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Tennessee guitar company moves its website to Guitars.com
Company has owned the domain name since the 90s. Tennessee guitar company Gruhn Guitars has moved its website from Gruhn.com to the valuable domain name Guitars.com. This isn’t a case of a company paying big bucks for a great domain — it&...
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Tennessee guitar company moves its website to Guitars.com
Company has owned the domain name since the 90s. Tennessee guitar company Gruhn Guitars has moved its website from Gruhn.com to the valuable domain name Guitars.com. This isn’t a case of a company paying big bucks for a great domain — it&...
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September 8, 2014, 9:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs this week: .London, .Global and more
.London headlines this week’s new top level domain name releases. One of the most-watched TLDs on the docket is launching this week as .London goes into general availability on Tuesday. It will have to compete with Apple for news coverage, but ...
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New TLDs this week: .London, .Global and more
.London headlines this week’s new top level domain name releases. One of the most-watched TLDs on the docket is launching this week as .London goes into general availability on Tuesday. It will have to compete with Apple for news coverage, but ...
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September 8, 2014, 5:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
Only use WHOIS services you trust
Few things in life are truly free, including whois data websites. There are a lot of great sites out there for doing whois lookups. DomainTools, for example, has long been a great source to lookup a domain and get extraneous information about the dom...
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Only use WHOIS services you trust
Few things in life are truly free, including whois data websites. There are a lot of great sites out there for doing whois lookups. DomainTools, for example, has long been a great source to lookup a domain and get extraneous information about the dom...
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September 8, 2014, 3:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Aborted Sedo deal blamed on domain theft in interesting soccer domain name case
Domain theft, a cancelled Sedo sale and Spain’s national soccer league. Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish soccer league with 42 teams, has lost a UDRP over the domain name LaLiga.com. “La Liga” translates to the diction...
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Aborted Sedo deal blamed on domain theft in interesting soccer domain name case
Domain theft, a cancelled Sedo sale and Spain’s national soccer league. Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish soccer league with 42 teams, has lost a UDRP over the domain name LaLiga.com. “La Liga” translates to the diction...
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September 8, 2014, 1:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Dolly Parton to be .Country pioneer
Celebrated country music singer gets Dolly.country and other domains in pioneer program. .Club got 50 Cent, .Country gets Dolly Parton. The .country domain name, being launched by Minds + Machines in partnership with Uniregistry, announced today that...
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Dolly Parton to be .Country pioneer
Celebrated country music singer gets Dolly.country and other domains in pioneer program. .Club got 50 Cent, .Country gets Dolly Parton. The .country domain name, being launched by Minds + Machines in partnership with Uniregistry, announced today that...
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September 8, 2014, 1:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Kellie Peterson promoted to President of DNC Holdings
Peterson promoted from CSO role. A familiar face at domain name conferences has been named president of DNC Holdings. DNC Holdings, which you more likely know by its registrar name Directnic, has promoted Kellie Peterson from the Chief Strategy Offic...
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Kellie Peterson promoted to President of DNC Holdings
Peterson promoted from CSO role. A familiar face at domain name conferences has been named president of DNC Holdings. DNC Holdings, which you more likely know by its registrar name Directnic, has promoted Kellie Peterson from the Chief Strategy Offic...
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September 5, 2014, 4:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
15 end user domain name sales
A social media platform, lighting company and local marketing company buy domain names. Sedo sold 556 domain names last week for a total of $1.2 million. One of the more interesting buys was FLO.co, purchased by the company that uses FindYourFlo.com....
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15 end user domain name sales
A social media platform, lighting company and local marketing company buy domain names. Sedo sold 556 domain names last week for a total of $1.2 million. One of the more interesting buys was FLO.co, purchased by the company that uses FindYourFlo.com....
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September 5, 2014, 2:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Clearwater Systems Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Case contradicts prior rulings involving the same complainant, but the panelist in the other cases probably got it wrong. Clearwater Systems of Akron, Ohio, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. It’s a decision that might make...
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Clearwater Systems Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Case contradicts prior rulings involving the same complainant, but the panelist in the other cases probably got it wrong. Clearwater Systems of Akron, Ohio, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. It’s a decision that might make...
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September 5, 2014, 1:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Hotel applicants question CPE panel decision
Companies question result of panel decision that eliminated them from competition for .hotel domain name. Six companies that saw their bids for the .hotel domain name die as a result of a Community Priority Evaluation decision in favor of HOTEL Top-L...
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.Hotel applicants question CPE panel decision
Companies question result of panel decision that eliminated them from competition for .hotel domain name. Six companies that saw their bids for the .hotel domain name die as a result of a Community Priority Evaluation decision in favor of HOTEL Top-L...
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September 4, 2014, 9:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Next month: the biggest domain name conference ever
The biggest conference in the history of the domain name industry is taking place next month. This summer’s ICANN meeting in London set an all-time record for a domain name related conference with 3,115 people in attendance. The record is likel...
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Next month: the biggest domain name conference ever
The biggest conference in the history of the domain name industry is taking place next month. This summer’s ICANN meeting in London set an all-time record for a domain name related conference with 3,115 people in attendance. The record is likel...
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September 4, 2014, 9:02 pm
