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DomainFest Barcelona Auction Flops Again, Few Domains Sold
After the disappointment of the DomainFest Barcelona live auction cancellation, the SnapNames.com re-do auction has ended with what most would consider to be more disappointment, only 4 domains sold for a total of $55,070. (Note this is an unofficial...
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DomainFest Barcelona Auction Flops Again, Few Domains Sold
After the disappointment of the DomainFest Barcelona live auction cancellation, the SnapNames.com re-do auction has ended with what most would consider to be more disappointment, only 4 domains sold for a total of $55,070. (Note this is an unofficial...
Discussion
June 15, 2011, 4:11 pm
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Breaking: Social.com Receives $2.5m Bid at SnapNames.com
After technical difficulties last week, the DomainFest Barcelona auction was re-scheduled to conclude online today. The auction of Social.com had gained some press and I’m sure the cancellation of the live event was a huge disappointment for th...
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Breaking: Social.com Receives $2.5m Bid at SnapNames.com
After technical difficulties last week, the DomainFest Barcelona auction was re-scheduled to conclude online today. The auction of Social.com had gained some press and I’m sure the cancellation of the live event was a huge disappointment for th...
Discussion
June 15, 2011, 1:25 pm
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3M Sues Registrars, Webhosts and DNS Hosts for Cybersquatting over Gambling Domains
3M has filed a broad lawsuit naming a larger number of registrars, webhosts and dns hosts for cybersquatting and infringing on the company’s brands. The lawsuit is also filed against some individual domain names that include the letters “...
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3M Sues Registrars, Webhosts and DNS Hosts for Cybersquatting over Gambling Domains
3M has filed a broad lawsuit naming a larger number of registrars, webhosts and dns hosts for cybersquatting and infringing on the company’s brands. The lawsuit is also filed against some individual domain names that include the letters “...
Discussion
June 13, 2011, 6:59 pm
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Marc Ostrofsky’s Appearance on The View Talks Up Domains, Other Get Rich Click Ideas
Entrepreneur and domain investor Marc Ostrofsky appeared on ABC Television’s The View on Thursday for a brief segment to promote his book, Get Rich Click. Ostrofsky talked up domain names to the five female celebrity hostesses, who g...
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Marc Ostrofsky’s Appearance on The View Talks Up Domains, Other Get Rich Click Ideas
Entrepreneur and domain investor Marc Ostrofsky appeared on ABC Television’s The View on Thursday for a brief segment to promote his book, Get Rich Click. Ostrofsky talked up domain names to the five female celebrity hostesses, who g...
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June 10, 2011, 2:22 am
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Moniker DomainFest Barcelona Auction Results
DNN will be live blogging the results for the DomainFest Barcelona auction today. Oversee has been having some technical difficulties this morning (US time), with all of their network offline including their core sites like Snapnames.com, Monik...
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Moniker DomainFest Barcelona Auction Results
DNN will be live blogging the results for the DomainFest Barcelona auction today. Oversee has been having some technical difficulties this morning (US time), with all of their network offline including their core sites like Snapnames.com, Monik...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 9:33 am
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Latonas.com Relaunches as Web Site Brokerage
According to a press release sent out today, Latona’s, formerly an auction platform for generic domain names has been relaunched as a brokerage firm for money generating web properties. Rick Latona defines web properties as, “A digital as...
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Latonas.com Relaunches as Web Site Brokerage
According to a press release sent out today, Latona’s, formerly an auction platform for generic domain names has been relaunched as a brokerage firm for money generating web properties. Rick Latona defines web properties as, “A digital as...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 5:01 pm
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Trademarkia Adds Domain Registration Services with Trademark Verification
According to GigaOm Trademarkia has releasesed a domain name registration service. As reported in the comments on GigaOm, the domain registration service will only notice trademarks that exactly match an existing trademark.Another caveat is that the ...
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Trademarkia Adds Domain Registration Services with Trademark Verification
According to GigaOm Trademarkia has releasesed a domain name registration service. As reported in the comments on GigaOm, the domain registration service will only notice trademarks that exactly match an existing trademark.Another caveat is that the ...
Discussion
June 2, 2011, 8:39 pm
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Former ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie Withdraws Legal Proceeding Against George Kirikos
According to some details published today, the former ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie has withdrawn his legal proceeding against the outspoken domain investor George Kirikos. Kirikos’ lawyers, Andrew Bernstein and Yael Bienenstock at Torys, had in...
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Former ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie Withdraws Legal Proceeding Against George Kirikos
According to some details published today, the former ICANN Ombudsman Frank Fowlie has withdrawn his legal proceeding against the outspoken domain investor George Kirikos. Kirikos’ lawyers, Andrew Bernstein and Yael Bienenstock at Torys, had in...
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May 31, 2011, 9:23 am
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Spammers Abuse Parked Domains for Redirects
As reported by Symantec a few days ago, many parked domains have the chance to end up on a blocking list due to spammers abusing a security hole in the parking company’s redirect structure. Symantec: “We have automatically blocked tens of...
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Spammers Abuse Parked Domains for Redirects
As reported by Symantec a few days ago, many parked domains have the chance to end up on a blocking list due to spammers abusing a security hole in the parking company’s redirect structure. Symantec: “We have automatically blocked tens of...
Discussion
May 28, 2011, 12:57 am
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Frank Schilling Switches To Google Feed, Begins Offering Parking Services (InternetTraffic.com)
The domain industry sees many changes. With the downturn of PPC revenue, many of the old-school domainers started to respond more actively to sales inquiries in order to make up for the loss. While it appears that PPC income is not yet on the rebound...
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Frank Schilling Switches To Google Feed, Begins Offering Parking Services (InternetTraffic.com)
The domain industry sees many changes. With the downturn of PPC revenue, many of the old-school domainers started to respond more actively to sales inquiries in order to make up for the loss. While it appears that PPC income is not yet on the rebound...
Discussion
May 17, 2011, 3:47 am
