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.Co Registry Sells Y.co To Monaco Yacht Company
Y.CO announced its newest sale of a .Co single letter web address – Y.com today as the 2013 Monaco Yacht Show gets underway The purchase of y.co from .CO Internet S.A.S sees the superyacht brokerage and management company become th...
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.Co Registry Sells Y.co To Monaco Yacht Company
Y.CO announced its newest sale of a .Co single letter web address – Y.com today as the 2013 Monaco Yacht Show gets underway The purchase of y.co from .CO Internet S.A.S sees the superyacht brokerage and management company become th...
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September 25, 2013, 11:53 am
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Afternic.com Sells $904K In Domains Led By Credo.com For $75K
Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the period of 9/16/13 – 9/22/13. Domain sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $904,382. The highest sale was Credo.com which sold for $75,000 followed by Rool.com for...
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Afternic.com Sells $904K In Domains Led By Credo.com For $75K
Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the period of 9/16/13 – 9/22/13. Domain sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $904,382. The highest sale was Credo.com which sold for $75,000 followed by Rool.com for...
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September 25, 2013, 9:37 am
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4MM
Over the past week, 752 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. This amounts to $49.8m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. “Congratulations to ...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4MM
Over the past week, 752 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. This amounts to $49.8m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. “Congratulations to ...
Discussion
September 25, 2013, 9:30 am
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Registrars Where You Can Place Pre-Reservations On New gTLD Domain Names
After I wrote the post that 1and1.com topped over 2 Million new gTLD domain name pre-reservations (actually now over 2.15) I got a few emails of people asking me what other registrars are and are not taking pre-reservations. Once again a pre-reservat...
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Registrars Where You Can Place Pre-Reservations On New gTLD Domain Names
After I wrote the post that 1and1.com topped over 2 Million new gTLD domain name pre-reservations (actually now over 2.15) I got a few emails of people asking me what other registrars are and are not taking pre-reservations. Once again a pre-reservat...
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September 25, 2013, 8:32 am
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ICANN Publishes Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse & Opens Up Comment Period
ICANN authorized a study conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, to analyze gTLD domain names to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains engaged in illegal or harmful Internet activities is...
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ICANN Publishes Study on Whois Privacy & Proxy Service Abuse & Opens Up Comment Period
ICANN authorized a study conducted by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the United Kingdom, to analyze gTLD domain names to measure whether the percentage of privacy/proxy use among domains engaged in illegal or harmful Internet activities is...
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September 25, 2013, 7:57 am
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ICANN To Post Redline Changes To New gTLD Registry Contracts
According to a post by ICANN on its site it will start publishing redline versions of executed Registry Agreements as it ” would be helpful to the entire ICANN community, and would also support ICANN’s efforts to provide operational trans...
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ICANN To Post Redline Changes To New gTLD Registry Contracts
According to a post by ICANN on its site it will start publishing redline versions of executed Registry Agreements as it ” would be helpful to the entire ICANN community, and would also support ICANN’s efforts to provide operational trans...
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September 25, 2013, 7:51 am
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Are These The 107 New gTLD Extensions Donuts Partnered With Demand Media On?
Donuts.co which applied for 307 new gTLD strings has stated all along that they were in partnership with Demand Media (DMD) on 107 of the applications. However I do not think Donuts or Demand have publicly stated which of the 107 new gTLD’s tha...
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Are These The 107 New gTLD Extensions Donuts Partnered With Demand Media On?
Donuts.co which applied for 307 new gTLD strings has stated all along that they were in partnership with Demand Media (DMD) on 107 of the applications. However I do not think Donuts or Demand have publicly stated which of the 107 new gTLD’s tha...
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September 24, 2013, 2:38 pm
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Come Join Me At The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress In London On Thursday
Tonight I’m jumping the pond and heading over to London for the Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress which is being held in at the Park Plaza Victoria in London on Thursday and Friday. “Back by popular demand and building off of...
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Come Join Me At The Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress In London On Thursday
Tonight I’m jumping the pond and heading over to London for the Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress which is being held in at the Park Plaza Victoria in London on Thursday and Friday. “Back by popular demand and building off of...
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September 24, 2013, 12:36 pm
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Techstars Acquires NameLayer to Bring Premium Domain Names to its Portfolio
According to a blog post on its company blog, Techstars has acquired the entire portfolio of NameLayer, a popular inventory of brandable domain names curated for the tech market. NameLayer was founded by Julian Shapiro and Edward Zeiden in 2011...
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Techstars Acquires NameLayer to Bring Premium Domain Names to its Portfolio
According to a blog post on its company blog, Techstars has acquired the entire portfolio of NameLayer, a popular inventory of brandable domain names curated for the tech market. NameLayer was founded by Julian Shapiro and Edward Zeiden in 2011...
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September 24, 2013, 10:22 am
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Jean-Christophe Vignes joins Artemis as Director of Domain Operations
Tom Scopazzi of Artemis which has an application for .Secure, just sent out an email today announcing that effective today, Jean-Christophe Vignes has joined Artemis as Director of Domain Operations! “In this capacity, he will be in charge of b...
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Jean-Christophe Vignes joins Artemis as Director of Domain Operations
Tom Scopazzi of Artemis which has an application for .Secure, just sent out an email today announcing that effective today, Jean-Christophe Vignes has joined Artemis as Director of Domain Operations! “In this capacity, he will be in charge of b...
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September 24, 2013, 9:03 am
