HugeDomains.com Listed in Moz 500

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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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Donna Mahony Starts Donna’s Blog

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Donna's BlogFor several years, I’ve encouraged Donna Mahony to start a blog, and I am happy to report that Donna’s Blog at DonnasBlog.com is now live. I am sure I didn’t have much to do with Donna’s decision to start blogging, but I am excited that she made the move.

Donna Mahony is founder of Domain Boardroom, a private domain industry discussion forum with about 250 members.  Donna has been involved in the domain industry since 1999, and she knows most of the movers and shakers in the industry. I am sure I don’t really need to give you much more of an introduction.

Donna was kind enough to share two well received blog posts about NamesCon – one prior to attending the conference and a second article after she attended. As you can probably tell by reading those articles, Donna shared some frank thoughts and advice, and I expect more of the same from Donna’s Blog.

Based on a few conversations I’ve had with Donna, I expect that her blog will be filled with

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Endurance Completes Acquisition of Directi

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Last September, there were reports that publicly traded Endurance International Group had agreed to acquire Directi, a company founded by brothers  Divyank & Bhavin Turakhia. In a press release this evening, Endurance announced that the acquisition has been completed.

According to the release:

“Endurance International Group is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the web presence business of Directi, which operates India’s leading domain registration business. The acquisition of Directi includes B2B brands ResellerClub, LogicBoxes and webhosting.info as well as successful web presence brand BigRock.”

The press release didn’t announce the

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United TLD Rebrands as Rightside Registry

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rightside_registry_logoUnited TLD, a division of publicly traded Demand Media (DMD), applied to manage more than 25 new gTLD domain extensions. Yesterday, the company announced that it is rebranding and will now be called Rightside Registry.

As you are likely aware, Demand Media is splitting off its domain companies and assets into a new company called Rightside, which DMD hopes will become publicly traded. A couple of weeks ago, DMD  filed a  Form 10 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to move this process along.

I do not believe that Rightside Registry will

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Merlin Kauffman Making Bitcoin News

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Many people in the domain space know of or personally know Merlin Kauffman. My opinion is that Merlin is one of the shrewdest domain investors, and he has done very well with his domain investments. In September, I covered his launch of Soothe, which is sort of like Uber for massage therapy. This week, Merlin has made news for a bitcoin related matter.

According to CoinDesk, an online publication that covers bitcoin and other digital currencies, Merlin Kauffman’s “Las Vegas-based bitcoin investment fund CoinSeed announced a substantial

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