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Domain registrars question Minds + Machines’ Priority Reservation System
Registrar Stakeholder Group questions if Minds + Machines is complying with registry and registrar agreements. The separation between registry and registrar is being blurred with the introduction of new TLDs. For the first time, gTLD registries can a...
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Domain registrars question Minds + Machines’ Priority Reservation System
Registrar Stakeholder Group questions if Minds + Machines is complying with registry and registrar agreements. The separation between registry and registrar is being blurred with the introduction of new TLDs. For the first time, gTLD registries can a...
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February 21, 2014, 2:55 am
Domain Name Wire
Moniker has a new CEO
Bonnie Wittenburg takes over the top spot at domain name registrar Moniker. Domain name registrar Moniker has a new CEO, Bonnie Wittenburg. Wittenburg has been with Moniker’s parent company KeyDrive since 2009, where she served as Executive Vic...
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Moniker has a new CEO
Bonnie Wittenburg takes over the top spot at domain name registrar Moniker. Domain name registrar Moniker has a new CEO, Bonnie Wittenburg. Wittenburg has been with Moniker’s parent company KeyDrive since 2009, where she served as Executive Vic...
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February 20, 2014, 4:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
SteelBuildings.com: an example of what’s wrong with UDRP
Small business owner forced to defend his great product-defining domain name. Last month I was shocked to see a UDRP filed for SteelBuildings.com. I was even more surprised when I saw that the domain name seemed to be in use by a company that sells s...
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SteelBuildings.com: an example of what’s wrong with UDRP
Small business owner forced to defend his great product-defining domain name. Last month I was shocked to see a UDRP filed for SteelBuildings.com. I was even more surprised when I saw that the domain name seemed to be in use by a company that sells s...
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February 20, 2014, 4:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
22 end user domain name sales up to $25,000
Ask.com, a pharmacy, and an Auctioneer buy domain names. Afternic and GoDaddy sold over $2 million worth of aftermarket domain names last week including new top level domain name auctions. Here are some of the domain names that were purchased by end ...
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22 end user domain name sales up to $25,000
Ask.com, a pharmacy, and an Auctioneer buy domain names. Afternic and GoDaddy sold over $2 million worth of aftermarket domain names last week including new top level domain name auctions. Here are some of the domain names that were purchased by end ...
Discussion
February 20, 2014, 2:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
The story of how Microryza rebranded as Experiment.com for $54,000
Story is typical of startups and explains the benefits of using a great domain name. Startups go through the name game all the time. Picking a name and acquiring the matching domain name is often no easy feat. But rarely is the story chronicled so we...
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The story of how Microryza rebranded as Experiment.com for $54,000
Story is typical of startups and explains the benefits of using a great domain name. Startups go through the name game all the time. Picking a name and acquiring the matching domain name is often no easy feat. But rarely is the story chronicled so we...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 11:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Marchex sells $1.6 million in domain names in Q4
Marchex’s Archeo division continues to sell domains at fairly high prices. Marchex reported its fourth quarter earnings after the bell today. It included sales results from Archeo, its domain name division. Archeo sold 262 domain names for a to...
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Marchex sells $1.6 million in domain names in Q4
Marchex’s Archeo division continues to sell domains at fairly high prices. Marchex reported its fourth quarter earnings after the bell today. It included sales results from Archeo, its domain name division. Archeo sold 262 domain names for a to...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 10:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Southpark, Kraft, American Eagle, and 21 others bought last week
Some big companies bought domain names on Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) AEO.pl €744 – clothing company Amer...
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What domain names Southpark, Kraft, American Eagle, and 21 others bought last week
Some big companies bought domain names on Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) AEO.pl €744 – clothing company Amer...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 5:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
The non-.com leakage factor and what it means for new TLDs
In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your websi...
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The non-.com leakage factor and what it means for new TLDs
In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your websi...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 4:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets patent for Recovery of a Failed Registry
Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one t...
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Verisign gets patent for Recovery of a Failed Registry
Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one t...
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February 19, 2014, 2:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Music new top level domain community objections fail
All community objections against .music and .band have failed. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied Constantine Roussos’ community objections against competing applications for .music as well as applications for .band. All o...
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.Music new top level domain community objections fail
All community objections against .music and .band have failed. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied Constantine Roussos’ community objections against competing applications for .music as well as applications for .band. All o...
Discussion
February 18, 2014, 10:53 pm
