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20 years after registering IMEC.com, company hit with UDRP
Panel declines to find reverse domain name hijacking despite highly questionable UDRP. Imagine registering a four letter .com domain name for your business in 1996. You use it off and on during that period, and then twenty years later you receive a c...
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20 years after registering IMEC.com, company hit with UDRP
Panel declines to find reverse domain name hijacking despite highly questionable UDRP. Imagine registering a four letter .com domain name for your business in 1996. You use it off and on during that period, and then twenty years later you receive a c...
Discussion
March 29, 2017, 9:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name sales up to $200k
Here are some of the domain names end users purchased at Sedo over the past week. A lot of Sedo’s domain name sales over the past week are still in escrow, but there are still some notable end user sales to write about. I think the buyers of Ge...
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End user domain name sales up to $200k
Here are some of the domain names end users purchased at Sedo over the past week. A lot of Sedo’s domain name sales over the past week are still in escrow, but there are still some notable end user sales to write about. I think the buyers of Ge...
Discussion
March 29, 2017, 4:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
Austin company tries its hand at an “alternative root”
Want to register something.new? You can, but there’s a catch. An Austin company has launched something like an “alternative root” for domain names. Authenticated Reality is launched “The New Internet“, a service that all...
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Austin company tries its hand at an “alternative root”
Want to register something.new? You can, but there’s a catch. An Austin company has launched something like an “alternative root” for domain names. Authenticated Reality is launched “The New Internet“, a service that all...
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March 29, 2017, 3:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside changes brand blocking service for new TLDs
Product will cover more domains but cost more money. Domain name company Rightside is expanding the scope and features of its Domain Protected Marks List (DPML), a service that lets trademark holders block domain names across its portfolio of 40 TLDs...
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Rightside changes brand blocking service for new TLDs
Product will cover more domains but cost more money. Domain name company Rightside is expanding the scope and features of its Domain Protected Marks List (DPML), a service that lets trademark holders block domain names across its portfolio of 40 TLDs...
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March 28, 2017, 5:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Donuts tries the dirt-cheap domain model
Majority of Donuts’ domain names will cost less than $10 for the first year. New top level domain name company Donuts initially held out on offering low first-year prices for its domain names. Then, it started testing it across some of its doma...
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Donuts tries the dirt-cheap domain model
Majority of Donuts’ domain names will cost less than $10 for the first year. New top level domain name company Donuts initially held out on offering low first-year prices for its domain names. Then, it started testing it across some of its doma...
Discussion
March 28, 2017, 1:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Want a .makeup domain? It will soon cost over $5,000 per year
Price of new registrations will increase substantially next month. A number of large brands applied for generic terms in new top level domain names with plans to keep them for their own use. The ICANN community put the kibosh on this idea, mandating ...
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Want a .makeup domain? It will soon cost over $5,000 per year
Price of new registrations will increase substantially next month. A number of large brands applied for generic terms in new top level domain names with plans to keep them for their own use. The ICANN community put the kibosh on this idea, mandating ...
Discussion
March 28, 2017, 1:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Did Raiders owner register LasVegasRaiders.com in 1998? Not so fast.
Mark Davis is a fairly common name. News broke today that the Oakland Raiders had enough votes to move the team to Las Vegas, and people quickly picked up on the fact that LasVegasRaiders.com was registered. It was registered in 1998 to Mark Davis, w...
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Did Raiders owner register LasVegasRaiders.com in 1998? Not so fast.
Mark Davis is a fairly common name. News broke today that the Oakland Raiders had enough votes to move the team to Las Vegas, and people quickly picked up on the fact that LasVegasRaiders.com was registered. It was registered in 1998 to Mark Davis, w...
Discussion
March 28, 2017, 12:26 am
Domain Name Wire
The Internet of Things – DNW Podcast #129
How will the Internet of Things impact domain names? This week I talk with my wife and Internet of Things expert Stacey Higginbotham about what the Internet of Things is and what it may mean for domain names. She also discusses her perspective on dom...
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The Internet of Things – DNW Podcast #129
How will the Internet of Things impact domain names? This week I talk with my wife and Internet of Things expert Stacey Higginbotham about what the Internet of Things is and what it may mean for domain names. She also discusses her perspective on dom...
Discussion
March 27, 2017, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
From the fake news department with a domain name angle
Story claimed Trump sent a cease & desist letter about a domain name, but the domain wasn’t even registered. Earlier this week, Observer.com published an article about the poor fate of a teenager who registered the domain name TrumpScratch....
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From the fake news department with a domain name angle
Story claimed Trump sent a cease & desist letter about a domain name, but the domain wasn’t even registered. Earlier this week, Observer.com published an article about the poor fate of a teenager who registered the domain name TrumpScratch....
Discussion
March 24, 2017, 3:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Two Tucows execs are leaving
CFO and CIO announced their resignations this month. Two Tucows executives have recently notified the company that they are leaving. Last week, Chief Financial Officer Michael Cooperman announced that he was retiring after 18 years with the company. ...
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Two Tucows execs are leaving
CFO and CIO announced their resignations this month. Two Tucows executives have recently notified the company that they are leaving. Last week, Chief Financial Officer Michael Cooperman announced that he was retiring after 18 years with the company. ...
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March 24, 2017, 1:15 pm
