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Domain Name Wire
16 end user domain buyers, including AIG
AIG among domain name buyers last week. It was a very international week for Sedo, which disclosed 47 country code domain sales over $2,000. That’s more than twice the number of .coms! It was helped a lot by the .AT auction, but that only expla...
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16 end user domain buyers, including AIG
AIG among domain name buyers last week. It was a very international week for Sedo, which disclosed 47 country code domain sales over $2,000. That’s more than twice the number of .coms! It was helped a lot by the .AT auction, but that only expla...
Discussion
December 7, 2016, 4:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Meet the brokers behind TS.com domain name purchase
190.com brokers TS.com domain name acquisition. GoDaddy’s NameFind sold the two letter domain name TS.com recently. While the buyer behind the deal is private, the broker is not. 190.com brokered the deal for TS.com. While the company declined ...
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Meet the brokers behind TS.com domain name purchase
190.com brokers TS.com domain name acquisition. GoDaddy’s NameFind sold the two letter domain name TS.com recently. While the buyer behind the deal is private, the broker is not. 190.com brokered the deal for TS.com. While the company declined ...
Discussion
December 7, 2016, 3:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Who goes to ICANN meetings? Here’s an answer
Meeting in India set a record thanks to over 2,000 first-time attendees from Asia. Last month’s ICANN meeting in Hyderabad, India, set an all-time record for attendance at an ICANN meeting. There were 3,182 people, breaking the previous record ...
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Who goes to ICANN meetings? Here’s an answer
Meeting in India set a record thanks to over 2,000 first-time attendees from Asia. Last month’s ICANN meeting in Hyderabad, India, set an all-time record for attendance at an ICANN meeting. There were 3,182 people, breaking the previous record ...
Discussion
December 7, 2016, 2:27 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, December 7th
I was very fortunate to have registered some NNN.xyz domains in the first couple days of release. I also made a purchase of LLL.xyz, the actual domain LLL.xyz. I haven’t sold any this year because I felt like once approved in Chin...
Discussion
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Wednesday, December 7th
I was very fortunate to have registered some NNN.xyz domains in the first couple days of release. I also made a purchase of LLL.xyz, the actual domain LLL.xyz. I haven’t sold any this year because I felt like once approved in Chin...
Discussion
December 7, 2016, 10:18 am
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by Lampara.es
Sedo released their weekly sales report, the top sale was a .es domain, Lampara.es for 36,000 Euros. I bleieve the transaltion is lamp in Spanish. Lamparas.es is a developed website. Dot com had 0 five figure sales this week. BigBall.com was the top ...
Discussion
Sedo weekly sales led by Lampara.es
Sedo released their weekly sales report, the top sale was a .es domain, Lampara.es for 36,000 Euros. I bleieve the transaltion is lamp in Spanish. Lamparas.es is a developed website. Dot com had 0 five figure sales this week. BigBall.com was the top ...
Discussion
December 6, 2016, 9:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
How to get the most out of NamesCon
Here are some quick tips to get the most out of NamesCon in Las Vegas next month. It’s hard to believe that NamesCon is taking place next month! The largest domain name industry conference (not including ICANN meetings) typically attracts over ...
Discussion
How to get the most out of NamesCon
Here are some quick tips to get the most out of NamesCon in Las Vegas next month. It’s hard to believe that NamesCon is taking place next month! The largest domain name industry conference (not including ICANN meetings) typically attracts over ...
Discussion
December 6, 2016, 8:22 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 5, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on December 5, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF DECEMBER 5, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on December 5, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an...
Discussion
December 6, 2016, 6:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sanofi wins case over Ambien domains, but to what end?
20 domains canceled, meaning they can just be used again. Sanofi has won a cybersquatting case against the owner of 20 domain names that have Ambien (Sanofi’s blockbuster sleeping medicine) in them. The owner of the domain names used them to pu...
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Sanofi wins case over Ambien domains, but to what end?
20 domains canceled, meaning they can just be used again. Sanofi has won a cybersquatting case against the owner of 20 domain names that have Ambien (Sanofi’s blockbuster sleeping medicine) in them. The owner of the domain names used them to pu...
Discussion
December 6, 2016, 5:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy is buying NamesCon
World’s largest domain name registrar will own NamesCon after it completes HEG acquisition. The rumors are true–GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) is acquiring Host Europe Group. The US $1.79 billion transaction is expected to close in the second quarte...
Discussion
GoDaddy is buying NamesCon
World’s largest domain name registrar will own NamesCon after it completes HEG acquisition. The rumors are true–GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) is acquiring Host Europe Group. The US $1.79 billion transaction is expected to close in the second quarte...
Discussion
December 6, 2016, 2:15 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.COM: IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, December 6th
There was a post on NamePros the other day about DropCatch.com buying another 500 registrars. A few people wanted to boycott them others thought that a bigger company would buy them out eventually. I made a few comments and I’ve posted them be...
Discussion
DSAD.COM: IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, December 6th
There was a post on NamePros the other day about DropCatch.com buying another 500 registrars. A few people wanted to boycott them others thought that a bigger company would buy them out eventually. I made a few comments and I’ve posted them be...
Discussion
December 6, 2016, 2:09 pm
