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.Me reports increased premium domain revenue in 2021
At least one very expensive .me premium domain sale occurred in April. The registry for .me domain names has published premium domain name sales data for 2021. It sold 72 premium .me domain names for total registry revenue of €694,500. (This doe...
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.Me reports increased premium domain revenue in 2021
At least one very expensive .me premium domain sale occurred in April. The registry for .me domain names has published premium domain name sales data for 2021. It sold 72 premium .me domain names for total registry revenue of €694,500. (This doe...
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February 3, 2022, 7:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pocketbook.com owner gets win against Pocketbook e-reader company
Judge rules Pocketbook.com owner isn’t committing trademark infringement or cybersquatting. A judge has handed a big victory to SiteTools, Inc., the company that owns the valuable Pocketbook.com domain name. Pocketbook International SA filed a ...
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Pocketbook.com owner gets win against Pocketbook e-reader company
Judge rules Pocketbook.com owner isn’t committing trademark infringement or cybersquatting. A judge has handed a big victory to SiteTools, Inc., the company that owns the valuable Pocketbook.com domain name. Pocketbook International SA filed a ...
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February 3, 2022, 6:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 5 stories: Web3, blockchain domains, Canvas.com and more
Miss any of last month’s domain name news? Here are the top five posts on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by pageviews. 1. Judge orders Canvas.com to stop using its domain name – this is an ongoing story that will have some fire...
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Top 5 stories: Web3, blockchain domains, Canvas.com and more
Miss any of last month’s domain name news? Here are the top five posts on Domain Name Wire last month, ranked by pageviews. 1. Judge orders Canvas.com to stop using its domain name – this is an ongoing story that will have some fire...
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February 3, 2022, 3:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Fireworks.com owner fails to take down gripe site through cybersquatting claim
Company fails to take down a competitor’s criticism site. It seems like every fireworks stand tries to outdo the other. “Buy 1 get 1 free” is nothing. “Buy 1 get 5 free” is more common, and I’ve even seen “Bu...
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Fireworks.com owner fails to take down gripe site through cybersquatting claim
Company fails to take down a competitor’s criticism site. It seems like every fireworks stand tries to outdo the other. “Buy 1 get 1 free” is nothing. “Buy 1 get 5 free” is more common, and I’ve even seen “Bu...
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February 2, 2022, 5:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
New stats site analyzes daily domain sales
Crunch.id will help you understand what is selling (and for how much). Domain investor Leanne McMahon has launched a new website that analyzes the previous day’s domain name sales. Crunch.id analyzes all of the sales reported in NameBio to crea...
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New stats site analyzes daily domain sales
Crunch.id will help you understand what is selling (and for how much). Domain investor Leanne McMahon has launched a new website that analyzes the previous day’s domain name sales. Crunch.id analyzes all of the sales reported in NameBio to crea...
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February 2, 2022, 3:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
One Word Domains site goes up for sale
Creator is selling the business after taking a full-time job. Steven Tey is putting his site that helps people find one word domains up for sale. OneWord.Domains shows available one word domains across dozens of top level domains. In addition to surf...
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One Word Domains site goes up for sale
Creator is selling the business after taking a full-time job. Steven Tey is putting his site that helps people find one word domains up for sale. OneWord.Domains shows available one word domains across dozens of top level domains. In addition to surf...
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February 2, 2022, 2:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
MessageBird acquires Bird.com
Messaging platform acquired bird.com after an auction sale last year fell through. MessageBird, an omnichannel communications platform, has acquired the domain name Bird.com. Last year, the domain appeared to have sold in an auction for $2.5 million ...
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MessageBird acquires Bird.com
Messaging platform acquired bird.com after an auction sale last year fell through. MessageBird, an omnichannel communications platform, has acquired the domain name Bird.com. Last year, the domain appeared to have sold in an auction for $2.5 million ...
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February 1, 2022, 6:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain name sales
An online voting platform, a search engine for products, and a rugby event bought domain names. Sedo had some nice sales this past week for which I can’t determine the buyers yet. Tegro.com, Veyron.com, and NFTStore.com sold for $55,000 each. M...
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This week’s end user domain name sales
An online voting platform, a search engine for products, and a rugby event bought domain names. Sedo had some nice sales this past week for which I can’t determine the buyers yet. Tegro.com, Veyron.com, and NFTStore.com sold for $55,000 each. M...
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February 1, 2022, 5:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Should web browsers show domain name age?
Alerting users about newly registered domains could help with web security. The U.S. Patent and Trademark granted patent number 11,240,257 (pdf) to security firm Lookout, Inc. today for Domain name and URL visual verification for increased security. ...
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Should web browsers show domain name age?
Alerting users about newly registered domains could help with web security. The U.S. Patent and Trademark granted patent number 11,240,257 (pdf) to security firm Lookout, Inc. today for Domain name and URL visual verification for increased security. ...
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February 1, 2022, 4:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Owner of GoCaribou.com appears to have acquired Caribou.com
Caribou.com is at the same registrar and has the same Cloudflare nameservers as GoCaribou.com. The Caribou.com domain name might be familiar to Domain Name Wire readers. In September 2021, Scott Dylan, a shareholder in the UK logistics company Caribo...
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Owner of GoCaribou.com appears to have acquired Caribou.com
Caribou.com is at the same registrar and has the same Cloudflare nameservers as GoCaribou.com. The Caribou.com domain name might be familiar to Domain Name Wire readers. In September 2021, Scott Dylan, a shareholder in the UK logistics company Caribo...
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February 1, 2022, 1:40 pm
