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Verisign and PIR get wins for IDN top level domain names
Company that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains. Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that are transliterations of existing top level domain nam...
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Verisign and PIR get wins for IDN top level domain names
Company that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains. Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that are transliterations of existing top level domain nam...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 1:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
How String Confusion Objections Became a Clusterf@ck
There are a number of reasons for contradictory String Confusion Objections for top level domain names. Of the four types of objections that could be lodged against new top level domain name applications, it would seem that string confusion objection...
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How String Confusion Objections Became a Clusterf@ck
There are a number of reasons for contradictory String Confusion Objections for top level domain names. Of the four types of objections that could be lodged against new top level domain name applications, it would seem that string confusion objection...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 10:40 am
Domain Name Wire
DomainNameSales.com announces new hybrid domain name brokering approach
You can handle your fresh leads and they’ll take your stale ones. A common complaint about domain name marketplaces is that your parked domain names are generated all of their leads. Why should you pay the marketplace when someone first express...
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DomainNameSales.com announces new hybrid domain name brokering approach
You can handle your fresh leads and they’ll take your stale ones. A common complaint about domain name marketplaces is that your parked domain names are generated all of their leads. Why should you pay the marketplace when someone first express...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 5:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Clicky: Do yourself a favor and buy the right domain name
Analytics company learned its lesson but ended up with the “right” domain name. A Domain Name Wire reader alerted me to a blog post from web analytics service Clicky that it penned when it changed its domain name back in December. (Yes, i...
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Clicky: Do yourself a favor and buy the right domain name
Analytics company learned its lesson but ended up with the “right” domain name. A Domain Name Wire reader alerted me to a blog post from web analytics service Clicky that it penned when it changed its domain name back in December. (Yes, i...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 2:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
String Confusions Gone Wild: Amazon IDN is found similar to different word in English
The contradictions in new top level strings confusion objections just hit a new level. Some string confusions decisions have been baffling. A difference in opinion on .cam vs. .com. Plurals vs. Singulars. But now string confusions have officially gon...
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String Confusions Gone Wild: Amazon IDN is found similar to different word in English
The contradictions in new top level strings confusion objections just hit a new level. Some string confusions decisions have been baffling. A difference in opinion on .cam vs. .com. Plurals vs. Singulars. But now string confusions have officially gon...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 10:36 am
Domain Name Wire
More trouble: apparently .Sport and .Sports are also confusingly similar
Panelist sides with SportAccord in objection against .sports. International Centre for Dispute Resolution has posted an updated list of string confusion objections, and there’s more trouble. SportAccord, an applicant for the .sport domain, has ...
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More trouble: apparently .Sport and .Sports are also confusingly similar
Panelist sides with SportAccord in objection against .sports. International Centre for Dispute Resolution has posted an updated list of string confusion objections, and there’s more trouble. SportAccord, an applicant for the .sport domain, has ...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 10:26 am
Domain Name Wire
California wineries are a bit drunk over .wine top level domains
Two groups representing the same wineries take opposite views on .wine and .vin top level domains. When you’re around a cellar full of wine, it’s understandable that your judgment might get a bit cloudy. Does that explain the apparent con...
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California wineries are a bit drunk over .wine top level domains
Two groups representing the same wineries take opposite views on .wine and .vin top level domains. When you’re around a cellar full of wine, it’s understandable that your judgment might get a bit cloudy. Does that explain the apparent con...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 9:39 am
Domain Name Wire
Billionaire pays $2,395 for his domain name
Billionaire hedge fund chairman buys his name as a domain name. Afternic had a solid sales week last week thanks to a $500,000 domain name sale (the name was not disclosed). A billionaire – technically his hedge fund – spent a lot less th...
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Billionaire pays $2,395 for his domain name
Billionaire hedge fund chairman buys his name as a domain name. Afternic had a solid sales week last week thanks to a $500,000 domain name sale (the name was not disclosed). A billionaire – technically his hedge fund – spent a lot less th...
Discussion
August 21, 2013, 10:30 am
Domain Name Wire
What domains Johnson & Johnson and Cerner bought last week
Two health related companies, Johnson & Johnson and Cerner, were among end user domain buyers last week at Sedo. Many of Sedo’s big sales from last week are still in escrow, so this week’s list might seem a little light. Overall Sedo ...
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What domains Johnson & Johnson and Cerner bought last week
Two health related companies, Johnson & Johnson and Cerner, were among end user domain buyers last week at Sedo. Many of Sedo’s big sales from last week are still in escrow, so this week’s list might seem a little light. Overall Sedo ...
Discussion
August 21, 2013, 9:54 am
Domain Name Wire
Seiko wins UDRP for 138 domains against 106 “respondents”
Panel consolidates claim on basis that 106 respondents are actually just one group. Watch maker Seiko has won a UDRP covering 138 domain names that include “seiko” in them. The number of domain names would make this case interesting enoug...
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Seiko wins UDRP for 138 domains against 106 “respondents”
Panel consolidates claim on basis that 106 respondents are actually just one group. Watch maker Seiko has won a UDRP covering 138 domain names that include “seiko” in them. The number of domain names would make this case interesting enoug...
Discussion
August 21, 2013, 9:26 am
