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Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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October 11, 2013, 10:18 am
Domain Name Wire
True Religion loses domain dispute, but you need to read the dissent
True Religion can’t get TrueReligion.com domain name through UDRP. In July I wrote about how True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, had filed a UDRP against the owner of TrueReligion.com to try to get the domain name. Pr...
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True Religion loses domain dispute, but you need to read the dissent
True Religion can’t get TrueReligion.com domain name through UDRP. In July I wrote about how True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, had filed a UDRP against the owner of TrueReligion.com to try to get the domain name. Pr...
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October 11, 2013, 10:06 am
Domain Name Wire
.Wed becomes one of the first new TLDs to submit a new registry service request
Company wants to let second level domain registrants transition to third level domain names. The ink is barely dry on Atgron, Inc.’s contract with ICANN to run the .wed top level domain name, and the company has already submitted a Registry Ser...
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.Wed becomes one of the first new TLDs to submit a new registry service request
Company wants to let second level domain registrants transition to third level domain names. The ink is barely dry on Atgron, Inc.’s contract with ICANN to run the .wed top level domain name, and the company has already submitted a Registry Ser...
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October 11, 2013, 9:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Are you going to TRAFFIC?
The next TRAFFIC domain conference takes place in Fort Lauderdale starting October 20. This year’s fall TRAFFIC conference is just ten days away. The conference returns to The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale October 20-23. As usual, there...
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Are you going to TRAFFIC?
The next TRAFFIC domain conference takes place in Fort Lauderdale starting October 20. This year’s fall TRAFFIC conference is just ten days away. The conference returns to The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale October 20-23. As usual, there...
Discussion
October 10, 2013, 2:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Signed new TLD registry contracts have a wide range of priority numbers
Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a pri...
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Signed new TLD registry contracts have a wide range of priority numbers
Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a pri...
Discussion
October 10, 2013, 10:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Google and Amazon.com backpeddle on closed top level domain names
Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies h...
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Google and Amazon.com backpeddle on closed top level domain names
Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies h...
Discussion
October 10, 2013, 10:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after conflicting .cars decisions
A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor ...
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Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after conflicting .cars decisions
A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor ...
Discussion
October 9, 2013, 5:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Got Milk? or Milk Life: Sedo end user domain sales
End user domain name sales at Sedo last week. This week’s end user domain sales at Sedo include a purchase by ad firm Deutsch. Deutsch, which counts California Milk Processor Board (Got Milk?) as a client, bought MilkLife.com for $7,000. Deutsc...
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Got Milk? or Milk Life: Sedo end user domain sales
End user domain name sales at Sedo last week. This week’s end user domain sales at Sedo include a purchase by ad firm Deutsch. Deutsch, which counts California Milk Processor Board (Got Milk?) as a client, bought MilkLife.com for $7,000. Deutsc...
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October 9, 2013, 1:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top level domain considered in Tes.co domain name dispute
TES.CO is confusingly similar to TESCO, and soon the top level domain will play a bigger role in domain disputes. In July I wrote about grocery chain TESCO filing a dispute against the domain name tes.co. A decision has now been rendered. UDRP panels...
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Top level domain considered in Tes.co domain name dispute
TES.CO is confusingly similar to TESCO, and soon the top level domain will play a bigger role in domain disputes. In July I wrote about grocery chain TESCO filing a dispute against the domain name tes.co. A decision has now been rendered. UDRP panels...
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October 9, 2013, 1:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
The Inaugural DomainNameSales.com end user sales list
NBC Universal and Harry & David among companies that bought domain names via DomainNameSales.com last month. DomainNameSales.com sent out a monthly sales list for September yesterday. This marks the first time DNW is putting together an end user ...
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The Inaugural DomainNameSales.com end user sales list
NBC Universal and Harry & David among companies that bought domain names via DomainNameSales.com last month. DomainNameSales.com sent out a monthly sales list for September yesterday. This marks the first time DNW is putting together an end user ...
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October 9, 2013, 10:46 am
