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“Gold Community” objects to .Gold top level domain
A sign of things to come in community objections against new TLDs? After posting yesterday about some of the objections to Donuts’ new top level domain applications, I received word that the company has received an additional community objectio...
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“Gold Community” objects to .Gold top level domain
A sign of things to come in community objections against new TLDs? After posting yesterday about some of the objections to Donuts’ new top level domain applications, I received word that the company has received an additional community objectio...
Discussion
March 22, 2013, 11:14 am
Domain Name Wire
Here’s how new TLD objections work
An explanation of new top level domain objections. Yesterday I wrote about a number of objections filed against new top level domain applications. I also explained the four types of objections. So just how do these objections work? In a lot of ways t...
Discussion
Here’s how new TLD objections work
An explanation of new top level domain objections. Yesterday I wrote about a number of objections filed against new top level domain applications. I also explained the four types of objections. So just how do these objections work? In a lot of ways t...
Discussion
March 22, 2013, 10:41 am
Domain Name Wire
51 more end user domain sales this week
End users were busy buying domains through Afternic last week. Afternic had a banner week for end user domain sales last week. It even sold a three hyphen domain for 2,500! My fingers are so tired that I’m just going to jump right into it&helli...
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51 more end user domain sales this week
End users were busy buying domains through Afternic last week. Afternic had a banner week for end user domain sales last week. It even sold a three hyphen domain for 2,500! My fingers are so tired that I’m just going to jump right into it&helli...
Discussion
March 21, 2013, 12:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Objection! What objections against Donuts’ TLDs show us about the next phase of the new TLD game
An early look at new TLD objections shows some questionable claims. The deadline to file objections against new top level domain applications was March 13. Dispute resolution providers are slowly posting the objections, but it looks like what has bee...
Discussion
Objection! What objections against Donuts’ TLDs show us about the next phase of the new TLD game
An early look at new TLD objections shows some questionable claims. The deadline to file objections against new top level domain applications was March 13. Dispute resolution providers are slowly posting the objections, but it looks like what has bee...
Discussion
March 21, 2013, 11:17 am
Domain Name Wire
Sedo’s earnings: domain business shrinks 18% as affiliate business grows
Sedo’s domain parking business continues to drag on overall company. Sales of domains are down, too. Sedo Holding released its Annual Report yesterday (pdf), and the numbers for the domain name business are fairly dismal. Sedo Holding has two p...
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Sedo’s earnings: domain business shrinks 18% as affiliate business grows
Sedo’s domain parking business continues to drag on overall company. Sales of domains are down, too. Sedo Holding released its Annual Report yesterday (pdf), and the numbers for the domain name business are fairly dismal. Sedo Holding has two p...
Discussion
March 21, 2013, 9:44 am
Domain Name Wire
WIPO posts 11 legal rights TLD objections: .blue, .academy, .goo and more
Google and Donuts amongst those hit with legal rights disputes over top level domains. World Intellectual Property Organization has added ten legal rights objections disputes to its list of new top level domain objections. It recently posted the disp...
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WIPO posts 11 legal rights TLD objections: .blue, .academy, .goo and more
Google and Donuts amongst those hit with legal rights disputes over top level domains. World Intellectual Property Organization has added ten legal rights objections disputes to its list of new top level domain objections. It recently posted the disp...
Discussion
March 20, 2013, 5:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bloomberg sues sploggers using Google’s Blogger
Company upset over blogs using “Bloomberg” in subdomain and scraping Bloomberg content. Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court in New York against four John Does using Google’s Blogger service. The defendants hav...
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Bloomberg sues sploggers using Google’s Blogger
Company upset over blogs using “Bloomberg” in subdomain and scraping Bloomberg content. Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit (pdf) in U.S. District Court in New York against four John Does using Google’s Blogger service. The defendants hav...
Discussion
March 20, 2013, 11:57 am
Domain Name Wire
19 end user domain sales up to $36,000
19 end users paid between $700 and $36,000 for domains at Sedo last week. The top reported sale on Sedo’s sales list this past week was to an end user, although we don’t yet know what that end user plans to launch at the domain. Here are ...
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19 end user domain sales up to $36,000
19 end users paid between $700 and $36,000 for domains at Sedo last week. The top reported sale on Sedo’s sales list this past week was to an end user, although we don’t yet know what that end user plans to launch at the domain. Here are ...
Discussion
March 20, 2013, 11:14 am
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media sets up Dublin office for domain services
Company makes formal announcement about operations in Ireland. Demand Media announced today that it is opening its international headquarters for the company’s domain services business in Dublin, Ireland. Demand Media is serving as the backend ...
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Demand Media sets up Dublin office for domain services
Company makes formal announcement about operations in Ireland. Demand Media announced today that it is opening its international headquarters for the company’s domain services business in Dublin, Ireland. Demand Media is serving as the backend ...
Discussion
March 20, 2013, 10:14 am
Domain Name Wire
Why a DOJ block on new TLD auctions doesn’t make sense
I have a hard time understanding how a private auction would be illegal in the case of new TLD allocation. A couple weeks ago a new TLD applicant told me they weren’t participating in private TLD auctions because they thought the auctions would...
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Why a DOJ block on new TLD auctions doesn’t make sense
I have a hard time understanding how a private auction would be illegal in the case of new TLD allocation. A couple weeks ago a new TLD applicant told me they weren’t participating in private TLD auctions because they thought the auctions would...
Discussion
March 19, 2013, 5:19 pm
