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Thu 11th June 2015
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Overstock Buys 3 Domains & 3 Social Net Handles For 150 Bitcoins - Exclusive to TheDomains.com: Overstock bought three domain names and three social media handles for 150 bitcoins, in December 2014, which at the time were valued at $50,000 ($380 per BTC) from Anonymous Media LLC. which is a/k/a Dotted.in Overstock bought the domain names O.ly,  O.vu and  O.cr as well as the social networking handles of  twitter.com/O; vimeo.com/O and O.tumblr.com for 150 Bitcoins. Bitcoin is presently trading down around 40% from where it was in December 2014 at $233 down ... read more ...
 
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Donuts starts releasing name collision domains - First batch of domains is now available for registration. Donuts has begun releasing domain names that were originally held back due to name collision concerns. The first set of domain names, all related to photography, became available yesterday. They are currently running through Early Access, which means they are going through a sort of Dutch auction for seven days. Next Wednesday the domains will become available at regular prices. (About 2% of domains have premium prices attached to them.) Domains ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Clears 1.369 Million Reserved Domain Names for Registration - Copyright 2015 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2015-06-11 BELLEVUE, Wash., June 11, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Beginning this week, Donuts Inc., the world's largest registry for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), will release for registration 1.369 million previously reserved domain names.  The company will make these names available in batches each week between June and September. Those interested in these valuable, frequently searched terms can secure them through accredited domain ... read more ...
 
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eUKhost??? Celebrates Anniversary of UK Domain with 1 Pound Domains - More Related Stories email article print page One of the UK's largest web hosting companies, eUKhost???, is pleased to be celebrating the first anniversary of the .UK ccTLD (country-code Top Level Domain). June 10, 2015 -- LEEDS, England, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Launched on 10th June 2014, the introduction of the .uk domain marked the first time that consumers and businesses were able ... read more ...
 
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Mobile Advertising Prospects Take A Hit - Mobile Advertising has been a hot topic for the last couple years, back in April there was an article by Business Insider titled, “Mobile is growing faster than all other ad formats.” From the article: Mobile is growing faster than all other digital advertising formats in the US, as advertisers begin allocating dollars to catch the eyes of a growing class of “mobile-first” users. Historically, there has been a big disparity between the amount of time people actually spend on their smartphones ... read more ...
 
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Salesforce registers over 100 subdomain typos - Salesforce registers .com domains corresponding to each of its instances. When you log in to Salesforce.com, you land on an instance, which is a subdomain of salesforce.com. As explained here, if you arrive from North America, your browser might load na1.salesforce.com. Other subdomains include AP# for Asia Pacific, EU# for Europe and CS# for the sandbox environment. You can see a full list of the instances and corresponding subdomain identifiers here. Yesterday, Salesforce registered over a hundred ... read more ...
 
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Irish Businesses Will Soon Be Able to register dual minute .ie domains - The IEDR is the registry for .ie Internet domain names and maintains the database of .ie registered domain names.Today they announced that soon Irish businesses will be able to register two letter .ie for the first time. From their blog: Irish businesses will shortly be able to register two-letter .ie domain names for the first time, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) announced today. The move will allow for up to 676 possible two-letter domain name combinations, including hp.ie, pc.ie, hr.ie and aa.ie, ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2015
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The .REALTOR Domain: Why It Really Does Matter - Last month at the REALTORS® Legislative Meetings Trade Expo, NAR made the .REALTOR domain available to local and state REALTOR® associations as well as brokerages in the U.S. and Canada. This move followed the domain’s launch to NAR members this past October. Before the year is out, NAR will up the ante even further by rolling out the .realestate domain to REALTOR® and broker members. The introduction of these top-level domains (TLD) is exciting news for real estate professionals, ... read more ...
 
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Namejet Revises Its May Sales Report To $600K - Namejet.com just revised its May sales which they previously reported to be around $355,000 for all sales of $2,000 or more that closed in May 2015. Today we received a new report from Namejet.com which reported almost $600,000 in sales. “In all 97 domains sold at $2000 and above for a total of $593,760 according to the revised report we received today. Here is the new May Report:   ... read more ...
 
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8 Things to Look for in a Registrar Automation Platform - In today's world, domain name registrars play a very important role in the functioning of the domain name ecosystem. This is in stark contrast from the Registry-dominated industry most of us have been used to seeing over the past decade. After the introduction of New gTLDs, Registrars have been elevated to a strategic and important pedestal because they're the first contact point to end customers of domain names. Don't get me wrong, a Registrar doesn't have it easy in today's world. They have ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Announces #InternetOfficial Month 3 Winners & Upcoming Grand Prize - Verisign has announced the winners of the #InternetOfficial contest for month 3. The month 3 winners are: delectablegarden.com GeorgiaWeddingCakes.com CancerSniff.com WarmEscapes.com BridesWithABudget.com Congratulations to the last 5 #InternetOffical winners! The Grand Prize round will launch on Friday, June 12 and end on Saturday, June 27th. Staring June 12th you can vote for the .COM that you think should be the $30,000 #InternetOfficial Grand Prize winner along with the Judges of the contest ... read more ...
 
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Gmeil.com 11 Year aged Typo For Gmail.com Sells At Auction For $3,255 - The domain name Gmeil.com, which is a pretty clear typo for gmail.com, just sold in a domain drop auction for $3,255 The domain name dropped on June 7th and was caught by the domain catcher dropcatch.com The domain name has an original registration date of 2004, so Google had over a decade to go and get the domain through a UDRP. According to Screenshots.com the domain has been parked since at least 2005. There were 5 bidders willing to pay $1K or more for the domain and no wonder since the domain ... read more ...
 
