Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, made a video reply to a question submitted at Google Webmaster Help. The question was: “I have been in business for over 14 years with my …
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Fadi Chehade: Many brands will find that a .com or whatever they have now will be good enough
Fadi Chehade, ICANN CEO, had a long Q&A at CNET in an article posted today on new gTLDs, trademark owners and ICANN. When asked if he hopes that all companies with trademarks will run their …
Read More »My 2013 5-figure Domain Name Sales
A few days back I posted my 4-figure domain name purchases in 2013. Of course, as a domain investor I always try to buy low and sell high. I don’t ever sell below my minimum …
Read More »ICANN Publishes WHOIS Primer – Global Whois Lookup Tool In Development
ICANN announced that it’s WHOIS Primer is now live. ICANN also has a Global WHOIS Lookup Tool that is currently in development and will display the full registrant data for all gTLD domain names (whether …
Read More »Domain Name True.com Sold For $350,000 USD at Sedo
Dave Evanson, senior sales and brokerage consultant for Sedo.com, announced today at Twitter that he co-brokered the sale of the domain name True.com for $350,000 with Negar Hajikhani, a sales executive at Sedo. The domain …
Read More »Domain Name Q&A – January 27th 2014 (GetFound.com sale to GoDaddy confirmed)
I am using the search terms that visitors of my blog are using at Google and other search engines to find my website. Some of the search terms are in the form of a question …
Read More »Sedo closing fraudulent buyer accounts
I got an offer for a domain name I have parked at Sedo on Saturday. Although the domain name is good the offer felt a bit fishy. It was a $5,000 initial offer from a …
Read More »Mail Online (DailyMail.co.uk) buys DailyMail.com domain name for £1m-plus
The Guardian wrote an article today about Mail Online is switching from the domain name dailymail.co.uk to a .com domain name. After negotiations with the US paper “Charleston Daily Mail” that owned the dailymail.com domain …
Read More »T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas hosts a No Reserve gTLD auction – T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 10th Anniversary in Miami Beach
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Las Vegas will have a No Reserve gTLD auction with domains released directly from the registries plus 18 gTLD proponents representing as many as 2/3 of all the new extensions will be offered 5 minutes of …
Read More »Donuts: $5MM+ Total orders and commitments for new gTLDs services
Donuts, the largest applicant for new gTLDs, made a blog post where it published some stats about it’s new gTLD applications so far. They also said that they have 100 Accredited registrars on board but …
Read More »Amazon.com and it’s perverted sense of reality about .Amazon new gTLD
Amazon.com send a letter to ICANN on the 10th of January 2014 as a follow up to the letter from the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Peru. The letter was regarding the Amazon.com pending …
Read More »Afternic/Go Daddy Weekly Domain Sales: Crafting.com $51.500, Bloggapedia.com $19.600 (1-13-14 to 1-19-14)
Afternic and Go Daddy published their combined weekly domain name sales. The total sales for week 1-13-14 to 1-19-14 were $1.866.118. A lot of domains sales were not reported because the seller and/or buyer asked …
Read More »Sedo sells 710 domains worth $1.6 million: Homify.com 30k EUR, RealGaming.com 20k USD (Jan 13 to Jan 19)
In the past week (Jan 13 to Jan 19), 710 (572 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 million ($2.5 last week). Only 245 (208 last week) domains from …
Read More »Want to eliminate confusion? Get your brand .com first or bleed out!
Organize-It, a Michigan-based online retailer, bought the domain name and website OrganizeIt-Online.com from a California-based retailer with the same name. Both companies are storage and organizational products retailers. With this new domain/website purchase, Organize-It expands its …
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