James Iles 
The ZD.com domain name has been synonymous with publisher ZDNet for many years, but now it has been sold.
Founded in 1991, ZDNet is one of the few online publications that can stake a claim to documenting the vast majority of the Internet’s lifespan so far.…
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It’s difficult to start a report like this without filling it with cliches about the value of premium, single-word .COM domains and their increasing scarcity.
The fact is, though, that those cliches are true. Another highly valuable single-word .COM domain name has been developed, and this time it’s Posh.com.…
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Domain consultant and researcher Jamie Zoch recently noticed that GoDaddy’s NameFind brand became the registrant of a sizable number of domain names, prompting speculation that GoDaddy had acquired another portfolio of domains.
The domain names that NameFind took possession of, according to Jamie, were previously registered to “Quality Hosting,” or “Cayman Web.”…
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The domain name Parler.com, which was pendingTransfer, has now moved from DreamHost to registrar Epik.
Social network Parler has been making headlines in the last few days. After reported complaints that Parler was used to coordinate the recent storming of the US Capitol building, Apple and Google removed the network’s app from their respective app stores.…
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Update: Parler.com has now moved to Epik
Social network Parler has been making headlines in the last few days. After reported complaints that Parler was used to coordinate the recent storming of the US Capitol building, Apple and Google removed the network’s app from their respective app stores.…
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Last year, I profiled unicorn companies that had upgraded their domain names, and when those acquisitions occurred. One of those articles received a comment from Jack asking for an article looking at unicorn companies, a category of companies valued at $1 billion or more, that are yet to upgrade to their best, exact-match .COM.…
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