Tag Archives: tools

Tue 5th January 2016
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Efty Launches For-Sale Landing Page Theme Gallery - Leading domain name management and investment platform Efty announced today that it has launched a first-of-its-kind service, offering a For-Sale landing page theme gallery for domain owners using the software. The theme gallery, which launched earlier today with five designs, allows domain name investors to host a selection of top-notch For-Sale landing pages that have been fashioned for optimal visitor-to-lead conversion and to sell their domain names through direct navigation without paying a ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2015
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DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion - DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider. According to the statistics section on the site: “The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names totaling sales of $1,605,714,604” That is over $1.6 Billion dollars in domain name sales. In addition DNPric.es ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2015
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Owner of Houses.co.uk Who Paid £40,000 Blames Sedo For Auction Price of £2,999 - Remember the story a few weeks ago about the domain name Houses.co.uk  which was purchased a few years ago for  £40,000 was on sale for £2,999 on Sedo? The owner of the domain name blames Sedo and its automated valuation tool. Peter Thornton told SellingUp.com, that the domain name Houses.Co.Uk is for sale but it was never actually available for £2,999. “Instead, he has blamed domain name sales website Sedo.com for putting an automated valuation on his domain which he feels was several ... read more ...
Fri 16th January 2015
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale - Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. I have no affiliation with Registered.today, no advertising relationships etc… I just thought it worth a mention for someone active in the new gtld field to check it out, I have found the website useful. ... read more ...
Sat 8th November 2014
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New Site domcomp Compares Price Of 10+ Registrars Across Over 600 Extensions - A new site has popped up which compares the registration, renewal and transfer prices  of 10 + different registrars across over .com, .net, .org selected ccTLD and what seems to be hundreds of new gTLD extensions. Domcomp which seems to have launched in September ,bills itself as the “No-nonsense Domain Price Comparison” “We aggregate prices for over 600 top level domains from the industry’s most popular registrars. “Straight-forward, unbiased comparisons help our users find the best deals, ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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DomainIQ.com takes On DomainTools.com To Take “Domain Name Research to a New Level” - Intelium Corp. , which is headed up by Luc Lezon CEO, has rolled out their newest site DomainIQ.com, “the world’s most powerful domain name and internet research tool.” The site “was created by software engineers with over a decade of experience in the domain industry which created popular services including EstiBot, Dropping.com, Domainex, DomainResearchTool and PremiumDrops” “DomainIQ allows users to discover everything about a domain name; its owner, the server it is hosted on, its ... read more ...
Tue 22nd July 2014
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NameJet Releases New Domain Name Auction Bidding App for iOS -       NameJet.com  the aftermarket domain name auction company, has developed, in conjunction with WillowTree Apps, a new bidding application for iOS. The app has an easy-to-use interface, allowing customers to manage their bids, putting them in control of their auctions regardless of location. Matt Overman, General Manager of NameJet said, “We are always looking for new and innovative ways to improve our customers’ experience. This new app makes it easier for them to bid from their phones ... read more ...
Tue 1st July 2014
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New Tool: How to Invest in Chinese Domains Without Knowing a Word of Chinese: ChineseLandrush.com - TLD Registry Ltd the registry for Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) has released a new tool to help domain investors who do not speak Chinese (guys like me) to find available  domains in Chinese. The New tool is  ChineseLandrush.com . “ChineseLandrush.com is an innovative new way to help non-Chinese speakers to understand and invest in Chinese domains. At ChineseLandrush.com, visitors will always find 500 great, hand-made domain name suggestions. The suggestions ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2014
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Namestat Drops All Free .XYZ Domains & Schilling’s Registration Of Own Strings From Rankings - One of the two new sites that server up new gTLD stats, NameStat.org has made some changes to its ranking system for new gTLD registration. The service has dropped all free .XYZ domain names given out by Network Solutions (actually all Network Solution .XYZ registrations) and all Domain Names registered by Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names in extensions owned by Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry in computing its Best Selling gTLD list. NameStat.org is now showing .XYZ with just under 15,000 registrations ... read more ...
