go into general availability next week. And for one of them, .click, Frank Schilling is taking a different strategy when it comes to holding back domain names. In previous launches, Schilling&rsq...
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November 20, 2014, 9:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside shares hit new low
Domain name company isn’t getting much love from Wall Street. Shares of domain name company Rightside have dropped 15% this week, and hit an all time low of $8.33 in trading yesterday. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is trading for $8.55 per share thi...
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Rightside shares hit new low
Domain name company isn’t getting much love from Wall Street. Shares of domain name company Rightside have dropped 15% this week, and hit an all time low of $8.33 in trading yesterday. Rightside (NASDAQ: NAME) is trading for $8.55 per share thi...
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November 20, 2014, 8:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
HuaGao.com at $20k and other expired domain name sales
Once again, China tops our list of last week’s expired domain auctions. This time it’s GoDaddy with HuaGao.com ($20.3k), meaning … you tell me! Various working professionals share that name. (There’s a certified pub...
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HuaGao.com at $20k and other expired domain name sales
Once again, China tops our list of last week’s expired domain auctions. This time it’s GoDaddy with HuaGao.com ($20.3k), meaning … you tell me! Various working professionals share that name. (There’s a certified pub...
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November 20, 2014, 7:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Nirvana gets domain names from Australian man who demanded $1.5 million
Panels say it Smells Like B.S. Nirvana LLC — the company that owns the intellectual property from the late grunge band Nirvana — has won control of five domain names registered by an Australian man. The company filed UDRP and aUDRP disput...
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Nirvana gets domain names from Australian man who demanded $1.5 million
Panels say it Smells Like B.S. Nirvana LLC — the company that owns the intellectual property from the late grunge band Nirvana — has won control of five domain names registered by an Australian man. The company filed UDRP and aUDRP disput...
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November 20, 2014, 3:43 pm
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Dish DBS beats Google in .Dot auction, pays $700,000 for domain
Dish won a two way race to operate the top level domain name .dot. Dish DBS, the satellite TV company and owner of Blockbuster, has beaten Google in a public auction for the top level domain .Dot. It paid $700,000 for the rights to the domain name. Y...
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Dish DBS beats Google in .Dot auction, pays $700,000 for domain
Dish won a two way race to operate the top level domain name .dot. Dish DBS, the satellite TV company and owner of Blockbuster, has beaten Google in a public auction for the top level domain .Dot. It paid $700,000 for the rights to the domain name. Y...
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November 20, 2014, 2:38 am
Domain Name Wire
17 end user domain name sales, including a big .Me
An antiquated technology term in .me sells for five figures. Sedo sold $1 million worth of domain names last week. While this week’s list doesn’t include as many end user buyers as the last one (at least publicly), a lot of smaller busine...
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17 end user domain name sales, including a big .Me
An antiquated technology term in .me sells for five figures. Sedo sold $1 million worth of domain names last week. While this week’s list doesn’t include as many end user buyers as the last one (at least publicly), a lot of smaller busine...
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November 19, 2014, 6:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy’s DomainFinder App advances domain name selection
App makes it easier to narrow in on the best domain name. GoDaddy recently released an iOS app for finding and registering domain names called GoDaddy DomainFinder. Many of its features are similar to what you find on GoDaddy.com and other registrar ...
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GoDaddy’s DomainFinder App advances domain name selection
App makes it easier to narrow in on the best domain name. GoDaddy recently released an iOS app for finding and registering domain names called GoDaddy DomainFinder. Many of its features are similar to what you find on GoDaddy.com and other registrar ...
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November 19, 2014, 3:36 pm
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How .Realtor quickly became one of the most used new TLDs
Easy-to-create starter sites fuel early usage of domain names for Realtors. About four weeks ago, the National Association of Realtors released the .realtor domain name. Ahead of the launch, I called it one of the most important launches in the nasce...
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How .Realtor quickly became one of the most used new TLDs
Easy-to-create starter sites fuel early usage of domain names for Realtors. About four weeks ago, the National Association of Realtors released the .realtor domain name. Ahead of the launch, I called it one of the most important launches in the nasce...
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November 18, 2014, 8:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google upgrades mobile-friendly sites in search results
Sites will get label, and might get a search benefit in the future. Google announced today that it is adding a “mobile-friendly” label to sites in search results, and is experimenting with using mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. Ov...
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Google upgrades mobile-friendly sites in search results
Sites will get label, and might get a search benefit in the future. Google announced today that it is adding a “mobile-friendly” label to sites in search results, and is experimenting with using mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. Ov...
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November 18, 2014, 4:47 pm
