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10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats (Part 2)
5 more tips to protect your domain names. [In the first part of this article, Bill Sweetman gave five tips for protecting your domain names from bogus legal threats. Here are five more. 6. Insist that all complaints be put in writing This is really a...
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10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats (Part 2)
5 more tips to protect your domain names. [In the first part of this article, Bill Sweetman gave five tips for protecting your domain names from bogus legal threats. Here are five more. 6. Insist that all complaints be put in writing This is really a...
Discussion
June 10, 2013, 9:36 am
Domain Name Wire
XYZ.com wins .college top level domain auction
Donuts withdraws application after XYZ.com wins private domain auction. Domain name investor Daniel Negari, through his company XYZ.com, has won the private top level domain name auction for .college. Negari tells Domain Name Wire “I look forwa...
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XYZ.com wins .college top level domain auction
Donuts withdraws application after XYZ.com wins private domain auction. Domain name investor Daniel Negari, through his company XYZ.com, has won the private top level domain name auction for .college. Negari tells Domain Name Wire “I look forwa...
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June 8, 2013, 7:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Donuts wins .photography auction
Donuts won the private auction for the .photography top level domain name. Of the six new top level domain name auctions Donuts participated in this past week, the company walked away with at least one top bid. Domain Name Wire has confirmed that Don...
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Donuts wins .photography auction
Donuts won the private auction for the .photography top level domain name. Of the six new top level domain name auctions Donuts participated in this past week, the company walked away with at least one top bid. Domain Name Wire has confirmed that Don...
Discussion
June 7, 2013, 9:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
6 new TLD auctions bring in average of $1.5 million each
How much do new TLD applicants think their strings are worth? We now have a rough idea on a half dozen. The first six private top level domain name auctions held by Innovative Auctions have closed, bringing in a total of $9.01 million in winning bids...
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6 new TLD auctions bring in average of $1.5 million each
How much do new TLD applicants think their strings are worth? We now have a rough idea on a half dozen. The first six private top level domain name auctions held by Innovative Auctions have closed, bringing in a total of $9.01 million in winning bids...
Discussion
June 7, 2013, 9:29 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah
ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will foc...
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ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah
ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will foc...
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June 6, 2013, 10:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN Board rules on non-safeguard GAC advice
Resolution doesn’t resolve much; uncertainty remains. The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has approved a resolution ruling on a number of items of advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee with regards to new top level domai...
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ICANN Board rules on non-safeguard GAC advice
Resolution doesn’t resolve much; uncertainty remains. The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has approved a resolution ruling on a number of items of advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee with regards to new top level domai...
Discussion
June 6, 2013, 10:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
27 investors chip $7 million into .Club as it wins private TLD auction
.Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 individual investors and has eliminated its competition for the .club top level domain through a priv...
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27 investors chip $7 million into .Club as it wins private TLD auction
.Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 individual investors and has eliminated its competition for the .club top level domain through a priv...
Discussion
June 6, 2013, 3:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats
Limit the chances of receiving bogus legal threats with these helpful tips. [Editor's note: Bill Sweetman participated in a legal panel about domain names at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. He gave ten tips to help domain owners protect their domains from bo...
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10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats
Limit the chances of receiving bogus legal threats with these helpful tips. [Editor's note: Bill Sweetman participated in a legal panel about domain names at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. He gave ten tips to help domain owners protect their domains from bo...
Discussion
June 6, 2013, 2:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Heads up, .GMBH applicants: this trademark application is slipping through the cracks
.GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level domain name strings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the USPTO won’t grant...
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Heads up, .GMBH applicants: this trademark application is slipping through the cracks
.GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level domain name strings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the USPTO won’t grant...
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June 6, 2013, 2:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
33 end user domain sales
Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week covering the past two weeks. Here are 33 end user domain name sales from the list. Environmental company ...
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33 end user domain sales
Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week covering the past two weeks. Here are 33 end user domain name sales from the list. Environmental company ...
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June 6, 2013, 10:08 am
