Gox.com Acquired by Mt. Gox Parent Company (Update)

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It appears that domain investor Andy Booth has sold his Gox.com domain name to the parent company of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which is currently offline as of this posting. Based on the Whois information, the deal appears to have been transacted within the last few days. Gox.com is still listed on the Booth.com website.

On February 21, 2014, Andy Booth was listed as the domain name registrant, according to a historical Whois record. According to the current Whois record, the registrant of the domain name is now Mark Karpeles of Tibanne Co. Ltd., the company that operates the MtGox.com Bitcoin exchange. If you visit Gox.com, you will notice that the domain name currently forwards to MtGox.com.

During the last month, Mt. Gox has faced some serious issues that prevented clients from withdrawing their Bitcoin holdings. I don’t own any Bitcoin, so I am not the best person to discuss what has been happening with the company.

It is interesting that the company made this domain name acquisition in light of all of the news about the company. I am sure there will be more details revealed in the coming days.

I reached out to Andy seeking details, and when he responds to my email, I will update this article.

Update from Andy Booth: “Basically I got gox.com like any other LLL – didn’t directly target Mt Gox. My brother met domain broker Joe Politzer in Singapore who got excited about gox.com and then I said he could try to sell it if he wanted. He called Karpeles and Gox to find out if they wanted it and immediately they expressed pretty strong interest. I’ve asked Mark if it’s ok to publish details (no response as yet).”

Here’s an update from Joe Politzer of DN.BIZ, broker of Gox.com, with more details.

2014 Domainers Choice Awards Update

Elliot Silver
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DCA LogoLast September, I shared the news that Donna Mahony announced the Domainers Choice Awards would be returning. The Domainers Choice Awards were established as a way for people in the domain investing business to honor their peers, and they were originally handed out at DomainFest in 2008. Donna Mahony shared an update about the 2014 Domainers Choice Awards, and I want to share it with you.

Nominations can be made by anyone, and submissions are welcome beginning on the morning of March 8, 2014. The nomination period will conclude on March 22 at midnight EST. Once the nominees have been tabulated, the top 3 most nominated people or companies will be up for each award, and voting will be managed by Votenet.com, a third party voting platform. Voting will run from May 8 through midnight on May 30th. Anyone is eligible to vote for the Domainers Choice Awards.

The winners of the Domainers Choice Awards will be announced

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Terrell and Penny Miller on Cover of American Cattleman

Elliot Silver
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CattleMaxI want to share some exciting news for two domain investors who are also heavily involved in the cattle business. Terrell and Penny Miller, who shared their story about the successful development of LonghornMounts.com, are featured on the cover of February’s print edition of American Cattleman  magazine.

American Cattleman is a monthly magazine that “showcases beef cattle, cattle breeders, cattle equipment and producers with cattle for sale and cattle products and herd management tools.” The publication has a national circulation of about 80,000, with the primary focus being beef cattle producers.

Terrell and Penny created a software tool called CattleMax to help them manage their family’s cattle herd. They later began selling the tool to other ranchers, and it is now

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David Clements Starts Restaurant Report Indiegogo Campaign

Elliot Silver
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I learned about an Indiegogo fundraising campaign started by David Clements, and I want to share it with you. From the email I received about the campaign, David had this to say:

“I have great news, my new project, an Indiegogo crowdfunder called Restaurant Report just launched a few minutes ago.

For the past 6 months, I’ve been pouring my life into Restaurant Report – the first national app that lets you pick restaurants with good grades on their health inspection before you eat out.

Today, I’m unveiling my crowd funding campaign. Please check it out”

You can read all about David’s project

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HugeDomains.com Listed in Moz 500

Elliot Silver
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HugeDomains.comMoz.com is one of the top SEO analytics and SEO tool companies around. Moz offers a wide variety of free tools and software that people can use to analyze their website and learn about how their website is performing in search engines.

The Moz Top 500 is “Moz’s list of the top 500 domains and pages on the web.” It is a list of the top 500 registered domain names that are ranked by the number of linking root domains. Interestingly, HugeDomains.com is ranked #64 on the list, ahead of popular websites such as HuffingtonPost.com (#69), Ebay.com (#74), Bing.com (#79), and Reuters.com (92), among many other Internet giants.

Huge Domains is a privately operated domain name portfolio company based out of Denver, Colorado. As Mike Berkens speculated in July, Huge Domains may be the

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How Escrow.com Spent 5 Figures Protecting an Agreement

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The job of an escrow service is to protect the buyer and the seller equally without prejudice. The escrow agent ensures that the buyer pays for the domain name, and the agent ensures the seller transfers the domain name. On occasion, there are issues with a transaction and the escrow service needs to act in order to protect one of the parties. I want to share a story about how Escrow.com protected a domain buyer who used its services.

A buyer and a seller engaged Escrow.com on a domain holding transaction. The buyer agreed to pay a certain amount of money over a period of time, and Escrow.com held the domain name in its domain registrar account during the term of the agreement. At some point during the holding period, the seller received a better offer and attempted to cancel the transaction.

In order to protect the deal and enforce the terms of the escrow agreement,

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