Tag Archives: expired

Sat 1st March 2014
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Web.com acquires SnapNames - Part-owner of NameJet acquires competing service SnapNames. Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) has acquired expired domain name service and domain marketplace SnapNames from KeyDrive. The deal will formally be announced on Monday after the closing bell, Domain Name Wire has learned. Web.com employees tweeted about the acquisition yesterday afternoon. Web.com marks the third corporate parent of SnapNames since 2007. In 2007 Oversee.net acquired the company. It then sold it to ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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Verisign is contrast reduce .com prices on deleted domain names - .Com registry offers $2 discount on deleting domain names. Verisign is testing lower wholesale prices for deleting .com domain names later this month. From December 15-31, registrars will be able to register .com domain names on the day they delete for $5.85. Regular wholesale pricing is $7.85 per year. The domain names must be registered before midnight on the day they are deleted. They must be registered through the auto batch pool, which is a secondary registry-registrar ... read more ...
Tue 3rd December 2013
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NameJet reveals tip sales from November - NameJet’s top sales include many a handful of 3 letter .com domain names. Expired domain name site NameJet released a list today of top sales from November. Here are all of the sales of $5,000 or more: ojr.org $19,100 hase.com $17,851 clio.com $17,200 contributor.com $11,199 sellout.com $10,199 fcloud.com $10,000 iqo.com $8,099 duq.com $7,977 bmq.com $7,500 aiyuan.com $6,988 cvcv.com $6,800 coppell.com $6,105 budapestsun.com $6,104 pami.com $5,999 pxc.com $5,600.00 basketballnews.com ... read more ...
Fri 18th October 2013
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Verisign combines domain name acid collection into DomainScope - DomainScope helps registrants find available domain names, including those with traffic or that recently expired. Verisign has released a new domain name search tool called DomainScope, which combines the functionality of its DomainFinder, DomainScore and DomainCountdown tools in one system. To use DomainScope, users plug in keywords and the system returns suggested available domain names. There are also tabs for available domains with traffic as well as expired domain ... read more ...
Tue 1st October 2013
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A Fortune 100 company’s domain name expires in 11 days - Once again, this company has cut it close. In April I wrote about how 15 Fortune 100 companies had domain names that expired this year. It’s now October, and all of the companies have renewed their domains before they expired. Some have cut it close to the wire, and here’s another example. Lockheed Martin’s LockheedMartin.com domain name expires this month. In just 11 days. I believe most of the company uses LMCO.com for email, but this is still a big deal. ... read more ...
Tue 3rd September 2013
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New lapsed domain name manners now in effect - Registrars must follow new guidelines for expired domain names. New expired domain name rules governing all gTLDs went into effect on Saturday. The Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP) regulates how domain name registrars handle expiring domain names. For example, it requires them to send expiration notices at certain intervals. It also requires domain name registrars to interrupt the nameservers for most expired domain names to get the attention of the domain ... read more ...
Thu 29th August 2013
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What is this new domain name scam? - I think I know, but feel free to dig in some more. I just received a scam phone call and I’m trying to figure out what the perpetrator’s goal is. I have an idea, but I figure some readers might know more. The caller said he was with “an independent agency with I-C-A-N-N”. He didn’t say “I-CAN”, he actually said each letter separately. He then said that it was necessary to verify the information associated with domain names once a year. He asked if I ... read more ...
Thu 8th August 2013
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How JustDropped.com increase from domain names by focusing on volume - Behind a popular expired domain site lies a business model of selling lots of domain names for under $100. There are a handful of people and companies that make a living buying and selling domain names. There are some, like Frank Schilling, who make money selling a small percentage of their portfolio each year for very high prices. There are others, like NameMedia, who sell a bigger, but still small, percentage of their portfolio with a typical price of under $2,000. Then ... read more ...
Wed 7th August 2013
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Verisign gets obvious for self-existent domain trade analysis - Patent covers tool to identify potentially valuable unregistered domain names. The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Verisign that covers analysis of traffic to non-existent domain names. U.S. Patent number 8,504,673 (pdf) is titled “Traffic like NXDomains”. I wrote about this patent last year when it was published. Here’s the patent abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic related to domain names, including Non-Existent ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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GoDaddy tests new lander for lapsed domain names - GoDaddy drops PPC ads on expired domains in favor of auction promotion. A domain name registrar typically parks a domain when it expires. The expired domain parked page usually notifies visitors that the domain is expired and up for auction with a fairly subtle notice toward the top of the page. It appears GoDaddy is trying something different. Check out the landing page you see if you visit 5sg.com, which recently expired and is up for auction at GoDaddy: Gone are ... read more ...
Thu 18th April 2013
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Ouch: Regions Bank video mea culpa for vouchsafing domain name expire - Head of eBusiness for bank explains that company let domain expire and apologizes to customers. Hopefully this video saves other companies from letting their domain names expire. Over the weekend Regions Bank let its domain name expire, which took its entire web site offline. It quickly renewed the domain name, but any sort of downtime for a bank of this size (1,700 branches) is more than an “uh-oh”. Can you imagine the questions you’d receive from the CEO if ... read more ...
 
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15 Fortune 100 companies have domains that end this year - American Express’ domain expires in about six weeks. Here are other companies that need to pay attention. Regions Bank, part of a Fortune 500 company, let its domain name registration expire over the weekend. As a result, thousands of customers were unable to conduct online banking transactions. Generally, when a domain expires and is taken offline, that also means emails to and from employees won’t be delivered as well. In other words: letting your domain expire ... read more ...
