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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $2 million led by CustomFit.com
685 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: customfit.com at 21,000 USD Top ccTLD: leasing.co.uk at 9,999 USD...
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $2 million led by CustomFit.com
685 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: customfit.com at 21,000 USD Top ccTLD: leasing.co.uk at 9,999 USD...
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February 16, 2016, 5:15 pm
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.Com Tops 125 Million Domain Registrations
According to Verisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com, the number of .Com registration crossed the 125 million mark in the Domain Name Base. The active zone file is just over 124 Million domain names. The active zone file does not include domain names t...
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.Com Tops 125 Million Domain Registrations
According to Verisign (VRSN) the registry for .Com, the number of .Com registration crossed the 125 million mark in the Domain Name Base. The active zone file is just over 124 Million domain names. The active zone file does not include domain names t...
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February 15, 2016, 4:32 pm
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The Story Of How Harvey Levin Bought The Domain TMZ.com For $5K
The Newyorker, just published a very interesting story on the history of TMZ, including the story on how the founder of the company, Harvey Levin bought the domain name for just $5,000 back in 2005. “The site needed a name, and “Feed the ...
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The Story Of How Harvey Levin Bought The Domain TMZ.com For $5K
The Newyorker, just published a very interesting story on the history of TMZ, including the story on how the founder of the company, Harvey Levin bought the domain name for just $5,000 back in 2005. “The site needed a name, and “Feed the ...
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February 15, 2016, 3:44 pm
The Domains
.Club Passes 9 Year Old .Mobi In Numbers of Domain Registrations
.Club has just passed .mobi in terms of domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com .club has 691,522 domain registrations while .mobi is at 691,342 .Mobi become available to be registered in 2006. .Club was 1st available for general a...
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.Club Passes 9 Year Old .Mobi In Numbers of Domain Registrations
.Club has just passed .mobi in terms of domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com .club has 691,522 domain registrations while .mobi is at 691,342 .Mobi become available to be registered in 2006. .Club was 1st available for general a...
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February 14, 2016, 2:53 pm
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LeBoeuf Corporation Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Leboeuf.com
LeBoeuf Corporation (“Complainant”), represented by Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld of KRONENBERGER ROSENFELD, LLP, California, USA, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain Leboeuf.com “”The three member...
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LeBoeuf Corporation Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on Leboeuf.com
LeBoeuf Corporation (“Complainant”), represented by Jeffrey M. Rosenfeld of KRONENBERGER ROSENFELD, LLP, California, USA, has just been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain Leboeuf.com “”The three member...
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February 13, 2016, 4:21 pm
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Clinton Department Of State Email’s Shows Interest In A Domain
One of the unclassified emails from the Hillary Clinton fiasco shows she or someone at the Department of State had an interest in a domain name around the term “World We Want” but seemed to pass on buying the bang on domain which was pric...
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Clinton Department Of State Email’s Shows Interest In A Domain
One of the unclassified emails from the Hillary Clinton fiasco shows she or someone at the Department of State had an interest in a domain name around the term “World We Want” but seemed to pass on buying the bang on domain which was pric...
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February 13, 2016, 1:41 pm
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Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com up over 10% – Verisign up close to 4%
Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com (WWWW) was up over 10% today, the company posted earnings last night (Non-GAAP EPS were $0.66, three cents above estimates) and received several upgrades today. Verisign (VRSN) was up close to 4% today and closed at $76.9...
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Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com up over 10% – Verisign up close to 4%
Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com (WWWW) was up over 10% today, the company posted earnings last night (Non-GAAP EPS were $0.66, three cents above estimates) and received several upgrades today. Verisign (VRSN) was up close to 4% today and closed at $76.9...
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February 12, 2016, 9:44 pm
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Rightside Establishes Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise in China & Plans To Be Licensed in 2016
Rightside (NAME) announced today its expanded operations in China by establishing a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). Rightside says that there are almost 90,000 domains registered in the their portfolio of 39 new gTLD’s in the Chinese ma...
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Rightside Establishes Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise in China & Plans To Be Licensed in 2016
Rightside (NAME) announced today its expanded operations in China by establishing a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). Rightside says that there are almost 90,000 domains registered in the their portfolio of 39 new gTLD’s in the Chinese ma...
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February 12, 2016, 6:53 pm
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.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations
On November 15th the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted. Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes of professions; lawyers, doctors, and accountants. According to Domainincite.com, “.pro star...
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.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations
On November 15th the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted. Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes of professions; lawyers, doctors, and accountants. According to Domainincite.com, “.pro star...
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February 12, 2016, 6:11 pm
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Verisign Working On Getting Contract To Operate .Com Registry For 10 More Years
In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in “in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN “to perform this Root Zone Maintainer role as a commercial service for ICANN upon the ...
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Verisign Working On Getting Contract To Operate .Com Registry For 10 More Years
In the earnings call today, Verisign (VRSN) announced that it was in “in the final stages of drafting the new Root Zone Maintainer Agreement with ICANN “to perform this Root Zone Maintainer role as a commercial service for ICANN upon the ...
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February 12, 2016, 4:27 am