Mon 19th May 2014
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More Stats For Domain Lovers: Namestat.org, Includes Fastest Growing New gTLD (.Club) -     We just came across another site offering new gTLD stats at Namestat.org The site offers a section entitled “Fastest Growing gTLD’s and not surprisingly .Club is leading the way. Here are the top 10 Fastest Growing new gTLD’s according to the site: .club .guru .email .today .solutions .agency .company .cool .zone .photography Interestingly the second or third gTLD with the most registrations, .Berlin is not on the list nor is .Expert that just launched last week and has over 10,000 registrations ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2014
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Our Interview With The CEO Of Maccabim.com On The Serial Cybersquatter Detector - Last week we wrote about a new product called the Serial Cybersquatter Detector (SCD) Network powered by DomainTools® and being run and marketed by Maccabim.com. As we expressed in the original post we had some issues a company using an automated system to to identify “Serial Cybersquatters” so we reached out to Jonathan Matkowsky, the Founder CEO of Maccabim.com Ltd. who was nice enough to answer our questions and give some details about the new service. Your service says you identify serial ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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Maccabim.com Partners With DomainTools To “Identify Serial Cybersquatters” - According to a press release out today, Maccabim.com, a “researcher and developer of cybercrime solutions to protect brands and IP assets, today announced the launch of its Serial Cybersquatter Detector (SCD) Network powered by DomainTools® The SCD Network “instantaneously identifies both the serial cybersquatters exploiting its members’ trademarks, as well as the opportunities to either initiate or join class complaints through the platform.” “Members thereby reduce their Uniform Domain-Name ... read more ...
Wed 30th April 2014
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ThreatConnect Partners With DomainTools & Farsight Security - According to a press release just out, Cyber Squared Inc. which owns ThreatConnect™, a leading threat intelligence platform, entered into a partnership with DomainTools and Farsight Security, Inc. to provide ThreatConnect users with the industry’s most powerful domain and passive DNS intelligence. “We know that the most sophisticated and mature organizations are using our data to assess network-counterparty configuration history and associated risk, and to amplify the value of their threat ... read more ...
Fri 7th March 2014
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“Largest Domain Name Sales Database Ever Built” Launches WIth Over 315K Domains & $1,135,277,224 In Sales - According to a press release we received today the biggest domain name sales database ever built just just rolled out. The database is at DNPric.es. “”Currently the database has 315,461 domain name sale records totaling $1,135,277,224.00. Not only you can lookup historic sales, the site also offers amazing stats section where you can fish for tons of interesting information. Let’s have a quick look on it from different angles. 1. TLDs While .COM is still the king with more ... read more ...
Thu 14th November 2013
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Architelos Publishes The Second Installment of a NameSentry Namespace Quality Report - Architelos, Inc. announced today the publication of the second installment of the NameSentry Namespace Quality Report. The report benchmarks the comparative safety of the Internet and its largest Top Level Domains (TLDs) by measuring by the prevalence of security threats such as malware, phishing, botnets, and spam. The findings indicate a 67% increase of domain names identified and listed as “abusive” by major blocklists from January to September 2013, and that at least 5.5% of newly registered ... read more ...
Fri 1st November 2013
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DomainTools.com Rolls Out Redesigned Site - A reader noticed that DomainTools.com has undergone a pretty dramatic designed home page today. The home page has a much more modern look and feel. Interestedly DomainTools.com which seemed to start out as a product geared towards the domainer community is now highlighting the usefulness of the site as a tool for Law Enforcement and Brand Protection Companies. According to Tim Chen of DomainTools.com, the general context of site resign is really the the homepage which was meant to: -starting to focus ... read more ...
