The Daily Roundup for 9/2/16

Welcome to the Daily Roundup for September 2, 2016

Domain movements spotted by Mike

Former Marchex domain names sold by @GoDaddy/ @namefind:

RealTimeCoach.com

BestProduct.com

17hours.com

Urbanstore.com

Sales by @GoDaddy/@namefind of our old domains:

Latexwear.com

Filesavers.com

VisitOakland.com, a domain we turned down $15K a bunch of times from the city.

Other news

According to RBC; Godaddy reported that it had Over 700K Customers that Spent More Than $500 a year as of the end of 2015.

Chinese Domain News

Kassey Lee reported:

.mobi still alive. Wan Dan (玩单) received angel investment recently. Wan Dan is a marketplace for hand-drawings, and its official website is the exact matching domain name Wandan.mobi. Source: http://news.west.cn/9109.html

28.cx sold for $1.5k (10k yuan) BIN price on West .cn. 28 rhymes with 偶发 (happen by change). Did you know .cx is the country extension for Christmas Island? Source: http://news.west.cn/9176.html

ZA.cn sold for $189k (1.26m yuan) in September 1 auction. ZA may mean 真爱 (true love). Source: http://news.ename.cn/yumingjiaoyi_19700822_105874_1.html

A business association (广东老字号协会) in Guangdong Province has launched Chinese IDN.IDN (老字号.广东) using the geo extension .广东 (Guangdong), Official website is GDLZH.com.cn, which is 5L. Source: http://news.west.cn/9099.html

Domain Industry Stocks

GOOGL	796.87	+5.47 (0.69%)
GDDY	32.68	+0.06 (0.18%)
NAME	9.31	-0.07 (-0.75%)
MMX	11.50	+0.12 (1.10%)
CNIC	41.75	-1.25 (-2.91%)
VRSN	79.02	+4.21 (5.63%)
NSR	25.91	+0.26 (1.01%)
TCX	27.36	+0.10 (0.37%)
EIGI	8.11	+0.14 (1.76%)
UTDI	37.60	+0.41 (1.10%)
WEB	17.83	+0.06 (0.34%)
MLB	1.88	-0.02 (-1.05%)

Bitcoin/Crypto News

NY Times – How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone

Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location? That will cost you $650,000, plus a $500,000 setup fee with an Israeli outfit called the NSO Group. You can spy on more people if you would like — just check out the company’s price list.

ArsTechnica.com – Qualcomm plots cheaper VR with all-in-one headset

Funny/Unfortunate recently expired name of the day

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