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Elliot's Blog
MD.org Hits $500k on NameJet
The NameJet auction for the MD.org domain name has surpassed half a million dollars, and it is continuing as I write this (each bid adds an additional four minutes to the auction). The auction has met its reserve price, and it will sell to the highes...
Discussion
MD.org Hits $500k on NameJet
The NameJet auction for the MD.org domain name has surpassed half a million dollars, and it is continuing as I write this (each bid adds an additional four minutes to the auction). The auction has met its reserve price, and it will sell to the highes...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 4:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media passes a new TLD Initial Evaluation
Company passes initial evaluation despite rule about UDRP losses. Demand Media’s new top level domain company, United TLD Holdco, has passed the initial evaluation stage on one of its TLD applications. The company passed the initial evaluation ...
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Demand Media passes a new TLD Initial Evaluation
Company passes initial evaluation despite rule about UDRP losses. Demand Media’s new top level domain company, United TLD Holdco, has passed the initial evaluation stage on one of its TLD applications. The company passed the initial evaluation ...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 2:48 pm
The Domains
38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too
39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE is Amazon’s application for .Play. Other applications passing today are for the generic’s ....
Discussion
38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too
39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE is Amazon’s application for .Play. Other applications passing today are for the generic’s ....
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 1:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
26 end user domain sales
Here are 26 sales to end users on the Afternic platform last week. Before jumping into the Afternic end user sales report, take a look at the details behind Afternic’s biggest reported sale of the week. It sold TribalWars.com for $34,910 to the...
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26 end user domain sales
Here are 26 sales to end users on the Afternic platform last week. Before jumping into the Afternic end user sales report, take a look at the details behind Afternic’s biggest reported sale of the week. It sold TribalWars.com for $34,910 to the...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 12:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
After losing UDRP, company pays NameMedia $34,910 for TribalWars.com
I bet legal fees were included in this sales price. The top sale on this week’s Afternic domain sales report is TribalWars.com at $34,910, and it’s an interesting one. The buyer, Innogames, has an MMORPG called TribalWars. In 2011 Innogam...
Discussion
After losing UDRP, company pays NameMedia $34,910 for TribalWars.com
I bet legal fees were included in this sales price. The top sale on this week’s Afternic domain sales report is TribalWars.com at $34,910, and it’s an interesting one. The buyer, Innogames, has an MMORPG called TribalWars. In 2011 Innogam...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 12:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Ticket Broker loses French Open domains
French Tennis organization awarded 13 domain names used by ticket broker. A UDRP panel has ordered ticket broker Ticketfinders International LLC to transfer 13 domain names to Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT). FFT is the gove...
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Ticket Broker loses French Open domains
French Tennis organization awarded 13 domain names used by ticket broker. A UDRP panel has ordered ticket broker Ticketfinders International LLC to transfer 13 domain names to Fédération Française de Tennis (FFT). FFT is the gove...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 11:32 am
The Domains
Ambit.com Purchaed In 2010 Saved in UDRP From Billion Dollar Company
Ambit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com The domain holder which also formed a corporation named Ambit some how was able to acquire a domain name in 2010, that the trademark holder wi...
Discussion
Ambit.com Purchaed In 2010 Saved in UDRP From Billion Dollar Company
Ambit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com The domain holder which also formed a corporation named Ambit some how was able to acquire a domain name in 2010, that the trademark holder wi...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 11:31 am
Elliot's Blog
What an SEO Expert Does
I don’t often re-post blog comments into their own blog posts, but I think a comment left by SEO expert Bill Hartzer is worthy of its own post. Bill was responding to another comment, and he left a lengthy response about what search engine opti...
Discussion
What an SEO Expert Does
I don’t often re-post blog comments into their own blog posts, but I think a comment left by SEO expert Bill Hartzer is worthy of its own post. Bill was responding to another comment, and he left a lengthy response about what search engine opti...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 10:45 am
The Domains
Nokia & Mark Monitor.com Put up Plum.com For Sale In SnapNames Auction
Nokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com. The domain name Plum.com is the Moniker Premium Spring Auction that just started a few days ago with a reserve range of $100,000-$250,000. Its been along discussed topic ...
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Nokia & Mark Monitor.com Put up Plum.com For Sale In SnapNames Auction
Nokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com. The domain name Plum.com is the Moniker Premium Spring Auction that just started a few days ago with a reserve range of $100,000-$250,000. Its been along discussed topic ...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 10:12 am
Domain Name Wire
What domain JetBlue bought and a $120,000 end user domain sale
JetBlue pays little for a domain, but another end user pays dearly. Sedo’s headline $120,000 sale of ConnectNow.com last week was (of course) to an end user. JetBlue also bought a domain through the service. Here’s a list of end user sale...
Discussion
What domain JetBlue bought and a $120,000 end user domain sale
JetBlue pays little for a domain, but another end user pays dearly. Sedo’s headline $120,000 sale of ConnectNow.com last week was (of course) to an end user. JetBlue also bought a domain through the service. Here’s a list of end user sale...
Discussion
April 12, 2013, 10:00 am
