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VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
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VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 8:39 pm
The Domains
Is The Trademark Clearing House Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearing house program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read a...
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Is The Trademark Clearing House Causing New gTLD’s To Lose 6X The Number Of Registrations?
Phil Corwin of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), just published a very interesting story on how the trademark clearing house program maybe negatively effecting the numbers of new gTLD’s registrations to a factor of 6X. Its a great read a...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 7:01 pm
The Domains
Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: “2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class”
In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of 11, and two word domains was ...
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Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: “2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class”
In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of 11, and two word domains was ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 4:42 pm
The Domains
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new ...
Discussion
Corrected 1st Day New gTLD Stats: .Coach 1,650; .LEGAL 1,353; .MONEY 1,264; .MEMORIAL 191
Earlier today we published a post that had the 1st day stats for 4 new gTLD’s that went into their first day of general availability yesterday relying on ntldstats.com as we always do. We have been informed by Donuts the registry for all 4 new ...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 4:28 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Money 327; .Legal 297: .Coach 123; ,Memorial 23
4 new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and between the 4 they have just over 750 domain name registrations. Including domain name registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those that paid an extra fee to r...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Money 327; .Legal 297: .Coach 123; ,Memorial 23
4 new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and between the 4 they have just over 750 domain name registrations. Including domain name registered by trademark holders in Sunrise and those that paid an extra fee to r...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 2:08 pm
The Domains
UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder
The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated n...
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UDRP Panel Awards The Domain Name AnnLanders.com To The Trademark Holder
The domain name AnnLanders.com was ordered transfer to the Margo Howard Primary Trust and Margo Howard from the domain owner Ann Landers Fans International, LTD For those not old enough to remember her, Ann Landers was person who wrote a syndicated n...
Discussion
March 12, 2015, 1:44 pm
The Domains
March Madness? vvv.com Hits Reserve: High Bid Is Almost $89K
The domain name vvv.com, one of only 26 triple letter repeater .com is at auction at Namejet.com. The auction closes tomorrow and the high bid is now over $88K. At the time of publication the high bid is $88,998 There are 356 bidders but the auc...
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March Madness? vvv.com Hits Reserve: High Bid Is Almost $89K
The domain name vvv.com, one of only 26 triple letter repeater .com is at auction at Namejet.com. The auction closes tomorrow and the high bid is now over $88K. At the time of publication the high bid is $88,998 There are 356 bidders but the auc...
Discussion
March 11, 2015, 6:47 pm
The Domains
Sedo Publishes Infographic To Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com
Sedo published an infographic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com registered. The first registered .com domain was Symbolics.com, and it was registered 30th years ago on Sunday. Verisign the .Com registry is holding a contest to celeb...
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Sedo Publishes Infographic To Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com
Sedo published an infographic to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first .com registered. The first registered .com domain was Symbolics.com, and it was registered 30th years ago on Sunday. Verisign the .Com registry is holding a contest to celeb...
Discussion
March 11, 2015, 3:06 pm
The Domains
Donuts Wins .Taxi, Beating Famous Four, To Go With .Cab & .Limo
Donuts has won the new gTLD .Taxi beating Famous Four Media and Taxi Pay GmbH who had filed and lost a community application. The new domain extension was scheduled to go to A ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Donuts already owns .Cab and ....
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Donuts Wins .Taxi, Beating Famous Four, To Go With .Cab & .Limo
Donuts has won the new gTLD .Taxi beating Famous Four Media and Taxi Pay GmbH who had filed and lost a community application. The new domain extension was scheduled to go to A ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Donuts already owns .Cab and ....
Discussion
March 11, 2015, 2:17 pm
The Domains
Rightside to Release 20K+ Two Character New gTLD Domain Names On March 18th
Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), announced that it will release certain two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such popular extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. on March 18 These two-character domain n...
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Rightside to Release 20K+ Two Character New gTLD Domain Names On March 18th
Rightside (Nasdaq:NAME), announced that it will release certain two-character domains for each of the Top Level Domains (TLDs) in its portfolio, which includes such popular extensions as .SOCIAL and .ATTORNEY. on March 18 These two-character domain n...
Discussion
March 11, 2015, 1:46 pm