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LPC-TV firm M7 seeks 500 mln euro loan for shareholder dividend - LONDON, June 10 Luxembourg-based satellite TV business M7 is looking to raise a 500 million euro ($564.45 million) loan to refinance existing debt and pay around 135 million euros as a dividend to owners, banking sources said on Wednesday.The dividend is the third to be taken by shareholders in the past two years and brings the total payout during that time to 555 million euros, according to Thomson Reuters LPC data.Deutsche Bank is leading the deal, alongside bookrunner BNP Paribas and mandated ... read more ...
 
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(Some of) May's tip NameJet sales - Joseph Peterson takes a look back at the past month on NameJet. Each month, NameJet disseminates its list of domain auctions that closed above $2,000, and various domain blogs publish that list basically as is. Personally, I’ve tried to dig a bit deeper, grouping sold domains by type and providing month-to-month statistics on overall market-place performance. Unfortunately, that approach is too time consuming; so I’m reverting to a simpler list format. That said, I like to chew data before swallowing. ... read more ...
 
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Eli Lilly Wins Control of 392 "Cialis" Domains In a Single UDRP - Eli Lilly Wins Control of 392 Domains In a Single UDRP. 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Bill Passes in House to Give Congress 30 days to examination Internet Transition Plan - TheHill.com is out with an article today about a House subcommittee approving a bill that would require President Obama to give Congress some time to review any Internet transition. The bill today was a compromise of a previous bill that would have included a GAO report. ICANN president Fadi Chehade said the group would likely be able to give the government a transition proposal by the end of the year. He recently told Reuters he believes the whole process could be finished before the 2016 elections. From ... read more ...
 
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Verisign Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks (VRSN) - Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN) was downgraded by Zacks from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday. According to Zacks, “Internet infrastructure assurance and domain registry services provider VeriSign reported strong first-quarter 2015 results with both earnings and revenues growing year over year. We believe that gTLD prospects, international expansion through IDNs and investments in intellectual properties will boost ... read more ...
 
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Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME) Reports Form 4 Insider Buying : Robert J Majteles … - Rightside Group, Ltd. (NAME) Discloses Insider Transaction. Robert J Majteles , director of Rightside Group, Ltd. purchased 4,000 shares on Jun 5, 2015. The Insider buying transaction was disclosed on Jun 9, 2015 to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The shares were purchased at $7.66 per share for a total value of $30,636.80. The stock has received coverage from different analysts. Deutsche Bank initiates coverage on Rightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME).The analysts at the brokerage ... read more ...
 
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Strong greenback provides domain name shopping opportunity - Currency fluctuations have a big impact on domain name negotiations. The U.S. dollar goes a lot further these days.If you keep your cash in the U.S. dollar, now might be a good time to by domain names from people outside of the U.S. It might also be worth revisiting failed purchases from the past year or two as your previous offer might now be more appealing.. The U.S. dollar has been very strong in the past year, rising 10%-22% against many major currencies. It’s up about 20% against the euro, ... read more ...
 
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16 finish user domain name sales adult to $50,000 - An end user (instead of a Chinese domain name investor) bought a three letter domain name last week. Sedo handled 560 transactions last week for total domain name sales of about $1 million. The biggest public sale was NBT.com, which was purchased by South Korean app maker NBT Partners. The company currently uses the ccTLD NBTPartners.co.uk. Some new top level domain names made the end user sales list as well. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales from last week: (You can view previous lists ... read more ...
 
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The hurdles of detailed trademarks - Two lawsuits show that descriptive brands have a downside. I came across a couple recently filed trademark lawsuits that emphasize the challenge of building a brand around a descriptive term. The first was filed by Texas company Peanut Labs, Inc., which operates the site SurveyTool.com. The company is upset with Instantly, Inc for using the term “Survey Tool”. (Lawsuit PDF) Survey tool is very descriptive. It’s a tool for surveys. If you Google “Survey Tool”, you’ll find a bunch of services ... read more ...
 
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GMO Internet (Largest Registrar in Japan) Raises $65million - GMO Internet is the largest registrar in Japan, they made news last November purchasing Z.com for JPY800 million or $6,776,448 USD.  The dollar amount is the exchange rate at the time of the transaction. Today it would be $6,506,768. TechInAsia.com reported today that the company just received a $65 million investment from Mitsui Sumitomo to provide the financial wherewithal to strengthen their payment solution and to help foster the start ups they work with. From the article: Japan’s GMO Internet ... read more ...
 
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eUKhost™ Celebrates Anniversary of .UK Domain with £1 Domains - Jun 10, 2015 - (Newswire) Launched on 10th June 2014, the introduction of the .uk domain marked the first time that consumers and businesses were able to register domains directly under the .uk domain TLD. Over 330,000 .uk domains have been sold in the first year and the new TLD has represented an excellent opportunity for businesses to adopt an online presence or to adapt their existing websites. For end-users it has made access to ... read more ...
 
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eUKhost™ Celebrates Anniversary of .UK Domain with 1 Pound Domains – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>LEEDS, England, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Launched on 10th June 2014, the introduction of the .uk domain marked the first time that consumers and businesses were able to register domains directly under the .uk domain TLD. Over 330,000 .uk domains have been sold in the first year and the new TLD has represented an excellent opportunity for businesses to adopt an online presence or to adapt their existing websites. ... read more ...
 
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eUKhost(TM) Celebrates Anniversary of .UK Domain with 1 Pound Domains - Copyright 2015 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2015-06-10 LEEDS, England, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Launched on 10th June 2014, the introduction of the .uk domain marked the first time that consumers and businesses were able to register domains directly under the .uk domain TLD. Over 330,000 .uk domains have been sold in the first year and the new TLD has represented an excellent opportunity for businesses to adopt an online presence or to adapt their existing websites. For end-users it has ... read more ...