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Nominet reconsiders second level .uk domains (and it may be good for domainers)
New plan gives rights to existing domain registrants and offers lower pricing. Nominet, the registry behind the .uk namespace for the United Kingdom, has put forth a new plan to offer second level domains to the public. Currently, registrations are o...
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Nominet reconsiders second level .uk domains (and it may be good for domainers)
New plan gives rights to existing domain registrants and offers lower pricing. Nominet, the registry behind the .uk namespace for the United Kingdom, has put forth a new plan to offer second level domains to the public. Currently, registrations are o...
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June 18, 2013, 11:09 am
Domain Name Wire
Customize a Sedo parked page with your own sales channel
Sedo lets some clients send sales leads to different channels than Sedo’s marketplace. An alert reader came across a parked page using Sedo that caught his attention. Rather than Sedo’s standard message “The domain example.com may b...
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Customize a Sedo parked page with your own sales channel
Sedo lets some clients send sales leads to different channels than Sedo’s marketplace. An alert reader came across a parked page using Sedo that caught his attention. Rather than Sedo’s standard message “The domain example.com may b...
Discussion
June 18, 2013, 9:24 am
Domain Name Wire
A free tool to find targeted buyers for your domains
Video explains a little-known tool for finding relevant buyers for domain names. Over the years a number of tools have been developed to help domain owners find buyers for their domain names. These tools typically search for similar domains as well a...
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A free tool to find targeted buyers for your domains
Video explains a little-known tool for finding relevant buyers for domain names. Over the years a number of tools have been developed to help domain owners find buyers for their domain names. These tools typically search for similar domains as well a...
Discussion
June 17, 2013, 1:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
True Value exhibits bad values in domain name dispute
Hardware cooperative makes shaky claims in UDRP against webhosting company. I think the best way to start this UDRP analysis is with a couple screenshots. First, here’s a shot of hardware cooperative True Value’s web site: Now, here&rsquo...
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True Value exhibits bad values in domain name dispute
Hardware cooperative makes shaky claims in UDRP against webhosting company. I think the best way to start this UDRP analysis is with a couple screenshots. First, here’s a shot of hardware cooperative True Value’s web site: Now, here&rsquo...
Discussion
June 17, 2013, 8:43 am
Domain Name Wire
Domainers have personal lives, too…
They don’t sit behind a computer all day. (Just most of it.) I’m going to end this Friday with a post that has nothing to do with domains, except that the people it’s about are in the domain industry. First, domain attorney and doma...
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Domainers have personal lives, too…
They don’t sit behind a computer all day. (Just most of it.) I’m going to end this Friday with a post that has nothing to do with domains, except that the people it’s about are in the domain industry. First, domain attorney and doma...
Discussion
June 14, 2013, 3:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
Target, IBM, and other big names buy domain names on the aftermarket
Big companies turn to Sedo to buy domain names. This week’s list of Sedo end user sales includes some big names including Target, IBM, Verifone, and iRobot. There were also a couple three letter .com sales. Here’s the list: As I wrote ear...
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Target, IBM, and other big names buy domain names on the aftermarket
Big companies turn to Sedo to buy domain names. This week’s list of Sedo end user sales includes some big names including Target, IBM, Verifone, and iRobot. There were also a couple three letter .com sales. Here’s the list: As I wrote ear...
Discussion
June 14, 2013, 8:36 am
Domain Name Wire
Donuts explains auction results to date
Donuts discusses first new TLD auction results. New TLD applicant Donuts participated in six private auctions to resolve contention sets. It won one of the auctions and lost the other five. Here is a statement from the company about the results so fa...
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Donuts explains auction results to date
Donuts discusses first new TLD auction results. New TLD applicant Donuts participated in six private auctions to resolve contention sets. It won one of the auctions and lost the other five. Here is a statement from the company about the results so fa...
Discussion
June 13, 2013, 4:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Co is not just for tech startups
A lawn care company uses a great .co domain name. It seems like every day TechCrunch is covering a startup using a .co domain. But it’s not just tech companies that have taken an eye to the domain. On the way to work yesterday I passed a lawn c...
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.Co is not just for tech startups
A lawn care company uses a great .co domain name. It seems like every day TechCrunch is covering a startup using a .co domain. But it’s not just tech companies that have taken an eye to the domain. On the way to work yesterday I passed a lawn c...
Discussion
June 13, 2013, 10:26 am
Domain Name Wire
Kim Dotcom buys K.im domain name for $20,000
Mega Upload founder buys short (and expensive) domain name. Last month I wrote about how k.im had received a $20,000 bid at Sedo, and suggested that Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom might be the buyer. I was right. The Sedo auction closed for $20,000 a...
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Kim Dotcom buys K.im domain name for $20,000
Mega Upload founder buys short (and expensive) domain name. Last month I wrote about how k.im had received a $20,000 bid at Sedo, and suggested that Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom might be the buyer. I was right. The Sedo auction closed for $20,000 a...
Discussion
June 13, 2013, 8:59 am
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft registers domains to thwart botnets
Microsoft registers domains previously used by Citadel malware. Microsoft has registered a number of domain names to thwart a cybercrime ring credited with over a half billion dollars in financial fraud. The action aims to thwart Citadel malware, whi...
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Microsoft registers domains to thwart botnets
Microsoft registers domains previously used by Citadel malware. Microsoft has registered a number of domain names to thwart a cybercrime ring credited with over a half billion dollars in financial fraud. The action aims to thwart Citadel malware, whi...
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June 13, 2013, 7:56 am
