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The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold f...
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold f...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 6:17 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million
Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·&nb...
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million
Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·&nb...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 4:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Salesforce launches Social.com
Almost two years after buying domain, Salesforce launches Social.com. Last week Salesforce started forwarding its Social.com domain to one of its sites, but today it formerly announced its new Social.com service. Social.com offers services to adverti...
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Salesforce launches Social.com
Almost two years after buying domain, Salesforce launches Social.com. Last week Salesforce started forwarding its Social.com domain to one of its sites, but today it formerly announced its new Social.com service. Social.com offers services to adverti...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 2:58 pm
The Domains
Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwo...
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Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwo...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 12:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
DomainSkate offers templated UDRP complaints for $399
Low cost service prepares UDRP filing to submit to National Arbitration Forum. The biggest cost of filing or responding to a UDRP isn’t paying fees to National Arbitration Forum or WIPO. It’s typically the lawyer’s fees that add up ...
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DomainSkate offers templated UDRP complaints for $399
Low cost service prepares UDRP filing to submit to National Arbitration Forum. The biggest cost of filing or responding to a UDRP isn’t paying fees to National Arbitration Forum or WIPO. It’s typically the lawyer’s fees that add up ...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 12:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Internet Giant TenCent bumbles domain dispute
Company drops ball in UDRP submission. It’s possible you’ve never heard of TenCent. I hadn’t heard of it until reading The Economist’s recent spread on the internet in China. But it’s big in China. Huge. With a market ca...
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Internet Giant TenCent bumbles domain dispute
Company drops ball in UDRP submission. It’s possible you’ve never heard of TenCent. I hadn’t heard of it until reading The Economist’s recent spread on the internet in China. But it’s big in China. Huge. With a market ca...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 11:52 am
Elliot's Blog
FreshDrop Announces New Backordering Service
FreshDrop is one of my favorite tools when it comes to researching domain names. I spend a fair amount of time using FreshDrop daily to scout names that are coming up for auction on NameJet. I want to share some news that I received from FreshDrop Fo...
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FreshDrop Announces New Backordering Service
FreshDrop is one of my favorite tools when it comes to researching domain names. I spend a fair amount of time using FreshDrop daily to scout names that are coming up for auction on NameJet. I want to share some news that I received from FreshDrop Fo...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 11:43 am
The Domains
Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com
Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registe...
Discussion
Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com
Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registe...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 11:34 am
The Domains
.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks
According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web&...
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.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks
According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web&...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 10:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain arbitration cases edge up slightly in 2012
…but trail the growth in domain name registrations. National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has released its official numbers for 2012 UDRP cases. Combined with World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) results, the number of UDRP cases...
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Domain arbitration cases edge up slightly in 2012
…but trail the growth in domain name registrations. National Arbitration Forum (NAF) has released its official numbers for 2012 UDRP cases. Combined with World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) results, the number of UDRP cases...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 10:51 am
