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Richard Kirkendall, CEO of NameCheap has this week confirmed he has paid £120,000 for the domain Mobile.co.uk .
This follows in the wake of some public sales figures notabley Recycle.co.uk for £153,000 , Ink.co.uk  £130,000 , Fly.co.uk £87,000 and Employment.co.uk for £17,000.
Further sales have included:
Emigrate.co.uk £6000
Meals.co.uk £4000
C2.co.uk £1200
Slogan.co.uk £500
Large prices are forecast for Sex.co.uk , Phones.co.uk […]

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It has been a busy time in Nominet Towers with both domaining papers and DRS review papers being issued.
In this first post we will look at what the DRS Review has come up with - the full paper can be found here
We feel the key points are:
- Most of the DRS will stay unchanged.
- £10 […]

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Further to previous posts regarding the problems arising from Nominet UK upgrading their systems it seems several more bugs have been spotted roaming in the wild.
- IPS-TAG change emails are not turning up at ISPs. This means that a registrant can change the TAG of their domain yet the tagholder (or in the new Nom […]

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Domaining is an often misunderstood industry so we thought we would take the ‘online real estate’ analogy and see how far we get with it as a method of explaining what it is all about.
If we imagine domaining as a city wide industry it is possible to see parallels to offline events, structures and patterns.
At […]

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