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Wine spat: Brewery and vineyard tries reverse hijacking SpringGate.com
Pennslyvania brewery files bad case with WIPO. A Pennslyvania brewery and winery has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over SpringGate.com. Schoffstall Farm, LLC, which does business as Spring Gate Vineyard, Winery and B...
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Wine spat: Brewery and vineyard tries reverse hijacking SpringGate.com
Pennslyvania brewery files bad case with WIPO. A Pennslyvania brewery and winery has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over SpringGate.com. Schoffstall Farm, LLC, which does business as Spring Gate Vineyard, Winery and B...
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May 18, 2020, 4:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Adrian Kinderis – DNW Podcast #286
From running a registrar to .au to .film. My guest this week is Adrian Kinderis. Adrian has been in the domain business for a couple of decades and started by founding a domain registrar. This snowballed into operating the .au domain. On today’...
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Adrian Kinderis – DNW Podcast #286
From running a registrar to .au to .film. My guest this week is Adrian Kinderis. Adrian has been in the domain business for a couple of decades and started by founding a domain registrar. This snowballed into operating the .au domain. On today’...
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May 18, 2020, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
DomainAgents: Domain inquiries up 20%
There has been a surge in domain purchase inquiries as people move business online. Domain name offer service DomainAgents reports that domain purchase inquiries are up significantly. Over the past two months, offers on domains through DomainAgents a...
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DomainAgents: Domain inquiries up 20%
There has been a surge in domain purchase inquiries as people move business online. Domain name offer service DomainAgents reports that domain purchase inquiries are up significantly. Over the past two months, offers on domains through DomainAgents a...
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May 18, 2020, 1:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Doxing crosses the free speech line in UDRP case
Panelist rules that domain used for gripe site isn’t protected speech. UDRP panelists walk a fine line when considering cases involving gripe sites. Is it cybersquatting to register a domain related to a company if the goal is to complain about...
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Doxing crosses the free speech line in UDRP case
Panelist rules that domain used for gripe site isn’t protected speech. UDRP panelists walk a fine line when considering cases involving gripe sites. Is it cybersquatting to register a domain related to a company if the goal is to complain about...
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May 15, 2020, 6:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Website Boom: Wix quantifies massive demand for websites due to Covid
People are creating websites in droves. Website building platform Wix (Nasdaq: WIX) reported first quarter earnings today. It had a solid first quarter, but things got really interesting in April. As domain name companies can attest, there has been a...
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Website Boom: Wix quantifies massive demand for websites due to Covid
People are creating websites in droves. Website building platform Wix (Nasdaq: WIX) reported first quarter earnings today. It had a solid first quarter, but things got really interesting in April. As domain name companies can attest, there has been a...
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May 14, 2020, 6:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
A cool featured of ExpiredDomains.net
Kassey Lee explains a neat feature of ExpiredDomains.net for finding domain deals. I collect China-related domains. Recently I discovered a function provided by ExpiredDomains.net that is very useful if you have a shopping list of domains. During my ...
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A cool featured of ExpiredDomains.net
Kassey Lee explains a neat feature of ExpiredDomains.net for finding domain deals. I collect China-related domains. Recently I discovered a function provided by ExpiredDomains.net that is very useful if you have a shopping list of domains. During my ...
Discussion
May 14, 2020, 3:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Cloud releases lots of reserved inventory, drops premium renewals
No more premium renewals as more names go through the channel. I normally don’t write about individual top level domain names releasing or repricing their premium inventory. But I’ve sold two .cloud domains for about $1,000 each, so there...
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.Cloud releases lots of reserved inventory, drops premium renewals
No more premium renewals as more names go through the channel. I normally don’t write about individual top level domain names releasing or repricing their premium inventory. But I’ve sold two .cloud domains for about $1,000 each, so there...
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May 14, 2020, 1:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Nordic healthcare company files dead-on-arrival cybersquatting claim
Company goes after domain registered nine years before it started using its brand name. Timik Group, a healthcare company in Sweden and Norway, has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against the domain Timik.com. The case was dead one arrival: Timi...
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Nordic healthcare company files dead-on-arrival cybersquatting claim
Company goes after domain registered nine years before it started using its brand name. Timik Group, a healthcare company in Sweden and Norway, has lost a cybersquatting claim it filed against the domain Timik.com. The case was dead one arrival: Timi...
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May 13, 2020, 5:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain sales including a three letter .com
A new online events platform, a touch display manufacturer, and a surgical mask seller bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale for the past week was a three-letter domain bought by an end user through SedoMLS. Here’s a look at some of...
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End user domain sales including a three letter .com
A new online events platform, a touch display manufacturer, and a surgical mask seller bought domain names. Sedo’s top public sale for the past week was a three-letter domain bought by an end user through SedoMLS. Here’s a look at some of...
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May 13, 2020, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN posts its latest tax return. Let the gawking begin!
ICANN’s latest tax return discloses that it paid 197 employees and contractors at least $100,000. ICANN has posted its latest tax return (pdf), which covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. It’s that time of year when you get to see ...
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ICANN posts its latest tax return. Let the gawking begin!
ICANN’s latest tax return discloses that it paid 197 employees and contractors at least $100,000. ICANN has posted its latest tax return (pdf), which covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019. It’s that time of year when you get to see ...
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May 13, 2020, 3:56 pm
