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Playing games can be a form of distraction from day to day duties and obligations. And it’s all cool. A game of “Defender,” however, cost its player millions of dollars, after he turned down a business offer, in 2000. Entrepreneur and author, James Altucher, explains how that happened: I was running a $125 million dollar […]
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When it comes down to promotional expenses, domain registrars often manage hefty budgets, spending thousands of dollars on Facebook and Google. Domain registration costs involve a $0.18 fee that goes to ICANN, and hence lies a certain paradox. By definition: “A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads […]
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PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, has lodged a complaint against Uniregistry. The thorny issue seems to be the Uniregistry chicken game, that appears during a 404 error. What is the Uniregustry chicken game? Visitors of non-existent pages can play a game of jumping chicken, or by visiting the URL https://uniregistry.com/eric directly. […]
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Domain investor, Drew Rosener, projects a bigger than life persona; the Panama resident and Media Options founder engages in domain investments around the clock. When he’s not selling domains on NameJet, flipping LLL .com’s or expanding his ganjapreneur domains, Rosener is immersed in cryptocurrency investments. Bitcoin has been attracting Drew for a while now, and […]
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Amazon is blurring the digital and real world, announcing the acquisition of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion dollars. This massive new purchase of a real world retailer indicates the aggressive direction that Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, has designed for his company. The acquisition of Whole Foods for $42 dollars a share represents a 27% premium […]
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YouTube appears to be having issues today, and in a rare demonstration of creative error reporting, it displays a monkey with a hammer. The message 500 Internal Server Error appears when things break in the server software, such as a misconfiguration of the Apache server. Other reasons for this “monkey error” might include: lack of […]
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Sponsored by Sedo* The GreatDomains June auction by Sedo is now live, with a nice lineup of domain keywords, generics and short domain names. There are 62 domain names total on that list, and too many good ones to choose from. Still, our selection of 10 domains from the June GreatDomains auction reflects our personal […]
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During the last 60 days, the .XYZ gTLD has lost 1 million domain names. That’s 15% of its total number of registrations, that went down from 6.6 million to 5.6 million domains. It still retains the #1 position in the gTLD rankings. A year ago, the .XYZ Registry rolled out an unprecedented “penny promo” that […]
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Rick Schwartz gave his best video interview ever in 2008, right at the end of TRAFFIC East in Orlando, FL. The event, which was attended by yours truly, presented the opportunity to domain investors and company representatives to network and forge new business relationships. More than $2.5 million dollars‘ worth of domain names were sold […]
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Donuts, Inc., a multi-discipline domain Registry, is allegedly acquiring uber-retailer, Amazon.com. The astronomical deal, pending approval by the Donuts, Inc. shareholders, involves $1.5 trillion dollars in new gTLD valuation, company stock and all the cash in the corporate cafeteria’s register. Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, stated about the deal: “We are thrilled to be acquired by […]
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