Tue 9th April 2013
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Oops…U.S. Government lets Medicaid.com expire, now in private hands - Domain expired in January and wasn’t renewed despite plenty of warning. The official site for Medicaid, the U.S. health program for lower income families and individuals, is Medicaid.gov. But you can bet many people looking for information about the program type in Medicaid.com instead of .gov. Up until January 29th, the U.S. government helpfully forwarded Medicaid.com to Medicaid.gov… Then it let the domain expire. Last month Tennessee company Medx Publishing ... read more ...
Mon 4th March 2013
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New lapsed domain manners go into outcome in August - Rules mandate practices to protect domain name registrants. The new “Expired Registration Recovery Policy” (ERRP) goes into effect August 31. This policy sets guidelines for how registrars treat expired domain names and how they must notify customers that their domains are expiring. Most notably, the rules will require expiration notices be sent at particular intervals and mandate that DNS resolution be interrupted after expiration. Domain registrars will be required ... read more ...
Thu 28th February 2013
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Domainers give curtsy to NameJet for lapsed domains - NameJet selected as best service for expired domain names. When it comes to snagging expired domain names, NameJet gets top billing amongst domain investors. 33% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s 8th annual survey said NameJet is the best expired domain service. NameJet, a partnership between Demand Media and Web.com, has exclusive access to the expired domain stream from some of the older registrars including Web.com companies Network Solutions and Register.com. ... read more ...
Mon 4th February 2013
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SnapNames picks adult Host Europe lapsed domain stream - Deal gives company a strong partner in Europe. SnapNames has picked up a new partner to bolster its expired domain name inventory. The company has gone live with Host Europe, a top three domain registrar in Europe and the largest registrar based in the United Kingdom. Host Europe includes 123 Reg, DomainMonster, and Heart Internet. Host Europe acquired DomainMonster last year. The announcement comes as Webfest kicks off in Los Angeles. Domain companies typically ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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Estibot launches new lapsed domain finder Dropping.com - A new expired domain service from the creators of Estibot. Estibot has launched a new expired domain search service called Dropping.com. Dropping.com aggregates expiring domain data from backorder services, marketplaces, and registrars and then provides 100 data points on them. It has over 7.5 million domains in its active inventory. Data points on domains include search counts, CPC, backlinks, etc. A couple nice features include historical whois information on ... read more ...
Wed 16th January 2013
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Rick Santorum lets his domestic destiny (of domain names) expire - Santorum lets a number of domain names expire. [Update: the domain names were renewed shortly after this article was published. To whomever was in charge of renewing this domain: you’re welcome.] Is one time presidential hopeful Rick Santorum letting his political ambitions expire? Santorum is letting a number of future-oriented political domain names expire. The domains appear to have been managed by New Media Communications, Inc., a political marketing company. ... read more ...
Thu 27th December 2012
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FreshDirect.com latest association to go down interjection to lapsed domain - Company forgot to renew its domain name, which expired December 23. Add FreshDirect.com to a long list of companies that suffered downtime thanks to not renewing their domain names. The company suffered an “outage” (a.k.a. registrar renewal notice page) when it neglected to renew its domain name earlier this week. The Wall Street Journal discusses the lapse in an article here, although the “person familiar with the matter” has the dates wrong. The domain name ... read more ...
Fri 21st December 2012
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Wait, Pool.com is still in a dump throwing business? - Pool has long been irrelevant in the expired domain business. This morning I read Michael’s post about Pool “de-emphasizing” its expired domain drop catching business in favor of new TLD business opportunities. My first reaction was “Wait, Pool.com still does drop catching?” Alright, so obviously the first thing domainers think of when they hear the term “Pool” is expired domains. But I can’t think of the last time I’ve used the service or recommended ... read more ...
Tue 13th November 2012
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GoDaddy masks lapsed domain whois to forestall auction circumvention - Contact information made private after domain expires. GoDaddy.com has started masking contact information in whois records of expired domains in an effort to prevent people from circumventing auctions and bothering domain owners. The move, which the company announced today, is aimed at cutting down on email domain investors send to owners of expired domains. Domain investors see an expired domain auction for a domain they want and then contact the owner directly ... read more ...
Mon 22nd October 2012
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SnapNames releases Android app for bidding - App lets you update bids on the go. Less than two months after it released an iPhone app, domain name marketplace SnapNames has released a comparable Android app. The app lets you: – Bid on your domain names in auction from your Android device – View your bidding activity, number of bidders, time remaining high bidder status – View your recent auction activity As with the iPhone app, it does not let you directly add new domains/bids to your account. You may ... read more ...
Thu 4th October 2012
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Verisign wants obvious on “non-existent domain” research tools - Company files patent application related to NXD data analysis. Verisign has made great strides in opening up its treasure trove of data related to traffic to non-existent domain names (NXD). Now it wants to patent some of its methods. The company filed a patent application (pdf) for “Traffic Like NXDomains” in March last year. The application was just published today. The application explains how its NXD tools benefit domainers: Maintaining and interpreting records ... read more ...
Tue 28th August 2012
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Dear Alexander, a macros on your domain spam aren’t working! - Dear Alexander, I feel like I know you so much even though we’ve never met in person. You’ve been such a helpful friend all these years. You email me whenever a domain name similar to one I own is expiring and going up for auction. Sure, you don’t actually own the domain name and will just put in a backorder if I “express an interest” in the domain name. Yet keeping me informed about all of these domain names available at Domain Names International (DBA ... read more ...
Thu 23rd August 2012
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SnapNames releases iPhone App - Bidding on the go now much easier. SnapNames just released an iPhone app to make it easier to bid on SnapNames auctions on the go. The app makes it easier for customers to update bids and see current bidding history from a mobile phone. It does not allow you to place new backorders or bids on domains if you haven’t already done so on the SnapNames web site. However, the app has a quick link to the SnapNames.mobi mobile site. There you can search for new domain names ... read more ...