Easily Delete Unregistered Domain Names from DNS Account

Elliot Silver
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I use Domain Name Sales as a domain name lead management tool, in addition to the parking platform. One issue I run into is deleting domain names from my account after they expire. With all the marketing emails from my registrars, I don’t know exactly when they expire, and I don’t generally track my expired names as closely as I should.

If I do not delete the expired domain names from my account, they will still be syndicated for sale on the DNS platform and partners like DomainTools. One concern I have is that I could accidentally sell a domain name that I no longer own. It’s a good practice to double check the Whois before negotiating, but that wouldn’t be applicable for domain names that have BIN prices, and checking the Whois on a domain name is one of those things that can be overlooked in the excitement of negotiating a deal.

This morning, I found  a pretty easy solution to the issue, and it

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Nima Nojoumi Named a Top Entrepreneur by Arizona Republic

Elliot Silver
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The Arizona Republic recent published the 2014 edition of Arizona’s top 35 entrepreneurs 35 and younger, and someone who got his start in the domain space was named to the prestigious list. Nima Nojoumi was once a popular Executive Account Manager at GoDaddy, and he left the company in January of 2013. This was the first year Nima was named as one of the top entrepreneurs 35 years old and younger in Arizona.

Nima has been very active in the Arizona startup space, and he is the Co-Founder & CEO of a company called Sourcely, which is billed as a “simple and scalable recommerce platform and reverse logistics as a service.” Essentially, the company allows people to trade their unwanted electronics for cash.

In addition to being given this honor, Nima also

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My Thoughts on Rightside Q3 Earnings Report

Elliot Silver
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Rightside reported its Q3 earnings after the market closed yesterday, and judging by the after hours trading, investors were happy with the company’s third quarter performance. As of right now, Rightside stock (ticker: NAME) is trading at $12.53/share, which is up 33.16% from where it closed yesterday. There isn’t much trading volume in after hours trading, so we will get a better indication when the market opens this morning. This is an interesting  contrast to what happened to Web.com stock after its earnings were released.

You can read the full report on the SEC website, but I want to share three things I found interesting in the report along with why I found the information interesting:

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Funny Domain Name Story

Elliot Silver
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When one of my closest friends had his daughter a few years ago, I bought her name .com domain name so she can use it in the  future. My friend’s sister created a video of her first few days, and I forwarded the domain name to the YouTube video page. I don’t know if she will ever want to use the domain name, but I am very happy to hang on to it for her.

Earlier this year, my friend and his wife had twins, and I purchased each of their domain names for them. They don’t have public YouTube video, so the domain names were just resolving on the default DNS I have set for the account, which happens to be DomainNameSales.com. Obviously, I didn’t add them to my DNS account, so they just resolve to the general DomainNameSales.com website (until a minute ago when I forwarded them to my friend’s LinkedIn page.

All three of my friend’s children have

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HAR Shows Versatility of 3 Letter Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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The Houston Association of Realtors has a great domain name for its business in HAR.com. The three letter .com domain name that has been owned for quite some time is short and easy to remember. The domain name is also versatile, as evidenced by a recent rebrand discussed in the Houston Business Journal this morning.

The HAR.com website is currently  undergoing a rebranding while retaining the still meaningful HAR.com domain name. According to the Houston Business Journal article, “HAR.com, the Houston Association of Realtors’ popular home listing website that formerly focused predominantly on the Houston area, will be rebranded to Homes and Realtors to reflect its new statewide housing database.” You can see how the website will  be rebranded by visiting the beta version of the website.

Previously, HAR.com was known to stand for

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HP Launches Sprout After Likely Acquiring Sprout.com

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On October 17, Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly.com wrote this about the Sprout.com domain name:

“Something is up with the domain. It was owned by Sprout Software of Boston and the domain was registered with Pairnic but has moved to the domain name registrar MarkMonitor and put under generic whois data. The domain currently does not resolve… so it may have been purchased by somebody.”

Jamie was onto something, as many  technology news publications are reporting that HP launched a new computer product called Sprout. Although HP seems content using the Sprout.HP.com subdomain for its product landing page, it appears that HP likely acquired the Sprout.com domain name prior to the announcement about the new product. Sprout.com is currently being used as a forwarder to Sprout.HP.com. The Whois record shows  DNStination Inc. as the registrant of the domain name.

I looked at

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