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GoDaddy to pay up to $365 million for payments company Poynt
GoDaddy adds key payments component to commerce platform. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is buying payments processor Poynt for $320 million upfront and up to $45 million in deferred payments. Poynt offers in-store and online payment processing for merchants, ...
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GoDaddy to pay up to $365 million for payments company Poynt
GoDaddy adds key payments component to commerce platform. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) is buying payments processor Poynt for $320 million upfront and up to $45 million in deferred payments. Poynt offers in-store and online payment processing for merchants, ...
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December 15, 2020, 10:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Is Chehadé why ICANN’s board is reviewing Afilias deal?
Fadi Chehadé is still on Donuts’ board. Top level domain name company Donuts announced last month that it is acquiring Afilias. Later this week, ICANN’s board of directors will consider a change of control request for Afilias. As&n...
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Is Chehadé why ICANN’s board is reviewing Afilias deal?
Fadi Chehadé is still on Donuts’ board. Top level domain name company Donuts announced last month that it is acquiring Afilias. Later this week, ICANN’s board of directors will consider a change of control request for Afilias. As&n...
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December 15, 2020, 8:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reverse domain name hijacking in LevelUp.gg case
Panelist rules that Cybersquatting dispute was an attempt to reverse hijack LevelUp.gg. An adjudicator has found (pdf) that video game consultancy Level Up Management BV tried to reverse domain name hijack LevelUp.gg. It’s just the sixth cybers...
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Reverse domain name hijacking in LevelUp.gg case
Panelist rules that Cybersquatting dispute was an attempt to reverse hijack LevelUp.gg. An adjudicator has found (pdf) that video game consultancy Level Up Management BV tried to reverse domain name hijack LevelUp.gg. It’s just the sixth cybers...
Discussion
December 15, 2020, 6:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains do Chinese internet companies want to buy (multi-year analysis)?
Kassey Lee examines the types of domains large Chinse internet companies use. Regular readers may notice that I use China’s Top 100 internet companies as a proxy for corporate China in understanding what domains investors can sell to this large...
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What domains do Chinese internet companies want to buy (multi-year analysis)?
Kassey Lee examines the types of domains large Chinse internet companies use. Regular readers may notice that I use China’s Top 100 internet companies as a proxy for corporate China in understanding what domains investors can sell to this large...
Discussion
December 15, 2020, 2:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Company sues over Workforce.com domain name
Workforce Software lost a UDRP against Workforce.com earlier this year. Now it’s suing. Workforce Software, LLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) after failing to get the domain name Workforce.com in a UDRP. The company uses the domain name WorkforceSo...
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Company sues over Workforce.com domain name
Workforce Software lost a UDRP against Workforce.com earlier this year. Now it’s suing. Workforce Software, LLC has filed a lawsuit (pdf) after failing to get the domain name Workforce.com in a UDRP. The company uses the domain name WorkforceSo...
Discussion
December 14, 2020, 5:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
A Sparkly conversation with Jen Sale – DNW Podcast #316
Jen Sale’s new startup and thoughts on starting a business. You know Jen Sale as the CEO of domain name brokerage Evergreen. She has a new startup called Sparkly that hopes to make give-giving easier. Jen explains the idea behind the site and h...
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A Sparkly conversation with Jen Sale – DNW Podcast #316
Jen Sale’s new startup and thoughts on starting a business. You know Jen Sale as the CEO of domain name brokerage Evergreen. She has a new startup called Sparkly that hopes to make give-giving easier. Jen explains the idea behind the site and h...
Discussion
December 14, 2020, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
This panelist let the Complainant off the hook for RDNH
There appears to have been plenty of bad faith in this dead-on-arrival UDRP. I’ve written about UDRP panelists sometimes letting Complainants off the hook for reverse domain name hijacking if they didn’t hire a lawyer. That’s bad, b...
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This panelist let the Complainant off the hook for RDNH
There appears to have been plenty of bad faith in this dead-on-arrival UDRP. I’ve written about UDRP panelists sometimes letting Complainants off the hook for reverse domain name hijacking if they didn’t hire a lawyer. That’s bad, b...
Discussion
December 13, 2020, 6:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
University of Missouri attempts reverse domain name hijacking
The Curators of the University of Missouri attempted to reverse domain name hijack the domain name MUHealthcare.com, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist ruled. The group that oversees the university system filed the case against Pamel...
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University of Missouri attempts reverse domain name hijacking
The Curators of the University of Missouri attempted to reverse domain name hijack the domain name MUHealthcare.com, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist ruled. The group that oversees the university system filed the case against Pamel...
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December 11, 2020, 1:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google is getting rid of link ads
Google will retire link ads in Adsense next year. I received an email from Google this morning stating that Google Adsense is retiring its link ads. Link ads are ads that list search terms. When people click on the search terms, they are directed to ...
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Google is getting rid of link ads
Google will retire link ads in Adsense next year. I received an email from Google this morning stating that Google Adsense is retiring its link ads. Link ads are ads that list search terms. When people click on the search terms, they are directed to ...
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December 10, 2020, 4:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
How Google became a strong competitor for domain names
From an innocuous beginning, Google has grown into a key competitor for retail domain name registrations. I was in London in June 2014 at an ICANN meeting when the news broke: Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) was becoming a domain name registrar. Technically, ...
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How Google became a strong competitor for domain names
From an innocuous beginning, Google has grown into a key competitor for retail domain name registrations. I was in London in June 2014 at an ICANN meeting when the news broke: Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) was becoming a domain name registrar. Technically, ...
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December 10, 2020, 2:20 pm
