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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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HealthInsurance.net
Sold For $525,000 - Plus .PW Opens to the
Public
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We
have learned that
HealthInsurance.net was sold in a
previously unannounced 2011 transaction for $525,000.
John Mcknight and William Foster of
Adaptive Insurance Services, LLC sold
the well developed website to an undisclosed
buyer (the WhoIs record currently shows Moniker
Privacy Services contact information). The
website, that
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operates
as the Health Insurance Network, allows
users to enter their zip code to get policy
quotes from leading insurance providers in their
area.
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Also today, Directi,
the administrator of the re-purposed
.PW ccTLD opened the doors for general
registration. The .PW extension began
life as the country code for Palau,
but Directi acquired the rights to
re-launch the TLD as a globally available
extension they are marketing as the "Professional
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110
registrars
from 32 countries around the
globe are now offering .PW domains
(prices vary from one registrar to the
next but some are offering prices as low
as $5 for the first year). Directi
said more than 4,000 domains were
registered in the first 30 minutes of
open registration.
Bhavin
Turakhia, Founder and CEO of the
Directi Group, said, “The internet space
is getting cramped with thousands of new
users going online every day.
Distinguishing your online identity from
this crowd is getting harder. With com,
net, org and other major TLDs running out
of quality domain names, .PW provides
customers with short, generic and
first-choice domain names to stand out
from the rest of the crowd."
By
getting out of the gate now, .PW will have
a head start on the hundreds of new gTLDs
that ICANN will start rolling out
this year. |
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(Posted March
25, 2013)
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