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Atomizer.com was the highest reported domain name sale on June 23rd,2016. The domain name changed hands for $10,000 .
According to namebio.com, there were 169 domain name sales on June 23rd,2016, totaling $121,850.
Here are the highest reported domain name sales on June 23rd,2016 :
atomizer.com $10,000 NameJet mindworks.com $9,900 NameJet cloudmigration.com $7,600 GoDaddy crying.com $5,150 Flippa cards.org $4,000 Flippa lpn.org $3,555 GoDaddy nbw.net $2,560 DropCatch ancora.org $2,500 BuyDomains teacherlinks.com $2,488 BuyDomains edminsider.com $2,480 GoDaddy 12786.com $2,200 NameJet burnit.com $2,025 GoDaddy 819777.com $2,001 NameJet 777lovers.com $2,000 Flippa sageproject.com $2,000 BuyDomains 39813.com $1,950 NameJet mobilehomerentals.com $1,868 NameJet ha8.com $1,705 DropCatch internationalbanking.com $1,600 NameJet implosive.com $1,600 NameJet modernhabit.com $1,600 BuyDomains habergeon.com $1,500 BuyDomains redindustries.com $1,450 BuyDomains alsarraf.net $1,411 NameJet hg853.com $1,405 GoDaddy bestodds.net $1,288 BuyDomains ccj.cc $1,120 DropCatch
pixi.io $1,030 Park.io

Local Search Optimization has taken business owners by surprise in the last couple of years, especially after the Hummingbird Update was released by Google in 2013. While search engine optimization has changed hugely, much of it remains complicated. If you are concerned local search optimization, here are some of the great ideas that will help in getting started.
Get the basics
First and foremost, it is very essential to claim and get the business listing for your business for every location. You will need to decide on a few consistent things, which include address, name and contact numbers. It is also essential to have a local number wherever available and complete the profile in detail. Add things like business hours, category and keywords that may be relevant for local searches. Also, you need to spend some time claiming business listings for other search sites, which includes Bing Places, Yelp, Aabaco Small Business and Apple maps. Add all the relecant social media elements to your website, including Twitter, YouTube and Instagram. Just in case you don’t have a linkedIn account as yet, spend time on that, as well.
Spread your business
You will find citations to be extremely important for your businesses with regards to local search optimization. Look for additional sites and directories, where you can place your business. You can look for national citations, as well, because they often offer information to smaller sites, along with the search engines. If you need to pay for citations, check wisely for the same.
Get small things right
People read what others have to say about your business, so make sure that you gather as many reviews as possible, even if you get a couple of bad ones. If you are in 2016, you need to make use of keywords on your pages, so that the search engines can get a hang of the same. Add keywords that are relevant for your business, which includes the Google category, and the content should be decent and engaging enough with at least 300 words. Experts also suggest adding the location of your business on the webpage for better results. It is also essential that your site loads easily, while at the same time, you might want to add a few relevant and authentic external links.
Focus on content
Search Engine Optimisation in 2016 will continue to focus on content, so you should spend time and energy on creating more valuable content that readers want to read and the search engines love to see. Depending on your business type, you need to also focus on getting backlinks for your website. Keep in mind that the backlinks should come from high authority sites, so as to get any benefit from the same. Guest posting can be a good idea worth exploring, but requires planning and association with good blogs and sites.
With these basics in place, you should not have a tough time optimizing your business locally. Make sure to keep a track of your growth, so that you can identify the hits and misses.

LA.com, sold for $1,2 million, topped Domain Name Journal’s sales list of reported domain names for the week ending May 8,2016.
This was the highest reported domain name sale this year.
Sedo had a great week in the sales chart,taking 12 of the top 20 positions .Correspondingly,Ali Auction took only three of the top 20 positions .
.COM dominated once again the list,with 10 of the top 20 positions.
