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Oversee Founder & Former CEO Lawrence Ng Links Up With Metamorphic Ventures
October 6, 2015 @ 8:35 AMAccording to SocalTech.com, Lawrence Ng, the founder and former CEO of Oversee.net, which of course at one time owned DomainSponsor.com, Moniker.com and SnapNames.com along with around a reported one million domain names, is now running an asset management company called LNG Management and has linked up with New York City based venture capital firm Metamorphic…
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Amazon.com Foreshadows AWS Re:invent News With Domain Name Registrations
October 6, 2015 @ 7:12 AMWhat will Amazon reveal at AWS re:Invent this week? Here are some clues. Amazon.com registered 21 domain names yesterday that likely foreshadow product announcements at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference. The company registered 5 internet of things domain names as it prepares to launch a cloud-based service for IOT this week: amazoninternetofthings.com, amazoniotplatform.com, awsinternetofthings.com, awsiotplatform.com,…
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.sex Domain Name Enters "Matching" Period
October 6, 2015 @ 5:20 AMCompanies have 30 days to buy matching domain names. The .Sex top level domain name has exited sunrise and is now available to more registrants. From now until October 30, anyone who owns a .xxx domain name can register a .sex domain name. Also, if you paid to block your .xxx name during the .xxx…
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.xxx, .porn., .adult & .sex Start Selling Premium Domains Through Registrars + 2 Characters
October 6, 2015 @ 5:19 AMICM Registry (ICM) which operates .xxx as well as the new gTLD’s .porn, .adult and .sex announced today the launch of its tiered-pricing, premium names program for .XXX, .ADULT, .PORN and .SEX.domain names. ICM is joining a growing list of new gTLD registries who are selling the vast majority of its premium domain names through…
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Famous Four Sells $2.1 Million in Domain Names: 320 Premiums Through Registrar Channel
October 6, 2015 @ 4:43 AMAccording to a story out today in itnewsonline.com Famous Four Media (FFM) is now selling premium domain names in some of their new gTLD extensions through the registrar channel. Since launching the premium domain program three months ago FFM has sold 320 domains ranging in 8 pricing levels. “In the month of August, Famous Four…
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After 13 Years Luxury Jewelry Brand Chopard Gets HappyDiamonds.com
October 5, 2015 @ 8:23 AMChopard International just won control of the domain name HappyDiamonds.com which was registered on November 1, 2002. The domain is going to a parked page and I can tell you as a buyer of Chopard Jewelry the term Happy Diamonds is a major brand for the company and they have held a trademark on the…
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.com Winners Update: Google Domains is Growing
October 5, 2015 @ 6:51 AMHere’s how registrars fared with .com in June. ICANN has published Verisign’s registrar data for .com from June. As always, GoDaddy dominated the charts in terms of new registrations. And, for the second month in a row, it avoided the top 5 when it comes to net transfer losses. But the bigger story to me…
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DollarBank.com Moving Banking Internet Operations to Dollar.bank
October 5, 2015 @ 6:08 AMDollarBank.com announced today it was going to be moving its online banking operations to the domain name Dollar.Bank in October: “.BANK is a new, more secure Internet domain for banks. It is an easily identifiable channel for trusted communications between banks and their customers. Since the .BANK environment is exclusive to the banking industry,…
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Big Up Swing in Personal Domain Registration to Point to Social Media Sites
October 5, 2015 @ 5:56 AMGoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), and Verisign (VRSN) are seeing an upswing in people registering “personal domain names” just to point them to their social media sites. It seems people have gotten the word that they don’t control their social media pages, the underlying social media company’s do so they are registering these personal domain names…
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Comcast Launches "Watchable" Video Service, Reported Paid "Six Figures" for Domain
October 5, 2015 @ 4:17 AMComcast has launched a new digital video service with the brand name Watchable and has paid a reportedly “low six figures” for the matching .com domain name Watchable.com the service is using.
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