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Domain Name Wire
John Berryhill’s Farmville gets bigger with Elk.com victory
Pigs, ants, elephants, and elk. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has an animal fetish. When it comes to UDRPs, anyway. Berryhill has successfully defended Pig.com, Ant.com, and Elephant.com. Now you can add Elk.com to that list. I first wrote abou...
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John Berryhill’s Farmville gets bigger with Elk.com victory
Pigs, ants, elephants, and elk. Domain name attorney John Berryhill has an animal fetish. When it comes to UDRPs, anyway. Berryhill has successfully defended Pig.com, Ant.com, and Elephant.com. Now you can add Elk.com to that list. I first wrote abou...
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May 30, 2012, 4:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Oversee.net’s fifth employee returns to DomainSponsor role
Mike Song, an early Oversee.net employee, has returned to the company as an account manager. Song was hired by the company in 2003 after it launched the DomainSponsor domain parking service. He was the fifth employee of the company. He later held pos...
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Oversee.net’s fifth employee returns to DomainSponsor role
Mike Song, an early Oversee.net employee, has returned to the company as an account manager. Song was hired by the company in 2003 after it launched the DomainSponsor domain parking service. He was the fifth employee of the company. He later held pos...
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May 30, 2012, 4:02 pm
The Domains
Berryhill Get’s A Finding Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Defending A UDRP On Elk.com
ELK Accesories Pty Ltd. of Preston, Australia brought a UDRP against Elk.com of California, on the domain name Elk.com Elk.com was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. Not only did the three member panel find in favor of the domain holder, the domain ...
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Berryhill Get’s A Finding Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Defending A UDRP On Elk.com
ELK Accesories Pty Ltd. of Preston, Australia brought a UDRP against Elk.com of California, on the domain name Elk.com Elk.com was represented by John Berryhill, Esq. Not only did the three member panel find in favor of the domain holder, the domain ...
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May 30, 2012, 3:23 pm
The Domains
Pool.com Has Competition On Its Digital Archery Service As Digital Archery Experts Rolls Out
According to a press release I just received it appears Pool.com now has a competitor in the ICANN Digital Archery batching service for new gTLD applicants. “Digital Archery Experts (DAE) is pleased to release its digital archery service desig...
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Pool.com Has Competition On Its Digital Archery Service As Digital Archery Experts Rolls Out
According to a press release I just received it appears Pool.com now has a competitor in the ICANN Digital Archery batching service for new gTLD applicants. “Digital Archery Experts (DAE) is pleased to release its digital archery service desig...
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May 30, 2012, 2:35 pm
The Domains
Francois Carrillo Wins UDRP On ZUT.com
Francois Carrillo just defended a UDRP brought by Interbasic Holding S.A on the domain name ZUT.com Zac Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm, Canada represented Francois. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: “Th...
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Francois Carrillo Wins UDRP On ZUT.com
Francois Carrillo just defended a UDRP brought by Interbasic Holding S.A on the domain name ZUT.com Zac Muscovitch of The Muscovitch Law Firm, Canada represented Francois. Here are the relevant facts and findings by the three member panel: “Th...
Discussion
May 30, 2012, 1:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains Taco Bell, Overstock.com, Enterprise, and others bought this week
Big companies make domain name purchases. This past week has been a great one for end user sales. I’ve identified 23 end user sales (there are of course more, but these are the ones that stuck out). There are big name brands in this report, so ...
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What domains Taco Bell, Overstock.com, Enterprise, and others bought this week
Big companies make domain name purchases. This past week has been a great one for end user sales. I’ve identified 23 end user sales (there are of course more, but these are the ones that stuck out). There are big name brands in this report, so ...
Discussion
May 30, 2012, 1:45 pm
The Domains
Sedo .Me Registry Auction Ends Tomorrow & 135 Domains Out Of 200 Have Bids
The .Me registry owned domain name auction being held on Sedo.com ends tomorrow May 31st, starting at noon EST subject to Sedo normal auction closing terms. At the time of publication 135 domain names out of the 200 listed for sale by the registry ha...
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Sedo .Me Registry Auction Ends Tomorrow & 135 Domains Out Of 200 Have Bids
The .Me registry owned domain name auction being held on Sedo.com ends tomorrow May 31st, starting at noon EST subject to Sedo normal auction closing terms. At the time of publication 135 domain names out of the 200 listed for sale by the registry ha...
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May 30, 2012, 1:32 pm
Domain Name News
New Zealand’s domain name commission proposes .NZ second level registrations
The .NZ DNCL just announced the proposal of extending the .nz domain name space by allowing anybody to register domains at the “second level”. This has the potential to significantly alter New Zealand’s domain name space, so t...
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New Zealand’s domain name commission proposes .NZ second level registrations
The .NZ DNCL just announced the proposal of extending the .nz domain name space by allowing anybody to register domains at the “second level”. This has the potential to significantly alter New Zealand’s domain name space, so t...
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May 30, 2012, 1:04 pm
Domain Shane
Daily SitePicks: Wednesday’s Hot List of Websites Up For Auction Around the Net
I’ve been inspired by a lot of the sites I’m seeing over at Flippa to work more on my own sites. Tia Wood was nice enough to work on a new template for many of my new plant sites and I think it should really get some Google love but more ...
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Daily SitePicks: Wednesday’s Hot List of Websites Up For Auction Around the Net
I’ve been inspired by a lot of the sites I’m seeing over at Flippa to work more on my own sites. Tia Wood was nice enough to work on a new template for many of my new plant sites and I think it should really get some Google love but more ...
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May 30, 2012, 12:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain stocks doing very well this year
Tucows more than doubles and other domain stocks also on a tear. It has been a decent year for the NASDAQ so far. But returns on domain stocks have been exceptional. Consider Tucows (TCX), which opened the year at 75 cents. It has more than doubled t...
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Domain stocks doing very well this year
Tucows more than doubles and other domain stocks also on a tear. It has been a decent year for the NASDAQ so far. But returns on domain stocks have been exceptional. Consider Tucows (TCX), which opened the year at 75 cents. It has more than doubled t...
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May 30, 2012, 10:22 am
