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Domain names suggest Democrats to campaign for “1 Million Votes”
DCCC registers domain name for new marketing push. Important midterm elections are upon us and both Republicans and Democrats are revving up their marketing engines. What catchy slogan will the Democrats push? “1 Million Votes”, judging f...
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Domain names suggest Democrats to campaign for “1 Million Votes”
DCCC registers domain name for new marketing push. Important midterm elections are upon us and both Republicans and Democrats are revving up their marketing engines. What catchy slogan will the Democrats push? “1 Million Votes”, judging f...
Discussion
July 17, 2014, 3:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Name sales results
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in expired domain name sales. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, rather than explain GoDaddy’s $6.8k sale of DivaZoo.com, let me just say, “See for yourself!” This pro...
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Expired Domain Name sales results
Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in expired domain name sales. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, rather than explain GoDaddy’s $6.8k sale of DivaZoo.com, let me just say, “See for yourself!” This pro...
Discussion
July 17, 2014, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker enables bulk transfer auth codes
Moniker makes it easier to transfer domain names to another registrar. It’s been a frustrating six weeks for Moniker customers. After a disastrous switch to a completely new registrar platform, many customers wanted to move their domain names t...
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Moniker enables bulk transfer auth codes
Moniker makes it easier to transfer domain names to another registrar. It’s been a frustrating six weeks for Moniker customers. After a disastrous switch to a completely new registrar platform, many customers wanted to move their domain names t...
Discussion
July 17, 2014, 1:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sony forgets to renew domain name, takes down online gaming service SOE.com
Sony Online Entertainment goes down thanks to expired domain name. Sony forgot to renew a key domain name, SonyOnline.net, which resulted in an outage on its popular Sony Online Entertainment game network found at SOE.com. While SOE.com did not expir...
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Sony forgets to renew domain name, takes down online gaming service SOE.com
Sony Online Entertainment goes down thanks to expired domain name. Sony forgot to renew a key domain name, SonyOnline.net, which resulted in an outage on its popular Sony Online Entertainment game network found at SOE.com. While SOE.com did not expir...
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July 16, 2014, 9:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest .City domain name launches with 4,000+ registrations
.Wien launches. .Tokyo is next week. The latest geo city top level domain name to launch received more than 4,000 registrations on its first partial day. .Wien (German for Vienna) launched yesterday and added 4,201 domain names to the zone file. That...
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Latest .City domain name launches with 4,000+ registrations
.Wien launches. .Tokyo is next week. The latest geo city top level domain name to launch received more than 4,000 registrations on its first partial day. .Wien (German for Vienna) launched yesterday and added 4,201 domain names to the zone file. That...
Discussion
July 16, 2014, 6:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
End users flock to .co.uk domain names as second level .UK names launch
Good .co.uk domain names sell to end users who will be able to claim the matching .uk domains. Sedo sold lots of good .co.uk domain names last week. I suspect this is because of the launch of second level .uk domain names. Owners of .co.uk domain nam...
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End users flock to .co.uk domain names as second level .UK names launch
Good .co.uk domain names sell to end users who will be able to claim the matching .uk domains. Sedo sold lots of good .co.uk domain names last week. I suspect this is because of the launch of second level .uk domain names. Owners of .co.uk domain nam...
Discussion
July 16, 2014, 4:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
There’s no such thing as a premium .Info domain name any more
The market is quickly becoming flooded with acceptable alternatives to .info (and .biz) domains. Sedo is trying to sell some of its own .info domain names in an auction right now, and takers are few and far between. The auction is called the “P...
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There’s no such thing as a premium .Info domain name any more
The market is quickly becoming flooded with acceptable alternatives to .info (and .biz) domains. Sedo is trying to sell some of its own .info domain names in an auction right now, and takers are few and far between. The auction is called the “P...
Discussion
July 16, 2014, 3:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Will new TLDs get a second wind?
It’s likely, but when is the big question. Most new top level domain names are struggling to break even the 10,000 domain name barrier. Many applicants tell me they aren’t worried; it’s the long game. That’s true for many of t...
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Will new TLDs get a second wind?
It’s likely, but when is the big question. Most new top level domain names are struggling to break even the 10,000 domain name barrier. Many applicants tell me they aren’t worried; it’s the long game. That’s true for many of t...
Discussion
July 15, 2014, 7:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo does the promotion that domain registrars should do
Domain name registrars would see good results from a marketing push similar to this. Sedo just sent out a marketing pitch to people that have listed domains for sale with “club” in them in the past. The subject line was “Did you try...
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Sedo does the promotion that domain registrars should do
Domain name registrars would see good results from a marketing push similar to this. Sedo just sent out a marketing pitch to people that have listed domains for sale with “club” in them in the past. The subject line was “Did you try...
Discussion
July 15, 2014, 4:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain name auction services should rethink auto extensions
The current method of preventing bid sniping leads to bidder fatigue. Last Friday GoDaddy sent out a somewhat confusing notice about a change to GoDaddy Auctions and auto extensions. Previously, any bid placed within the last five minutes of an aucti...
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Domain name auction services should rethink auto extensions
The current method of preventing bid sniping leads to bidder fatigue. Last Friday GoDaddy sent out a somewhat confusing notice about a change to GoDaddy Auctions and auto extensions. Previously, any bid placed within the last five minutes of an aucti...
Discussion
July 15, 2014, 2:38 pm
