Thu 21st January 2016
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Taxi program association goes with .Taxi domain name - Company uses bid.taxi for new ride-hailing technology. Back in November, Sedo reported the sale of Bid.Taxi for €2,000. I reached out to the buyer to understand why it bought the domain name and chose a new top level domain. Command Software Services Ltd. began offering taxicab dispatch systems in 1991. Its dispatch systems are marketed under the name Cab Master. “We supply taxi companies throughout the UK but are now focused on moving into providing Platform Based Taxi booking service which ... read more ...
 
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Dietmar Stefitz gives a lowdown on Domaining Europe - Domain name conference will be held in The Hague in May. Paul Keating presents at last year’s Domaining Europe conference in Spain.After a successful NamesCon this month, the next domain investor-focused conference on the schedule is DomainingEurope. The event will take place May 29-31 in The Hague. DNW readers can currently purchase passes for half price. I’ve never been to the DomainingEurope shows, so I asked show organizer Dietmar Stefitz to provide an overview. DNW: What’s your background? Stefitz: ... read more ...
 
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Toot.com for $31.8k and other lapsed domain name sales - Toot.com leads expired domain name sales. Close observers will have noticed the absence of SnapNames results from my last article, which only covered NameJet expired domains. In the week since NamesCon, most of us have drifted homeward and settled back into our normal routines. So this time both auction houses are represented in the charts – 7 days for SnapNames, 5 days for NameJet. By far the biggest expired domain auction was TOOT.com ($31.8k). Most of us will recognize that as an English ... read more ...
Wed 20th January 2016
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Extended Namescon Auction Ends Tomorrow 125+ Domains Will Sell - The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference ends on Namejet.com tomorrow afternoon starting around 3pm EST and closes in staggered fashion until around 5pm EST subject to Namejet’s normal closing rules. As of publication there are over 125 domain names that have hit reserve (or had no reserve) and have 1 or more bids that will sell tomorrow. Any domain name that did not sell in the Live Domain name auction which generated around $1.5 million in sales plus 200 hundred + domain ... read more ...
 
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The Leadership Development Group Announces New Advisory Board - NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Jan 20, 2016) - The Leadership Development Group, Inc. (TLD Group), a global talent development firm exclusive to the healthcare industry, is pleased to confirm the appointment of their 2016 Advisory Board. The board is comprised of nationally recognized leaders with deep expertise in leadership development and represents all sectors of the healthcare industry as well as best in class corporate talent leaders. The board has been established to guide TLD Group's ... read more ...
 
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The Leadership Development Group Announces New Advisory Board - Board Members Represent All Sectors of the Healthcare Industry as Well as Corporate Talent Leaders to Guide TLD Group's Strategy for Growth and Innovation /EINPresswire.com/ -- NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwired) -- 01/20/16 -- The Leadership Development Group, Inc. (TLD Group), a global talent development firm exclusive to the healthcare industry, is pleased to confirm the appointment ... read more ...
 
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China has been a blessing. Will it be curse? - China’s hunger for domain names has lifted all boats. What happens as the tide recedes? There’s no doubt that China has had a profound impact on the domain name industry over the past 6-12 months. Chinese buyers have enriched people with short domain names and also boosted revenue at domain name marketplaces and registries. How big of an impact? Take a look at these two slides: The first image shows how much business Escrow.com receives from China. The second shows that over half of Domain Name ... read more ...
 
