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Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names
Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and...
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Lend.me launches as a Prosper for domain names
Peer-to-peer loans use domain names as collateral. Francois Carrillo, who runs the Domaining.com news aggregation site, has launched Lend.me, a loan marketplace for domain name owners. It’s a peer-to-peer loan marketplace similar to Prosper and...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 9:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
HP employees threatened competitor Splunk?
Competitor says HP employees and consultant set up websites and social media accounts to disparage it…and then crossed the line with physical threats. I’ve read a lot of bizarre domain name disputes, but two recent ones involving an HP e...
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HP employees threatened competitor Splunk?
Competitor says HP employees and consultant set up websites and social media accounts to disparage it…and then crossed the line with physical threats. I’ve read a lot of bizarre domain name disputes, but two recent ones involving an HP e...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
.CEO marketing goes from silly to…
New TLD not doing so well? It doesn’t suck, it’s just “limited release”. By all measures, PeopleBrowsr’s two top level domain name launches have been flops. .CEO has 1,244 domains in the zone file. .Best has 434. This is...
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.CEO marketing goes from silly to…
New TLD not doing so well? It doesn’t suck, it’s just “limited release”. By all measures, PeopleBrowsr’s two top level domain name launches have been flops. .CEO has 1,244 domains in the zone file. .Best has 434. This is...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 2:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Will .Berlin be #1 this week? Domains are free for next 5 days.
Free domains will boost total .Berlin registration numbers. .Berlin got off to a nice start thanks to a free .Berlin promotion. A new promotion may propel the domain name to the #1 slot on the new top level domain name charts. Officially, 20 registra...
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Will .Berlin be #1 this week? Domains are free for next 5 days.
Free domains will boost total .Berlin registration numbers. .Berlin got off to a nice start thanks to a free .Berlin promotion. A new promotion may propel the domain name to the #1 slot on the new top level domain name charts. Officially, 20 registra...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 1:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Taking a look a May’s NameJet sales
An deeper look at some of last month’s sales on NameJet. If you didn’t catch Andrew Allemann’s insightful take on April sales at NameJet, it’s worth a read. This time, I’m filling in with some observations on last ...
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Taking a look a May’s NameJet sales
An deeper look at some of last month’s sales on NameJet. If you didn’t catch Andrew Allemann’s insightful take on April sales at NameJet, it’s worth a read. This time, I’m filling in with some observations on last ...
Discussion
June 16, 2014, 12:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Harvard Business School and others bought last week
Harvard among end user domain name buyers last week. Sedo sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some that were purchased by end users; see previous end user sales lists here. Want to sell domains like these on Sedo? Download thi...
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What domain names Harvard Business School and others bought last week
Harvard among end user domain name buyers last week. Sedo sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some that were purchased by end users; see previous end user sales lists here. Want to sell domains like these on Sedo? Download thi...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 3:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Is .xyz’s marketing wrong, smart or both?
Inflated numbers will result in more mainstream press mentions. A lot has been written over the past couple weeks about .xyz and its so-called “sham” registrations. Network Solutions is giving away free .xyz domain names and is not even r...
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Is .xyz’s marketing wrong, smart or both?
Inflated numbers will result in more mainstream press mentions. A lot has been written over the past couple weeks about .xyz and its so-called “sham” registrations. Network Solutions is giving away free .xyz domain names and is not even r...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 1:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Wow: .Hotel contention set resolved after CPE
.Hotel applicant wipes out competition by winning community status. In what is sure to be a shocker to many new TLD applicants, HOTEL Top-Level Domain s.a.r.l has prevailed in its Community Priority Evaluation for the .hotel domain name. It was the o...
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Wow: .Hotel contention set resolved after CPE
.Hotel applicant wipes out competition by winning community status. In what is sure to be a shocker to many new TLD applicants, HOTEL Top-Level Domain s.a.r.l has prevailed in its Community Priority Evaluation for the .hotel domain name. It was the o...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 1:58 am
Domain Name Wire
EDR: Results and analysis from over 150 expired domain name auctions
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy. It’s not ...
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EDR: Results and analysis from over 150 expired domain name auctions
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy. It’s not ...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 6:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
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Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 5:33 pm
