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Getting ready for GAME DAY!!

It’s Friday afternoon and blizzarding outside but our office is buzzing with energy and excitement. We’re preparing for game day of course! Most of you saw our GoDaddy Superbowl Spoof ...

How Twitter was named and bought Twitter.com for $7,500

Biz Stone discusses the naming of his company.
Today at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone talked about how they named the company and bought the domain for $7,500.
Stone and ...

Tucows launches Ting mobile phone service

Tucows branches out, enters mobile phone business.
Tucows, which owns one of the world’s largest domain registrars, officially launched mobile phone service Ting today.
In a press release, ...

KeyDrive acquires Moniker and SnapNames

Oversee.net sells off domain marketplace, expiring domain, and registrar companies.
KeyDrive, which owns domain name registrar Key-Systems as well as NameDrive, has acquired SnapNames and Moniker ...

Afternic.com Sells $1.13 Million In Domains

Afternic.com reported $1,131,352 in domain sales for the week ending January 29th. The publicly reportable sales included in the total above came to $692,343 led by moneyandme.com at $20,000 ...

Last chance to take 2012 Domain Name Wire survey

12 hours left to take this year’s domain industry survey.
Time is running out to take the seventh annual Domain Name Wire survey.
The survey, which asks users to answer questions about ...

Another new TLD application round within one year?

ICANN wants to open another new TLD application round early next year. Is this plausible?
A lot of companies are applying for dot brand top level domains not because they want to right now, but ...

Amazon.com’s Quidsi about to launch home decor shop Casa.com

Casa.com is next online store from Amazon.com’s Quidsi unit.
Mi casa su casa…
Earlier this month I scooped that Quidsi, the company behind Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, and YoYo.com, ...

YouBuy.com Sells For $35K On Sedo

The domain name YouBuy.com just sold for $35,000 on Sedo The seller appears to be a a company out of China, Guangzhou You Yang Network Technology Co.,Ltd The buyer is unclear at this time, but I ...

VeriSign plans to apply for about 12 new top level domain names

Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com.
VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and ...

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