Here are the top 20 positions for the week ending May 8,2016 :
1. LA.com $1,200,000 Pvt Sale 2.tie Boardroom.com $75,000 Sedo/GreatDomains 2.tie Web.hosting $75,000 DomainPros 4. S.club $37,984 Ali Auction 5. Internet.travel €10,000 = $11,400 PixelDreams.es 6.tie Mortgages.ae $10,000 Sedo 6.tie Uncle.co $10,000 Sedo 8. JTrack.com $9,888 Sedo 9. Companyon.com $8,725 Sedo 10.tie Clark.fr €7,500 = $8,550 Sedo 10.tie Hurghada.de €7,500 = $8,550 Sedo 12. Proserve.com $8,501 SnapNames 13. AgencyOne.com $8,500 Sedo 14. TT.club $7,788 Ali Auction 15.tie Juegos.cl $7,500 Sedo 15.tie WorldSportsBetting.com $7,500 Sedo 17. FOKS.com $7,000 Sedo 18.tie LiverpoolParking.com €6,000 = $6,840 Sedo 18.tie Proveg.com €6,000 = $6,840 Sedo
20. 18.club $6,355 Ali Auction

LA.com was the highest reported .com domain name sale in May,2016. The domain name changed hands for $1,2 million via GoDaddy.
Here are the highest reported .com domain name sales in May,2016 :
1. LA.com $1,200,000 GoDaddy 2. Rate.com $725,000 3. Quick.com $299,000 4. Strawberry.com $160,000 5. Boardroom.com $75,000 6. Acure.com $65,000 7. FFG.com $60,000 8. LVN.com €50,000 = $56,000 9. LFN.com $49,000 10. NWT.com $40,000 11. AZT.com $31,500 12. Icom.com $27,555 13. Icom.com $27,555 14. 3606.com $23,000 15. UIO.com $21,600 16. Antonia.com L14,000 = $20,580 17. BBR.net $20,525 18. LeMans.com $20,000 19. Minpaku.com $17,000
20. Orison.com €13,000 = $14,560

The domain name BitcoinWallet.com was recently sold for a whopping $250,000. The seller is Niko Younts, who made the announcement on Twitter .
Niko Younts also announced that domain name BitcoinWallets.com is pending sale for $200,000.
According to whois records, BitcoinWallet.com was first registered in 2010, while BitcoinWallets.com was first registered in 2011.
Congratulations for both the seller and the buyer.
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Web.hosting was the highest reported non .COM gTLD sale in May,2016. The domain name changed hands for $75,000 via DomainPros.
Here are the highest reported non .COM gTLD sales in May,2016:
1. Web.hosting $75,000 DomainPros 2. S.club $37,984 Ali Auctio 3. YH.top Y200,000 = $30,400 4. BBR.net $20,525 5. Internet.travel €10,000 = $11,400 6. TT.club $7,788 Ali Auction 7. 18.club $6,355 Ali Auction 8. BJ.club $6,150 Ali Auction 9. QB.club $5,899 Ali Auction 10. Spreadface.net €5,000 = $5,700 11. Holz.kaufen €5,000 = $5,600 12. Tea.world $5,000 13. SEO.club $4,999 14. Get.net $4,999 15. Anthology.net $4,995 16. GO.club $4,815 17. ChangeFoundation.org $4,000 18 Nina.bio $4,000 19. Cars.lat €3,500 = $3,990
20. SC2.org $3,588 Sedo

Flippa has just sent in their monthly sales report. Rematch.com and Sto.re were the highest reported domain name sales of the month, selling for $30,000 each.
There were 102 domain name sales in May,2016, out of which 61 were .com domains.
