Fri 14th August 2015
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Yahoo! Inc. Sells 2 Letter Domain Name AV.com - Yahoo! Inc. has sold the premium 2 letter domain name AV.com according to whois records. The domain name has transferred to domain name registrar eName. Also according to whois records, the buyer is a Jack Shen from Shanghai China. This isn’t the first time that Yahoo! has offered AV.com, as they listed the domain for sale on Sedo.com in 2013 but the domain name did not sell at that time when it had a reserve price range of $1,000,00-$1,499,999. Yahoo! did sell Sandwich.com for $137K and several ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
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Breaking: 8.xyz Hits the DOMAINfest .asia Auction at No Reserve -     The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th. RightoftheDot.com in conjunction with 4.CN will be holding an online domain name auction of around 150+ domains from September 2nd-September 9th. The auction will be in English and Chinese and bids will be show in US dollars and Chinese Yuan. All transactions will be cleared through DN.Cn which is the leading escrow service in China. The number 8 ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: 8.xyz Hits a DOMAINfest .asia Auction during No Reserve -     The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th. RightoftheDot.com in conjunction with 4.CN will be holding an online domain name auction of around 150+ domains from September 2nd-September 9th. The auction will be in English and Chinese and bids will be show in US dollars and Chinese Yuan. All transactions will be cleared through DN.Cn which is the leading escrow service in China. The number 8 ... read more ...
 
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A Band You Never Heard Of Bitches About Having To Pay For Pavement.com or The FB Page - A interesting story in contactmusic.com, about a band from the 90’s name Payment is bitching about not being able to simply get the domain name Pavement.com and/or a Facebook page by that name that is held by one of those nasty “Cybersquatters”. Here is the title of the story: “Rockers Pavement Spent Years With No Official Presence On Social Media Because They Refused To Pay A Fortune To A Cybersquatter For Their Domain Name.” “The cult band split in 1999 and by the time they reunited ... read more ...
 
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Another New gTLD For Google: Buys/Registered Premium Domain ABC.Global - Google has bought another new gTLD for its Alphabet brand which is using the domain name abc.xyz Google registered/bought the premium domain name ABC.Global yesterday though its registrar Mark Monitor. .Global has around 4,000 domain names that are priced with premium registration fees through the domain name registrar channel (however many registrars will not be selling those premium domain names until the end of August). Rolf Larsen the CEO of .Global told thedomains.com that ABC.Global was priced ... read more ...
 
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Recapping July's NameJet domain name sales - Joseph Peterson reviews last month’s sales on NameJet. NameJet had seen 9 domains surpass $100k, going as high as $175.5k – but nothing remotely like July’s $550,050 sale of SX.com. Yes, VVV.com was its 4th highest sale back in April (now 5th); and RingTones.com placed 7th in June (now 8th). Yet SX.com more than triples the auction house’s all-time record. Of course, 2-letter .COMs are known to retail in the 7 figures with increasing regularity. So it might be thought that NameJet’s ... read more ...
 
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CentralNic surges on back of Google’s new Alphabet.xyz website name - LONDON (ShareCast) - (ShareCast News) - London-based CentralNic, an internet domain-name registry, has been boosted by Google (Xetra: A0B7FY - news) 's decision to restructure itself under a holding company called Alphabet. AIM-listed CentralNic's shares rose 14% to 55.26p, adding to a 12% rise on Wednesday, as its '.xyz' top-level domain (TLD) was chosen by Alphabet for its new website address.CentralNic said the '.xyz' suffix, which it markets on behalf of its US owner, had achieved number-one ... read more ...
 
 
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Autobytel Buys Dealix, Owner Of UsedCars.com In $25 Million Deal - Publicly traded Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq: ABTL) has acquired Dealix, owner of UsedCars.com for $25 Million in an all cash deal. The registrant for the domain name UsedCars.com was CDK Global, LLC and they are a wholly-owned subsidiaries of Dealix. The transaction took place May 21, 2015 according to a press release by Autobytel. Autobytel is no stranger to premium generic domain names as they also own Car.com. From the press release: Dealix provides new and used car leads to dealerships, dealer groups, ... read more ...
 
