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The Domains
The Only Thing Forbes.com Missed About The Domain Name Industry Is The Billion+ Dollars Coming Into It
After spending a week at the ICANN Meeting with 2,000 + people which are pouring over a Billion dollars into the domain name industry, I read the piece in Forbes.com by Deborah L. Jacobs, who is a self proclaimed “woulda coulda shoulda” k...
Discussion
The Only Thing Forbes.com Missed About The Domain Name Industry Is The Billion+ Dollars Coming Into It
After spending a week at the ICANN Meeting with 2,000 + people which are pouring over a Billion dollars into the domain name industry, I read the piece in Forbes.com by Deborah L. Jacobs, who is a self proclaimed “woulda coulda shoulda” k...
Discussion
November 23, 2013, 1:49 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on November 23rd, 2013
Couldn’t find a lot of names today. Usually the auction houses avoid having too many names finish on weekends because of people being busy. It’s going to get even worse next weekend with Thanksgiving and Black Friday here in t...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on November 23rd, 2013
Couldn’t find a lot of names today. Usually the auction houses avoid having too many names finish on weekends because of people being busy. It’s going to get even worse next weekend with Thanksgiving and Black Friday here in t...
Discussion
November 23, 2013, 10:52 am
Domain Shane
Not Only Is the Article Written by Deborah L. Jacobs at Forbes Wrong, It Shows How Financially Naive She Is
Today’s article at Forbes was another example of someone looking in, writing from afar, judging an industry on a single event or personal opinion. Deborah Jacobs spent hours “researching” an article for Forbes about domain name...
Discussion
Not Only Is the Article Written by Deborah L. Jacobs at Forbes Wrong, It Shows How Financially Naive She Is
Today’s article at Forbes was another example of someone looking in, writing from afar, judging an industry on a single event or personal opinion. Deborah Jacobs spent hours “researching” an article for Forbes about domain name...
Discussion
November 23, 2013, 1:24 am
Domain Name Wire
Companies aren’t communities for new TLDs, panelist rules
Is Merck a community? It’s a murky argument. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has issued his rulings in three cases involving the Merck brand. In doing so, he has ruled that companies don’t qualify as communities, at least fo...
Discussion
Companies aren’t communities for new TLDs, panelist rules
Is Merck a community? It’s a murky argument. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has issued his rulings in three cases involving the Merck brand. In doing so, he has ruled that companies don’t qualify as communities, at least fo...
Discussion
November 22, 2013, 5:32 pm
The Domains
What Does Paris Hilton, Marvel, Standard & Poor’s, Affliction Clothing, Virgin & Remy Martin Have In Common? UDRP’s
Some interesting complainants ranging from Paris Hilton, Marvel Comics, Standard & Poor’s, Affliction Clothing & Remy Martin in the news as they either filed or won UDRP’s on domain names today. Paris Hilton filed a UDRP on the do...
Discussion
What Does Paris Hilton, Marvel, Standard & Poor’s, Affliction Clothing, Virgin & Remy Martin Have In Common? UDRP’s
Some interesting complainants ranging from Paris Hilton, Marvel Comics, Standard & Poor’s, Affliction Clothing & Remy Martin in the news as they either filed or won UDRP’s on domain names today. Paris Hilton filed a UDRP on the do...
Discussion
November 22, 2013, 3:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domains that were subject to string confusion objections could be on hold for a while…
Board considers if there’s any sort of appeal mechanism to new TLD objections. The results of new TLD string confusion objections handled by International Dispute Resolution Centre were a mess. They were completely unpredictable and results wer...
Discussion
Domains that were subject to string confusion objections could be on hold for a while…
Board considers if there’s any sort of appeal mechanism to new TLD objections. The results of new TLD string confusion objections handled by International Dispute Resolution Centre were a mess. They were completely unpredictable and results wer...
Discussion
November 22, 2013, 2:39 pm
The Domains
NetworkSolutions.com Tries To Sell A Domain Owner His Own Domain
The domain name Registrar, NetworkSolutions.com tried to sell Domain investor Abdu Tarabichi of Domainsville.com his own domain name. Abdu got the following email from Network Solutions in which they tried to sell him the premium domain name Ha...
Discussion
NetworkSolutions.com Tries To Sell A Domain Owner His Own Domain
The domain name Registrar, NetworkSolutions.com tried to sell Domain investor Abdu Tarabichi of Domainsville.com his own domain name. Abdu got the following email from Network Solutions in which they tried to sell him the premium domain name Ha...
Discussion
November 22, 2013, 1:03 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on November 22nd, 2013
I’ve kept my commentary about the Heritage auction to myself over the last few weeks. I really had no vested interest in the auction and Aron or Heritage never contacted me about the auction so I watched from afar (not that he had any rea...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on November 22nd, 2013
I’ve kept my commentary about the Heritage auction to myself over the last few weeks. I really had no vested interest in the auction and Aron or Heritage never contacted me about the auction so I watched from afar (not that he had any rea...
Discussion
November 22, 2013, 10:35 am
The Domains
Heritage Auctions Sells $419,970 as 32 out of 68 lots sell
XZ.com leads them all selling for $120,000 plus the Buyers premium made the total cost. 32 out of the 68 lots sold, I thought it was really cool, logged in watched it live, the auctioneer I thought she was very good. Congrats to Aron all auctions sho...
Discussion
Heritage Auctions Sells $419,970 as 32 out of 68 lots sell
XZ.com leads them all selling for $120,000 plus the Buyers premium made the total cost. 32 out of the 68 lots sold, I thought it was really cool, logged in watched it live, the auctioneer I thought she was very good. Congrats to Aron all auctions sho...
Discussion
November 22, 2013, 1:04 am
Domain Name News
Inaugural Heritage Auctions Domain Event in New York City – Live Results
We will be live blogging the results of the inaugural Heritage Auctions Domain Event in New York City today. There are no guarantees that this list is correct or complete as this are not official or officially approved results. Please note that ...
Discussion
Inaugural Heritage Auctions Domain Event in New York City – Live Results
We will be live blogging the results of the inaugural Heritage Auctions Domain Event in New York City today. There are no guarantees that this list is correct or complete as this are not official or officially approved results. Please note that ...
Discussion
November 21, 2013, 11:55 pm
