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Automated Domain Selling Fail
Make sure your system works so you don’t embarrass yourself. If you’re going to use an automated or semi-automated system to reach out to potential buyers of your domain names, please make sure the system works. I’ve received severa...
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Automated Domain Selling Fail
Make sure your system works so you don’t embarrass yourself. If you’re going to use an automated or semi-automated system to reach out to potential buyers of your domain names, please make sure the system works. I’ve received severa...
Discussion
September 29, 2011, 10:13 am
Domain Name Wire
What Domain KPMG, Clemson University, and Others Bought This Past WE
A weekly round up of end user domain name purchases. Here’s a look at domain names end users bought through Afternic last week. Entrepreneur.com bought ClubEntrepreneur.com for $5,000 one week after picking up EntrepreneurAwards.com for $2,088....
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What Domain KPMG, Clemson University, and Others Bought This Past WE
A weekly round up of end user domain name purchases. Here’s a look at domain names end users bought through Afternic last week. Entrepreneur.com bought ClubEntrepreneur.com for $5,000 one week after picking up EntrepreneurAwards.com for $2,088....
Discussion
September 28, 2011, 9:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon’s New Products and Its Domain Name Scorecard
Company gets key domains but misses some others. Amazon.com released a slew of new products today: a new basic Kindle, the Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Fire, and Amazon Silk. The company is known for aggressively registering variations and t...
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Amazon’s New Products and Its Domain Name Scorecard
Company gets key domains but misses some others. Amazon.com released a slew of new products today: a new basic Kindle, the Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Fire, and Amazon Silk. The company is known for aggressively registering variations and t...
Discussion
September 28, 2011, 12:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
DOMAINfest Announces Party Venues for Next Year’s L.A. Conference
A trip to an automotive museum and House of Blues. Social events for next year’s DOMAINfest Global event in Los Angeles will be held at differenct locations than years’ past. The Wednesday dinner networking event will be at the Petersen A...
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DOMAINfest Announces Party Venues for Next Year’s L.A. Conference
A trip to an automotive museum and House of Blues. Social events for next year’s DOMAINfest Global event in Los Angeles will be held at differenct locations than years’ past. The Wednesday dinner networking event will be at the Petersen A...
Discussion
September 28, 2011, 12:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sex.co Gets Close to 11k Visits Per Month
Domain up for auction gets solid traffic. About a year ago the owners of Sex.co put the domain up for sale on Sedo and started parking it there, too. Now that the domain name is up for sale in next month’s TRAFFIC auction, I figured I’d c...
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Sex.co Gets Close to 11k Visits Per Month
Domain up for auction gets solid traffic. About a year ago the owners of Sex.co put the domain up for sale on Sedo and started parking it there, too. Now that the domain name is up for sale in next month’s TRAFFIC auction, I figured I’d c...
Discussion
September 28, 2011, 10:08 am
Domain Name Wire
Shorter .Org Domain Names May Be On The Way
Public Interest Registry asks for permission to allocate one and two character .org domain names. .Org domain name registry Public Interest Registry is asking (pdf) ICANN to allow it to allocate certain one and two character .org domain names. PIR&rs...
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Shorter .Org Domain Names May Be On The Way
Public Interest Registry asks for permission to allocate one and two character .org domain names. .Org domain name registry Public Interest Registry is asking (pdf) ICANN to allow it to allocate certain one and two character .org domain names. PIR&rs...
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September 28, 2011, 8:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com Buys KindleFire.com Domain Name
Yes, Amazon.com owns KindleFire.com. Amazon is rumored to be launching the Kindle Fire tablet and eReader on Wednesday. But a lot of people have asked, “what about the domain name?” After all, the company owns a lot of other nature Kindle...
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Amazon.com Buys KindleFire.com Domain Name
Yes, Amazon.com owns KindleFire.com. Amazon is rumored to be launching the Kindle Fire tablet and eReader on Wednesday. But a lot of people have asked, “what about the domain name?” After all, the company owns a lot of other nature Kindle...
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September 27, 2011, 5:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy’s Real Number: 225 Million
Registrar has 50 million domains on the books. But how about over time? This past weekend Go Daddy topped the 50 million domain name mark. This number is kind of like a balance sheet: it means the company has 50 million domain names currently registe...
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Go Daddy’s Real Number: 225 Million
Registrar has 50 million domains on the books. But how about over time? This past weekend Go Daddy topped the 50 million domain name mark. This number is kind of like a balance sheet: it means the company has 50 million domain names currently registe...
Discussion
September 27, 2011, 12:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker Accepting Submissions for Premium Year-End Auction
Company to hold month long auction with just 50 domains. Moniker is holding a premium domain name auction starting next month that will be limited to 50 top domains. The auction will run for a full month beginning October 18. Domain submissions are d...
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Moniker Accepting Submissions for Premium Year-End Auction
Company to hold month long auction with just 50 domains. Moniker is holding a premium domain name auction starting next month that will be limited to 50 top domains. The auction will run for a full month beginning October 18. Domain submissions are d...
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September 27, 2011, 12:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
The Return of WWW.
www. will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain. That’s why you usually see ads that just promote something l...
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The Return of WWW.
www. will make a comeback with new top level domain names. Type in any correctly configured domain name and you don’t need to include www. Technically www is merely a subdomain. That’s why you usually see ads that just promote something l...
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September 27, 2011, 10:33 am
