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What domains Yelp, Bayer, and 16 others bought this week
Sedo brokers domain to Yelp and 17 other end user buyers. Sedo had a fairly strong week for end user domain sales, including selling a .ph domain to Yelp. Here’s the list: Harley Street Health Checks UK Ltd picked up HealthChecks.co.uk for 1,05...
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What domains Yelp, Bayer, and 16 others bought this week
Sedo brokers domain to Yelp and 17 other end user buyers. Sedo had a fairly strong week for end user domain sales, including selling a .ph domain to Yelp. Here’s the list: Harley Street Health Checks UK Ltd picked up HealthChecks.co.uk for 1,05...
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February 20, 2013, 12:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN letting registrar negotiations hold new TLDs hostage
No new agreement, no new TLDs. Last week I wrote about how ICANN’s latest proposed registry agreement for new TLD operators. The agreement mandates that new TLD operators use only domain registrars that have signed the new Registrar Accreditati...
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ICANN letting registrar negotiations hold new TLDs hostage
No new agreement, no new TLDs. Last week I wrote about how ICANN’s latest proposed registry agreement for new TLD operators. The agreement mandates that new TLD operators use only domain registrars that have signed the new Registrar Accreditati...
Discussion
February 20, 2013, 10:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Another upside to closed generic TLDs: fewer defensive registrations
The more domains that are “closed”, the less brand protection is required. Last week I wrote about why I’m not concerned with companies registering generic terms as TLDs (e.g. .blog, .book) and keeping them “closed” to o...
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Another upside to closed generic TLDs: fewer defensive registrations
The more domains that are “closed”, the less brand protection is required. Last week I wrote about why I’m not concerned with companies registering generic terms as TLDs (e.g. .blog, .book) and keeping them “closed” to o...
Discussion
February 20, 2013, 10:09 am
Domain Name Wire
ECommerce company Eyemagine found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Company claimed rights to domain registered in 1996, well before it started using the name as a brand. Irvine, California eCommerce technology company Eyemagine Technology LLC has been found by the World Intellectual Property Organization to be guilt...
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ECommerce company Eyemagine found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Company claimed rights to domain registered in 1996, well before it started using the name as a brand. Irvine, California eCommerce technology company Eyemagine Technology LLC has been found by the World Intellectual Property Organization to be guilt...
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February 20, 2013, 9:47 am
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media considers spinning off domain name business
Domain business might become its own company. Demand Media, parent company of eNom and Name.com, is considering splitting its business in two. The move would see its domain assets and online media business separated. While the domain business is cert...
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Demand Media considers spinning off domain name business
Domain business might become its own company. Demand Media, parent company of eNom and Name.com, is considering splitting its business in two. The move would see its domain assets and online media business separated. While the domain business is cert...
Discussion
February 19, 2013, 4:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Where in the world in Ron Sheridan? Here’s a “photo” that will show you.
Early Oversee.net employee has a new startup. Ron Sheridan was Oversee.net’s first employee and was a fixture in the domain name industry until he left the company in 2009. Since then he’s joined the web startup world. He was at Oversee.n...
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Where in the world in Ron Sheridan? Here’s a “photo” that will show you.
Early Oversee.net employee has a new startup. Ron Sheridan was Oversee.net’s first employee and was a fixture in the domain name industry until he left the company in 2009. Since then he’s joined the web startup world. He was at Oversee.n...
Discussion
February 19, 2013, 2:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Survey: domainers have a new favorite domain parking company
InternetTraffic selected as top domain parking company. Less than two years after opening his own domain parking platform, domain investor Frank Schilling is at the top of the heap. Participants in Domain Name Wire’s 8th annual industry survey ...
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Survey: domainers have a new favorite domain parking company
InternetTraffic selected as top domain parking company. Less than two years after opening his own domain parking platform, domain investor Frank Schilling is at the top of the heap. Participants in Domain Name Wire’s 8th annual industry survey ...
Discussion
February 19, 2013, 11:40 am
Domain Name Wire
Get your one-year-old premium domains right here, folks!
A strange pitch for a domain name. I receive a lot of funny emails pitching domain names for sale. From the completely-unrelated-domain pitch: “Because you own HonoluluNannies.com, we thought you might like the domain SuperFastSportsCarsDepot.c...
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Get your one-year-old premium domains right here, folks!
A strange pitch for a domain name. I receive a lot of funny emails pitching domain names for sale. From the completely-unrelated-domain pitch: “Because you own HonoluluNannies.com, we thought you might like the domain SuperFastSportsCarsDepot.c...
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February 19, 2013, 10:25 am
Domain Name Wire
Nintendo files complaint over WiiU.com
Company says owner is cybersquatting with WiiU.com domain name. Nintendo released WiiU, the successor to its popular Wii video game system Wii, in November. But it was missing a key online marketing ingredient: the domain name WiiU.com. Now it has fi...
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Nintendo files complaint over WiiU.com
Company says owner is cybersquatting with WiiU.com domain name. Nintendo released WiiU, the successor to its popular Wii video game system Wii, in November. But it was missing a key online marketing ingredient: the domain name WiiU.com. Now it has fi...
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February 19, 2013, 9:45 am
Domain Name Wire
City of Soledad “gets it”, registers domains related to new national park
City registers multiple domain names for new branding campaign. I write about municipalities fumbling domain names all the time, so it’s nice to be able to write about the opposite. The city of Soledad, California is seizing on the nearby Pinna...
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City of Soledad “gets it”, registers domains related to new national park
City registers multiple domain names for new branding campaign. I write about municipalities fumbling domain names all the time, so it’s nice to be able to write about the opposite. The city of Soledad, California is seizing on the nearby Pinna...
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February 18, 2013, 9:40 pm