Fri 18th October 2013
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Verisign Launches of DomainScope: Domain Discovery Tool To Find Available .Com. .Net & .Tv Domains - Verisign launched DomainScope.com today which they say “a new domain name discovery tool designed to enhance the search for unique, relevant domain name choices in the .com, .net, .tv and .cc top-level domains”, for which it is the registry for. “Incorporating the same functionality found in our DomainFinder, DomainScore and DomainCountdown tools, DomainScope replaces these tools and allows users to focus their domain search and uncover new domain name registration opportunities in one place.* “DomainScope ... read more ...
Wed 14th August 2013
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CircleId Post Rips The Domain Name IDNX Pricing Index - Alex Tajirian, CEO of DomainMart in a post on CircleID.com just ripped into the IDNX domain name index backed by Thies Lindenthal and Sedo. “The index is intended to be a benchmark for domain owners and investors. “ “But it’s out of line with other studies and the common sense of how a market operates. A much better barometer to follow is average prices for groups of domain names with similar characteristics.” “Using a single index would have dire consequences. ” “Other problems with ... read more ...
Mon 22nd July 2013
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FreshDrop’s Pheenix Changes On Aug 1 To Accept Multiple Back orders & Provide For Drop Auctions - Freshdrop which officially rolled out their back order program out of Beta on April 23rd under the name of Pheenix, announced today that it will be changing their back order system effective August 1st from a one domain per back order system to one which will accept multiple back orders on the same dropping domain. Those dropping domains with multiple back orders will go into auction like they do on NameJet.com and SnapNames.com Here is the official announcement” “”I am pleased to announce ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appraisals For New gTLD’s Domain Names - DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highest valuation, only 1 non-trademarked term has a value in the six figures, Car.Insurance (which may not even be available to be registered depending on which applicant wins the .insurance new gTLD) at $125,000 All other new gTLD domain names are apprised ... read more ...
Sun 16th June 2013
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Verisign Launches Find Your Custom Domain Tool/App: Domaininspiration.com - Verisign released a new Tool called the Custom Domain Tool at Domaininspiration.com to help people find the perfect unregistered domain name. The site preference is for you to log in with your Facebook account and then randomly generates domain names to match your profile however you can sign up with it using your email address as well. In my case the Tool “randomly generated 209 domains based on your profile”. The results seem to be geared to domain names my last name, my company my sports interests ... read more ...
Mon 10th June 2013
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Don’t Dial A Phone Number Dial A Domain Instead - Dialing a phone number is so 1950′s. Not you don’t have to dial a phone number you can just dial a domain thanks to an app named Siter. Siter is a new concept, you make a phone call, but instead of dialing phone numbers you dial a domain or an e-mail address. Of course as the website owner you have to download the free App and put the phone number you want your site associated with first but I did it today and it was a very quick any easy process. Once you establish the free account people can ... read more ...
Tue 4th June 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million - Seod just issued its weekly report and  690 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.08m. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: mph.com at 62,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: isern.es at 15,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: kultur.net at 10,000 EUR <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 23rd April 2013
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FreshDrop Rolls Out Drop Catching/Backorder Program With Prices @ $18.95 - FreshDrop Inc.,  today announces their new domain backordering service which has been opened in beta, is now open to the public and goes by the name Pheenix.com Pheenix customers are allowed to backorder .com and .net domain names for a low price of $18.95 per caught domain. Domain backorders currently is on a ‘First come, First Served’ basis with only one customer being able to reserve a backorder per domain. Backordering domain names is free of charge, and customers are only charged upon ... read more ...
Tue 12th March 2013
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SiteRankHistory.com Launched To View Historic Alexa Rankings - One of our readers let us know that they recently launched a site that tracks Alexa Rank History.   The site call Site Rank History   Alexa maintains rank history for sites with rank lower than 100,000 only and you have to submit your site to the new service to track it and it appears you can only track the sites you own and submit to the service for. Anyone its free and appears to work. We signed up for TheDomains.com and MostWantedDomains.com and we will let you know how it works.   Google+Michael ... read more ...