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Domain Name Wire
34 smart end user domain buys
34 companies add to their online presence with aftermarket domain purchases. Afternic had a better-than-usual sales week last week with close to $1.5 million in sales. Here are 34 end user domain sales I found on its list. American Association of You...
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34 smart end user domain buys
34 companies add to their online presence with aftermarket domain purchases. Afternic had a better-than-usual sales week last week with close to $1.5 million in sales. Here are 34 end user domain sales I found on its list. American Association of You...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 1:38 pm

Elliot's Blog
The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away
This is a guest post about the Internet Commerce Association from domain investor Nat Cohen, President of Telepathy, Inc. For the domain industry, the part of the Lord is played by the U.S. Government and ICANN. In the early days of the Internet, the...
Discussion
The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away
This is a guest post about the Internet Commerce Association from domain investor Nat Cohen, President of Telepathy, Inc. For the domain industry, the part of the Lord is played by the U.S. Government and ICANN. In the early days of the Internet, the...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 11:45 am

Domain Name Wire
Top 5 must read domain articles from March
Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month. March saw the first batch of new TLD objections, a warning from Verisign, and a high profile company found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. 1. United States Postal Services just ...
Discussion
Top 5 must read domain articles from March
Here are the top five stories from Domain Name Wire last month. March saw the first batch of new TLD objections, a warning from Verisign, and a high profile company found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. 1. United States Postal Services just ...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 11:28 am

Domain Name Wire
The Verisign pile on effect
Last week Verisign dropped a bomb on ICANN by releasing a report that said that ICANN was not yet ready for the rollout of new top level domains. Critics have suggested that Verisign has financial motives for slowing out the rollout of new TLDs, and ...
Discussion
The Verisign pile on effect
Last week Verisign dropped a bomb on ICANN by releasing a report that said that ICANN was not yet ready for the rollout of new top level domains. Critics have suggested that Verisign has financial motives for slowing out the rollout of new TLDs, and ...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 10:48 am

Domain Name Wire
What domains DropBox and 15 other companies bought last week
Dropbox buys an India ccTLD and other end user domain sales. Sedo sold 704 domains for over $1.25 million last week. I’ve identified 16 of the publicly reported sales as end user sale. There are certainly more, but these are the ones that stood...
Discussion
What domains DropBox and 15 other companies bought last week
Dropbox buys an India ccTLD and other end user domain sales. Sedo sold 704 domains for over $1.25 million last week. I’ve identified 16 of the publicly reported sales as end user sale. There are certainly more, but these are the ones that stood...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 10:21 am

The Domains
Marchex May Hit The Domain Lottery As Apple Considers The iRing
(iRing concept from 2007 by Yanko Design.) According to Appleinsider.com, Apply is considering a product called the iRing. “The iRing will act as a “navigation pointer” for the television, and will allow the TV...
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Marchex May Hit The Domain Lottery As Apple Considers The iRing
(iRing concept from 2007 by Yanko Design.) According to Appleinsider.com, Apply is considering a product called the iRing. “The iRing will act as a “navigation pointer” for the television, and will allow the TV...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 9:28 am

The Domains
VentureBurn Covers Successful Domain Investors Story & Its About Co.za Space, The ccTLD For South Africa
VentureBurn.com just highlighted a domain name investor success story and this time it wasn’t about a .com but about a ccTLD, Co.Za the country code for South Africa. The investor is Stephen Gorman, Founder of digital marketing agency, Pu...
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VentureBurn Covers Successful Domain Investors Story & Its About Co.za Space, The ccTLD For South Africa
VentureBurn.com just highlighted a domain name investor success story and this time it wasn’t about a .com but about a ccTLD, Co.Za the country code for South Africa. The investor is Stephen Gorman, Founder of digital marketing agency, Pu...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 9:17 am

Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 3rd
And the award for the shortest list every goes to………..me. Wow! there is a lot of nothing on the wire today. I am going to have to write an actual article to make up for it. Take 3 minutes, peruse, and enjoy the ...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 3rd
And the award for the shortest list every goes to………..me. Wow! there is a lot of nothing on the wire today. I am going to have to write an actual article to make up for it. Take 3 minutes, peruse, and enjoy the ...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 7:05 am

The Domains
Marchex Gets Hit With UDRP on WebAnywhere.com
A UDRP has just been filed against Marchex Sales, LLC on the domain name WebAnywhere.com The domain name has been owned by Marchex since at least 2008. There is a trademark filed with the USPTO in February 2010 for the term Webanywhere by a Del...
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Marchex Gets Hit With UDRP on WebAnywhere.com
A UDRP has just been filed against Marchex Sales, LLC on the domain name WebAnywhere.com The domain name has been owned by Marchex since at least 2008. There is a trademark filed with the USPTO in February 2010 for the term Webanywhere by a Del...
Discussion
April 3, 2013, 1:03 am

The Domains
4 More New gTLD’s Withdrawn: L’Oréal, American Heart Association & .Buy
4 more new gTLD’s applications have been withdrawn bringing the total of withdrawn application to 38. The additional applications showing as being withdrawn as of tonight are: 欧莱雅 filed by L’Oréal with prioritization number o...
Discussion
4 More New gTLD’s Withdrawn: L’Oréal, American Heart Association & .Buy
4 more new gTLD’s applications have been withdrawn bringing the total of withdrawn application to 38. The additional applications showing as being withdrawn as of tonight are: 欧莱雅 filed by L’Oréal with prioritization number o...
Discussion
April 2, 2013, 11:46 pm