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ICANN’s Sweetheart Of A Contract To PowerAuctions Covers All Costs & Gives Them 10′s Of Million In Upside
On 13 September 2013, ICANN entered into what may well be the most lucrative contract ever granted in ICANN’s history with Power Auctions LLC to conduct its Last Resort Auctions for new gTLD strings with more than one applicant. Under the ICANN...
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ICANN’s Sweetheart Of A Contract To PowerAuctions Covers All Costs & Gives Them 10′s Of Million In Upside
On 13 September 2013, ICANN entered into what may well be the most lucrative contract ever granted in ICANN’s history with Power Auctions LLC to conduct its Last Resort Auctions for new gTLD strings with more than one applicant. Under the ICANN...
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February 4, 2014, 11:42 pm
The Domains
Are The Days Of Outrageously Expensive Super Bowl Commercials Over ?
Avi Dan wrote a piece for Forbes on whether the days of big money ads on Super Bowl Sunday are over. Of course looking at a game that was a blowout makes those people who had an ad running in the fourth quarter cringe. They paid the big bucks ...
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Are The Days Of Outrageously Expensive Super Bowl Commercials Over ?
Avi Dan wrote a piece for Forbes on whether the days of big money ads on Super Bowl Sunday are over. Of course looking at a game that was a blowout makes those people who had an ad running in the fourth quarter cringe. They paid the big bucks ...
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February 4, 2014, 9:37 pm
The Domains
Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.95 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/27/14 – 2/2/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,954,130. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Picnic.co & Random.co each for...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.95 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/27/14 – 2/2/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,954,130. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Picnic.co & Random.co each for...
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February 4, 2014, 8:48 pm
The Domains
Seddo Transactions Total $1.1 Million
Over the past week, 728 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $11 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nbs...
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Seddo Transactions Total $1.1 Million
Over the past week, 728 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $11 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nbs...
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February 4, 2014, 8:43 pm
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European Commission Weights In On ICANN Last Resort Auction & They Are Not Happy
The European Commission filed a comment on the recently updated ICANN’s New gTLD Auction Rules. To summarize the European Commission is “deeply concerned about the implications that the Auction Rules in the gTLD program may have for the p...
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European Commission Weights In On ICANN Last Resort Auction & They Are Not Happy
The European Commission filed a comment on the recently updated ICANN’s New gTLD Auction Rules. To summarize the European Commission is “deeply concerned about the implications that the Auction Rules in the gTLD program may have for the p...
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February 4, 2014, 5:57 pm
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UDRP Filed On Y8.Net; EntourageMovie.com; EntourageFilm.com
A few interesting UDRP filed today. Web Entertainment, LLC filed a UDRP on the domain name y8.net Y8.net is a gaming site, so is Y8.com which is owned under privacy. UDRP filed on Two character domain names are pretty rare so we will keep on our eye ...
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UDRP Filed On Y8.Net; EntourageMovie.com; EntourageFilm.com
A few interesting UDRP filed today. Web Entertainment, LLC filed a UDRP on the domain name y8.net Y8.net is a gaming site, so is Y8.com which is owned under privacy. UDRP filed on Two character domain names are pretty rare so we will keep on our eye ...
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February 4, 2014, 3:17 pm
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Who Won The Super Bowl Of Search ?
Vanessa Fox wrote piece on MarketingLand.com that took a look at the Super Bowl of Search. In the article she started out with how long they have been covering the Super Bowl ads and their correlation to search. “It’s year number si...
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Who Won The Super Bowl Of Search ?
Vanessa Fox wrote piece on MarketingLand.com that took a look at the Super Bowl of Search. In the article she started out with how long they have been covering the Super Bowl ads and their correlation to search. “It’s year number si...
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February 4, 2014, 10:06 am
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Go Daddy BodyBuilder AD Needed To Hit The Weights Harder
Go Daddy and their Super Bowl ad did not fare too well on Sunday. According to the Admeter on USA Today the bodybuilder ad finished in the bottom five. Dreamworks Need For Speed 1 4.34 GoDaddy Bodybuilder 4 4.04 Sprint Family Plan 3 3.96...
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Go Daddy BodyBuilder AD Needed To Hit The Weights Harder
Go Daddy and their Super Bowl ad did not fare too well on Sunday. According to the Admeter on USA Today the bodybuilder ad finished in the bottom five. Dreamworks Need For Speed 1 4.34 GoDaddy Bodybuilder 4 4.04 Sprint Family Plan 3 3.96...
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February 4, 2014, 5:52 am
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Who Does Search Arbitrage Benefit ?
Dan Monarko of Flying Cork Media took a look at the practice of search arbitrage, who it benefits and what they do to protect their clients. Search Arbitrage is the practice of purchasing a keyword on one search engine (i.e. Google) while direc...
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Who Does Search Arbitrage Benefit ?
Dan Monarko of Flying Cork Media took a look at the practice of search arbitrage, who it benefits and what they do to protect their clients. Search Arbitrage is the practice of purchasing a keyword on one search engine (i.e. Google) while direc...
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February 3, 2014, 10:50 pm
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Sandwich.co Sells For 18K After The .Com Sells For $137,500
The domain name sandwich.co sold on Sedo today for $18,000 USD. Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich.com for $137,500 back in November 2013 also on Sedo. The buyer of Sandwich.co is Sandwich Company of Los Angeles, California The buyer of Sandwich.com...
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Sandwich.co Sells For 18K After The .Com Sells For $137,500
The domain name sandwich.co sold on Sedo today for $18,000 USD. Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich.com for $137,500 back in November 2013 also on Sedo. The buyer of Sandwich.co is Sandwich Company of Los Angeles, California The buyer of Sandwich.com...
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February 3, 2014, 8:27 pm
