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The Domains
Breaking: WIPO Upholds 1st Legal Rights Objection On .Delmonte
A WIPO panel has just upheld its first Legal Rights Objection (LRO). The WIPO panel upheld the objection of the Del Monte Corporation of San Francisco to the new gTLD application for .Delmonte Here is the discussion of the panel In order to ...
Discussion
Breaking: WIPO Upholds 1st Legal Rights Objection On .Delmonte
A WIPO panel has just upheld its first Legal Rights Objection (LRO). The WIPO panel upheld the objection of the Del Monte Corporation of San Francisco to the new gTLD application for .Delmonte Here is the discussion of the panel In order to ...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 1:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
What the heck is a “premium domain”?
A domain that would qualify as premium in .com may not be premium under different extensions. Just like grade inflation, the quality of what people are labeling a “premium domain” has been slipping in recent years. That’s because an...
Discussion
What the heck is a “premium domain”?
A domain that would qualify as premium in .com may not be premium under different extensions. Just like grade inflation, the quality of what people are labeling a “premium domain” has been slipping in recent years. That’s because an...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 12:25 pm
The Domains
ICANN’s Name Collision Study Could Derail 20% Of All Applied For New gTLD Strings
ICANN released the Name Collision Study it commission, which suggests the the applications for the new gTLD’s .Corp and .Home be indefinitely delayed and that 20% of all new gTLD applied for strings be delayed for at least 3-6 months a...
Discussion
ICANN’s Name Collision Study Could Derail 20% Of All Applied For New gTLD Strings
ICANN released the Name Collision Study it commission, which suggests the the applications for the new gTLD’s .Corp and .Home be indefinitely delayed and that 20% of all new gTLD applied for strings be delayed for at least 3-6 months a...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 11:58 am
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy’s sales and Nokta’s sales and leases from July
Domain name companies release sales information. GoDaddy Auctions sold 38,601 in July, according to the company’s Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report. The top sale, which I’ve written about previously, was body.com for $380,000. Here a...
Discussion
GoDaddy’s sales and Nokta’s sales and leases from July
Domain name companies release sales information. GoDaddy Auctions sold 38,601 in July, according to the company’s Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report. The top sale, which I’ve written about previously, was body.com for $380,000. Here a...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 11:33 am
The Domains
Lawsuits Don’t Scare Cybersquatters As Faceboko.com Sells On SnapNames For $1,516
Despite Facebook bringing federal lawsuits against Cybersquatters, they do not seem scared off as the domain name Faceboko.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for over $1,500. The domain name not surprisingly has has a traffic ranking from Alexa, Co...
Discussion
Lawsuits Don’t Scare Cybersquatters As Faceboko.com Sells On SnapNames For $1,516
Despite Facebook bringing federal lawsuits against Cybersquatters, they do not seem scared off as the domain name Faceboko.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for over $1,500. The domain name not surprisingly has has a traffic ranking from Alexa, Co...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 11:05 am
The Domains
Donuts Appoints Jeff DeCillia Chief Financial Officer
Donuts Inc., the largest applicant for ICANN’s new gTLD program announced that Jeff deCillia has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. deCillia, who brings more than 20 years of financial leadership and public markets experi...
Discussion
Donuts Appoints Jeff DeCillia Chief Financial Officer
Donuts Inc., the largest applicant for ICANN’s new gTLD program announced that Jeff deCillia has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. deCillia, who brings more than 20 years of financial leadership and public markets experi...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 10:29 am
The Domains
NameJet.com Reports $366K in Domain Sales In July
Namejet.com has released its top sales for July 2013 for domains selling for $2,000 or more. All domains sales were led by Meifa.com which sold for $25,655 and MUI.com which was right behind at $24,999 In all 69 domain names sold. Here is the list in...
Discussion
NameJet.com Reports $366K in Domain Sales In July
Namejet.com has released its top sales for July 2013 for domains selling for $2,000 or more. All domains sales were led by Meifa.com which sold for $25,655 and MUI.com which was right behind at $24,999 In all 69 domain names sold. Here is the list in...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 10:13 am
The Domains
ThePrive.com Files UDRP On The Generic Prive.com
The Fortrend Group LlC which owns the domain name ThePrive.com is seeking to upgrade its domain name by filing a UDRP on the generic domain Prive.com Prive is a french word that mean private in English. Armani has a line of clothing name Prive There ...
Discussion
ThePrive.com Files UDRP On The Generic Prive.com
The Fortrend Group LlC which owns the domain name ThePrive.com is seeking to upgrade its domain name by filing a UDRP on the generic domain Prive.com Prive is a french word that mean private in English. Armani has a line of clothing name Prive There ...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 9:35 am
The Domains
The T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference Moves To The Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach Starting In 2014
The orgainzer of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference announced this morning that beginning in “2014 and beyond, we will have outgrown the current venue as you will see in October. So we decided to move T.R.A.F.F.I.C. a little south in 2014 to the WORL...
Discussion
The T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference Moves To The Fountainbleu Hotel in Miami Beach Starting In 2014
The orgainzer of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C conference announced this morning that beginning in “2014 and beyond, we will have outgrown the current venue as you will see in October. So we decided to move T.R.A.F.F.I.C. a little south in 2014 to the WORL...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 8:54 am
The Domains
Washington Post on New gTLD’s: Com Was The Training Wheels For The Internet: Move aside .com
In a three page Article the Washington Post on the day it was purchased, chats about domain names and the new gTLD’s asking whether .com’s go by the way of horse and buggy, well actually “the party line” (which many of the rea...
Discussion
Washington Post on New gTLD’s: Com Was The Training Wheels For The Internet: Move aside .com
In a three page Article the Washington Post on the day it was purchased, chats about domain names and the new gTLD’s asking whether .com’s go by the way of horse and buggy, well actually “the party line” (which many of the rea...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 8:42 am
