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Rightside Adds Short New gTLD’s With Normal Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Rightside® (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that it will be participating in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference that will be held next Monday, January 11th at 2PM EST. All domain names carry a normal renewa...
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Rightside Adds Short New gTLD’s With Normal Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction
Rightside® (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that it will be participating in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference that will be held next Monday, January 11th at 2PM EST. All domain names carry a normal renewa...
Discussion
January 5, 2016, 3:35 pm
The Domains
The Number of .Com Domains Top 124 Million For The First Time
According to Verisign the number of the .Com domain names has crossed the 124 million mark for the first time today. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 115.6 million names. We are running a poll on the right hand...
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The Number of .Com Domains Top 124 Million For The First Time
According to Verisign the number of the .Com domain names has crossed the 124 million mark for the first time today. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the base of registered names in .com equaled 115.6 million names. We are running a poll on the right hand...
Discussion
January 5, 2016, 2:55 pm
The Domains
Efty Launches For-Sale Landing Page Theme Gallery
Leading domain name management and investment platform Efty announced today that it has launched a first-of-its-kind service, offering a For-Sale landing page theme gallery for domain owners using the software. The theme gallery, which launched earli...
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Efty Launches For-Sale Landing Page Theme Gallery
Leading domain name management and investment platform Efty announced today that it has launched a first-of-its-kind service, offering a For-Sale landing page theme gallery for domain owners using the software. The theme gallery, which launched earli...
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January 5, 2016, 1:00 pm
The Domains
Namejet.com Has Record Breaking Month Reporting Almost $3 Million In Sales
Namejet.com reported its sales for December 2015, selling 383 sales at $2k and above for a total of $2,964,861, nearly double their previous record breaking month of November, 2015. Namejet only reports on sales of $2,000 or more. With the Rightofthe...
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Namejet.com Has Record Breaking Month Reporting Almost $3 Million In Sales
Namejet.com reported its sales for December 2015, selling 383 sales at $2k and above for a total of $2,964,861, nearly double their previous record breaking month of November, 2015. Namejet only reports on sales of $2,000 or more. With the Rightofthe...
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January 5, 2016, 4:56 am
The Domains
1st Reverse Domain Hijacking Finding of The Year & Bretzel Ditsch GmbH Of Germany is Guilty
Bretzel Ditsch GmbH from Mainz, Germany, represented by Horak Attorneys, Germany was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Ditsch.com which was registered on June 28, 1998. To the best of our knowledge this is the first RDN...
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1st Reverse Domain Hijacking Finding of The Year & Bretzel Ditsch GmbH Of Germany is Guilty
Bretzel Ditsch GmbH from Mainz, Germany, represented by Horak Attorneys, Germany was found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Ditsch.com which was registered on June 28, 1998. To the best of our knowledge this is the first RDN...
Discussion
January 4, 2016, 5:14 pm
The Domains
Reserve Dropped On 8 Domains In The ROTD Auction: All Have Bids, Which Are Now The High Bid
We have more news on the RightoftheDot.com auction being held a week from today at Namescon at 2PM PST. An owner of 8 domain names in the auction, all of which already have bids in pre-bidding at Namejet.com has removed the reserve price. By removing...
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Reserve Dropped On 8 Domains In The ROTD Auction: All Have Bids, Which Are Now The High Bid
We have more news on the RightoftheDot.com auction being held a week from today at Namescon at 2PM PST. An owner of 8 domain names in the auction, all of which already have bids in pre-bidding at Namejet.com has removed the reserve price. By removing...
Discussion
January 4, 2016, 3:16 pm
The Domains
We Are Sorry To Report That Domain Investor Anthony J. McDermott Passed Away
Unfortunately the new year has started out with some very bad news as we learned that Anthony McDermott, who was a domain investor and one of the early leaders in the legal internet vertical passed away on December 23rd, 2015 Anthony was the fo...
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We Are Sorry To Report That Domain Investor Anthony J. McDermott Passed Away
Unfortunately the new year has started out with some very bad news as we learned that Anthony McDermott, who was a domain investor and one of the early leaders in the legal internet vertical passed away on December 23rd, 2015 Anthony was the fo...
Discussion
January 3, 2016, 12:53 am
The Domains
Quick Poll: How Many .Com’s Will Be Registered On 1/1/17?
So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com registrations were 115.6 million names. So the number of .Com’s increased some 7 Mill...
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Quick Poll: How Many .Com’s Will Be Registered On 1/1/17?
So the final count for the number of registered domain names for January 1, 2016 is 123,963,640 according to Verisign. As of Dec. 31, 2014, the number of .Com registrations were 115.6 million names. So the number of .Com’s increased some 7 Mill...
Discussion
January 2, 2016, 2:16 am
The Domains
Google Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com
Google finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reporting Google since launching abc.xyz as the website for its holding company Alphabet, In...
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Google Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com
Google finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reporting Google since launching abc.xyz as the website for its holding company Alphabet, In...
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January 1, 2016, 2:26 pm
The Domains
Happy New Year
Everyone here at TheDomains.com would like to wish you a Happy and healthy new year. Things will be changing around here, after 8 years Michael will be able to do something other than be on a computer 24/7. The first post on TheDomains was here on De...
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Happy New Year
Everyone here at TheDomains.com would like to wish you a Happy and healthy new year. Things will be changing around here, after 8 years Michael will be able to do something other than be on a computer 24/7. The first post on TheDomains was here on De...
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December 31, 2015, 10:46 pm
