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HA.com to Hold Online/Live Domain Auction In SF: Submissions are Open
According to a press release we just received Heritage Auctions announced today they are holding an auction in San Francisco for domain names. HA.com is looking for: Short, punchy one word .com names, suitable for branding a company or a new venture....
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HA.com to Hold Online/Live Domain Auction In SF: Submissions are Open
According to a press release we just received Heritage Auctions announced today they are holding an auction in San Francisco for domain names. HA.com is looking for: Short, punchy one word .com names, suitable for branding a company or a new venture....
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January 25, 2016, 9:57 pm
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After 11 years Victoria Beckham gets her Typo .Com Domain: VictoriaBeckam.com
A UDRP panel just award the typo domain name VictoriaBeckam.com to the former Spice Girl and the wife of David Beckham whose website is Victoriabeckham.com The domain was first registered in 2004 so its been kicking around for quite a while making so...
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After 11 years Victoria Beckham gets her Typo .Com Domain: VictoriaBeckam.com
A UDRP panel just award the typo domain name VictoriaBeckam.com to the former Spice Girl and the wife of David Beckham whose website is Victoriabeckham.com The domain was first registered in 2004 so its been kicking around for quite a while making so...
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January 25, 2016, 6:24 pm
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Google Blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015
Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O’Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From ClickZ: Some of the main perpetrators include: More than 12.5 million pharm...
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Google Blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015
Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O’Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From ClickZ: Some of the main perpetrators include: More than 12.5 million pharm...
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January 25, 2016, 12:12 pm
The Domains
.Green Is Raising $3.5 Million Through CrowdFunding
DotGreen Community, Inc., the company behind the new .GREEN top level domain name, announced today the launch of an Internet capital raising campaign to raise $3.5 million. The first offering, a Regulation D 506(C) Private Placement solely for accred...
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.Green Is Raising $3.5 Million Through CrowdFunding
DotGreen Community, Inc., the company behind the new .GREEN top level domain name, announced today the launch of an Internet capital raising campaign to raise $3.5 million. The first offering, a Regulation D 506(C) Private Placement solely for accred...
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January 22, 2016, 8:29 pm
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All Single Character .Car Domains Are Registered: Here Are the Available .Cars
I did a quite whois check and found that all single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of the 40 single charter .Car domain names that have been registered, 27 were registered at Ch...
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All Single Character .Car Domains Are Registered: Here Are the Available .Cars
I did a quite whois check and found that all single letter .Car and single number .Car domain names are now registered. Probably not shocking to anyone but of the 40 single charter .Car domain names that have been registered, 27 were registered at Ch...
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January 22, 2016, 7:16 pm
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CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World
According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD’s including .com, .net and ...
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CENTR Reports There Are 311.5 Million Domains In The World
According to a new report out today (PDF) by CENTR, which is the European country code TLD organisation, as of December 31, there are 311.5 million domain names in the world. 158.7 million domain names are Legacy TLD’s including .com, .net and ...
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January 22, 2016, 6:23 pm
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Report: Ad Fraud to cost advertisers $7.2 Billion in 2016
Mike O’Brien wrote an article on Clickz that delved into just how much ad fraud is costing companies. The article referenced a study called The 2015 Bot Baseline Report, that report concluded that advertisers will lose $7.2 billion in 2016. The...
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Report: Ad Fraud to cost advertisers $7.2 Billion in 2016
Mike O’Brien wrote an article on Clickz that delved into just how much ad fraud is costing companies. The article referenced a study called The 2015 Bot Baseline Report, that report concluded that advertisers will lose $7.2 billion in 2016. The...
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January 22, 2016, 5:37 pm
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Live Tweeting During NameJet.com Extended Auction from Namescon
Just a quick note that I will be Tweeting some bidding and auction results in real-time on our Twitter feed which is @thedomains We already pointed out all the domain names that have met reserve and will sell today over the last couple of hours, plea...
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Live Tweeting During NameJet.com Extended Auction from Namescon
Just a quick note that I will be Tweeting some bidding and auction results in real-time on our Twitter feed which is @thedomains We already pointed out all the domain names that have met reserve and will sell today over the last couple of hours, plea...
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January 21, 2016, 7:51 pm
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Family; .Feedback
Earlier today we wrote about .Car, .Cars and .Auto which ended its first day of general availability with around 650 domain registrations. Two other new gTLD’s launched yesterday Rightside (NAME) .Family and Jay Westerdal’s .Feedback. .Fa...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Family; .Feedback
Earlier today we wrote about .Car, .Cars and .Auto which ended its first day of general availability with around 650 domain registrations. Two other new gTLD’s launched yesterday Rightside (NAME) .Family and Jay Westerdal’s .Feedback. .Fa...
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January 21, 2016, 4:49 pm
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.Car, .Cars & .Auto Hauls In Another Cool Million
The new gTLD’s .Car, .Cars and .Auto went into it’s first day of general availability (GA) yesterday a domain name could be registered on a first come, first severed basis. According to RegistrarStats.com here are the totals from th...
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.Car, .Cars & .Auto Hauls In Another Cool Million
The new gTLD’s .Car, .Cars and .Auto went into it’s first day of general availability (GA) yesterday a domain name could be registered on a first come, first severed basis. According to RegistrarStats.com here are the totals from th...
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January 21, 2016, 2:08 pm
