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Blog on the domain industry including sales of domains, news and views on the industry including ICANN, UDRP, new gTLD's
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Richmond Mayoral Candidate Registers the Competition
Mark Robinson at RichmondMagazine.com wrote a piece on some dirty domain politics. Nate Peterson who is just 25 years old and has never held office wants to... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
HA.com Live Auction Today
Heritage Auctions is set to host another auction tonight at 4p.m. Eastern today. Proxy bidding ends one hour prior to the live auction. There are 42 lots up... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows Continues Winning Streak up Another 5%
Market Recap 4/18/16 Tucows (TCX) the stock continued to post gains up over 5%. The shares arte up over 13% over the last 5 days. Rightside (NAME) closed at $9... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
As Viewer Patterns Change So Are The Search Engines
For those not following Google over the last six weeks, right side desktop ads are gone and the rules of SEO and how people scan Google have changed a bit. Read more
Posted on 18 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Buying A Domain Name to Get A Twitter Handle – Wrong Or Genius ?
Joel Runyon publishes ImpossibleHQ.com and he wrote an interesting article about getting the Twitter handle he needed by buying a domain name. Read more
Posted on 17 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Ether Drops 50% This Week
On March 28 we wrote about Ethereum and it’s rise over 1,000 %. The cryptocurrency took a hit this week and plunged over 50%. CoinDesk reported: Ether’s... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Mark Zuckerberg Buys Domain for $700 from Engineering Student
There was a story in the Times of India about an engineering student selling a name to Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read more
Posted on 16 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 4/14/16 Tucows up 3.5%
Market Recap 4/14/16 Tucows (TCX) was up over 3.5% on the day and Rightside (NAME) closed up 1.7% approaching $9. Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 1.2% on the day after... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign: There Are 314 Million Domain Names As of December 31, 2015
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), announced that approximately 15 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015, bringing the... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Found on 23 Year Old Domain MasterCall.com
Master Call Connections, LLC (represented by Mikhail Lezhnev, New York, USA has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Tinder Files UDRP to Get The Domain TinderBuster.com; But Is The Target...
An interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster. Read more
Posted on 14 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Go Daddy Invites You to Join the “Customer Council”
Go Daddy sent out an email about customers joining a new “Customer Council” that they say will you have some input into new products and services. You need to... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 4/13/16 Strong Day for Neustar and Go Daddy
Market Recap 4/13/16 Strong day for registrars Go Daddy (GDDY) and Web.com (WEB), Go Daddy was up over 4% and Web.com was up 2.5%. Neustar (NSR) was up 3.4% to... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.2million Led by YouCoin.com
Over the past week, 608 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Market Recap 4/11/16 Go Daddy off 3 % – Tucows up 2.3%
Market Recap 4/11/16 Go Daddy (GDDY) was off 3% on the day while competitor Web.com (WEB) was off over 2.2%. Tucows (TCX) was the only stock in our list that wa... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Minds+Machines Rebranded Domain MMX.co Purchased For $2,200
Minds + Machines announced yesterday, it was re-branding its website from MindsandMachines.com to the domain name MMX.co. The domain name MMX.co was on Sedo... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
2 UDRP’s: Trademark Holder Of Rocket Pay Wins RocketPays.com Loses on...
Two interesting UDRP decisions were handed down today but two different UDRP panelist both involving the trademark holder of “Rocket Pay” In the first case... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Alphabet and Verizon Considering Buyout of Yahoo According to Report
Greg Sterling published an article on Marketing Land that Yahoo is in play and that Alphabet and Verizon are both interested in acquiring the company. Read more
Posted on 07 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
.Store Goes Live in Sunrise & Picks Up Over 150 Registrations On Day One
Radix, the Portfolio Registry behind .online, .tech, .space announced the launch .store which went live into Sunrise yesterday a period where domain names can b... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH -
Namejet.com Sells Over $2 Million in Domains in March
Namejet.com released it monthly report of domain sales for March 2016. As usual Namejet.com only includes domain that sold for $2,000 or more and only those... Read more
Posted on 06 April 2016 BUSINESS, TECH
