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Registration for ICANN 45 in Toronto is Open

Just as the 44th ICANN meeting in Prague ended yesterday, ICANN has openedĀ  registration for the 45th ICANN meeting in Toronto, to be held Oct 14-19th 2012. Even though the site says “Prague is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in the world“, I’m pretty sure it’s still in Toronto with CIRA, the [...] Continue reading


Hybrid Domainer

Google shutting down Prizes.org

By: RH Google to retire prizes.org website. Prizes.org sent out an email today: We wanted to take a moment to thank our Prizes community for all of your support and provide a product update. Over the next six months, we will be retiring the Prizes.org product. By January 31, 2013, Prizes.org across [...] Continue reading


DomainGang

Domainer complains about DomainTools ads

In case you haven’t noticed, DomainTools – Golden Sponsor of DomainGang – rolled out a trio of new banner ads exclusive to our publication, yesterday. DomainTools – the top WHOIS tool for domains – is known for its creative advertising; here at DomainGang we support anything creative, different and visually stimulating. Today we received this [...] Continue reading


TheDomains

Hottest New Idea Out Of ICANN Meeting, Private Auctions Where Losing Applicants, Not ICANN Gets The Money

So as we discussed over at CircleID.com today, over the last week arguably best idea coming out of the ICANN meeting is the concept that applicants for new gTLD strings with more than one application, hold a private auction amongst themselves with the winning amount going to the other losing applicants instead of to ICANN. [...] Continue reading


Hybrid Domainer

WebmasterTalkForums.com sells for $31,000 on Flippa

By: RH WebmasterTalkForums.com sells for $31,000 on Flippa. WebmasterTalkForums (WTF) is a huge Webmaster Forum with 81,512 threads, 329,877 posts and 72,384 members. It is 1 year and 10 months old. The forum has many active members who post regularly and earns income from BuySellAds and Google Adsense. The site sold on Flippa for $31,000 with [...] Continue reading


Domain Name Wire

WAN.com closes on GoDaddy for $670,005

Sale would be highest ever on Go Daddy’s auction platform. An auction on GoDaddy.com for the domain name WAN.com closed overnight for a whopping $670,005. Of course, one of the first questions asked after an auction like this is “will the sale go through”? The seller is definitely legitimate. Shane Cultra has a story on [...] Continue reading


The Frager Factor

Escrow.com Goes To The X-Factor While 12-Year Old Upstages Pros @ X-Games

You know Escrow.com but may never have known about all the hard work and passionate staff that stands behind every transaction. I will be reporting on that after the holiday and I promise that you will get to know our friends at Escrow.com as never before with an incredible untold [...] Continue reading




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