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Domain Name Wire
See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
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See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 3:36 pm
The Domains
RiskIQ.com Files Suit Again Risk.io For Federal Trademark Infringement
RiskIQ.com. sued Risk.IO, for trademark infringement and unfair competition based upon Risk IO’s having improperly and willfully used the names, yesterday in the United States District Court in the Northern District Of California San Francisco ...
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RiskIQ.com Files Suit Again Risk.io For Federal Trademark Infringement
RiskIQ.com. sued Risk.IO, for trademark infringement and unfair competition based upon Risk IO’s having improperly and willfully used the names, yesterday in the United States District Court in the Northern District Of California San Francisco ...
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December 16, 2014, 3:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name
Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CE...
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CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name
Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CE...
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December 16, 2014, 2:44 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday , December 16th
There are a lot of fantastic names dropping today at Namejet. There are 10 names that I think could go over $10K and I am a bidder on quite a few of them. Not sure if I’m going to hit reserve but I’m going to give them a...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday , December 16th
There are a lot of fantastic names dropping today at Namejet. There are 10 names that I think could go over $10K and I am a bidder on quite a few of them. Not sure if I’m going to hit reserve but I’m going to give them a...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 11:45 am
Domain Shane
Quirky Product Sales via Amazon’s Affiliate Program in 2014
I’m not a big Amazon seller, but I still have a few hundred minisites that pay their way……….mostly with Adsense, but sometimes combined with sales of products through the Amazon affiliate program. With Amazon, you get a co...
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Quirky Product Sales via Amazon’s Affiliate Program in 2014
I’m not a big Amazon seller, but I still have a few hundred minisites that pay their way……….mostly with Adsense, but sometimes combined with sales of products through the Amazon affiliate program. With Amazon, you get a co...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 2:13 am
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how you might think
Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search e...
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New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how you might think
Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search e...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 1:39 am
The Domains
Did NamesCon Buy DomainFest.com?
I was going through the schedule for the Namescon conference taking place in January 2015 at Las Vegas and found this session: Sunday, January 11 • 10:00am – 10:15am (which is the 1st day of NameCon) “Welcome to DomainFest @NamesCon!...
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Did NamesCon Buy DomainFest.com?
I was going through the schedule for the Namescon conference taking place in January 2015 at Las Vegas and found this session: Sunday, January 11 • 10:00am – 10:15am (which is the 1st day of NameCon) “Welcome to DomainFest @NamesCon!...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 9:53 pm
The Domains
ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing & Malware Sites
According to a company blog post out today, by brand protection company CSC, citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being regist...
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ICANN Denies Allegation That New gTLD Have Widespread Phishing & Malware Sites
According to a company blog post out today, by brand protection company CSC, citing Amy Mushahwar, counsel and Chief Information Security Officer at Washington, D.C. law firm ZwillGen PLLC, says: “New domains (new gTLD’s) are being regist...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 7:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Best fake name used in a domain name scam. Ever.
I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to b...
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Best fake name used in a domain name scam. Ever.
I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to b...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 7:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling discusses new TLDs and .Com – DNW Podcast #11
Legendary domain investor Frank Schilling explains where new TLDs fit into the domain market. Last week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast was the most popular yet. With this week’s guest, we might make that happen two weeks in a row. Frank Schil...
Discussion
Frank Schilling discusses new TLDs and .Com – DNW Podcast #11
Legendary domain investor Frank Schilling explains where new TLDs fit into the domain market. Last week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast was the most popular yet. With this week’s guest, we might make that happen two weeks in a row. Frank Schil...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 4:30 pm