Here are the sales :
Rematch.com $30,000 sto.re $30,000 * 6ix.com $20,000 ECQ.com $20,000 di.et $10,000 Answer.org $7,000 Wet.net $7,000 Portfolio of 1,000 .com domains $6,301 Systems.io $5,500 * TeaCreations.com $5,000 upiq.com $5,000 NiceFrance.com $4,650 YouLikeThis.com $4,500 Hitmen.com $4,500 gord.com $4,000 movie.io $3,850 * FootballStreaming.org $3,750 lend.io $3,050 Carpool.net $3,000 sevn.com $3,000 SEOFirms.com $2,995 teleport.io $2,600 inni.com $2,500 * oxford.ai $2,500 t.nf $2,350 Pukx.com $2,250 heykids.com $2,100 UBMe.com $2,001 phoenix.co $2,001 overslept.com $2,000 Arcader.com $2,000 Route.cc $2,000 stockphoto.io $1,901 vazz.com $1,850 BiscuitRecipe.com $1,850 readysethome.com $1,600 DomainNames.io $1,550 df5.com $1,500 liksa.info $1,480 Recieve.com $1,451 werl.com $1,305 yenx.com $1,272 flyers.io $1,255 spxy.com $1,220 redseafoundation.com $1,200 redseafoundation.org $1,200 L337.com $1,200 60 Premium Domains Portfolio $1,111 Waxing.net $1,100 TrackCar.com $1,061 tvproducer.com $1,050 migr.com $1,050 xcln.com $1,050 epuppy.com $1,000 axoa.com $1,000 Lineage.info $1,000 HowToDayTrade.com $1,000 staffwire.com $1,000 stockvaluation.com $1,000 advise.net $999 frowns.com $940 ospf.com $906 DailyDeal.net $905 tudou.co $853 SouthWestFlooring.com $850 just.co $820 launchpole.com $805 RobotSchool.com $800 FireInsurance.org $795 artifici.al $793 roiu.com $700 Conversions.org $700 znom.com $689 BeyondBuzz.com $675 argent-sur-internet.com $650 men.to $650 Crepz.com $650 zbaf.com $627 blogger.io $621 sex.guide $605 clearskincareclinicscam.com $580 Cryst.al $560 CanaryIslands.info $560 flexrings.com $550 500.io $510 iepy.com $506 vow.co $505 emmz.com $505 condos.la $505 ettb.com $502 workfitapp.com $500 Corresponder.com $500 YourBeautySite.com $500 unfavored.com $500 AlwaysImproving.com $500 Chemic.al $499 Feder.al $499 king.info $475 curring.com $460 shadeshare.com $450 fire.ly $440 OnPz.com $425 mrtgg.com $420
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Does this scenario sound familiar? You are surfing the web, trying to find some topics related to a recent post you published on your blog. Hoping that you can find some people to crosslink with, you are surprised when you find a post on another site that looks a lot like your own. No… it looks exactly like your own. Someone has stolen your content!
It would be nice to say that this is a rare occurrence, but we all known better. Plagiarism is a common crime, especially from blogs that don’t have the team of lawyers of larger sites and companies to protect their copyright. But what makes it worse is that often scrapers and scammers who steal this content end up with higher rankings in search engines as they use unethical tactics to draw traffic.
This means that even though you wrote it first, it is possible that your site could be outranked by someone else using it. Your blog might be filtered by Google, and it can be difficult to prove that you were the original owner and so deserve the top spot.
Don’t scream in frustration just yet. The best way to fight plagiarism is to prevent it, and there are ways to do that.
Copyright Your Content
It isn’t airtight protection, but it can stop casual snatchers from taking your work without permission. Just provide a small copyright notice at the end of the post, stating that you maintain all rights over what has been written. This should contain the year, as well. It will look like this: © Bob Smith 2012, All Rights Reserved.
Many bloggers will just put this in the bottom of the page theme, implying that all content posted is protected.
Use Plagiarism Detectors
If you are worried that content might have been stolen, there are various tools that will allow you to search for things taken in part, or in full. Some of them are:
How to Deal with Plagiarized Content
Once you find who steals your content, submit a DMCA complaint with Google which is pretty easy and you won’t need any legal help with it. Google is pretty quick at processing them too: It is reported to be removing one million pages a month as a result of DMCA reports!
You may also want to use WordPress plugins to combat illegal content copying:
(This site has a very detailed guide on how to install WordPress plugins in case you are at a loss!)
Do you have any tools that can help you to be alerted to plagiarism? Anything to help prevent it from happening in the first place? Let us know in the comments.
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On May 31st, 2012 ftLD Registry Services LLC applied for the .insurance and .bank TLDs. According to their head of operations, Craig Schwartz , this partnership aimed to
“provide the highest security for the millions of customers conducting banking and insurance activities online and to ensure the safety and soundness of the industry”.
Now, the .insurance domains are up for the taking with general availability starting with June 15th 2016.
What the .insurance gTLDs will offer, will be a trusted brand and protection to the users. Also, the insurance providers will have the opportunity to enlarge their marketplace with this new internet presence specially designed for them. The .insurance domains come with heighten security systems that outrun the current .com solutions.
But not everyone will be eligible to own and administrate .insurance domains. ftLD Registry Services LLC announced very strict eligibility criteria and also a fixed timeline for applications. In order to benefit of .insurance domains, you must be a verified member of the global insurance community. More specifically, only companies, organizations and individuals which are part of the industry as detailed by them:
1. Insurance companies established by a government authority (e.g., licensed, certified);
2. Brokers/brokerages, licensed insurance agents/agencies or other counterparts (e.g., intermediaries) established by a government authority;
3. Associations with members mostly composed of entities or individuals presented above in 1 or 2;
4. Groups of associations with members mostly composed of associations presented above in 3;
5. Service providers mainly owned by or mostly backing established entities presented above in 1 or 2 ( only authorized by the Registry Operator Board of Directors); and
6. Agents/agencies, government regulators of insurance companies, brokers/brokerages or other counterparts (e.g., intermediaries) or organizations composed of government regulators (only authorized by the Registry Operator Board of Directors).
