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The Domains
Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s .OPR & .Verisign’s .KOM
Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application. PIO oper...
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Russian Registrar Regtime Ltd. Lose Two Legal Rights Objections To PIR’s .OPR & .Verisign’s .KOM
Regtime Ltd. and Legato Ltd of the Russian Federation just lost two separate Legal Rights Objections at WIPO on the new gTLD strings .OPR and .KOM In The .OPR case the company objected to the Public Interest Registry (PIR) application. PIO oper...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 1:04 pm
The Domains
Vipspace Enterprises LLC Withdraws Application For new gTLD .VIP: Now 118 Withdrawn New gTLD Apps
Vipspace Enterprises LLC of Munich Germany has become the latest company to withdraw its application for the new gTLD .VIP. The application had a prioritization number of 1,804 meaning that after next week’s Initial Evaluation release by ICANN ...
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Vipspace Enterprises LLC Withdraws Application For new gTLD .VIP: Now 118 Withdrawn New gTLD Apps
Vipspace Enterprises LLC of Munich Germany has become the latest company to withdraw its application for the new gTLD .VIP. The application had a prioritization number of 1,804 meaning that after next week’s Initial Evaluation release by ICANN ...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 11:26 am
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...
Discussion
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 Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on August 23rd, 2013
I was sitting around the other day with a few guys talking about products that are solid products but marketed to the wrong people and I brought up the topic of email.biz. Undoubtedly it’s a good product. People like easy to email a...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Friday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on August 23rd, 2013
I was sitting around the other day with a few guys talking about products that are solid products but marketed to the wrong people and I brought up the topic of email.biz. Undoubtedly it’s a good product. People like easy to email a...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 6:25 am
DomainSherpa
Domain Name News: August 23 Week in Review
The Week of Domaining In Review: August 23, 2013.The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.DomainNameSales.com Announces New Hybrid Domain..., Right Before Start of Regular..., Napa Wine Association Letter to..., String Confusions Gone Wild: A...
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Domain Name News: August 23 Week in Review
The Week of Domaining In Review: August 23, 2013.The latest domain name news, hand-picked for you.DomainNameSales.com Announces New Hybrid Domain..., Right Before Start of Regular..., Napa Wine Association Letter to..., String Confusions Gone Wild: A...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 5:30 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...
Discussion
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
The Domains
Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com Grows To 14 Brokers & Raises Commission 25% To 12.5%
TheDomains.com just got this email from Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com announcing that they have grown to a brokerage teamof 14 people, (who speak 10 languages) and are available 7am – 7pm Central time. “You now have the abil...
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Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com Grows To 14 Brokers & Raises Commission 25% To 12.5%
TheDomains.com just got this email from Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com announcing that they have grown to a brokerage teamof 14 people, (who speak 10 languages) and are available 7am – 7pm Central time. “You now have the abil...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 4:46 pm
Elliot's Blog
Not All Comps Are Real
Although they aren’t entirely accurate, I rely on comparable sales (comps) to help establish the market value for domain names I own and want to buy. I use sources like NameBio, DNJournal, personal sales, and private sales I’ve heard abou...
Discussion
Not All Comps Are Real
Although they aren’t entirely accurate, I rely on comparable sales (comps) to help establish the market value for domain names I own and want to buy. I use sources like NameBio, DNJournal, personal sales, and private sales I’ve heard abou...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 3:30 pm
The Domains
Right Before Start Of Regular Season NFL Gains Control Of Almost 1K Bang On Domain Names
With the regular NFL season looking to kick off in just a couple of weeks the NFL gained control of just under 1,000 bang on domain names yesterday. The domain names were all transferred to the NFL’s brand protection company MarkMonitor.com. Th...
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Right Before Start Of Regular Season NFL Gains Control Of Almost 1K Bang On Domain Names
With the regular NFL season looking to kick off in just a couple of weeks the NFL gained control of just under 1,000 bang on domain names yesterday. The domain names were all transferred to the NFL’s brand protection company MarkMonitor.com. Th...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 3:26 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...
Discussion
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
