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The Domains
Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are Reserved and NA
NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. Its current promotion going out to its customer marketing the new gTLD .events features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this iss...
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Network Solutions Promotion For .Events; 2 of 3 Featured Domains Are Reserved and NA
NetworkSolutions.com has done it again. Its current promotion going out to its customer marketing the new gTLD .events features three domains, two of which are reserved by the registry thereby not available. We have written about this iss...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 6:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy gets patent for “Domain name hijack protection”
Patent is mostly about whois proxy email services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,751,685 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Domain name hijack protection”. The patent, applied for in 2010, is actually a divisional pa...
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GoDaddy gets patent for “Domain name hijack protection”
Patent is mostly about whois proxy email services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,751,685 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Domain name hijack protection”. The patent, applied for in 2010, is actually a divisional pa...
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June 10, 2014, 4:41 pm
The Domains
Linton’s Fashion Metric Selected As 1 of 11 Out of 1,500 For Techstars Austin
Morgan and Daina Linton’s FashionMetric.com, which uses big data to enhance fit and sizing for men’s clothing is one of 11 startups selected for latest class of Techstars Austin. FashionMetric was founded in 2012 by Morgan and Daina and w...
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Linton’s Fashion Metric Selected As 1 of 11 Out of 1,500 For Techstars Austin
Morgan and Daina Linton’s FashionMetric.com, which uses big data to enhance fit and sizing for men’s clothing is one of 11 startups selected for latest class of Techstars Austin. FashionMetric was founded in 2012 by Morgan and Daina and w...
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June 10, 2014, 4:23 pm
The Domains
Google Greatly Limiting Adult Advertisers on Adwords Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords starting later this month: “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no long...
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Google Greatly Limiting Adult Advertisers on Adwords Starting Later This Month
Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords starting later this month: “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no long...
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June 10, 2014, 3:32 pm
The Domains
Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018
Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s populat...
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Cisco Predicts There Will Be 1.5 Billion More Internet Users By 2018
Cisco released the complete VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast Global highlights from the updated study include the following projections: By 2018, there will be nearly four billion global Internet users (more than 51 percent of the world’s populat...
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June 10, 2014, 2:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
One Domain Investor responsible for bulk of .webcam and .trade domain name registrations
One investor responsible for most domain name registrations in .webcam and .trade. A single domain name investor was responsible for a bulk of domain name registrations of Famous Four Media’s domain names launched yesterday. .Webcam added 3,655...
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One Domain Investor responsible for bulk of .webcam and .trade domain name registrations
One investor responsible for most domain name registrations in .webcam and .trade. A single domain name investor was responsible for a bulk of domain name registrations of Famous Four Media’s domain names launched yesterday. .Webcam added 3,655...
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June 10, 2014, 2:07 pm
The Domains
Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629
Famous Four Media first new gTLD launched yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th most register...
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Famous Four Off To Slow Start; .Webcam 3,675 Registrations; .Trade 3,235; .Bid 629
Famous Four Media first new gTLD launched yesterday at 10am into general availability and got off to a slow start overall. .Webcam as predicted had the most registrations at 3,675 according to ntldstats.com, placing it as the 70th most register...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 1:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Watch: .Ninjas invade X Games
.Ninja sponsors the X Games. We’ve talked quite a bit on this blog about the need for top level domain name registries to promote their new domain names to end users. Here’s a great example of a company doing just that. The X Games came t...
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Watch: .Ninjas invade X Games
.Ninja sponsors the X Games. We’ve talked quite a bit on this blog about the need for top level domain name registries to promote their new domain names to end users. Here’s a great example of a company doing just that. The X Games came t...
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June 10, 2014, 1:31 pm
The Domains
Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
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Minds + Machines Swings To A Profit in 2013, From Losing New gTLD Private Auctions
Minds + Machines Group released its earnings for the year ending December 31, 2013 and swung to an operating profit of £776,000 against a loss of £3.07 million loss in 2012. All the profit came from losing private auctions on New gTLD str...
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June 10, 2014, 1:20 pm
Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 10th, 2014
Today was a good day in the Cultra family. Probably more for my daughter than me. Apple shares divided in a 7 for 1 split giving us thousands more shares. I’ve told the story before but my family has been using Apple since 1976. &nb...
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THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 10th, 2014
Today was a good day in the Cultra family. Probably more for my daughter than me. Apple shares divided in a 7 for 1 split giving us thousands more shares. I’ve told the story before but my family has been using Apple since 1976. &nb...
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June 10, 2014, 11:33 am
