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Sean Markey goes down many rabbit holes looking at what happened to expired domain names. Hello, back with you from a little COVID-19 hiatus with the most interesting SEO-related domain sales from NameJet and SnapNames in September. I usually try to cover five domains in a piece, but the combination of COVID-19 destroying my mitochondria […]

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Phil Davis explains the keywords and strategy that helped him build a portfolio of over 20,000 hand registered domains. I get a lot of feedback about the Domain Name Wire Podcast, and one episode this year got more accolades than usual. In episode #585, naming expert Phil Davis explained how he built a portfolio of […]

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Registrar has one million DUM and multiple accreditations. Applicant Auction is managing a no-reserve auction of an unnamed domain registrar’s assets. The registrar’s identity is not disclosed without signing an NDA, but the auction service confirmed the registrar is in the United States and has about one million domains under management. The package includes multiple […]

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Identity Digital selected .pickleball as a replacement string on three applications. Earlier this month, ICANN revealed the applications it received for new top level domains. One company selected .pickleball as its backup replacement string for three strings. Identity Digital, which applied for more TLDs than any other company, chose it as a replacement for .collective, […]

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These expensive domains aren’t developed yet. Sometimes we see domains sell for big money and then sit there idle. In the spirit of Halloween, today I’m going to reveal some domain sales that have ghosted the internet. It’s hard to fathom why someone would pay $3 million for a domain only for it not to […]

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