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ZA Central Registry Applies For New gTLD’s: .Africa, .Capetown, .Durban and .Joburg
The ZA Central Registry has applied to administer four new gTLD’s, one for each of South Africa’s three biggest cities and for .Africa. According to a story in on techcentral.co.za, the ZA Central Registry (also known as UniForum) will ad...
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ZA Central Registry Applies For New gTLD’s: .Africa, .Capetown, .Durban and .Joburg
The ZA Central Registry has applied to administer four new gTLD’s, one for each of South Africa’s three biggest cities and for .Africa. According to a story in on techcentral.co.za, the ZA Central Registry (also known as UniForum) will ad...
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May 18, 2012, 9:00 am
The Domains
Facebook Prices IPO At $38 A Share With a $104 Billion Market Cap
Facebook priced its IPO at $38 a share, raising $16 billion which will be the third largest IPO in U.S. history and the largest ever IPO by a U.S. technology company. It will start trading tomorrow under the symbol: FB At $38 a share Facebook i...
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Facebook Prices IPO At $38 A Share With a $104 Billion Market Cap
Facebook priced its IPO at $38 a share, raising $16 billion which will be the third largest IPO in U.S. history and the largest ever IPO by a U.S. technology company. It will start trading tomorrow under the symbol: FB At $38 a share Facebook i...
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May 17, 2012, 4:43 pm
The Domains
With 3 Hours To Go In The SnapNames Showcase Auction Mama.com Has $155K Bid; MovingCompany.com $150K
The SnapNames.com/Moniker Spring Showcase Auction ends at 3:15pm today and as of publication there are 18 domain names that have bids including: Mama.com $155,000 MovingCompany.com $150,000 Sly.com $50,000 None of those domain names have hit reserve....
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With 3 Hours To Go In The SnapNames Showcase Auction Mama.com Has $155K Bid; MovingCompany.com $150K
The SnapNames.com/Moniker Spring Showcase Auction ends at 3:15pm today and as of publication there are 18 domain names that have bids including: Mama.com $155,000 MovingCompany.com $150,000 Sly.com $50,000 None of those domain names have hit reserve....
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May 17, 2012, 11:45 am
The Domains
AriGoldberger Beats Back UDRP on Stage.com, Despite TM, Being Parked & Being Offered For Sale
AriGoldberger just successfully defended a UDRP on the domain name Stage.com from a complaint brought by Specialty Retailers, Inc. which owned a trademark on the term “Stage” despite the fact that the domain name was parked and that...
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AriGoldberger Beats Back UDRP on Stage.com, Despite TM, Being Parked & Being Offered For Sale
AriGoldberger just successfully defended a UDRP on the domain name Stage.com from a complaint brought by Specialty Retailers, Inc. which owned a trademark on the term “Stage” despite the fact that the domain name was parked and that...
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May 17, 2012, 10:24 am
The Domains
Tu.Com Is Sold & Becomes Tu Me
Another two letter .com appears to have changed hands in the last few days. The domain name Tu.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by Energy Future Holdings in February 2012, then moved to Trademark Protection firm, MarkMonitor.com in...
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Tu.Com Is Sold & Becomes Tu Me
Another two letter .com appears to have changed hands in the last few days. The domain name Tu.com appears to have been sold. The domain was owned by Energy Future Holdings in February 2012, then moved to Trademark Protection firm, MarkMonitor.com in...
Discussion
May 17, 2012, 8:35 am
The Domains
Wow Now The UDRP Thing Is Officially Crazy As A Complaint Is Against Vanity.com A Fully Developed Site
A complaint was just filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name Vanity.com. Beyond the fact that an undisclosed complainant is trying to take away a dictionary word domain, the even more shocking part is that th...
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Wow Now The UDRP Thing Is Officially Crazy As A Complaint Is Against Vanity.com A Fully Developed Site
A complaint was just filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name Vanity.com. Beyond the fact that an undisclosed complainant is trying to take away a dictionary word domain, the even more shocking part is that th...
Discussion
May 16, 2012, 4:47 pm
The Domains
Moniker/SnapNames.com Brokering FreeSex.com
Moniker® and SnapNames®, announced today that they will exclusively broker the domain name ‘FreeSex.com. Furthermore, this premium domain name will be available for online bids in the Moniker and SnapNames Premium International & cc...
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Moniker/SnapNames.com Brokering FreeSex.com
Moniker® and SnapNames®, announced today that they will exclusively broker the domain name ‘FreeSex.com. Furthermore, this premium domain name will be available for online bids in the Moniker and SnapNames Premium International & cc...
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May 16, 2012, 4:04 pm
The Domains
The Top 1,000 Most Popular Baby Name List Is Out for 2011 & All .Com’s Are Taken:
The Social Security administration published the most popular 1,000 boy and 1,000 girl baby names for 2011, on Monday. It probably won’t surprise you to find out the all 2,000 .Com domains are taken. Some popular baby names are also the names o...
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The Top 1,000 Most Popular Baby Name List Is Out for 2011 & All .Com’s Are Taken:
The Social Security administration published the most popular 1,000 boy and 1,000 girl baby names for 2011, on Monday. It probably won’t surprise you to find out the all 2,000 .Com domains are taken. Some popular baby names are also the names o...
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May 16, 2012, 8:18 am
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By FitnessGuru.com For $45K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,209,356 for the week ending May 13, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by FitnessGuru.com at $45K, followed by Mara.com at $28K. Below is the complete list rele...
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By FitnessGuru.com For $45K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,209,356 for the week ending May 13, 2012. The publicly reportable sales were led by FitnessGuru.com at $45K, followed by Mara.com at $28K. Below is the complete list rele...
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May 15, 2012, 6:22 pm
The Domains
Sedo.com Sells $2.1MM In Domains
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending May 14th, 2012. In all over $2.1MM of domains were sold. The top seller was ahha.com at $112,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were onlinefreegames.com for $90,000 followed by w.t...
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Sedo.com Sells $2.1MM In Domains
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending May 14th, 2012. In all over $2.1MM of domains were sold. The top seller was ahha.com at $112,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were onlinefreegames.com for $90,000 followed by w.t...
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May 15, 2012, 4:29 pm
