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Namejet Increasing Minimum Price on Pending Delete Domains To $69 from $39 Today
I just got an email from Namejet.com that effective sometime today their “promotional pricing” of $39 minimum on backorders on Pending Delete domain names is ending. The new minimum backorder for Pending Delete domains will now be $69. &l...
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Namejet Increasing Minimum Price on Pending Delete Domains To $69 from $39 Today
I just got an email from Namejet.com that effective sometime today their “promotional pricing” of $39 minimum on backorders on Pending Delete domain names is ending. The new minimum backorder for Pending Delete domains will now be $69. &l...
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March 30, 2016, 4:57 pm

The Domains
Rick Schwartz Files UDRP To Protect His “Domain King” Mark & There’s More To Come
Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the “Domain King” has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. Rick not only is commonly know...
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Rick Schwartz Files UDRP To Protect His “Domain King” Mark & There’s More To Come
Rick Schwartz who has been known in the domain community as the “Domain King” has filed an administrative action to gain control of the domain name DomainKing.ng. .Ng is the country code (ccTLD) for Nigeria. Rick not only is commonly know...
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March 30, 2016, 2:51 pm

The Domains
Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google’s parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a “new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds ...
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Google Launches Unfiltered.News
Google’s parent company, Alphabet’s tech incubator, Jigsaw just launched another website on a new gTLD. Unfiltered.News which is described as a “new experiment at Google which many of you may enjoy, a site which analyzes news feeds ...
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March 30, 2016, 2:03 pm

The Domains
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by TMHCC.com
Over the past week, 429 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: Top .com: tmhcc.com at 65,000 USD To...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1million led by TMHCC.com
Over the past week, 429 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: Top .com: tmhcc.com at 65,000 USD To...
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March 29, 2016, 6:56 pm

The Domains
Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April’s Fool’s day when Google temporarily put up “com.google”. This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL f...
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Google Moves Its Domain Name Registrar To Domains.Google
Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April’s Fool’s day when Google temporarily put up “com.google”. This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL f...
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March 29, 2016, 5:36 pm

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Three Letter Domain, EHF.com Lost in UDRP
A three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for...
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Three Letter Domain, EHF.com Lost in UDRP
A three member UDRP panel just handed over the three letter domain name EHF.com to the European Handball Federation The panel of Flip Jan Claude Petillion, John Swinson and The Hon Neil Brown Q.C. found that the domain was parked, listed for sale for...
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March 29, 2016, 5:09 pm

The Domains
Did the Other Shoe Just Drop On The Chinese Domain Market?
According to a story which appeared in globaltimes.cn, “the Chinese government is stepping up efforts to strengthen management of the Internet with the recent drafting of an “unprecedented” regulation on Internet domain names.&rdquo...
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Did the Other Shoe Just Drop On The Chinese Domain Market?
According to a story which appeared in globaltimes.cn, “the Chinese government is stepping up efforts to strengthen management of the Internet with the recent drafting of an “unprecedented” regulation on Internet domain names.&rdquo...
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March 29, 2016, 4:46 pm

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.Tickets Opens Up 30K Premium Domains Through Registrars
According to a press release from Accent Media the operator of the .Tickets new gTLD, “around 30,000 premium names, such as ‘vip.tickets’, ‘cheapflight.tickets’ and ‘club.tickets’ have been made available for...
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.Tickets Opens Up 30K Premium Domains Through Registrars
According to a press release from Accent Media the operator of the .Tickets new gTLD, “around 30,000 premium names, such as ‘vip.tickets’, ‘cheapflight.tickets’ and ‘club.tickets’ have been made available for...
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March 29, 2016, 1:47 pm

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Market Recap 3/28/16 Rightside off 2.5% – Tucows up 1.4%
Market Recap 3/28/16 A mixed bag today with some stocks up over 1% and other off over 1%. Rightside (NAME) was off 2.5% on the day down .21. Neustar (NSR) and Tucows (TCX) were both up over 1% today. Endurance Intl (EIGI) was the biggest loser on the...
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Market Recap 3/28/16 Rightside off 2.5% – Tucows up 1.4%
Market Recap 3/28/16 A mixed bag today with some stocks up over 1% and other off over 1%. Rightside (NAME) was off 2.5% on the day down .21. Neustar (NSR) and Tucows (TCX) were both up over 1% today. Endurance Intl (EIGI) was the biggest loser on the...
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March 28, 2016, 8:37 pm

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Ethereum up over 1,000% – can it dethrone Bitcoin ?
The new York Times published an article today on Ethereum giving the upstart rival to Bitcoin some mainstream publicity. Ethereum was created by a 21-year-old Russian-Canadian, Vitalik Buterin. From the article: Joseph Bonneau, a computer science res...
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Ethereum up over 1,000% – can it dethrone Bitcoin ?
The new York Times published an article today on Ethereum giving the upstart rival to Bitcoin some mainstream publicity. Ethereum was created by a 21-year-old Russian-Canadian, Vitalik Buterin. From the article: Joseph Bonneau, a computer science res...
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March 28, 2016, 3:41 pm