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This should have been reverse domain name hijacking
This UDRP should have never been filed. OSRAM GmbH, a German lighting company, has lost a UDRP against a Vietnam-based cloud services consultancy. Even though the Respondent didn’t reply to the dispute, this seems like a clear cut case of rever...
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This should have been reverse domain name hijacking
This UDRP should have never been filed. OSRAM GmbH, a German lighting company, has lost a UDRP against a Vietnam-based cloud services consultancy. Even though the Respondent didn’t reply to the dispute, this seems like a clear cut case of rever...
Discussion
September 17, 2020, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
You can still pick up Pinyin domains from the drops
Good quality Pinyin domains drop every day. I thought most meaningful Pinyin are already owned by Chinese investors because there are over 900 million internet citizens and a large pool of investors in China. These Chinese domain investors even trigg...
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You can still pick up Pinyin domains from the drops
Good quality Pinyin domains drop every day. I thought most meaningful Pinyin are already owned by Chinese investors because there are over 900 million internet citizens and a large pool of investors in China. These Chinese domain investors even trigg...
Discussion
September 17, 2020, 3:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
How Ritual.com got its domain name
The company made a unique trade to get the domain it wanted. This week on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis, Ritual founder Katerina Schneider explained how her company got the domain name Ritual.com. Schneider explained the importance of ha...
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How Ritual.com got its domain name
The company made a unique trade to get the domain it wanted. This week on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis, Ritual founder Katerina Schneider explained how her company got the domain name Ritual.com. Schneider explained the importance of ha...
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September 17, 2020, 1:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Bodis dumps shady zero click programs
Enough is enough, Bodis founder says. Domain name parking company Bodis announced today that it has punted six zero click ad partners from its network. Zero click ads monetize domains by directly forwarding a domain visitor to an advertiser’s p...
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Bodis dumps shady zero click programs
Enough is enough, Bodis founder says. Domain name parking company Bodis announced today that it has punted six zero click ad partners from its network. Zero click ads monetize domains by directly forwarding a domain visitor to an advertiser’s p...
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September 16, 2020, 8:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Gay domain now available for all
The .gay domain name has finally entered general availability. The .gay top level domain name entered general availability today, meaning anyone can register the domains. It took a long time for .gay to come to fruition. There was a contentious and d...
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.Gay domain now available for all
The .gay domain name has finally entered general availability. The .gay top level domain name entered general availability today, meaning anyone can register the domains. It took a long time for .gay to come to fruition. There was a contentious and d...
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September 16, 2020, 5:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Taking a look at Web.com’s auction sales last month
A three-letter .com domain led the charts. Web.com’s aftermarket sites NameJet and SnapNames combined for 76 sales over $2,000 last month. These 76 domains sold for a combined $360,000. The top sales were: ZML.com $34,000 – Not a bad sale...
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Taking a look at Web.com’s auction sales last month
A three-letter .com domain led the charts. Web.com’s aftermarket sites NameJet and SnapNames combined for 76 sales over $2,000 last month. These 76 domains sold for a combined $360,000. The top sales were: ZML.com $34,000 – Not a bad sale...
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September 16, 2020, 4:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Milestone: There are now over 150 million .com domains registered
.Com has over 150 million registrations 35 years after its launch. There are now officially over 150 million .com domain names registered. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) updated its .com domain base statistics earlier today, revealing that .com hit the big ...
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Milestone: There are now over 150 million .com domains registered
.Com has over 150 million registrations 35 years after its launch. There are now officially over 150 million .com domain names registered. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) updated its .com domain base statistics earlier today, revealing that .com hit the big ...
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September 16, 2020, 3:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why are two letter domains so sought after in China?
Kassey Lee explores why two letter domains are valuable to Chinese companies. Actually, I found the answer in a comment made by Jeff Sass (CMO of .club) on the September 7 DomainSherpa show — even though he was not referring directly to China. ...
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Why are two letter domains so sought after in China?
Kassey Lee explores why two letter domains are valuable to Chinese companies. Actually, I found the answer in a comment made by Jeff Sass (CMO of .club) on the September 7 DomainSherpa show — even though he was not referring directly to China. ...
Discussion
September 16, 2020, 1:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain sales up to €50,000
A green energy company, an office space broker, and a fire detection company bought domain names at Sedo. Sedo’s public sales this week were led by HotelsGuide.com. A Romanian direct response company bought the domain name. Here’s a list ...
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End user domain sales up to €50,000
A green energy company, an office space broker, and a fire detection company bought domain names at Sedo. Sedo’s public sales this week were led by HotelsGuide.com. A Romanian direct response company bought the domain name. Here’s a list ...
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September 15, 2020, 10:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign awarded patent for using machine learning in name spinning
Idea uses neural networks to find relevant domain names. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,778,640 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Deep neural network generation of domain names.” The patent ...
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Verisign awarded patent for using machine learning in name spinning
Idea uses neural networks to find relevant domain names. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 10,778,640 (pdf) to Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) for “Deep neural network generation of domain names.” The patent ...
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September 15, 2020, 4:36 pm
