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Columbian real estate company tries to reverse hijack domain name
So much for making a friendly overture. Picture this: You start a business. You do a trademark search and then form a corporation. The matching .com domain name is already registered and you can’t afford the asking price. So you launch on a sec...
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Columbian real estate company tries to reverse hijack domain name
So much for making a friendly overture. Picture this: You start a business. You do a trademark search and then form a corporation. The matching .com domain name is already registered and you can’t afford the asking price. So you launch on a sec...
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October 28, 2022, 6:01 pm
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Verisign lowers full year domain guidance (again)
Company predicts full year growth of 1% or less. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced third quarter earnings after the market closed today. The company’s revenue was $357 million, up 6.8% year over year. It ran an operating margin of 66.3% and gen...
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Verisign lowers full year domain guidance (again)
Company predicts full year growth of 1% or less. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced third quarter earnings after the market closed today. The company’s revenue was $357 million, up 6.8% year over year. It ran an operating margin of 66.3% and gen...
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October 27, 2022, 9:46 pm
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PublishingLife Upgrades to Publishing.com
Online publishing course upgraded to a great domain name. Twins Christian and Rasmus Mikkelsen, two twenty-something entrepreneurs from New Jersey, have made thousands of dollars by publishing books on Amazon. They have turned that into a business te...
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PublishingLife Upgrades to Publishing.com
Online publishing course upgraded to a great domain name. Twins Christian and Rasmus Mikkelsen, two twenty-something entrepreneurs from New Jersey, have made thousands of dollars by publishing books on Amazon. They have turned that into a business te...
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October 27, 2022, 2:59 pm
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CentralNic acquires corporate domain manager
CentralNic is paying $7.6 million for Intellectual Property Management Company, Inc. CentralNic (London: CNIC) has acquired Intellectual Property Management Company, Inc. (IPM), a corporate domain manager. According to IPM’s website, it is a jo...
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CentralNic acquires corporate domain manager
CentralNic is paying $7.6 million for Intellectual Property Management Company, Inc. CentralNic (London: CNIC) has acquired Intellectual Property Management Company, Inc. (IPM), a corporate domain manager. According to IPM’s website, it is a jo...
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October 26, 2022, 3:40 pm
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ProjectPay Pty Ltd tries reverse domain name hijacking
There was an obvious flaw in this cybersquatting case. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has determined that ProjectPay Pty Ltd, tried to reverse domain name hijack projectpay.com. The company uses the domains ProjectPay.com.au and Pro...
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ProjectPay Pty Ltd tries reverse domain name hijacking
There was an obvious flaw in this cybersquatting case. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has determined that ProjectPay Pty Ltd, tried to reverse domain name hijack projectpay.com. The company uses the domains ProjectPay.com.au and Pro...
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October 26, 2022, 3:21 pm
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A baker’s dozen more end user domain sales
A law platform, a tourism company and a streaming service bought domain names. Sedo reported 82 sales of $2,000 or more for the past week, and I was able to tie 13 of them to end users. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just comp...
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A baker’s dozen more end user domain sales
A law platform, a tourism company and a streaming service bought domain names. Sedo reported 82 sales of $2,000 or more for the past week, and I was able to tie 13 of them to end users. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just comp...
Discussion
October 26, 2022, 1:22 pm
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Why this reactive.com auction is taking so long
Dropcatch needs to increase its bidding increments. There’s a heated domain auction going on at DropCatch.com right now. Bidders have placed over 350 bids and counting for reactive.com, pushing the price up over $135,000. Like all domain auctio...
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Why this reactive.com auction is taking so long
Dropcatch needs to increase its bidding increments. There’s a heated domain auction going on at DropCatch.com right now. Bidders have placed over 350 bids and counting for reactive.com, pushing the price up over $135,000. Like all domain auctio...
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October 25, 2022, 8:47 pm
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Coca-Cola bottler tries to reverse hijack kof.com
Mexican bottler tries to get domain matching its stock ticker without paying for it. Coca-Cola Femsa, S.A.B, a Coca-Cola bottling company in Mexico, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (pdf). The company uses the stock ticker KOF a...
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Coca-Cola bottler tries to reverse hijack kof.com
Mexican bottler tries to get domain matching its stock ticker without paying for it. Coca-Cola Femsa, S.A.B, a Coca-Cola bottling company in Mexico, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking (pdf). The company uses the stock ticker KOF a...
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October 25, 2022, 3:40 pm
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Toast restaurant POS company wins toast.io in domain dispute
The domain owner was hired by the Complainant to help it acquire the domain. Toast, Inc., the company behind the ubiquitous restaurant ordering system, has won the domain name toast.io (pdf) through a cybersquatting dispute. The company filed the dis...
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Toast restaurant POS company wins toast.io in domain dispute
The domain owner was hired by the Complainant to help it acquire the domain. Toast, Inc., the company behind the ubiquitous restaurant ordering system, has won the domain name toast.io (pdf) through a cybersquatting dispute. The company filed the dis...
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October 24, 2022, 3:58 pm
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Epik’s new CEO – DNW Podcast #410
Brian Royce explains his views and answers questions about what’s happening at the company. Many in the domain industry were surprised last month when Epik announced that Rob Monster was giving way to a new leader. What would this mean for Epik...
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Epik’s new CEO – DNW Podcast #410
Brian Royce explains his views and answers questions about what’s happening at the company. Many in the domain industry were surprised last month when Epik announced that Rob Monster was giving way to a new leader. What would this mean for Epik...
Discussion
October 24, 2022, 3:30 pm
