Tag Archives: 2 letter domain name

Fri 18th December 2015
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BY.com Added To Namescon Auction; Get's $500K Bid: My Interview W/ The Owner - The two letter domain name BY.com has just been added to the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the  Namescon conference. The domain name already has gotten a bid of $500,000 on Namejet.com in pre-bidding. No only is BY.com become the 4th two letter .com in the auction, but it joins AT.com as the second two letter domain that is a word. I had a chance to chat with the owner of the domain, André Eidskrem, about the very interesting history behind the domain name and why he is now ... read more ...
Tue 8th December 2015
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CentralNic Buys Registrar Instra.com & Stock is Down Almost 20% - CentralNic (LON:CNIC) is buying privately-owned domain name registrar, Instra Group, funded in part from a £10mln placing of stock with investors at 40p a share, for almost £16mln (A$33mln). According to the press release “the purchase will extend CentralNic’s capabilities and “significantly increase” its retail offering.” According to the press release Instra in the year to June 30 posted pre-tax profits of just over £1mln (A$2.1mln) on turnover of £7.11mln (A$14.8mln). CentralNic ... read more ...
Fri 6th November 2015
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RightofTheDot/Namescon Domain Auction Is Opened for Submissions - RightoftheDot.com is holding a live and online auction with Namejet.com from the Namescon conference. RightoftheDot.com has now formally opened up submission for the auction. We are looking for great domain names, especially one word .com and new gTLD’sm along with short domains in all extensions, along with brand domains, category killers, Geographic domains. Domains should have a low reserve price. The reserve price is not the price you would quote to sell the domain if you got an offer on the ... read more ...
 
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Former VP of ICANN Hired By Facebook For "New Domain Name System Strategy & Management Team" - Denise Michel who was formerly with ICANN as VP of Strategic Initiatives and Advisor to the President,  has been hired by Facebook to work on Facebook’s new “Domain Name System Strategy and Management Team” which she says “will help improve the global framework for domain names, IP addresses, numbers and related elements.” Denise “will be working across Facebook departments and collaborating widely with a range of stakeholders to help increase the opportunities and mitigate the risks ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2015
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CENTR 3Q Report; There Are 298.4 Million Domains adult 1.6% - CENTR’spublished its DomainWire Stat Report for the third quarter of 2015, covering status and trends in global top-level domains. CENTR is the association of European country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries According to the report there are now over 1,000 top level domains available with combined registrations at 298.4 million. Combined growth over the third quarter of 2015 was 1.6% which in terms of absolute values was fairly evenly split between the ccTLDs, new gTLDs and legacy gTLDs. Generally ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
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Did Premium 2 Letter Domain Name TN.com Sell? - This morning, the premium 2 letter .com domain name TN.com has transferred out of domain name registrar Fabulous.com to GoDaddy.com. This movement can indicate a domain name has sold. What we know. Back in 2011, whois records showed the domain name was owned by Vertical Axis, Inc. The domain name has been under whois privacy ever since but the domain has been using Mark.com name servers recently, which is common with Vertical Axis, Inc. owned domain names. The domain name was using DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
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 30th April 2015
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Domain Movers: Haus.com, Gifts.com and More Domains - Thanks for stopping in to checkout Domain Movers, which is a series on TheDomains that digs thousands of domain names and finds domain registrations, domain acquisitions and simply movers for other reasons mainly by all large companies. Here we go with the latest domain movers discovered: Microsoft announced its new name for “Project Spartan”, which is the new browser to replace Internet Explorer. The new browsers name is “Microsoft Edge”. They currently do not own Edge.com, not even MicrosoftEdge.com ... read more ...
Tue 14th April 2015
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YM.com Sold By Advance Publishing Inc. - The 2 letter domain name YM.com has been sold by the 44th largest private company in the United States, Advance Publishing Inc. according to whois records. Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. was the official company name listed in whois records for YM.com, and they are a subsidiary of Advance Publishing Inc. Advance Digital and Conde Nast Digital are all part of Advance Publishing Inc. company. The domain name YM.com was forwarding to TeenVogue.com for several years but I wasn’t able to find a public ... read more ...