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What’s so special about LLNNN domains with HG prefix?
Kassey Lee explores why these domains are selling for so much money. I was checking auction results the other day and saw four LLNNN .com domains sold on the same day for quite good prices. That puzzled me. The domains are HG262.com ($4,000), HG232.c...
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What’s so special about LLNNN domains with HG prefix?
Kassey Lee explores why these domains are selling for so much money. I was checking auction results the other day and saw four LLNNN .com domains sold on the same day for quite good prices. That puzzled me. The domains are HG262.com ($4,000), HG232.c...
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April 23, 2020, 12:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
SC Johnson cans .RightAtHome top level domain name
Company drops one of its dot-brand domains but still owns six. SC Johnson has informed ICANN that it no longer wants to operate the .rightathome top level domain name. The consumer products company never developed websites on the top level domain and...
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SC Johnson cans .RightAtHome top level domain name
Company drops one of its dot-brand domains but still owns six. SC Johnson has informed ICANN that it no longer wants to operate the .rightathome top level domain name. The consumer products company never developed websites on the top level domain and...
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April 22, 2020, 5:27 pm
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Credit offer opt-out service sues typosquatters
Company files in rem suit against seven domain names. Opt Out Services, LLC has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against seven domain names that it says are typos of its domain name, OptOutPrescreen.com. The company is a centralized service to al...
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Credit offer opt-out service sues typosquatters
Company files in rem suit against seven domain names. Opt Out Services, LLC has filed a cybersquatting lawsuit (pdf) against seven domain names that it says are typos of its domain name, OptOutPrescreen.com. The company is a centralized service to al...
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April 22, 2020, 5:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts moves its registry to AWS
Top level domain company migrates backend to the cloud. Top level domain name company Donuts announced today that it has migrated its backend registry from on-premises backend infrastructure to the cloud. The company migrated to Amazon’s AWS an...
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Donuts moves its registry to AWS
Top level domain company migrates backend to the cloud. Top level domain name company Donuts announced today that it has migrated its backend registry from on-premises backend infrastructure to the cloud. The company migrated to Amazon’s AWS an...
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April 22, 2020, 2:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
NewZone.com at $20K leads end user sales
A clothing brand, office space designer, and hand sanitizer company bought domains. Sedo’s top sale this past week was NewZone.com for $20,000. It also had some nice non-.com sales, such as LPM.org, Surge.ai and Collective.space. As a quick hea...
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NewZone.com at $20K leads end user sales
A clothing brand, office space designer, and hand sanitizer company bought domains. Sedo’s top sale this past week was NewZone.com for $20,000. It also had some nice non-.com sales, such as LPM.org, Surge.ai and Collective.space. As a quick hea...
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April 22, 2020, 12:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN’s Attorney General problem
ICANN has a big problem if it can’t placate the California Attorney General. ICANN’s Board of Directors was ready to decide on whether or not to approve the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit registry overseeing the .o...
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ICANN’s Attorney General problem
ICANN has a big problem if it can’t placate the California Attorney General. ICANN’s Board of Directors was ready to decide on whether or not to approve the sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit registry overseeing the .o...
Discussion
April 21, 2020, 4:26 pm
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GoDaddy patent: Images to Domain Names
Clever idea uses image information to suggest domain names and create a website. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,630,639 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Suggesting a domain name from digital image metadata.” The pa...
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GoDaddy patent: Images to Domain Names
Clever idea uses image information to suggest domain names and create a website. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,630,639 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Suggesting a domain name from digital image metadata.” The pa...
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April 21, 2020, 2:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Gameloft recovers Asphalt 9 domain names
Company wins cybersquatting cases. Gameloft, a popular mobile gaming company, has recovered two domain names related to the latest game in its Asphalt racing video game series. The company won cybersquatting cases against the owners of asphalt9legend...
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Gameloft recovers Asphalt 9 domain names
Company wins cybersquatting cases. Gameloft, a popular mobile gaming company, has recovered two domain names related to the latest game in its Asphalt racing video game series. The company won cybersquatting cases against the owners of asphalt9legend...
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April 21, 2020, 2:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
State Farm loses another domain dispute – state-shaped farm bowls!
Is that The State Farm Bowl or the State “farm bowl”? State Farm has lost another cybersquatting dispute because of how its name can be interpreted when combined with other words. The latest decision is for TheStateFarmBowl(.)com. Just lo...
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State Farm loses another domain dispute – state-shaped farm bowls!
Is that The State Farm Bowl or the State “farm bowl”? State Farm has lost another cybersquatting dispute because of how its name can be interpreted when combined with other words. The latest decision is for TheStateFarmBowl(.)com. Just lo...
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April 20, 2020, 10:20 pm
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Laws forcing Google to pay for news “content” hurt small publishers
Google is the lifeblood of small publishers. Australia is the latest country to consider mandating that Google pay news publishers for “content,” even if this content is just a headline and short snippet. Google and Google News have becom...
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Laws forcing Google to pay for news “content” hurt small publishers
Google is the lifeblood of small publishers. Australia is the latest country to consider mandating that Google pay news publishers for “content,” even if this content is just a headline and short snippet. Google and Google News have becom...
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April 20, 2020, 4:15 pm
