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.Gov Domain Registrations Maybe Increasing From $125 to $400 a Year
According to Targetednews.com, the cost of a .Gov domain registration and renewal are proposed to increase from $125 a year to $400 a year. .Gov is a domain name extension that is only available to be registered by governmental entities in the United...
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.Gov Domain Registrations Maybe Increasing From $125 to $400 a Year
According to Targetednews.com, the cost of a .Gov domain registration and renewal are proposed to increase from $125 a year to $400 a year. .Gov is a domain name extension that is only available to be registered by governmental entities in the United...
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April 21, 2016, 4:39 pm

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Market Recap 4/20/16 Tucows Continues Impressive Streak
Market Recap 4/20/16 Tucows (TCX) continues to move upwards, trading over $26 and closing up another 3.8%. Go Daddy (GDDY) and Web.com (WEB) were both up over 1%. Rightside (NAME) was off just a dime, the stock tried to break through $9 earlier in th...
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Market Recap 4/20/16 Tucows Continues Impressive Streak
Market Recap 4/20/16 Tucows (TCX) continues to move upwards, trading over $26 and closing up another 3.8%. Go Daddy (GDDY) and Web.com (WEB) were both up over 1%. Rightside (NAME) was off just a dime, the stock tried to break through $9 earlier in th...
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April 20, 2016, 8:28 pm

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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by FirstSport.com
Over the past week, 509 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: &...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by FirstSport.com
Over the past week, 509 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: &...
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April 20, 2016, 12:31 pm

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One Domain Owner Was Ahead of Trump on CrookedHillary.com
Throughout the campaign trail this year Donald Trump has come up with nicknames for political rivals. “Lyin Ted” for Ted Cruz, “Little Marco” for Marco Rubio and his latest nickname “Crooked Hillary” for Democratic...
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One Domain Owner Was Ahead of Trump on CrookedHillary.com
Throughout the campaign trail this year Donald Trump has come up with nicknames for political rivals. “Lyin Ted” for Ted Cruz, “Little Marco” for Marco Rubio and his latest nickname “Crooked Hillary” for Democratic...
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April 20, 2016, 12:08 pm

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What’s Being Used Left of The Dot ? CSC Report Gives Examples
CSC released their new gtld utilization report for April. Using Alexa as one barometer it seems that the number of new g’s in the Alexa top one million has risen by 30% since February. One of the thing the report pointed out was what is being u...
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What’s Being Used Left of The Dot ? CSC Report Gives Examples
CSC released their new gtld utilization report for April. Using Alexa as one barometer it seems that the number of new g’s in the Alexa top one million has risen by 30% since February. One of the thing the report pointed out was what is being u...
Discussion
April 19, 2016, 8:37 pm

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Richmond Mayoral Candidate Registers the Competition
Mark Robinson at RichmondMagazine.com wrote a piece on some dirty domain politics. Nate Peterson who is just 25 years old and has never held office wants to run for Mayor of Richmond. After registering NatePetersonformayor.com he decided to register ...
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Richmond Mayoral Candidate Registers the Competition
Mark Robinson at RichmondMagazine.com wrote a piece on some dirty domain politics. Nate Peterson who is just 25 years old and has never held office wants to run for Mayor of Richmond. After registering NatePetersonformayor.com he decided to register ...
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April 19, 2016, 3:15 pm

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HA.com Live Auction Today
Heritage Auctions is set to host another auction tonight at 4p.m. Eastern today. Proxy bidding ends one hour prior to the live auction. There are 42 lots up for auction. Some of the top lots include: Ve.com 720.com Balloon.com Blaze.com One lot inclu...
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HA.com Live Auction Today
Heritage Auctions is set to host another auction tonight at 4p.m. Eastern today. Proxy bidding ends one hour prior to the live auction. There are 42 lots up for auction. Some of the top lots include: Ve.com 720.com Balloon.com Blaze.com One lot inclu...
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April 19, 2016, 2:17 pm

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Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows continues winning streak up another 5%
Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows (TCX) the stock continued to post gains up over 5%. The shares arte up over 13% over the last 5 days. Rightside (NAME) closed at $9 for the first time since Feb 1. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 787.68 +7.68 (0.98%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 3...
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Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows continues winning streak up another 5%
Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows (TCX) the stock continued to post gains up over 5%. The shares arte up over 13% over the last 5 days. Rightside (NAME) closed at $9 for the first time since Feb 1. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 787.68 +7.68 (0.98%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 3...
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April 18, 2016, 8:28 pm

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As Viewer Patterns Change So Are The Search Engines
For those not following Google over the last six weeks, right side desktop ads are gone and the rules of SEO and how people scan Google have changed a bit. Dan Bagby wrote a good article on these changes and provided some insight into keyword researc...
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As Viewer Patterns Change So Are The Search Engines
For those not following Google over the last six weeks, right side desktop ads are gone and the rules of SEO and how people scan Google have changed a bit. Dan Bagby wrote a good article on these changes and provided some insight into keyword researc...
Discussion
April 18, 2016, 1:33 pm

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Buying A Domain Name to Get A Twitter Handle – Wrong or Genius ?
Joel Runyon publishes ImpossibleHQ.com and he wrote an interesting article about getting the Twitter handle he needed by buying a domain name. Some may not agree with the method because Joel did a workaround that did not include getting Twitter to gi...
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Buying A Domain Name to Get A Twitter Handle – Wrong or Genius ?
Joel Runyon publishes ImpossibleHQ.com and he wrote an interesting article about getting the Twitter handle he needed by buying a domain name. Some may not agree with the method because Joel did a workaround that did not include getting Twitter to gi...
Discussion
April 17, 2016, 10:23 pm