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Sedo Sells $1.43 Million In Domain Names
Sedo.com just announced its sales figures for the holiday week and once again they are impressive In all In all 807 domain sold totalling $1.43 Million Dollars.
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Sedo Sells $1.43 Million In Domain Names
Sedo.com just announced its sales figures for the holiday week and once again they are impressive In all In all 807 domain sold totalling $1.43 Million Dollars.
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November 29, 2011, 4:48 pm

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Buy.XXX Traffic Update: 3.7 Million Visitors; 1.2 Million Type In’s & Alexa Rank Of Close To Top 1,000
It was just a few days ago that we reported on visitor numbers to Buy.xxx. At that time they had recorded over 500,000 visitors. According to Google Analytics which ICM shared with me as of yesterday, total visitors to date, to Buy.XXX is right...
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Buy.XXX Traffic Update: 3.7 Million Visitors; 1.2 Million Type In’s & Alexa Rank Of Close To Top 1,000
It was just a few days ago that we reported on visitor numbers to Buy.xxx. At that time they had recorded over 500,000 visitors. According to Google Analytics which ICM shared with me as of yesterday, total visitors to date, to Buy.XXX is right...
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November 29, 2011, 11:10 am

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CheapYellowPages.com Sells Orangefield.com For $75,000
CheapYellowPages.com, owned by Brian Wick, a domain developer that owns about 6,000 .com, just completed the sale of Orangefield.com for $75K in a private transaction. The buyer did not identify themselves to the Seller as it pretty common and since ...
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CheapYellowPages.com Sells Orangefield.com For $75,000
CheapYellowPages.com, owned by Brian Wick, a domain developer that owns about 6,000 .com, just completed the sale of Orangefield.com for $75K in a private transaction. The buyer did not identify themselves to the Seller as it pretty common and since ...
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November 29, 2011, 9:15 am

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Marijuana.com Sold For $4.2 Million
According to TechCrunch.com the domain name Marijuana.com was just purchased by General Cannabis Inc. which owns the popular site WeedMaps, for $4.2 Million dollars. According to TechCrunch, WeedMaps did over $1 million in gross revenues in Jul...
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Marijuana.com Sold For $4.2 Million
According to TechCrunch.com the domain name Marijuana.com was just purchased by General Cannabis Inc. which owns the popular site WeedMaps, for $4.2 Million dollars. According to TechCrunch, WeedMaps did over $1 million in gross revenues in Jul...
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November 29, 2011, 7:49 am

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Reinvent.com To Launch Proto Domain Optimization & Monetization Platform Next Year
Reinvent.com a/k/a HitFarm.com is planning to launch a new domain optimization and monetization platform called Proto, next year. According to their site Proto goals are to: “Improve returns by providing better monetization through innovative o...
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Reinvent.com To Launch Proto Domain Optimization & Monetization Platform Next Year
Reinvent.com a/k/a HitFarm.com is planning to launch a new domain optimization and monetization platform called Proto, next year. According to their site Proto goals are to: “Improve returns by providing better monetization through innovative o...
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November 27, 2011, 8:08 pm

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101Domain.com Suffers Securty Breach
101Domain.com has apparently suffered a security breach which “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.” Here is the full message received by 101Domain.com customers: “W...
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101Domain.com Suffers Securty Breach
101Domain.com has apparently suffered a security breach which “may have resulted in unauthorized access to your personal information and possibly payment information.” Here is the full message received by 101Domain.com customers: “W...
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November 27, 2011, 12:20 pm

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Online Shopping Is Up Big This Shopping Season According to comScore, IBM & Buy.com
Three reports out today indicate that online shopping is up big so far this holiday season. comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), reported that holiday sales season-to-date, are $9.7 billion 14% increase versus the corresponding days last year which was $8.4 Bil...
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Online Shopping Is Up Big This Shopping Season According to comScore, IBM & Buy.com
Three reports out today indicate that online shopping is up big so far this holiday season. comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), reported that holiday sales season-to-date, are $9.7 billion 14% increase versus the corresponding days last year which was $8.4 Bil...
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November 26, 2011, 3:04 pm

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What Does A Weekend of Media Get You? In The Case Of Buy.XXX: 500,000+ Visitors
I reached out to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry the company that operates the .XXX registry about how much response they received to the big media push this weekend. As of today over the weekend 500,000 visitors have gone to Buy.xxx, the...
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What Does A Weekend of Media Get You? In The Case Of Buy.XXX: 500,000+ Visitors
I reached out to Stuart Lawley the CEO of ICM Registry the company that operates the .XXX registry about how much response they received to the big media push this weekend. As of today over the weekend 500,000 visitors have gone to Buy.xxx, the...
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November 25, 2011, 8:35 pm

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Another Thanksgiving & Another 131 Domain Named Seized By HomeLand Security
Last year we wrote a post right after Thanksgiving entitled: “While You Were Eating You’re Turkey Homeland Security Was Seizing 9 Domains“. Well I could have repeated the headline today except the number would be 131 domains rather ...
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Another Thanksgiving & Another 131 Domain Named Seized By HomeLand Security
Last year we wrote a post right after Thanksgiving entitled: “While You Were Eating You’re Turkey Homeland Security Was Seizing 9 Domains“. Well I could have repeated the headline today except the number would be 131 domains rather ...
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November 25, 2011, 10:26 am

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Court of Justice of the European Union: “EU Cannot Order ISP’s To Prevent illegal Dowloading Of Files”
While The US is proposing laws to make all sorts of Internet providers and companies to filter and block certain content in a ruling issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union today, the court ruled that “EU law precludes the impositi...
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Court of Justice of the European Union: “EU Cannot Order ISP’s To Prevent illegal Dowloading Of Files”
While The US is proposing laws to make all sorts of Internet providers and companies to filter and block certain content in a ruling issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union today, the court ruled that “EU law precludes the impositi...
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November 24, 2011, 12:23 pm