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SC Johnson plays tricks to limit consequences from Off! Botanicals recall
Information about recall is on a non-descript domain with a restricted robots.txt file. SC Johnson, maker of Off! bug sprays, is recalling certain 4 oz bottles of its OFF! Botanicals Insect Repellent. It’s undertaking some website and search en...
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SC Johnson plays tricks to limit consequences from Off! Botanicals recall
Information about recall is on a non-descript domain with a restricted robots.txt file. SC Johnson, maker of Off! bug sprays, is recalling certain 4 oz bottles of its OFF! Botanicals Insect Repellent. It’s undertaking some website and search en...
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August 29, 2014, 1:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club first new TLD to reach 100,000 paid registrations
Marketing efforts pay off as .Club crosses milestone. .Club sent out a press release this morning touting that it has now sold 100,000 domain name registrations — the first new TLD to reach this milestone. .XYZ and .Berlin have more registratio...
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.Club first new TLD to reach 100,000 paid registrations
Marketing efforts pay off as .Club crosses milestone. .Club sent out a press release this morning touting that it has now sold 100,000 domain name registrations — the first new TLD to reach this milestone. .XYZ and .Berlin have more registratio...
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August 29, 2014, 12:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
The next 50 days will be important for new TLDs
Big launches make the next 50 days a key period for new top level domain names. A lot of new top level domain names have come to market already. Some have flown out of the gate, others are growing modestly, and some have stalled. In my opinion, the n...
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The next 50 days will be important for new TLDs
Big launches make the next 50 days a key period for new top level domain names. A lot of new top level domain names have come to market already. Some have flown out of the gate, others are growing modestly, and some have stalled. In my opinion, the n...
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August 28, 2014, 3:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new TLDs add between 50 and 10,000 domains on first day
One domain is off to a quick start, the others not so much. Seven new top level domain names launched this week. By far, .Hamburg for the city of Hamburg was the most registered domain name. (Ironically, this is the one new TLD launch this week that ...
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This week’s new TLDs add between 50 and 10,000 domains on first day
One domain is off to a quick start, the others not so much. Seven new top level domain names launched this week. By far, .Hamburg for the city of Hamburg was the most registered domain name. (Ironically, this is the one new TLD launch this week that ...
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August 28, 2014, 1:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
UDRP: Girls Do Porn, but company Doesn’t Do Trademarks well
Company runs site that is rather descriptive of its services. BLL Media Holdings has lost a UDRP it filed against Infinitoria Ltd over the domain name GirlDoPorn.com (in which “girl” in singular). The complainant purports to run the site ...
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UDRP: Girls Do Porn, but company Doesn’t Do Trademarks well
Company runs site that is rather descriptive of its services. BLL Media Holdings has lost a UDRP it filed against Infinitoria Ltd over the domain name GirlDoPorn.com (in which “girl” in singular). The complainant purports to run the site ...
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August 27, 2014, 3:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Christine Jones’ gubernatorial bid ends in primaries
Former GoDaddy exec places third in Republican primary. Christine Jones, former general counsel for GoDaddy, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona in the Republican primary yesterday. Doug Ducey, current Arizona treasurer and former CEO...
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Christine Jones’ gubernatorial bid ends in primaries
Former GoDaddy exec places third in Republican primary. Christine Jones, former general counsel for GoDaddy, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona in the Republican primary yesterday. Doug Ducey, current Arizona treasurer and former CEO...
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August 27, 2014, 2:45 pm
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Walmart’s questionable domains, eBay gets Flooke, Google’s hat bin and CHiPs, the movie?
Some interesting domain name registrations from Walmart, eBay and Google. A handful of companies have made some interesting domain name registrations lately, potentially tipping off plans. First, let’s start with a couple domain registrations t...
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Walmart’s questionable domains, eBay gets Flooke, Google’s hat bin and CHiPs, the movie?
Some interesting domain name registrations from Walmart, eBay and Google. A handful of companies have made some interesting domain name registrations lately, potentially tipping off plans. First, let’s start with a couple domain registrations t...
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August 27, 2014, 1:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
App maker spends $80k to drop “app” from domain name
Ridescout pays big bucks for shorter domain name and other end user domain name purchases. The .app domain name is coming. Until then, many app makers have plugged “app” onto the end of their domain names when they can’t get the .co...
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App maker spends $80k to drop “app” from domain name
Ridescout pays big bucks for shorter domain name and other end user domain name purchases. The .app domain name is coming. Until then, many app makers have plugged “app” onto the end of their domain names when they can’t get the .co...
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August 27, 2014, 12:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement
Company says material terms are “substantially similar” to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the compa...
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Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement
Company says material terms are “substantially similar” to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the compa...
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August 26, 2014, 8:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
One of the worst domain names. Ever.
We lost some vowels along the way. Good luck finding us. I’ve seen a lot of bad domain names in my day. There was the women’s site sk-rt.com (it’s cute for skirt!). Then there was some made up name like schmoop or shloop or somethin...
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One of the worst domain names. Ever.
We lost some vowels along the way. Good luck finding us. I’ve seen a lot of bad domain names in my day. There was the women’s site sk-rt.com (it’s cute for skirt!). Then there was some made up name like schmoop or shloop or somethin...
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August 26, 2014, 7:20 pm
