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Egypt To Launch World’s First Purely Arabic Domain Extension

Posted on November 16th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Egyptian communications minister Tarek Kamel has announced that Egypt will launch the world’s first purely Arabic domain extension. The extension “.Masr” written in Arabic, which translates as “.Egypt” will launch today, Monday 17 November 2009 starting from 2200 GMT. “It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” Mr Kamel said. Mr [...]

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Live Domain Auctioneers Auction in 5 Days

Posted on November 16th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | No Comments »

The next LiveDomainAuctioneers.com auction is coming up in 5 days time, on 22 November 2009 at 13:00 PST to be precise. Amongst the names on auction with no reserve are PrecisionCustoms.com, LoanExpertise.com, ParentPost.com, PhotographyInnovations.com, CarMadness.com, JustSaySold.com, PinkShades.com… You can view the entire catalog here.

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Aussies Rejoice – Finally A .com.au Drop Catching Service

Posted on November 15th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

Knowing that I am an Australian domain news blogger, lots of people have emailed me in the past asking whether I knew of any .com.au (Australian ccTld) drop catching services and my categorical answer was “sorry mate, no”. Well, that is no longer the case – if you ask me the same question today I [...]

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Above.com Voted ‘Best New Monetizing Solution’ At T.R.A.F.F.I.C

Posted on November 12th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Above.com – the new Trellian owned parking manager we reviewed a few weeks ago – has been voted “Best New Monetizing Solution” at the recent T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference held in New York City. Nominations and voting for the award were done by domainers over a period of two months prior to the award ceremony that was [...]

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DomainerMardigras 2010 Agenda Announced

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | No Comments »

Good news for the folks planning to attend the annual Domainer Mardigras event traditionally held in New Orleans – the agent for the 2010 event has been announced. For those interested in the event showcase auction, it is scheduled for day 3 of the event at starting at 1:30pm. For the entire agent please follow [...]

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GolfShop.com Sells for 6 Figures At Afternic

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | No Comments »

According to Frank over at DomainNameNews, GolfShop.com has sold for an undisclosed 6 figure sum at AfternicDLS. Luck.com also changed hands via Afternic in a recent $675,000 sale. For the entire sales report for this week follow the DomainNameNews link above.

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SnapNames Bid History Is Now Transparent

Posted on November 8th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Another followup to the SnapNames shill bidding revelation – SnapNames have succumbed to pressure and have made their entire bid history since 2004 available to their customers. They wrote to Andrew over at DomainNameWire with the following note citing that hiding of bid histories wasn’t some knee jerk reaction as a result of the shill [...]

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SnapNames Shill Bidding Followup – There Is More To It Than Meets The Eye

Posted on November 5th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 7 Comments »

The more we find out about the SnapNames employee shill bidding, the seedier it gets. Adam Strong has followed up on the story in great detail in a must read expose over at DNN, while even Michael Arrington of TechCrunch chose to give his views on the matter – painting the domain industry as a [...]

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Employee Bid In SnapNames Auctions – SnapNames Steps Up And Does The Right Thing

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 6 Comments »

This particular news item is reverberating around the domaining blogosphere as I type this – SnapNames has discovered that an employee (now ex-employee) registered a customer account all the way back in 2005 and used it to bid on domain names in SnapNames auctions for at least 2 years. According to a SnapNames investigation (as [...]

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Latest Godaddy Coupon Codes

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

A new month and a time to list some new and old yet working Godaddy coupon codes for your registering pleasure. I tested these and they are working at the time of writing this post. geo199 -> register 1 .com domain name for $1.99 (plus ICANN fees) 2NCS749 -> $7.49 .com registrations (plus ICANN fee) [...]

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