Over 50 founding members and endorsers of the fTLD Registry, who own authenticated trademarks, had the opportunity to register .insurance domains in the Pre-Launch period, between the 3rd – 9th of May. To name a few, we’re talking about Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc., Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, Insurance Europe, National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, Reinsurance Association of America and many others.
After the Pre-Launch, follows the Sunrise period (9th May – 8th June 2016) and the Founders’ Period ( 9th June – 14th June 2016), concluding in the opening for General Availability on the 15th June 2016.
It is at utmost importance that eligible entities that wish to register for .insurance domains, fill in and submit their applications as soon as possible! Considering that the timeline of the applications will be a deciding factor in granting .insurance domains (first-come, first-served service policy for all periods), time must not be spared in order to secure the domain name you desire. Factoring also that the domain will be available internationally, and that only in the USA there are over 38000 insurance providers, competition for the domain names will be fairly high.
The new domain will hopefully inspire the same kind of trust and confidence the .bank domains have gained since it’s debut in May 2015. Having higher technical standards, strict verification and eligibility criteria for the domain names owners will help boost the insurance business in the online world and give it a competitive edge with this new online space.

DI research shows that at the least 1 in 10 individual new gTLD are becoming smaller.
The research was made on 334 gTLDs from the first 2012 round, disregarding any dot-brand and any gTLD that had general availability date starting with March 14, 2015. It’s purpose was to select gTLDs with at least one year old in order to better analyze their grown rates.
It seems that volume doesn’t represent a way to measure success for dot-brands, especially because only registries can own names.
Following the research it was found out that:
96 (28.7%) were lower June 1 than they were 30 days earlier.
104 (31.1%) were lower June 1 than they were 90 days earlier.
76 (22.7%) were lower June 1 than they were 366 days earlier.
35 (10.4%) were lower on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
You could say that if a gTLD has become lower over the last month, quarter or year it is “shrinking”.
Here are some examples of TLDs that “shrank” over time.
TLD
Registry
Domains
Annual Change
Quarterly Change
Monthly Change
.网址 (xn--ses554g)
KNET
330554
-7487
-11016
-3699
guru
Donuts
59631
-5940
-6219
-448
ninja
Rightside
45705
-3548
-7272
-6247
МОСКВА (xn--80adxhk)
FAITID
15190
-2769
-1075
-87
موقع. (xn--4gbrim)
Suhub
760
-2168
-813
-13
moscow
FAITID
17816
-1296
-624
-160
directory
Donuts
17203
-1229
-1963
-180
futbol
Rightside
3326
-1192
-76
-4
..在线 (xn--3ds443g)
TLD Registry
34800
-1161
-1183
-1124
singles
Donuts
4585
-1058
-1003
-24
cheap
Donuts
3504
-826
-29
-36
estate
Donuts
9291
-737
-1083
-192
bargains
Donuts
2583
-718
-80
-25
plumbing
Donuts
3709
-478
-583
-11
voyage
Donuts
2627
-452
-474
-22
florist
Donuts
2722
-439
-306
-222
holiday
Donuts
5035
-386
-309
-295
.شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd)
International Domain Registry
1103
-379
-150
-84
immobilien
Rightside
7827
-336
-52
-42
The average size of the zones, was 17,299 domains, but mixed they justified for 605,472 domains, below 34,412 on the year. Considering the over 20 million at global level, is not a big proportion.
While the largest was .网址 (.website) with 330,554 domains and annual decrease of 7, 487, the smallest was .wed, with 144 domains and annual decrease of 12
The average decrease across the year was 983 domains per gTLD, 1,025 across the quarter and 400 over the month.
Most of the shrank domains belong to Donuts, that pointed out the company has been targeting small and medium businesses and avoid the aggressive promotions.
“Too much focus on individual TLDs doesn’t accurately indicate the overall health of the TLD program in general and of our portfolio specifically,” were some of the words of a Donuts spokesperson.
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