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Radix Has Record Month With Over 760K Domain Registrations
Domain name registry operator, Radix announced today that it had a record month in February 2016, generating over 760,000 domain registrations across its domain portfolio. February 2016 was its biggest ever month ever in terms of new registrations. L...
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Radix Has Record Month With Over 760K Domain Registrations
Domain name registry operator, Radix announced today that it had a record month in February 2016, generating over 760,000 domain registrations across its domain portfolio. February 2016 was its biggest ever month ever in terms of new registrations. L...
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March 9, 2016, 2:14 pm
The Domains
Market Recap 3/8/16 Stocks down across the board
Market Recap 3/8/16 Domain stocks were down across the board today, lock step with the broader market. Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 1.7% on the day while competitor Web.com ( WWWW) was off over 3%. Alphabet (GOOGL) and Rightside (NAME) managed to just mak...
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Market Recap 3/8/16 Stocks down across the board
Market Recap 3/8/16 Domain stocks were down across the board today, lock step with the broader market. Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 1.7% on the day while competitor Web.com ( WWWW) was off over 3%. Alphabet (GOOGL) and Rightside (NAME) managed to just mak...
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March 8, 2016, 9:38 pm
The Domains
Trump is #1 Trending Keyword in .Com Registrations in February
Verisign the registry for .Com and .Net just published it’s Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net domain name registrations in February. Trump ruled the .Com universe coming out as the number one trending keyword for the month while came ...
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Trump is #1 Trending Keyword in .Com Registrations in February
Verisign the registry for .Com and .Net just published it’s Top 10 Trending Keywords in .Com & .Net domain name registrations in February. Trump ruled the .Com universe coming out as the number one trending keyword for the month while came ...
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March 8, 2016, 9:16 pm
The Domains
Afilias Says .Bet is 11th Most Registered New gTLD; But It’s Really 84th
Afilias put out a press release earlier today claiming that one of its new gTLD’s .Bet which was just launched last week, already was the 11th most registered new gTLD, but in reality it’s the 84th most registered new domain extension. He...
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Afilias Says .Bet is 11th Most Registered New gTLD; But It’s Really 84th
Afilias put out a press release earlier today claiming that one of its new gTLD’s .Bet which was just launched last week, already was the 11th most registered new gTLD, but in reality it’s the 84th most registered new domain extension. He...
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March 8, 2016, 7:44 pm
The Domains
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1million led by 1787.com
Over the past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 63% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1million led by 1787.com
Over the past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 63% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
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March 8, 2016, 5:34 pm
The Domains
HA.com Announces 42 Domains For Live Auction On April 19th: Quick.com, VE.com; Sit.com
HA.com just released the 42 domain names it will be auctioning off live on April 19th in San Francisco. Bidding is now open at: http://domains.ha.com/c/auction-home.zx?saleNo=1230 Here is the press release we just received from Aron Meystedt of HA.co...
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HA.com Announces 42 Domains For Live Auction On April 19th: Quick.com, VE.com; Sit.com
HA.com just released the 42 domain names it will be auctioning off live on April 19th in San Francisco. Bidding is now open at: http://domains.ha.com/c/auction-home.zx?saleNo=1230 Here is the press release we just received from Aron Meystedt of HA.co...
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March 8, 2016, 4:40 pm
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Network Solution Is Stuffing .Design Domains Into Customers Accounts As “Brand Protection”
Network Solutions which stuffed .XYZ domain names into customers account for free, is at it again this time with the new gTLD .Design. Customers of Network Solutions are receiving notices that they are being given a free .Design domain, matching a do...
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Network Solution Is Stuffing .Design Domains Into Customers Accounts As “Brand Protection”
Network Solutions which stuffed .XYZ domain names into customers account for free, is at it again this time with the new gTLD .Design. Customers of Network Solutions are receiving notices that they are being given a free .Design domain, matching a do...
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March 8, 2016, 4:17 pm
The Domains
89 of The Top 100 New gTLD Domain Holders Are From China
We have chatted about the growing influence of Chinese domain investors in the domain industry before, however today I checked out ntldstats.com to review the top 100 largest holders of new gTLD domain names and found 89 of the top 100 domain holders...
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89 of The Top 100 New gTLD Domain Holders Are From China
We have chatted about the growing influence of Chinese domain investors in the domain industry before, however today I checked out ntldstats.com to review the top 100 largest holders of new gTLD domain names and found 89 of the top 100 domain holders...
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March 8, 2016, 3:15 pm
The Domains
Market Recap 3/7/16 Go Daddy up 2% – Rightside down another 4%
Market Recap 3/7/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up 2% on the day where most were down. Rightside (NAME) was off close to another 4%. Tucows (TCX) was down 2.4% on the day. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 712.80 -17.42 (-2.39%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 32.70 +0.67 (2.09%) Rightsi...
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Market Recap 3/7/16 Go Daddy up 2% – Rightside down another 4%
Market Recap 3/7/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was up 2% on the day where most were down. Rightside (NAME) was off close to another 4%. Tucows (TCX) was down 2.4% on the day. Alphabet Inc GOOGL 712.80 -17.42 (-2.39%) Godaddy Inc GDDY 32.70 +0.67 (2.09%) Rightsi...
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March 7, 2016, 9:19 pm
The Domains
Spamhaus Publishes List of “10 Worst Top Level Domains”
Spamhaus.org published today a list of the “10 Worst Top Level Domains” The list is “not a list of the worst TLDs in quantity, several other TLDs have far more spam domains, but they also have vastly more non-spam domains. ” &...
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Spamhaus Publishes List of “10 Worst Top Level Domains”
Spamhaus.org published today a list of the “10 Worst Top Level Domains” The list is “not a list of the worst TLDs in quantity, several other TLDs have far more spam domains, but they also have vastly more non-spam domains. ” &...
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March 5, 2016, 6:56 pm
