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UrbanTimes.com Moves To UT.co On September 19th
For the second day in the row a online media source announced plans to change its URL from a .com to a shorter .Co address Today UrbanTimes.com writes that effective September 19th, its moving its site to the domain UT.co “Urban Times, which as...
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UrbanTimes.com Moves To UT.co On September 19th
For the second day in the row a online media source announced plans to change its URL from a .com to a shorter .Co address Today UrbanTimes.com writes that effective September 19th, its moving its site to the domain UT.co “Urban Times, which as...
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August 22, 2012, 8:33 am
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Elliot Sells His Shares Of Apple & The Stock Sinks
Elliot Silver, of ElliotsBlog.com tweeted back in April that he just bought shares of Apple. Accrdoing to his tweet at the time he wrote , “Bad new if you own Apple stock. I just made an investment this morning, so my guess is the stock i...
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Elliot Sells His Shares Of Apple & The Stock Sinks
Elliot Silver, of ElliotsBlog.com tweeted back in April that he just bought shares of Apple. Accrdoing to his tweet at the time he wrote , “Bad new if you own Apple stock. I just made an investment this morning, so my guess is the stock i...
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August 21, 2012, 8:34 pm
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Report: IAC Gets Into Bidding War With Answers.com Over About.com & Demand Maybe Interested Too
According to a report from Reuters.com today Bary Diller’s IAC is getting into a bidding war with Answers.com over About.com and Demand Media, Inc. may have interest in About.com as well. Reuters.com is saying that Interactive corp (IAC) submit...
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Report: IAC Gets Into Bidding War With Answers.com Over About.com & Demand Maybe Interested Too
According to a report from Reuters.com today Bary Diller’s IAC is getting into a bidding war with Answers.com over About.com and Demand Media, Inc. may have interest in About.com as well. Reuters.com is saying that Interactive corp (IAC) submit...
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August 21, 2012, 6:24 pm
The Domains
MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: ICANN’s Boondoggle
MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN’s Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program “ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the “root zone file,” t...
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MIT Rips ICANN’s Over New gTLD Program: ICANN’s Boondoggle
MIT just published a post ripping ICANN for what it calls ICANN’s Boondoggle referring to the new gTLD program “ICANN is itself a monopoly. It has the freedom to mint new gTLDs and incorporate them into the “root zone file,” t...
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August 21, 2012, 5:59 pm
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Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.1 Million in Domain Names
Afternic.com just reported it sales for the week ending August 19th 2012 and recorded sales of $1,072.90 Sales were led by medilert.com for $15,800 .com Sales medilert.com $15,800.00 southernrecycling.com $13,100.00 goodgift...
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Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.1 Million in Domain Names
Afternic.com just reported it sales for the week ending August 19th 2012 and recorded sales of $1,072.90 Sales were led by medilert.com for $15,800 .com Sales medilert.com $15,800.00 southernrecycling.com $13,100.00 goodgift...
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August 21, 2012, 5:44 pm
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Sedo.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By Work.org for $55K
Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending July 20th, 2012. In all over $1.2MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Work.org at $55,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were metformina.it for €14,900 and hypnob...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By Work.org for $55K
Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending July 20th, 2012. In all over $1.2MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Work.org at $55,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were metformina.it for €14,900 and hypnob...
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August 21, 2012, 4:59 pm
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TechCocktail.com Acquires and Switches To Tech.co
According to a post on their site, TechCocktail.com which holds hundreds of events a year announced today they switched their domain name today from TechCocktail.com to Tech.Co. Actually as of today the domain name techcocktail.com now forwards to Te...
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TechCocktail.com Acquires and Switches To Tech.co
According to a post on their site, TechCocktail.com which holds hundreds of events a year announced today they switched their domain name today from TechCocktail.com to Tech.Co. Actually as of today the domain name techcocktail.com now forwards to Te...
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August 20, 2012, 9:41 pm
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Melbourne IT Suggests Special Domain Protections For “High At-Risk Marks” In New gTLD’s
Melbourne IT the registrar/brand protection company published a paper that “makes the case that, despite the current protections ICANN has put in place, there is still a set of High At-Risk Marks (HARM) that remain particularly attractive to un...
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Melbourne IT Suggests Special Domain Protections For “High At-Risk Marks” In New gTLD’s
Melbourne IT the registrar/brand protection company published a paper that “makes the case that, despite the current protections ICANN has put in place, there is still a set of High At-Risk Marks (HARM) that remain particularly attractive to un...
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August 20, 2012, 7:26 pm
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Directi Looking To Raise $50 Million-$100 Million For New gTLD’s Auctions
According to a story in Vccircle.com, Directi Internet Solutions Pvt Ltd (Directi) is seeking to “secure a hefty sum between US$ 50 – 100 Million to fund its subsidiary Radix FZC“. Directi through its Radix subsidiary has already al...
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Directi Looking To Raise $50 Million-$100 Million For New gTLD’s Auctions
According to a story in Vccircle.com, Directi Internet Solutions Pvt Ltd (Directi) is seeking to “secure a hefty sum between US$ 50 – 100 Million to fund its subsidiary Radix FZC“. Directi through its Radix subsidiary has already al...
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August 20, 2012, 11:11 am
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ICANN Publishes RoadMap For New gTLD Applications & First Delegation Request August 2013.
ICANN published a “Roadmap” for new gTLD’s which we have republished below. I reviewed it a few times and its a best case scenario for an application that does not get any formal objections filed, one that doesn’t get early GA...
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ICANN Publishes RoadMap For New gTLD Applications & First Delegation Request August 2013.
ICANN published a “Roadmap” for new gTLD’s which we have republished below. I reviewed it a few times and its a best case scenario for an application that does not get any formal objections filed, one that doesn’t get early GA...
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August 20, 2012, 9:13 am