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Sedo highlights registries during dmexco - Sedo is partnering with registries and registrars to reach European audience at dmexco. A flyer promoting the Sedo booth that will be handed out at dmexco.Sedo is once again highlighting top level domain name options at the biggest digital marketing conference in Europe. dmexco takes place next month in Cologne, Germany. Last year Sedo offered frozen yogurt at the event, with the kicker that attendees had to order toppings based on TLD names. Sedo is offering the frozen yogurt again this year, but ... read more ...
 
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Report: Traffic to Alphabet.com Surges 5,000%; ABC.XYZ Gets 4 Million Visits in 2 Days - According to a story in the telegraph.co.uk today, traffic to Alphabet.com surged 5,000% since Google announcement on Monday. The Telegraph siting stats from Similar Web a “digital measurement service” says traffic to BMW owned Alphabet.com that saw “an average of 3,000 desktop visits” prior to Google announcement ” surged to almost 60,000 visits following Google’s announcement on Monday before spiking to around 163,000 on Tuesday. The story goes on to report that the domain name abc.xyz ... read more ...
 
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Google Alphabet news causes CentralNic shares to burst 50% - Shares in .xyz services company are up big this week. Shares in domain name registry company CentralNic have jumped about 50% since Monday afternoon. The company thinks this is due to Google’s selection of the domain name abc.xyz for its new company Alphabet. CentralNic is the backend registry provider for .xyz domain names. Shares on the London AIM (CNIC) traded for about 40 pence on Monday afternoon, and have shot up to 61 pence at the time of writing. CentralNic issued a statement this morning: The ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2015
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Microsoft .xbox Domains Have Been Possible for a While Now - With the growth in top-level domain suffixes available on the internet many companies look to obtain ones that have a connection to them. This appears to be what Microsoft has done with .xbox. As noticed, Microsoft now have control of this domain suffix, which in theory means that they can create sites such as home.xbox. As they now own the so called gTLD (generic top-level domain) only they can create domains using this suffix. While this doesn’t mean much to gamers as such, it does offer ... read more ...
 
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DNS Deregulation (Part 1 of 3) - The domain name system (DNS) market is going through significant change. Barriers to entry have dropped, as hundreds of new generic top-level-domains (TLDs) are being introduced. Substantial new sources of capital have invested in the market. While at the same time, overall domain name sales volume has slowed. Recent MA activities suggest market consolidation focused on building scale. Greater transparency of wholesale and retail pricing shows some TLDs have raised wholesale prices, while simultaneously ... read more ...
 
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Google Didn't Even Contact BMW To Offer To Buy Alphabet.com - According to a story today in the KansasCity.com, it seems that Google did not even contact BMW, that owns the domain name  Alphabet.com, to see if they would sell it before going with abc.xyz The article quotes a spokesman at BMW, who said “that the automaker was not informed ahead of time of plans by Page and Brin to create a company called Alphabet and had not received any offers to buy the Internet domain or the trademark”. Beyond BMW’s trademark issue with Google there are plenty of other ... read more ...
 
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Negari of .XYZ On Bloomberg TV On Dominance of .Com: "I Think It's Over" - Daniel Negari the CEO of the .XYZ registry was interviewed on Bloomberg Television today during the Bloomberg West show. .XYZ has been in the headline since Google announcement of the formation of its parent company Alphabet which would be using the domain name abc.xyz. The co-host of the Bloomberg West show asked the following question: There are now a Lot of choice for a domain name. We know that .Com is king,  how long will that last? Daniel: “I think its over” Negari went on to say .XYZ ... read more ...
 
