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24 more end user domain name sales
End user domain name sales of up to $35,000. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the sales made to end users. View previous end user sales reports here. SnowBusiness.at 1,500 EUR – Snow Business GmbH, which ...
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24 more end user domain name sales
End user domain name sales of up to $35,000. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the sales made to end users. View previous end user sales reports here. SnowBusiness.at 1,500 EUR – Snow Business GmbH, which ...
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March 27, 2014, 3:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
United Internet taking market share from GoDaddy in new TLDs
After slow start, company is grabbing share in recent TLD launches. United Internet, a group of companies that includes 1&1, Sedo, InterNetX, and United Domains, appears to be taking a good chunk of the new TLDs market share away from GoDaddy. Un...
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United Internet taking market share from GoDaddy in new TLDs
After slow start, company is grabbing share in recent TLD launches. United Internet, a group of companies that includes 1&1, Sedo, InterNetX, and United Domains, appears to be taking a good chunk of the new TLDs market share away from GoDaddy. Un...
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March 26, 2014, 9:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sign.com and Signs.com settle dispute
You can’t trademark “sign” for selling signs. The owners of the category-killer domain names Sign.com and Signs.com have settled a legal battle over their ability to co-exist. In Janauary 2013 I wrote about how the owner of Sign.com...
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Sign.com and Signs.com settle dispute
You can’t trademark “sign” for selling signs. The owners of the category-killer domain names Sign.com and Signs.com have settled a legal battle over their ability to co-exist. In Janauary 2013 I wrote about how the owner of Sign.com...
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March 26, 2014, 7:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
.UK adds registry lock option
.UK domains can now get added protection against nameserver and domain hijacking. .UK registry Nominet is now offering its own version of a registry lock service, dubbed “Domain Lock.” Similar to Verisign’s Registry Lock service for...
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.UK adds registry lock option
.UK domains can now get added protection against nameserver and domain hijacking. .UK registry Nominet is now offering its own version of a registry lock service, dubbed “Domain Lock.” Similar to Verisign’s Registry Lock service for...
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March 26, 2014, 5:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user sales report: People still want the matching .com
Many examples of companies buying the matching .com when they use a .net, .org, or ccTLD. Frank Schilling said something during his keynote at NamesCon that really rings true. When companies get a domain name other than .com, they say to themselves &...
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End user sales report: People still want the matching .com
Many examples of companies buying the matching .com when they use a .net, .org, or ccTLD. Frank Schilling said something during his keynote at NamesCon that really rings true. When companies get a domain name other than .com, they say to themselves &...
Discussion
March 26, 2014, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why domain investors and Bitcoin click
Domain investors find a lot to love in bitcoin. Despite some massive setbacks, bitcoin is still a hot topic right now. I think domain investors are drawn to bitcoin at a higher rate than the general population for a handful of reasons. Having talked ...
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Why domain investors and Bitcoin click
Domain investors find a lot to love in bitcoin. Despite some massive setbacks, bitcoin is still a hot topic right now. I think domain investors are drawn to bitcoin at a higher rate than the general population for a handful of reasons. Having talked ...
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March 26, 2014, 2:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Cheers! .Wine and .Vin domains ready to be bottled
Wine domain names can move forward without additional restrictions. The New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN’s board has given the green light for the .wine and .vin top level domain names to move forward without additional restrictions. A numbe...
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Cheers! .Wine and .Vin domains ready to be bottled
Wine domain names can move forward without additional restrictions. The New gTLD Program Committee of ICANN’s board has given the green light for the .wine and .vin top level domain names to move forward without additional restrictions. A numbe...
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March 26, 2014, 1:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Famous Four alleges link between panelist and opponent for .Sport
Company says panelist that killed its .sport application had a conflict of interest. Last fall Famous Four Media saw its plans to run a .sport top level domain dashed after a panelist found in favor of rival applicant SportAccord in a community objec...
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Famous Four alleges link between panelist and opponent for .Sport
Company says panelist that killed its .sport application had a conflict of interest. Last fall Famous Four Media saw its plans to run a .sport top level domain dashed after a panelist found in favor of rival applicant SportAccord in a community objec...
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March 26, 2014, 2:27 am
Domain Name Wire
5 more Donuts TLDs available to register tomorrow & .email is the winner so far
.Email has the most registrations so far for this week’s batch. Five more of Donuts’ new top level domain names revert to regular registration pricing tomorrow: .training, .solutions, .support, .builders and .email. So far it looks like ....
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5 more Donuts TLDs available to register tomorrow & .email is the winner so far
.Email has the most registrations so far for this week’s batch. Five more of Donuts’ new top level domain names revert to regular registration pricing tomorrow: .training, .solutions, .support, .builders and .email. So far it looks like ....
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March 25, 2014, 5:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
TMCH brags about numbers, but what do they mean?
Trademark Clearinghouse has issued 500,000 claims notices. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) announced today that it has issued 500,000 claims notices to prospective registrants of domains under new top level domain names. The notices are shown when...
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TMCH brags about numbers, but what do they mean?
Trademark Clearinghouse has issued 500,000 claims notices. The Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) announced today that it has issued 500,000 claims notices to prospective registrants of domains under new top level domain names. The notices are shown when...
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March 25, 2014, 2:17 pm
