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Demand Media successfully defends Motorola challenge for .moto
Google subsidiary loses legal rights objection over .moto. Motorola, now part of Google, has lost its legal rights objection against Demand Media subsidiary United TLD over the .moto top level domain. United TLD plans to offer the domain names for mo...
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Demand Media successfully defends Motorola challenge for .moto
Google subsidiary loses legal rights objection over .moto. Motorola, now part of Google, has lost its legal rights objection against Demand Media subsidiary United TLD over the .moto top level domain. United TLD plans to offer the domain names for mo...
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August 9, 2013, 5:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
A .pro domain name spotted in use in Austin
Audio visual company uses .pro to promote its business. Fellow Austinite and domain name investor Ramiro Canales must have done a double take when he was driving in traffic the other day. He sent me this photo: Yes, that is a .pro domain name on the ...
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A .pro domain name spotted in use in Austin
Audio visual company uses .pro to promote its business. Fellow Austinite and domain name investor Ramiro Canales must have done a double take when he was driving in traffic the other day. He sent me this photo: Yes, that is a .pro domain name on the ...
Discussion
August 9, 2013, 12:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign responds to NTIA: There’s a difference between “ability” and “advisability”
Verisign says it will agree to add lots of new TLDs to the root, but advises against it at this time. Verisign has responded to the U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)’s demand that Verisign verify it will a...
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Verisign responds to NTIA: There’s a difference between “ability” and “advisability”
Verisign says it will agree to add lots of new TLDs to the root, but advises against it at this time. Verisign has responded to the U.S. National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)’s demand that Verisign verify it will a...
Discussion
August 8, 2013, 9:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Dish DBS ruled a top level domain cybersquatter
Dish’s .direct application tossed out; Donuts is sole applicant remaining for .direct top level domain name. It’s notable that the two applicants deemed to be attempting to cybersquat top level domain names thus far aren’t nefarious...
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Dish DBS ruled a top level domain cybersquatter
Dish’s .direct application tossed out; Donuts is sole applicant remaining for .direct top level domain name. It’s notable that the two applicants deemed to be attempting to cybersquat top level domain names thus far aren’t nefarious...
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August 8, 2013, 2:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
How applicants selected their new top level domains
Here’s how new TLD applicants decided which strings to apply for. Some new top level domain applicants picked one or two domains to apply for. Others applied for dozens. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when these companies debat...
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How applicants selected their new top level domains
Here’s how new TLD applicants decided which strings to apply for. Some new top level domain applicants picked one or two domains to apply for. Others applied for dozens. It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall when these companies debat...
Discussion
August 8, 2013, 11:42 am
Domain Name Wire
How JustDropped.com profits from domain names by focusing on volume
Behind a popular expired domain site lies a business model of selling lots of domain names for under $100. There are a handful of people and companies that make a living buying and selling domain names. There are some, like Frank Schilling, who make ...
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How JustDropped.com profits from domain names by focusing on volume
Behind a popular expired domain site lies a business model of selling lots of domain names for under $100. There are a handful of people and companies that make a living buying and selling domain names. There are some, like Frank Schilling, who make ...
Discussion
August 8, 2013, 10:38 am
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets patent for non-existent domain traffic analysis
Patent covers tool to identify potentially valuable unregistered domain names. The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Verisign that covers analysis of traffic to non-existent domain names. U.S. Patent number 8,504,673 (pdf) is ti...
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Verisign gets patent for non-existent domain traffic analysis
Patent covers tool to identify potentially valuable unregistered domain names. The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Verisign that covers analysis of traffic to non-existent domain names. U.S. Patent number 8,504,673 (pdf) is ti...
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August 7, 2013, 12:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
9 things I learned from running a contest on 99Designs
These tips will help you if you do a logo design contest on 99Designs. A new logo was part of the Domain Name Wire redesign released last month. I designed the original logo myself back in 2005, and only had it refreshed a few years later by a design...
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9 things I learned from running a contest on 99Designs
These tips will help you if you do a logo design contest on 99Designs. A new logo was part of the Domain Name Wire redesign released last month. I designed the original logo myself back in 2005, and only had it refreshed a few years later by a design...
Discussion
August 7, 2013, 11:16 am
Domain Name Wire
After sweeping it under the rug, Name Collisions come back to haunt new TLD program
Name collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to &l...
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After sweeping it under the rug, Name Collisions come back to haunt new TLD program
Name collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to &l...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Del Monte v. Del Monte: first new TLD objection to be upheld
Objector wins .delmonte Legal Rights Objection. If you look at the list of filed Legal Rights Objections for new top level domains, only a few stand out as plausible cases. One of those was Del Monte Corporation v. Del Monte International GmbH for .d...
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Del Monte v. Del Monte: first new TLD objection to be upheld
Objector wins .delmonte Legal Rights Objection. If you look at the list of filed Legal Rights Objections for new top level domains, only a few stand out as plausible cases. One of those was Del Monte Corporation v. Del Monte International GmbH for .d...
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August 6, 2013, 2:31 pm