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See .XYZ CEO Daniel Negari on Bloomberg - Bloomberg features .xyz and how Google’s big announcement has affected it. .XYZ and its CEO Daniel Negari are riding the wave of Alphabet, Google’s new parent company. The company’s official website is abc.xyz, representing the first and last three letters of the alphabet. Negari was on Bloomberg earlier today discussing the spike in registrations his company has seen since the Alphabet announcement. The video also features commentary from GoDaddy CEO Blake Irving about the availability of ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .LOL Has Just 772 Domain Registrations After its 1st Day: Trump.lol … - .LOL launched into general availability yesterday by Uniregistry and wound with just 772 registrations including some 70 domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders. Uniregistry is charging $6.88 for a .LOL registration. Uniregistry beat out Google for rights to operate .LOL in a private auction. There are several domain names registered of people running for President of the United States as well as President Obama. Some comedians domains in .lol were registered as well, pretty ... read more ...
 
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Domainer Merlin Kauffman's Soothe Startup Picks adult $10.6M In New Funding - Merlin Kauffman is a domain name investor and president of True Magic, LLC which owns many great domain names like Exclusive.com, Lookup.com, Conferences.com, FileSharing.com, Volunteers.com, and Tabloids.com to mention a few. Merlin is also the Founder and CEO of  Soothe which is an on-demand massage service which launched in April 2013. The company just picked up a cool $10.6 million in new funding according to a story on TechCrunch.com! As I began talking with massage therapists, they kept telling ... read more ...
 
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Juice sequence among finish user domain name buyers - A look at recent end user domain name purchases at Sedo. JuiceLand is a popular juice and smoothie bar here in Austin. It has 13 local locations and one in Brooklyn. But it’s been hampered by the domain name JuiceLandAustin.com. No more…the company just paid $20,000 to acquire JuiceLand.com. JuiceLand is just one of the end users that bought domain names through Sedo over the past week. Other buyers include a software company, a fabric company and a new food delivery service called BiteHop. Here’s ... read more ...
 
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The 2015 Moz Search Engine Ranking Study Shows Links Still Super Important - Moz has announced the publication of the 2015 Moz search ranking factors study. The study shared a lot of data on correlation and expert interviews, it is the largest they put together yet.In short, it seems links and anchor text still rank supreme with Google. Things like HTTPS and TLDs have very little correlation. Here is the summary infographic they published, but you can dive into the details over here.Forum discussion at Google+ and Local Search Forums. ... read more ...
 
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New gTLD .LOL Has Just 772 Domain Registrations After the 1st Day: Trump.lol; Obama.lol - .LOL launched into general availability yesterday by Uniregistry and wound with just 772 registrations including some 70 domain names registered in the Sunrise period by trademark holders. Uniregistry is charging $6.88 for a .LOL registration. Uniregistry beat out Google for rights to operate .LOL in a private auction. There are several domain names registered of people running for President of the United States as well as President Obama. Some comedians domains in .lol were registered as well, pretty ... read more ...
 
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ICANN wants TMCH assessed - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has invited providers to pitch for an independent review of the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), in an attempt to address protection issues ahead of future new gTLD programme application rounds. Providers will complete a study to create a report of quantitative and qualitative data based on an assessment of TMCH guidelines and verification processes, the sunrise period, and trademark claims service. ICANN said in a statement: “It ... read more ...
 
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.XYZ Sees Nearly 20K New Domain Registrations In 2 Days Since ABC.XYZ Announcement - Since Google Inc. announced Alphabet Inc. on August 10, 2015 around 3 PM ET and stated they will be using the domain name ABC.XYZ, the new gTLD .xyz has had nearly 20,000 new domain names registered! It started with over 6,000 .xyz domains being registered after Google’s announcement. New registrations for .xyz cranked that rising total up over double in one day with 13,000+ more domain name registrations! (13,206 to be exact) with a two day total of about 20,000 newly registered .xyz domain names. It ... read more ...
 
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Fight over APE.com lands in court - Domain name is at the center of a family business dispute. The domain name Ape.com is the subject of a lawsuit just filed in U.S. District Court in Florida – Key West Division. The dispute is a weird one, and it sounds like the Scheu family doesn’t get together for Thanksgiving. Scheu Scheu, Inc. filed the lawsuit (pdf) against husband and wife Casey Scheu and Veronica Scheu, as well as the company Ape.com LLC. They threw in Network Solutions for good measure. I’m assuming that Scheu Scheu ... read more ...