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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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SeekingAlpha.com Covers Qihoo Purchase of 360.com
SeekingAlpha.com just covered Qihoo 360’s (NYSE:QIHU) purchase of 360.com saying it “looks smart strategically, but it needs to improve its search and... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Verisign Reports: Revenue up 4.7%; Profit Margin 55.9% & $1.4 Billion In The Bank
VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN), today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2014. Fourth Quarter GAAP Financial Results VeriSign, Inc. Read more
Posted on 05 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Today’s The Day: RightoftheDot Extended Auction From Namescon Ends Today On...
The extended auction held by RightoftheDot at the Namescon conference ends today on Snapnames.com at 3:15 PM EST. As of publication 10 domain names have hit... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Trademark Holder of Dana & Spicer Loses URS On Dana.parts and Spicer.parts;...
Car parts manufacturer, Dana Limited of Maumee, Ohio, just lost a URS on the domain names Dana.parts and Spicer.parts which are owned by FleetTruckParts.com of... Read more
Posted on 05 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Google To Get Access To The Twitter Firehose – Tweets To Get Indexed Again
Google will get access to the Twitter firehose once again and tweets should become indexed in Google right after they are posted. Read more
Posted on 05 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Chinese Retailers Playing Poker in Empty Malls as Their Customers Shop Online
Online sales are having a real impact in China, and while that is good for companies like Alibaba and JD.com, it is taking a toll on the brick and mortar... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
NameJet.com Report Almost $800K In Sales In January
NameJet.com just published its reported sales for the month of January 2015 for all domains that sold for $2K or over The total amount of such reported sales... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Meet Two More Judges Of The Verisign 30th Anniversary Contest #internetofficial
Last week I was introduced as one of three judges for the contest Verisign the .Com Registry is running to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of .Com in which they... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
The DNA.org Global Domain Name Preferences Survey: 85% Type Domains Into Browsers
The DNA.org, a trade association whose members include new gTLD registries, domain name registrars and consultants to the industry (Disclaimer a company I’m a... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
ThinkingPhones.com Acquires Klink.com and Contactive & Its 1.5 Million Customers
ThinkingPhones, a three-time Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS “Leader,” has announced its acquisition of Contactive.com, a big data solution that connects... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Flippa.com Sells $2.15 Million In Domains in 2014
According to a post on its company blog, Flippa.com sold $2.15 million dollars in domain names in 2014. “It’s been 13 months since Flippa’s Domains division... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
My Top Picks From The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon
The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescom conference is running on Snapnames.com and closed out on Thursday at 3:15pm EST according to the... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Sedo Transactions Total $1.9 Million Led By KHC.com for $120K
Over the past week, 616 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.9m. 52% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Another Blockbuster Sale: Vodafone Sells 360.com to 360.cn; The 49th Most Visite...
In what appears to be another blockbuster domain sale in two days, publicly traded Vodafone Group (Nasdaq:VOD) has sold the domain name 360.com to the company... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Donuts Expects To Wind Up With About 200 New gTLD’s
In a press release it issued today Donuts said it expected to win up operating around 200 new gTLD’s. “”Donuts Inc., the world’s largest registry for new generi... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Wix Wins The Digital Bowl
Merkle/RKG a search and digital marketing agency, released the results of their 2nd Annual Digital Marketing Bowl. The top spots were taken by Wix and Bud Light... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Howard Neu Gets A CryptoCurrency Named After Him
Well the currency just shares the same last name as Howard, Tech Crunch is out today with an article on NeuCoin, a cryptocurrency that wants to specialize in... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Are New gTLDs More Memorable Than Country Code Domains ?
Stuart Fuller, director, commercial operations at NetNames spoke with FE Brandwagon/FinancialExpress.com and gave his view why the new gtlds are more memorable... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Marketing Land: Super Bowl Commercials With Hashtags Slipped To 50% In 2015
Marketing Land publised the results of their fourth annual Hashtag Bowl. Half of all commercials run during the Super Bowl carried a hashtag according to the... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH -
Record Setter: Porno.com Sale Is The Largest Single Domain Escrow.com Has Ever...
According to Brandon Abbey who has been the president of Escrow.com since 2004 the sale of Porno.com for $8,888,88 which we reported earlier today, was the... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2015 BUSINESS, TECH
