Domainerss » Mixergy http://www.domainerss.com/blog Hand-Picked Best Of The Domainer Blogs Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:02:54 +0000 en hourly 1 How We Got Sal (KhanAcademy.org) ConAcademy.com http://www.domainerss.com/blog/2011/04/how-we-got-sal-khanacademy-org-conacademy-com/ http://www.domainerss.com/blog/2011/04/how-we-got-sal-khanacademy-org-conacademy-com/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:24:37 +0000 John Link To Full Story: DomainNoob.com

But why ConAcademy.com?
According to the Whois info, ConAcademy.com was registered October 28, 2010. That’s only a few weeks after Google announced a $2M prize to Khan Academy as part of their Project 10^100 and about a month and half after Sal’s Fortune article. … [visit site to read more]

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]]> http://www.domainerss.com/blog/2011/04/how-we-got-sal-khanacademy-org-conacademy-com/feed/ 0 How We Got Sal (KhanAcademy.org) His Dot Com http://www.domainerss.com/blog/2010/10/how-we-got-sal-khanacademy-org-his-dot-com/ http://www.domainerss.com/blog/2010/10/how-we-got-sal-khanacademy-org-his-dot-com/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:50:42 +0000 John Link To Full Story: DomainNoob.com

I discovered that KhanAcademy.com was registered with Enom. It was parked (the schoolgirl photo with lots of ads) with a link to ‘buy this domain’. That link took me to a site called AcquireThisName.com where I was presented with a ‘make an offer’ form. I did. My offer led to a brief exchange part of which was… … [visit site to read more]

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Mixergy’s Andrew Warner recently interviewed Groupon’s Andrew Mason. This clip discusses how Groupon got Groupon.com.
Full interview with video and transcription can be found at Mixergy.
Andrew calls it ‘the perfect name’, but another fellow with a similar idea already owned Groupon.com. He didn’t want to … [visit site to read more]

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Mixergy’s Andrew Warner recently interviewed Blank-Label.com‘s co-founder Danny Wong. This clip discusses Danny’s frustration with trying to acquire the domain BlankLabel.com
Full interview with video and transcription can be found at Mixergy. [Note: Danny was Skyping in from ... [visit site to read more]

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