Guess The Domain Sale Price with NameBio Game App

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Over the weekend, NameBio released a new app to put your domain name valuation knowledge to the test. The game is called The Domain Game, and it is available in the Apple app store for all iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch). The way the game works is that it shows a random domain name sale with the name, date, and venue, and the player has to guess the correct sale price range (three, four, five, or six figures).

One of the most interesting aspects of the game is that you need to factor in the date and venue in order to accurately peg the sale price range. For instance, a LLL.com sale on DomainNameSales.com in 2015 will almost certainly be 5 or even 6 figures but a LLL.com sale on Afternic in 2002 will likely be just three or four figures. There will also be those random head scratching sales that will leave you guessing.

To make this game more fun,

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Sahar Sarid to Launch DomainingAMA.com

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Earlier this week, Sahar Sarid announced a new venture called DomainingAMA.com. Visitors will be able to ask questions of the participants, and the format will be similar to that of a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” interview. Here’s what Sahar said about DomainingAMA on Facebook:

“Next Monday. 3/28, I’ll be releasing a new platform called ‪#‎DomainingAMA‬, it is a Domaining spin on Reddit AMA and for five days a week at noon, est., we will feature one person per day to share and give their all with our community. ‪#‎Domaining‬ will never be the same.”

For those of you who have been involved in the domain space for at least a few years, you probably recall Sahar’s popular domain industry blog, Conceptualist.com. Sadly, the blog is no longer in use, but there was some great information when it was active several years ago. Sahar has done very well in the domain space, and his company owns some exceptional domain names (most under privacy from what I understand).

DomainingAMA.com is scheduled to launch a week from tomorrow, and Sahar published a list of the first five partipants:

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3rd Annual DNSeattle Event in May

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The 2016 DNSeattle domain investor event has been scheduled for May 12th. The third annual event will be hosted by GoDaddy at their Kirkland, Washington headquarters. It is being organized by DomainSherpa’s Michael Cyger.

In 2014, DNSeattle was held on top of the Space Needle and there were approximately 50 people in attendance. Last year, the event was held at Rightside’s headquarters, and there were about 75 people in attendance. Michael is hoping to cap the event at around 75 people to keep it more intimate. “I want people to be able to see everyone there, if they want the opportunity to speak to them,” he told me.

Advance registration is required, and the cost to attend the event is $15. Making this event even better is that

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Merlin’s Soothe Raises $35m in Funding

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Yesterday afternoon, I shared an interview Merlin Kauffman had with a local Fox television affiliate to promote his popular and growing in-home massage startup, Soothe. It looks like there is more news from the company today – and it is pretty significant.

According to a VentureBeat article published this afternoon, Soothe just raised $35 million in funding. The article stated that Soothe has now raised a total of $47.7 million in funding. The article did not mention a valuation for Soothe at this level of funding.

Merlin Kauffman has been

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Merlin Kauffman Talks About Soothe on Fox 59

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Merlin Kauffman was interviewed on Fox 59 this morning, and I embedded the interview below. Fox 59 is the Fox television station affiliate in Indiana, and Merlin is originally from Indianapolis. The topic of the interview is Merlin’s at-home massage service called Soothe, which just launched in the Indianapolis market.

I am sure it was an honor for Merlin to be interviewed on his local television station. Hopefully Soothe will launch in the greater Boston market in the near future!

After $100M in Sales, Donuts Appoints New Executives

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I knew Donuts had sold over 2 million new gTLD domain names, but I did not realize that the company had achieved over $100 million in sales. I learned this in a press release that was distributed by the company this morning announcing some new company executives and an addition to the Board of Directors.

Here’s a copy of the press release announcing the news:

DONUTS BOLSTERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, APPOINTS NEW EXECUTIVES

Largest operator of new domain extensions appoints new director, CFO and VP, Corporate Development

Donuts Inc., the world’s largest

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