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Domain Name Wire
“Cloud” is not a community, new TLD panelist rules
Group’s definition of “cloud community” is too broad. Cloud Industry Forum Limited has lost its community objections against three applications for the .cloud top level domain name. The objections were filed against the three applic...
Discussion
“Cloud” is not a community, new TLD panelist rules
Group’s definition of “cloud community” is too broad. Cloud Industry Forum Limited has lost its community objections against three applications for the .cloud top level domain name. The objections were filed against the three applic...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 9:27 pm

The Domains
Play The InterNetX DomainGame & You Can Be Crowned The DomainKing (Mr, Schwartz Is Not Going To Be Happy)
InterNetX just announced the DomainGame which is intended to help convey some basic knowledge about the complex topic of “domains”. “You know what .CX is? And you know where the Christmas Islands are? If you think you know something...
Discussion
Play The InterNetX DomainGame & You Can Be Crowned The DomainKing (Mr, Schwartz Is Not Going To Be Happy)
InterNetX just announced the DomainGame which is intended to help convey some basic knowledge about the complex topic of “domains”. “You know what .CX is? And you know where the Christmas Islands are? If you think you know something...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 4:55 pm

Domain Name Wire
How much will Domainers and Defensive Registrations matter for new TLD operators?
New TLD registries will need to count on domainers and defensive registrations if they hope to amass a large registration base. Every new top level domain name applicant I’ve spoken with will swear they aren’t counting on defensive regist...
Discussion
How much will Domainers and Defensive Registrations matter for new TLD operators?
New TLD registries will need to count on domainers and defensive registrations if they hope to amass a large registration base. Every new top level domain name applicant I’ve spoken with will swear they aren’t counting on defensive regist...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 4:53 pm

The Domains
And S&P Loses UDRP Becuase BoycottStandardandPoors.com Doesn’t Resolve
Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC just lost a UDRP on its big to grab the domain name, BoycottStandardandPoors.com Unlike the UDRP decision we just wrote about which seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name didn’t ...
Discussion
And S&P Loses UDRP Becuase BoycottStandardandPoors.com Doesn’t Resolve
Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC just lost a UDRP on its big to grab the domain name, BoycottStandardandPoors.com Unlike the UDRP decision we just wrote about which seemed to turn on the fact that the domain name didn’t ...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 4:27 pm

Domain Name Wire
Standard & Poor’s loses domain name dispute
Financial services company and rating agency can’t have “boycott” domain name, panel rules. Standard & Poor’s has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization....
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Standard & Poor’s loses domain name dispute
Financial services company and rating agency can’t have “boycott” domain name, panel rules. Standard & Poor’s has lost a UDRP against the domain name BoycottStandardandPoors.com at World Intellectual Property Organization....
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 4:22 pm

The Domains
13 Year Old WAFU.com Lost in UDRP As Domain Holder Fails To Respond & Domain Doesn’t Resolve
Wafu Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was just awarded the rights to the domain name WAFU.com a domain that was registered on March 8, 2000. The Complainant owns some trademarks in Cananda the one’s cited by the panel are dated June 23, 2008 a...
Discussion
13 Year Old WAFU.com Lost in UDRP As Domain Holder Fails To Respond & Domain Doesn’t Resolve
Wafu Inc. of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, was just awarded the rights to the domain name WAFU.com a domain that was registered on March 8, 2000. The Complainant owns some trademarks in Cananda the one’s cited by the panel are dated June 23, 2008 a...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 4:15 pm

The Domains
Here Are My First 3 New gTLD Registrations & How you Can Register Your New gTLD’s Now.
At ICANN I had a chance to get a personal tour of MindsandMachines.com new domain registrar site. Mindsandmachines.com which is part of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) a publicly trasded company on the London Stock Exchange applied for 100 or so new...
Discussion
Here Are My First 3 New gTLD Registrations & How you Can Register Your New gTLD’s Now.
At ICANN I had a chance to get a personal tour of MindsandMachines.com new domain registrar site. Mindsandmachines.com which is part of Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) a publicly trasded company on the London Stock Exchange applied for 100 or so new...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 3:36 pm

Domain Name Wire
Ontario company paid $137,500 to buy Sandwich.com from Yahoo!
A small Canadian company bought Sandwich.com in the Yahoo! domain name auction last month. The first three domains that Yahoo! sold in a domain name auction last month have changed hands, including the biggest sale of all: $137,500 for Sandwich.com. ...
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Ontario company paid $137,500 to buy Sandwich.com from Yahoo!
A small Canadian company bought Sandwich.com in the Yahoo! domain name auction last month. The first three domains that Yahoo! sold in a domain name auction last month have changed hands, including the biggest sale of all: $137,500 for Sandwich.com. ...
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 2:51 pm

Domain Shane
DomainShane’s Weekly Book of 10
Today and every Thursday I am going to post a list of 10 domains that are for sale. Normally I only put domains that are up at auction, but this list will contain both names at auction, domains with websites, or just straight up for sale....
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DomainShane’s Weekly Book of 10
Today and every Thursday I am going to post a list of 10 domains that are for sale. Normally I only put domains that are up at auction, but this list will contain both names at auction, domains with websites, or just straight up for sale....
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 12:19 pm

Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Thursday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 5th, 2013
Yesterday, I was invited to a Protrada and Adam Dicker’s workshop in Cali 10 days from now. Nice to be invited, and would love to see Adam, but gotta give a guy a little more notice. Here are today’s domains Taste....
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Thursday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on December 5th, 2013
Yesterday, I was invited to a Protrada and Adam Dicker’s workshop in Cali 10 days from now. Nice to be invited, and would love to see Adam, but gotta give a guy a little more notice. Here are today’s domains Taste....
Discussion
December 5, 2013, 10:21 am