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24 finish user domain name purchases - Here are some end users that purchased domain names over the past couple of weeks. I didn’t have time to do the end user domain sales list last week since I was in Las Vegas for NamesCon, so you get a double issue this week! Sedo handled just over 1,300 domain name transactions during this period for a total of $2.4 million. Among the end users buying domain names were Beachbody and Chicago Board Options Exchange. Here’s a look at these end user domain name sales from the past week: (You can ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames goes to China - A report from the CNNIC Partner Conference in Guangzhou. Tom Jennings and Barb Sher (SnapNames) pose with Daniel Zhang from XinnetDomain name marketplaces are making a lot of money from Chinese buyers these days (more on that later), and it makes sense for these companies to visit with their buyers. After NamesCon, Tom Jennings and Barb Sher of SnapNames traveled to China to visit with customers. Director of Business Development for SnapNames Tom Jennings filed this report: The business development ... read more ...
Tue 19th January 2016
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Sedo Transactions Total $1M; 61% BIN Led by HSZ.com For $65,580 Eur - Over the past week, 606 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million.  61% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are:   Top .com: hsz.com at 65,580 EUR Top ccTLD: 7.gg at 40,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: photographers.net at 6,995 USD   .COMs Domain  Price Currency hsz.com 65,580 EUR 9208.com 32,500 USD makethingsbetter.com 25,000 USD cpns.com 16,000 USD atomist.com 11,800 USD myssl.com 9,995 EUR tecsa.com 9,995 USD ltse.com ... read more ...
 
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Coke Unites Brands Under "Taste a Feeling" They Got Twitter Covered But Not The .Com - Coca-Cola announced today that it has launched “its biggest marketing campaign in a decade, uniting its four brands under one new tagline: “Taste the Feeling”. “Coca-Cola today announced that for the first time, all Coke Trademark brands will be united in one global creative campaign: “Taste the Feeling.” “The soft drinks giant will ditch the different brand personalities across Red Coke, Life, Zero and Diet/Light Coke. Instead, all four brands will be marketed as Coca-Cola variants, ... read more ...
 
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AlpNames Now the Second Largest Providers of gTLDs in the World - AlpNames Limited, a worldwide domain registrar, recently became the second largest provider of the new gTLDs in the world. The company was established in 2013 and headquartered on the island of Gibraltar. They also provide SSL certificates, email and web hosting.The company has created a domain portfolio of about one million new gTLDs, which puts it above GoDaddy as the second largest in the world.Read the full story here. ... read more ...
 
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Donuts Launches .WINE and .VIN Internet Domains - <!-- Paragraph before: BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Wineries, vintners, retailers, and wine aficionados have two new homes on the Internet as Donuts Inc., the largest registry for new "not-com" domain names (known in the industry as generic top-level domains, or gTLDs), today announced that the .WINE and .VIN gTLDs will be available for general ... read more ...
 
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The DNW NamesCon recap - Here are my takeaways from last week’s event in Las Vegas. What a way to kick off the year in the domain name business. Last week’s NamesCon conference in Las Vegas attracted over 1,000 people. Enthusiasm, driven in part by a strong finish to 2015 thanks to China, was high. That’s a lot of people. The record attendance was a good thing, but it also created a couple of challenges. Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie reveals Escrow.com stats.In general, there were no issues finding a seat at sessions ... read more ...
 
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I'm offered domains on NameJet - For the first time in over 5 years, I’m trying my hand at selling domain names on NameJet. I’ll report back about how it goes. Here are some of the domains I am selling: Cathleen.com – I might have set the reserve too low, but I’ll let the market decide. AfricanAmericans.com – Registered in 1997, this was one of iREIT’s notable domains in one of its acquisitions. VietnamWar.com – another 1997 registration with lots of potential. I also have two good product names — PennyLoafers.com ... read more ...
 
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This week's new TLDs: Don't splash and drive - If you don’t like the wine and automotive domain names launching this week, you can leave .feedback. It’s a fairly active week for new to level domain names with six seven domains entering general availability, including a handful that don’t mix. Jay Westerdal’s Top Level Spectrum launched the .feedback domain name on Monday. Each domain comes with a free online feedback platform. MSRP is $39.95 per year. Rightside launches .Family on Wednesday, and you can buy the domains for about $25. After ... read more ...
 
