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Well We Just Told You These IDN’s Are Hot: Chinese Goverment Buys 20,500 Domains
We published a post earlier this morning about the TLD Registry Ltd, and its two new Chinese IDN new gTLD’s Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). We interviewed A representative of the registry who predicted...
Discussion
Well We Just Told You These IDN’s Are Hot: Chinese Goverment Buys 20,500 Domains
We published a post earlier this morning about the TLD Registry Ltd, and its two new Chinese IDN new gTLD’s Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). We interviewed A representative of the registry who predicted...
Discussion
March 19, 2014, 2:18 pm

The Domains
Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game
Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrations German based registrar, InterNetX said they were able to secure 81% of all preregistrations for its clie...
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Godaddy Loses 5% Market Share of New gTLD’s As .Berlin Changes The Game
Godaddy.com share of the new gTLD market dropped 5% overnight after the domain extension for .Berlin launched getting almost 32,000 registrations German based registrar, InterNetX said they were able to secure 81% of all preregistrations for its clie...
Discussion
March 19, 2014, 1:45 pm

The Domains
UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old Domain HoldOn.com By Owners Of Holdon.Info
A UDRP has just been filed against the domain name HoldOn.com The domain name has an original registration according DomainTools.com of March 18th 1997 making the domain 14 years old. However Screenshots has results for HoldOn.com going back to 1994....
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UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old Domain HoldOn.com By Owners Of Holdon.Info
A UDRP has just been filed against the domain name HoldOn.com The domain name has an original registration according DomainTools.com of March 18th 1997 making the domain 14 years old. However Screenshots has results for HoldOn.com going back to 1994....
Discussion
March 19, 2014, 1:30 pm

The Domains
.Berlin Does over 31,000 Registration In 1st Day
The first city new gTLD launched yesterday and .Berlin did over 31,000 registrations. .Berlin first day total was 31,956 making it immediately the 2nd most popular new gTLD only to .Guru which has around 44,500 registrations. .Berlin, a...
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.Berlin Does over 31,000 Registration In 1st Day
The first city new gTLD launched yesterday and .Berlin did over 31,000 registrations. .Berlin first day total was 31,956 making it immediately the 2nd most popular new gTLD only to .Guru which has around 44,500 registrations. .Berlin, a...
Discussion
March 19, 2014, 12:45 pm

The Domains
Why A Chinese IDN Maybe One Of The Top 5 Most Registered New gTLD’s & How You Can Play It
Yesterday we told you about Sedo.com having online bidding for the live auction of the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) which will be held in Macau starting at 11 a.m. Friday local Macau Time (03:00 UTC) March 21, 2014 (Thursday March 20th at ...
Discussion
Why A Chinese IDN Maybe One Of The Top 5 Most Registered New gTLD’s & How You Can Play It
Yesterday we told you about Sedo.com having online bidding for the live auction of the Chinese IDN for Online (.在线) which will be held in Macau starting at 11 a.m. Friday local Macau Time (03:00 UTC) March 21, 2014 (Thursday March 20th at ...
Discussion
March 19, 2014, 12:40 pm

The Domains
Ladas Domains Selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®)
HEXONET today announced that Ladas Domains LLC (Ladas) has selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®) as the domain name service platform for its renowned trademark protection and corporate domain management divisio...
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Ladas Domains Selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®)
HEXONET today announced that Ladas Domains LLC (Ladas) has selected HEXONET’s Registrar Operations Center (RegistrarOC®) as the domain name service platform for its renowned trademark protection and corporate domain management divisio...
Discussion
March 19, 2014, 3:01 am

The Domains
Sedo Two Weeks Of Transactions Total $2.8 Million
Sedo, just published its sales for two weeks For the week of March 3rd – 9th 677 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of pu...
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Sedo Two Weeks Of Transactions Total $2.8 Million
Sedo, just published its sales for two weeks For the week of March 3rd – 9th 677 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of pu...
Discussion
March 18, 2014, 9:36 pm

The Domains
Frank Schilling Gets Hit With UDRP On the Domain Name ClearCare.com
One of Frank Schilling Name Administration domain names has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name ClearCare.com has been owned by Name Administration since at least 2008 according to DomainTools.com The complainant is not listed but Alcon a publicly ...
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Frank Schilling Gets Hit With UDRP On the Domain Name ClearCare.com
One of Frank Schilling Name Administration domain names has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name ClearCare.com has been owned by Name Administration since at least 2008 according to DomainTools.com The complainant is not listed but Alcon a publicly ...
Discussion
March 18, 2014, 8:35 pm

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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $2.1 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $2.1 Million In Domain Names Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 3/10/14 – 3/16/14. All sales for the week totalled $2,112,576. The top .com sale was lead by QY.com for $100,000 followed by Dolor.co...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $2.1 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $2.1 Million In Domain Names Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 3/10/14 – 3/16/14. All sales for the week totalled $2,112,576. The top .com sale was lead by QY.com for $100,000 followed by Dolor.co...
Discussion
March 18, 2014, 8:14 pm

The Domains
Gaia.Tv sold for $22,372 On Sedo
The domain name Gaia.tv sold for $22,372, according to the former owner of the domain. The word Gaia according to Wikipedia.org is from Ancient Greek meaning “land” or “earth”; Gaia was the great mother of all: the primal Gre...
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Gaia.Tv sold for $22,372 On Sedo
The domain name Gaia.tv sold for $22,372, according to the former owner of the domain. The word Gaia according to Wikipedia.org is from Ancient Greek meaning “land” or “earth”; Gaia was the great mother of all: the primal Gre...
Discussion
March 18, 2014, 6:33 pm