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Domain Name Wire
Hopscotch.com saved in UDRP, but no RDNH
PR firm filed UDRP after failing to buy domain name. A three-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP for the domain name Hopscotch.com. It did not find the complainant to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking f...
Discussion
Hopscotch.com saved in UDRP, but no RDNH
PR firm filed UDRP after failing to buy domain name. A three-member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP for the domain name Hopscotch.com. It did not find the complainant to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking f...
Discussion
January 28, 2016, 5:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Can you make sense of $41.5 million for .Shop?
GMO Registry’s outlay for .shop is difficult to rationalize. I’m still trying to wrap my head around GMO Registry paying $41.5 million for the .shop top level domain name. .Shop is a monster TLD, but it’s hard to justify this upfron...
Discussion
Can you make sense of $41.5 million for .Shop?
GMO Registry’s outlay for .shop is difficult to rationalize. I’m still trying to wrap my head around GMO Registry paying $41.5 million for the .shop top level domain name. .Shop is a monster TLD, but it’s hard to justify this upfron...
Discussion
January 28, 2016, 3:03 pm
Domain Shane
Domain Shane’s List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, January 28th
Tomorrow I’ll have a decent size announcement about something I’m doing within domains. It’s something different for me and another part of my diversification in domain investing. I have a blog, I create websites, and i...
Discussion
Domain Shane’s List of Domains at Auction for Thursday, January 28th
Tomorrow I’ll have a decent size announcement about something I’m doing within domains. It’s something different for me and another part of my diversification in domain investing. I have a blog, I create websites, and i...
Discussion
January 28, 2016, 11:30 am
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: .Shop top level domain sells for staggering $41.5 million
$41.5 million spent for rights to a single new top level domain name. An auction to determine which company will control the .shop top level domain name has concluded with a record price of $41,501,000. GMO Registry, a Japanese domain name company, w...
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Breaking: .Shop top level domain sells for staggering $41.5 million
$41.5 million spent for rights to a single new top level domain name. An auction to determine which company will control the .shop top level domain name has concluded with a record price of $41,501,000. GMO Registry, a Japanese domain name company, w...
Discussion
January 28, 2016, 3:29 am
Domain Shane
Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Ends Soon: 21 Domains Have Hit Reserve, Led By GWH.com, 4820.com
This month’s Great Domains Auction at Sedo may not be the highest grossing ever for their monthly auctions, but they’re going to have a pretty good sell through rate, as 21 of their 50 listings have hit reserve and will sell. There are th...
Discussion
Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Ends Soon: 21 Domains Have Hit Reserve, Led By GWH.com, 4820.com
This month’s Great Domains Auction at Sedo may not be the highest grossing ever for their monthly auctions, but they’re going to have a pretty good sell through rate, as 21 of their 50 listings have hit reserve and will sell. There are th...
Discussion
January 28, 2016, 12:47 am
Domain Name Wire
2015’s Top 5: Taylor Swift
A story about Taylor Swift goes viral. Taylor Swift had some Bad Blood with a guy who claims he taught her how to play the guitar. A resulting story on Domain Name Wire went viral, coming in at the #2 most-read story on the site last year. The backst...
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2015’s Top 5: Taylor Swift
A story about Taylor Swift goes viral. Taylor Swift had some Bad Blood with a guy who claims he taught her how to play the guitar. A resulting story on Domain Name Wire went viral, coming in at the #2 most-read story on the site last year. The backst...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:54 pm
The Domains
XYZ Launches .Security, .Protection, & .Theatre: All Domain Including Single Character Are Avail
We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some registration requests for single character domain names were being rejected due to a technical e...
Discussion
XYZ Launches .Security, .Protection, & .Theatre: All Domain Including Single Character Are Avail
We just received an email from XYZ which launched the new gTLD extensions .Security, .Protection, and .Theatre today. Apparently on the launch some registration requests for single character domain names were being rejected due to a technical e...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:36 pm
The Domains
.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains
Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domai...
Discussion
.WS Changing 2-3 Character New Domain Pricing & Releasing All 5-20 Number Domains
Due to the recent demand for the .WS extension coming from the emerging China Domain market, Global Domains International, the operator of the .WS registry, announced today that they are changing their pricing for all 2 and 3 character .WS domai...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:13 pm
Domain Shane
Auction Recap, 27th of January 2016
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 27th of January Auction Quick Recap Looks like 4.cn auctioned off a almost 40 LLLL chips. While the price of many of them was less than $2k, I think it’s a good sign. This volume of names...
Discussion
Auction Recap, 27th of January 2016
The Daily recap of Shane’s Auction Picks, the 27th of January Auction Quick Recap Looks like 4.cn auctioned off a almost 40 LLLL chips. While the price of many of them was less than $2k, I think it’s a good sign. This volume of names...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 8:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Wiz Khalifa’s record label and other businesses buy domain names
Rostrum Records and other end users bought domain names last week. Wiz Khalifa’s record label, Rostrum Records, paid 40,000 euros to pick up the shorter domain name Rostrum.com this past week. Its official website is RostrumRecords.com. Rostrum...
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Wiz Khalifa’s record label and other businesses buy domain names
Rostrum Records and other end users bought domain names last week. Wiz Khalifa’s record label, Rostrum Records, paid 40,000 euros to pick up the shorter domain name Rostrum.com this past week. Its official website is RostrumRecords.com. Rostrum...
Discussion
January 27, 2016, 5:37 pm