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NamesCon auction was a entrance out celebration for new TLDs - Over 30 domains under nTLDs sold last week, and some for high prices. The live portion of last week’s Right of the Dot domain name auction at NamesCon delivered about $1.5 million of sales. New top level domain names accounted for just over 20% of this dollar figure. I think this was a huge moment for new top level domain names on the aftermarket. I know a lot of people will point out that some of the domains sold were among the very best for each top level domain. This is true. But to watch domains ... read more ...
 
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ICANN Plans to Track gTLD Marketplace Health - How are top level domain names doing? We might soon have a way to track them. ICANN has formed a working group to create metrics designed to assess the overall health of the marketplace for gTLDs. Preliminary documents indicate that the scope may include all gTLDs rather than just the ones commonly referred to as “new gTLDs.” Could this be the first step toward a tool that allows ICANN to forecast future revenue? Or for ICANN to use in deciding when to open the next round of gTLD applications? ICANN ... read more ...
Mon 18th January 2016
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AlpNames overtakes GoDaddy and passes the magic million – Virtual - AlpNames now has more than 1 million domain names under management and becomes the second largest new gTLD registrar on the planet.Monday 18th January 2016, Gibraltar: According to ntldstats.com, AlpNames (a leading domain name registrar with a special focus on new style domain extensions) has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management.“GoDaddy is by far the world’s largest and most well-known domain registrar,” said Damon Barnard, Chief Operations ... read more ...
 
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New TLD .Feedback Arrived Today with Unique Features Designed by a Familiar Industry Face - While many view new gTLDs as being competitors to the long established .com, Westerdal said that because of its unique characteristics, that is not the case with .feedback . "New registries use phrases such ... read more ...
 
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Domain experts on the slow start for new gTLDS, and what may turn the tide - Trevor Little Opening this year’s Com Laude Domain Conference, managing director Nick Wood acknowledged that “it has been a slow start” for the ongoing expansion of the new gTLDs program. Noting that, as of January 8, there were just over 11.5 million gTLD domain registrations (compared to 290 million across legacy domains) he pointed out that ... read more ...
 
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AlpNames overtakes GoDaddy As The 2nd Largest New gTLD Domain Registrar - According to ntldstats.com, AlpNames  has just overtaken GoDaddy in terms of the number of new gTLD domain names under management. According to ntldstats.com AlpNames.com has 1,016,800 new gTLD’s under management while Godaddy has new gTLD’s 1,005,071. Alpnames was founded in 2013 in order to provide registrar services under the new gTLD program. AlpNames has a 8.81% of the new gTLD market domain registrar market, while Godaddy has 8.87 of the new gTLD market. The largest new gTLD domain name ... read more ...
 
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US Sporting Bodies Flock to ‘.tickets’ Domains - Copyright 2016 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved2016-01-18 LONDON, January 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Accent Media sells '.tickets' domains to every team in Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL), and the National Basketball Association (NBA) as well as a number of teams in the National Hockey League (NHL)  London start-up building presence in American entertainment, following 'Broadway.tickets' announcement late last year  Trend highlights marketing and rights protection ... read more ...
 
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Google Self-Driving Car: The X? - Google’s .car domain name registrations are more interesting than Apple’s. Everyone got in a tizzy a couple weeks ago about Apple registering .car domain names. This was stupid because Apple registers its brands in just about every new domain name that comes out. Google does the same — it registered Adsense.car, Alphabet.car and Google.car, among others. But it also registered a few generic/descriptive domains in .car, .cars and .auto. It registered SelfDriving.car, Self-Driving.car, Driverless.car, ... read more ...
 
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Tax-advantaged Domain Investing – DNW Podcast #67 - How to boost returns by deferring taxes. Taxes take a big chunk out of domain name investment returns. What if there was a way to defer taxes, and reinvest that money in more domains? It’s possible, and today’s guest Kirk Chisholm of Innovative Advisory Group explains how. Chisholm previously answered questions on a QA with Domain Name Wire. Also: NamesCon recap, Banana.com, Frank Schilling gives away domains, .Boston, GoDaddy investor app and .Club sales. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the ... read more ...