Xfinity Series Announced Without Domain Name

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According to an article in USA Today, “Comcast’s Xfinity brand will sponsor NASCAR’s No. 2 series for the next 10 years.” Prior to this announcement the racing series had been sponsored by Nationwide, and it was known as Nationwide Series. Although NationwideSeries.com is not resolving right now, it is registered to Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company.

It does not appear that the exact match XfinitySeries.com domain name is owned by Comcast or NASCAR. If you visit that domain name, you’ll see a standard GoDaddy landing page, and the domain name, which was created on August 31, 2014, appears to be registered to an individual in New Jersey. I am not sure if this person is affiliated with either of these brands.

Nationwide became

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Bulk Whois Lookups – #1 on My “Wish List”

Elliot Silver
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I am frequently asked what types of tools I would want to help make my business life easier and more efficient. The one response that has stayed the same for years is a bulk Whois look up tool. I would like to be able to do Whois searches in bulk so I can analyze large lists of domain names.

I believe there is at least one website that offers bulk whois lookups, but I haven’t found one that offers it in the manner I would like to see it. Since there might be a company that can do this, I will share my thoughts on the ideal bulk Whois search tool:

The tool should be able to search hundreds of domain names at once. For example, I might have a keyword list of all types of sports (soccer, baseball, football, futbol…etc), and I can paste the entire list with the extension included. After a short period of time, the tool will spit out the following helpful results:

  • Registrant name, address, and phone
  • Registrant email
  • Creation and expiration dates
  • Registrar
  • Nameservers

To make this even easier for me, I would like

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Share Your Success Story

Elliot Silver
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I frequently write about large domain name sales and smart domain name acquisitions. One thing that I would like to write more about is success stories involving descriptive keyword domain names. I am sure there are people who are doing well with business development on keyword domain names, and I would be happy to share your story.

I’ll give you an example. Sol Orwell shared insight about his success with Examine.com, and I thought the discussion that followed on Hacker News were interesting.

Information that I think would be beneficial include some of the following:

  • Revenue and traffic numbers
  • Marketing / advertising spend and efforts
  • Capital raising and growth funding
  • Social aspect
  • Personal stories about starting building the business
  • Complications and how you overcame them

Obviously people who

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Adam Strong Acquires Strong.com from Wells Fargo

Elliot Silver
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I was reading the profile of Adam Strong on Donna Mahony’s blog, and I saw that Adam mentioned he acquired the Strong.com domain name. Obviously this domain name is perfect for him because it is his last name, but as a one word .com, it’s a valuable domain name asset as well.

Although Adam doesn’t want to share the sale price, he let me know that he was able to acquire the domain name via Domain Guardians. The company, made up of Mike Robertson and Jen Sale, represented Adam’s company as a buyer’s broker. When I asked why he didn’t approach the seller on his own, Adam told me, “I do a lot of buyer brokering myself and I know it’s good to take the emotion out of talks by using a third party. I figured the owner might also react differently to an approach from an organization rather than someone with the same last name.”

Prior to the acquisition, Strong.com was owned

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Did FH.com Sell?

Elliot Silver
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There has been considerable interest in 2 letter .com domain names of late. Alan Dunn of Domain Holdings recently published a two letter .com market overview, and I have published articles about sales and potential sales, including WW.com, MM.com, and CH.com among others. Because of this, I have been monitoring two letter .com domain names, and I noticed that FH.com was recently transferred to a different domain registrar.

On August 22, 2014, the domain name was registered to a registrant called Foundation Health Systems in California. According to Archive.org, the domain name

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List of All Two Number .com Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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I shared a list of all two letter .com domain names (LL.com), and I thought I would also share this list of two number .com domain names (NN.com domains) for your reference purposes. Many of these domain names are owned by companies in investors in China.

During the past few years, the value of two number .com domain names has increased quite dramatically. These domain names generally sell for mid six to seven figures, and some could potentially sell for more than that. In total, there are only 100 NN.com domain names.

List of all two number .com domain names:

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