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.Services domain name up to 4,600 and .Pub 1,300 after one day
.Services runs out of the gate, .pub is toast-worthy. Two new top level domain names launched yesterday and both had fairly good days. Donuts launched .services, its only domain name to come out of the Early Access phase this week. It added roughly 4...
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.Services domain name up to 4,600 and .Pub 1,300 after one day
.Services runs out of the gate, .pub is toast-worthy. Two new top level domain names launched yesterday and both had fairly good days. Donuts launched .services, its only domain name to come out of the Early Access phase this week. It added roughly 4...
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July 10, 2014, 1:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Investing in new TLDs? Hope for modest, not great, success of program.
Early investors in new top level domain names might get a better return if new TLDs as a whole are a mediocre success instead of a home run. Domain investors have registered a good chunk (the bulk?) of new TLD offerings to date. Is this a good invest...
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Investing in new TLDs? Hope for modest, not great, success of program.
Early investors in new top level domain names might get a better return if new TLDs as a whole are a mediocre success instead of a home run. Domain investors have registered a good chunk (the bulk?) of new TLD offerings to date. Is this a good invest...
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July 9, 2014, 4:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bitcoins.com gives Heritage Auctions the press it has been looking for
HA adds a press-worthy domain name to its July auction. One of the things Heritage Auctions is trying to do with domain name auctions is bring domain investing to the mainstream. By mainstream, I mean collectors and investors in coins, memorabilia an...
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Bitcoins.com gives Heritage Auctions the press it has been looking for
HA adds a press-worthy domain name to its July auction. One of the things Heritage Auctions is trying to do with domain name auctions is bring domain investing to the mainstream. By mainstream, I mean collectors and investors in coins, memorabilia an...
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July 9, 2014, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XXX sells more premiums and offers free domain names through partnership
Sales keep coming in for .xxx in its third year. .XXX continues to sell premium domain names for prices that new TLD operators would love to obtain. The company recently sold three more .xxx domain names, including extreme.xxx, for a total of over $1...
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.XXX sells more premiums and offers free domain names through partnership
Sales keep coming in for .xxx in its third year. .XXX continues to sell premium domain names for prices that new TLD operators would love to obtain. The company recently sold three more .xxx domain names, including extreme.xxx, for a total of over $1...
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July 9, 2014, 1:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Co.com exits landrush with thousands of registrations
Third level domain option enters general availability today. .Co.com.Co.com, a new third level domain name registration, enters general availability today with “single-digit thousands” of registrations already. The registry says that the ...
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.Co.com exits landrush with thousands of registrations
Third level domain option enters general availability today. .Co.com.Co.com, a new third level domain name registration, enters general availability today with “single-digit thousands” of registrations already. The registry says that the ...
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July 8, 2014, 3:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Texas License plates sound a bit like new TLDs
A lot of niche license plates, just like niche domain names, might not make sense in the long run. The Dallas Morning News published a story this past weekend about specialized licensed plates and a lack of sales for niche plates. Like many states, T...
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Texas License plates sound a bit like new TLDs
A lot of niche license plates, just like niche domain names, might not make sense in the long run. The Dallas Morning News published a story this past weekend about specialized licensed plates and a lack of sales for niche plates. Like many states, T...
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July 8, 2014, 2:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling beats IBM in domain dispute
Reserved three letter .link domains won’t be suspended. Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names, the company under which he registers premium domains in his new TLDs, has defended two such domain names from a URS filed by IBM. IBM filed a Uni...
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Frank Schilling beats IBM in domain dispute
Reserved three letter .link domains won’t be suspended. Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names, the company under which he registers premium domains in his new TLDs, has defended two such domain names from a URS filed by IBM. IBM filed a Uni...
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July 8, 2014, 1:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week in new TLDs: .Pub, .Christmas and more
Frank Schilling tries to put you in the holiday spirit and Rightside raises its glass. You know what amazes me? One of the .brand TLDs to “go live” this week, .中信 and .citic, has a better information page than some of the other new TL...
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This week in new TLDs: .Pub, .Christmas and more
Frank Schilling tries to put you in the holiday spirit and Rightside raises its glass. You know what amazes me? One of the .brand TLDs to “go live” this week, .中信 and .citic, has a better information page than some of the other new TL...
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July 7, 2014, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Salesforce.com sells Do.com domain name to startup
After shutting down service that used Do.com, company sells domain name to startup. It appears Salesforce.com has sold the domain name Do.com to Redo, Inc., parent company of meeting productive application DoMeetings.com. If you go to DoMeetings.com ...
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Salesforce.com sells Do.com domain name to startup
After shutting down service that used Do.com, company sells domain name to startup. It appears Salesforce.com has sold the domain name Do.com to Redo, Inc., parent company of meeting productive application DoMeetings.com. If you go to DoMeetings.com ...
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July 7, 2014, 1:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines files patent for “Domain Name Registration and Resale”
Patent describes system similar to AfternicDLS and SedoMLS but at the registry level. Minds + Machines Chairman Fred Krueger has filed a patent application (pdf) for the resale of domain names, titled “Domain Name Registration and Resale”...
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Minds + Machines files patent for “Domain Name Registration and Resale”
Patent describes system similar to AfternicDLS and SedoMLS but at the registry level. Minds + Machines Chairman Fred Krueger has filed a patent application (pdf) for the resale of domain names, titled “Domain Name Registration and Resale”...
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July 3, 2014, 4:38 pm
