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UDRPSearch owner wins UDRP, court case still pending
Panel rules against company that claimed FastTrak.com was cybersquatting against it. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled in favor of Virtual Point in a UDRP over the domain name FastTrak.com. Virtual Point has common ownersh...
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UDRPSearch owner wins UDRP, court case still pending
Panel rules against company that claimed FastTrak.com was cybersquatting against it. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled in favor of Virtual Point in a UDRP over the domain name FastTrak.com. Virtual Point has common ownersh...
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May 24, 2017, 1:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Asia is opening up in July
Domains will be easier to register and open to people outside of Asia. Ten years after its initial release, the .Asia top level domain name will become easier to register for people outside of Asia this summer. Currently, registrants need to provide ...
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.Asia is opening up in July
Domains will be easier to register and open to people outside of Asia. Ten years after its initial release, the .Asia top level domain name will become easier to register for people outside of Asia this summer. Currently, registrants need to provide ...
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May 23, 2017, 6:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo adds new escrow option through partnership with Escrow.domains
Service targets people who can handle the domain transfer themselves. Domain name marketplace Sedo has added a new domain name escrow option through a partnership with Escrow.domains, a service offered by law firm Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC. The ...
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Sedo adds new escrow option through partnership with Escrow.domains
Service targets people who can handle the domain transfer themselves. Domain name marketplace Sedo has added a new domain name escrow option through a partnership with Escrow.domains, a service offered by law firm Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC. The ...
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May 23, 2017, 2:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
125 people to attend DNSeattle on Thursday
Off to Seattle, the center of the domain name universe. 125 people from the domain name industry are expected to attend the sold-out DNSeattle meetup at Amazon.com’s headquarters on Thursday evening. The event is organized by Michael Cyger of D...
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125 people to attend DNSeattle on Thursday
Off to Seattle, the center of the domain name universe. 125 people from the domain name industry are expected to attend the sold-out DNSeattle meetup at Amazon.com’s headquarters on Thursday evening. The event is organized by Michael Cyger of D...
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May 23, 2017, 2:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside has sold over 400 two letter domain names
Average sales price is over $1,000 and they come with premium renewals. Rightside began offering two-letter domain names under its 40 top level domain names back in September. The company has sold 416 of these domain names to date, the company told D...
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Rightside has sold over 400 two letter domain names
Average sales price is over $1,000 and they come with premium renewals. Rightside began offering two-letter domain names under its 40 top level domain names back in September. The company has sold 416 of these domain names to date, the company told D...
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May 22, 2017, 8:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Blockchain and Common Law Trademarks – DNW Podcast #137
A unique service using blockchain wants to help companies prove their rights in common law trademarks. Is the blockchain the answer to proving common law use of trademarks? Bennett Collen, founder of Cognate, is banking on it. Billed as a “comm...
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Blockchain and Common Law Trademarks – DNW Podcast #137
A unique service using blockchain wants to help companies prove their rights in common law trademarks. Is the blockchain the answer to proving common law use of trademarks? Bennett Collen, founder of Cognate, is banking on it. Billed as a “comm...
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May 22, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
The accidentally successful top level domain names
Is there a lesson for new TLDs in the success of .io and .ly? Over the weekend I was listening to last week’s DNW Podcast again and thinking about Mike Carson’s thoughts on ccTLDs that have taken off compared to new TLDs. One thing struck...
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The accidentally successful top level domain names
Is there a lesson for new TLDs in the success of .io and .ly? Over the weekend I was listening to last week’s DNW Podcast again and thinking about Mike Carson’s thoughts on ccTLDs that have taken off compared to new TLDs. One thing struck...
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May 22, 2017, 1:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
.NYC tech domain name auction brings in $29,000
Web.nyc pulls in highest bid in latest auction of .NYC domain name.s .NYC held an auction of technology and entrepreneur-themed domain names on SnapNames that concluded yesterday. The headline result was quite a bit lower than previous auctions. 18 d...
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.NYC tech domain name auction brings in $29,000
Web.nyc pulls in highest bid in latest auction of .NYC domain name.s .NYC held an auction of technology and entrepreneur-themed domain names on SnapNames that concluded yesterday. The headline result was quite a bit lower than previous auctions. 18 d...
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May 19, 2017, 5:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Distil Networks acquires Are You a Human, offers free bot tool for Google Analytics
Get a better understanding of your web traffic after stripping out the bots. Distil networks, an internet security company focused on bots, has acquired Are You a Human and will offer a free bot detecting tool as a result of the acquisition. Distil B...
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Distil Networks acquires Are You a Human, offers free bot tool for Google Analytics
Get a better understanding of your web traffic after stripping out the bots. Distil networks, an internet security company focused on bots, has acquired Are You a Human and will offer a free bot detecting tool as a result of the acquisition. Distil B...
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May 18, 2017, 5:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
You’re not Rick Schwartz. So don’t try to emulate him.
Your own circumstances probably don’t align with the most successful domain name investors. This isn’t an article picking on domain name investor Rick Schwartz. I’m just going to use him as an example. Rick has made a lot of money i...
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You’re not Rick Schwartz. So don’t try to emulate him.
Your own circumstances probably don’t align with the most successful domain name investors. This isn’t an article picking on domain name investor Rick Schwartz. I’m just going to use him as an example. Rick has made a lot of money i...
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May 18, 2017, 1:47 pm
