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The Domains
If Your In Contention For a New gTLD Your Draw Number Is Only As Good As The Worst Number Picked By A Competing Applicant
As the ICANN draw of December 17th is less than two weeks away, one issue that has been debated on Facebook is the importance of the draw for those new gTLD’s strings in contention. Today ICANN settled one issue giving IDN applications preferen...
Discussion
If Your In Contention For a New gTLD Your Draw Number Is Only As Good As The Worst Number Picked By A Competing Applicant
As the ICANN draw of December 17th is less than two weeks away, one issue that has been debated on Facebook is the importance of the draw for those new gTLD’s strings in contention. Today ICANN settled one issue giving IDN applications preferen...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 3:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Confirmed: IDNs will be prioritized in new TLD queue
IDN backers get their wish. Applicants for internationalized domain names will get prioritized to the front of the new top level domain name queue, ICANN confirmed today. ICANN confirmed this information in a webinar about the gTLD prioritization dra...
Discussion
Confirmed: IDNs will be prioritized in new TLD queue
IDN backers get their wish. Applicants for internationalized domain names will get prioritized to the front of the new top level domain name queue, ICANN confirmed today. ICANN confirmed this information in a webinar about the gTLD prioritization dra...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 3:11 pm
Elliot's Blog
Contest: Win One Hour of Domain Consulting
During the past year, Protrada’s Troy Rushton has probably educated more people about domain names than just about anyone in the domain space. He’s a charismatic guy, and he has spoken at a number of seminars and events, both online ...
Discussion
Contest: Win One Hour of Domain Consulting
During the past year, Protrada’s Troy Rushton has probably educated more people about domain names than just about anyone in the domain space. He’s a charismatic guy, and he has spoken at a number of seminars and events, both online ...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 1:03 pm
The Domains
The NBA’s New Orleans Hornets To Become The New Orleans Pelicans & A Cover Band May Strike It Rich
According to an ESPN report the New Orleans Hornets are going to become the New Orleans Pelicans, meaning that someone just won the domain name lottery with Pelicans.com The domain name Pelicans.com as fellow south Floridan Scott Ross points out on h...
Discussion
The NBA’s New Orleans Hornets To Become The New Orleans Pelicans & A Cover Band May Strike It Rich
According to an ESPN report the New Orleans Hornets are going to become the New Orleans Pelicans, meaning that someone just won the domain name lottery with Pelicans.com The domain name Pelicans.com as fellow south Floridan Scott Ross points out on h...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 11:37 am
Domain Name Wire
28 end user domain sales
28 end user sales from Afternic and Sedo this past week. Below is a selection of end user domain name sales from Afternic and Sedo last week. Afternic I’m curious who paid $50,000 for Snipes.com. The domain is still in escrow, but I imagine it&...
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28 end user domain sales
28 end user sales from Afternic and Sedo this past week. Below is a selection of end user domain name sales from Afternic and Sedo last week. Afternic I’m curious who paid $50,000 for Snipes.com. The domain is still in escrow, but I imagine it&...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 11:18 am
Domain Name Wire
A shady domain broker practice
Telling a domain owner you have a buyer for their domain when you don’t is unethical. I want to highlight a domain broker practice that gives the industry a bad name. I’ll call it the “phantom buyer”. Here’s how it works...
Discussion
A shady domain broker practice
Telling a domain owner you have a buyer for their domain when you don’t is unethical. I want to highlight a domain broker practice that gives the industry a bad name. I’ll call it the “phantom buyer”. Here’s how it works...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 10:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Good domain strategy: eBay DealMint
Service runs on eBayDealMint.com, but eBay bought DealMint.com too. I’m a bit confused about eBay’s new DealMint service, but I give the comapny props for locking in the necessary domain names. eBay switched the DNS on DealMint.com and eB...
Discussion
Good domain strategy: eBay DealMint
Service runs on eBayDealMint.com, but eBay bought DealMint.com too. I’m a bit confused about eBay’s new DealMint service, but I give the comapny props for locking in the necessary domain names. eBay switched the DNS on DealMint.com and eB...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 9:29 am
The Domains
Registration For Domaining Spain 2013 Is Now Opened: Here’s How You Can Save 50% Off The Registration Fee
The 2nd Domaining Spain conference is going to be held from April 25-27, 2013 in Valencia, Spain and follows on the heels of what was a very well received initial conference held earlier this year. The conference will be centered around ccTLD and the...
Discussion
Registration For Domaining Spain 2013 Is Now Opened: Here’s How You Can Save 50% Off The Registration Fee
The 2nd Domaining Spain conference is going to be held from April 25-27, 2013 in Valencia, Spain and follows on the heels of what was a very well received initial conference held earlier this year. The conference will be centered around ccTLD and the...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 9:23 am
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 5th
Yesterday was one of those days. You know the days. The days when you can do no wrong. I was making money left and right. Problems of the day before got solved. Things got done. It only happens a few times a year a...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 5th
Yesterday was one of those days. You know the days. The days when you can do no wrong. I was making money left and right. Problems of the day before got solved. Things got done. It only happens a few times a year a...
Discussion
December 5, 2012, 4:41 am
Domain Shane
KQ.com Sells For $102,480 At 4.cn
Although it won’t make it on any of the domain industry weekly sales lists, KQ.com sold this morning over at 4.cn for $102,480 or 638,000 RMB for all you Chinese currency buyers. You probably have noticed that the Chinese are starting to ...
Discussion
KQ.com Sells For $102,480 At 4.cn
Although it won’t make it on any of the domain industry weekly sales lists, KQ.com sold this morning over at 4.cn for $102,480 or 638,000 RMB for all you Chinese currency buyers. You probably have noticed that the Chinese are starting to ...
Discussion
December 4, 2012, 9:58 pm
