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NFT.com, purchased for $2 million, launches its website
Site promises to be an NFT “hub and marketplace”. One of last year’s top reported domain name purchases has launched its website. Media Options sold NFT.com to Immutable Holdings, Inc. last year for $2 million, landing at #6 on last...
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NFT.com, purchased for $2 million, launches its website
Site promises to be an NFT “hub and marketplace”. One of last year’s top reported domain name purchases has launched its website. Media Options sold NFT.com to Immutable Holdings, Inc. last year for $2 million, landing at #6 on last...
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March 15, 2022, 5:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
$17 billion REA Group to delete adult domains after inquiry
The company says old domains were from acquisitions and historical activity. For years, REA Group (ASX: REA), a $17 billion market cap group of online real estate companies, has owned a handful of adult-related domain names. The company is deleting t...
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$17 billion REA Group to delete adult domains after inquiry
The company says old domains were from acquisitions and historical activity. For years, REA Group (ASX: REA), a $17 billion market cap group of online real estate companies, has owned a handful of adult-related domain names. The company is deleting t...
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March 15, 2022, 4:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Red Hat tries to reverse domain name hijack a Fedora domain
National Arbitration Forum finds that Red Hat filed a cybersquatting claim to harass domain name registrant. Red Hat, a software company that’s a subsidiary of IBM, has been found guilty of attempting reverse domain name hijacking. The company ...
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Red Hat tries to reverse domain name hijack a Fedora domain
National Arbitration Forum finds that Red Hat filed a cybersquatting claim to harass domain name registrant. Red Hat, a software company that’s a subsidiary of IBM, has been found guilty of attempting reverse domain name hijacking. The company ...
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March 15, 2022, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Do these 4 things to minimize the chances of a UDRP
Do these things and you’re less likely to receive a UDRP on your domain. I’ve been buying and selling domains since the late 1990s and, so far, haven’t been hit with a single UDRP filing. I’ve received a few emailed complaints...
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Do these 4 things to minimize the chances of a UDRP
Do these things and you’re less likely to receive a UDRP on your domain. I’ve been buying and selling domains since the late 1990s and, so far, haven’t been hit with a single UDRP filing. I’ve received a few emailed complaints...
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March 15, 2022, 1:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Marc Lore’s Latest Startup Launches on Mojo.com
The man behind Diapers.com and Jet.com acquires Mojo.com for his latest startup. Entrepreneur Marc Lore has an incredibly successful backlog of companies he has created, intrinsically linked to some of the best domains. As CEO of Quidsi, Lore led the...
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Marc Lore’s Latest Startup Launches on Mojo.com
The man behind Diapers.com and Jet.com acquires Mojo.com for his latest startup. Entrepreneur Marc Lore has an incredibly successful backlog of companies he has created, intrinsically linked to some of the best domains. As CEO of Quidsi, Lore led the...
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March 14, 2022, 4:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
What makes domains valuable? – DNW Podcast #379
Looking at the data behind sales over $25,000. What makes a domain sell for lots of money? How can you break out of low-range sales and sell a domain for $25k, $100k or more? On today’s show, Bob Hawkes breaks down the data. Understand the char...
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What makes domains valuable? – DNW Podcast #379
Looking at the data behind sales over $25,000. What makes a domain sell for lots of money? How can you break out of low-range sales and sell a domain for $25k, $100k or more? On today’s show, Bob Hawkes breaks down the data. Understand the char...
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March 14, 2022, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
NFT is still hot for domains, but meta?
Meta hasn’t been a top search at Sedo so far this year. Sedo released its top search terms report for February 2022, and something is conspicuously absent: meta. The term jumped onto the list at #2 in October, which was the month Facebook annou...
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NFT is still hot for domains, but meta?
Meta hasn’t been a top search at Sedo so far this year. Sedo released its top search terms report for February 2022, and something is conspicuously absent: meta. The term jumped onto the list at #2 in October, which was the month Facebook annou...
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March 14, 2022, 3:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
February’s top domain name stories: Untapped, bird.com, and more
Here’s what made news last month. This is a list of the news stories that got the most attention on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. Canvas rebrands to Untapped, using untapped.io – Diversity recruiting company Canvas rebranded after a cou...
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February’s top domain name stories: Untapped, bird.com, and more
Here’s what made news last month. This is a list of the news stories that got the most attention on Domain Name Wire last month. 1. Canvas rebrands to Untapped, using untapped.io – Diversity recruiting company Canvas rebranded after a cou...
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March 11, 2022, 5:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign, Altanovo and ICANN trade barbs over .web
More ill-will exposed in newly-published letters. This week, ICANN published a series of letters related to the fight for .web. The quick backstory: a company called Nu Dot Co won the auction to run the .web top level domain for $135 million. Verisig...
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Verisign, Altanovo and ICANN trade barbs over .web
More ill-will exposed in newly-published letters. This week, ICANN published a series of letters related to the fight for .web. The quick backstory: a company called Nu Dot Co won the auction to run the .web top level domain for $135 million. Verisig...
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March 10, 2022, 10:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Akamai loses cybersquatting fight with Cloudflare
It’s not often that two large companies are involved in a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP). But that was the case in a just-decided dispute between two Content Delivery Network companies over four d...
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Akamai loses cybersquatting fight with Cloudflare
It’s not often that two large companies are involved in a cybersquatting dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP). But that was the case in a just-decided dispute between two Content Delivery Network companies over four d...
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March 10, 2022, 3:48 pm
