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These domain name people are presenting at SXSW next month
ICANN, Afilias and other companies will have representatives at SXSW in Austin this March. SXSW is right around the corner, with the popular Interactive portion taking place March 10-16 in Austin. Unlike previous years, I haven’t found any doma...
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These domain name people are presenting at SXSW next month
ICANN, Afilias and other companies will have representatives at SXSW in Austin this March. SXSW is right around the corner, with the popular Interactive portion taking place March 10-16 in Austin. Unlike previous years, I haven’t found any doma...
Discussion
February 27, 2017, 5:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired domain names w/ Tan Tran DNW Podcast #125
Understand the current state of the dropcatching market. Tan Tran runs one of the three biggest pending delete drop catching services, Pheenix, as well as expired domain discovery service FreshDrop (enter coupon ‘pheenix’ to get FreshDrop...
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Expired domain names w/ Tan Tran DNW Podcast #125
Understand the current state of the dropcatching market. Tan Tran runs one of the three biggest pending delete drop catching services, Pheenix, as well as expired domain discovery service FreshDrop (enter coupon ‘pheenix’ to get FreshDrop...
Discussion
February 27, 2017, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Things aren’t looking so good for Grandma Heidi Powell
Cybersquatting claim is dead, but battle continues in bankruptcy court. The saga of Grandma Heidi Powell and the domain name HeidiPowell.com seems like it will be settled in bankruptcy court after a federal district judge said a settlement agreement ...
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Things aren’t looking so good for Grandma Heidi Powell
Cybersquatting claim is dead, but battle continues in bankruptcy court. The saga of Grandma Heidi Powell and the domain name HeidiPowell.com seems like it will be settled in bankruptcy court after a federal district judge said a settlement agreement ...
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February 24, 2017, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
How to park your names on Mailbox Park (in bulk)
The simple process to point your mail to Mailbox Park…if you use GoDaddy. Earlier this month I interviewed Greg Kraios on the DNW Podcast. Kraios is the founder of Mailbox Park, which is sort of like a domain name parking service for your doma...
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How to park your names on Mailbox Park (in bulk)
The simple process to point your mail to Mailbox Park…if you use GoDaddy. Earlier this month I interviewed Greg Kraios on the DNW Podcast. Kraios is the founder of Mailbox Park, which is sort of like a domain name parking service for your doma...
Discussion
February 23, 2017, 9:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Marlboro maker wants another marijuana domain name
Company claims owner of MarlboroWeed.com is cybersquatting. Philip Morris USA Inc., an Altria company that makes Marlboro cigarettes, has filed a cybersquatting complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization. The company is demanding that th...
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Marlboro maker wants another marijuana domain name
Company claims owner of MarlboroWeed.com is cybersquatting. Philip Morris USA Inc., an Altria company that makes Marlboro cigarettes, has filed a cybersquatting complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization. The company is demanding that th...
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February 23, 2017, 2:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
CM.com, a domain with a long history, might have just sold
Domain name was deleted in 2013 and registered again in 2015. CM.com is an extremely valuable two letter domain name. It’s not just that it’s two letters; it’s also a typo of .com. It’s also a domain name with a unique history...
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CM.com, a domain with a long history, might have just sold
Domain name was deleted in 2013 and registered again in 2015. CM.com is an extremely valuable two letter domain name. It’s not just that it’s two letters; it’s also a typo of .com. It’s also a domain name with a unique history...
Discussion
February 23, 2017, 2:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Full page ads with no domain name? That’s strange.
Why would you spend so much for advertising and not make it easy for people to find you? Over the weekend Bret Fausett posted a picture of a full page ad in the New York Times that didn’t have a domain name. It just had an @yahoo.com email addr...
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Full page ads with no domain name? That’s strange.
Why would you spend so much for advertising and not make it easy for people to find you? Over the weekend Bret Fausett posted a picture of a full page ad in the New York Times that didn’t have a domain name. It just had an @yahoo.com email addr...
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February 22, 2017, 6:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
16 end user domain name sales up to $45,000
Here are domain names that end users recently bought. What is Feedjit up to with the domain name Defiant.com? We’ll have to way to find out why it invested $45,000 in this domain name, but the company has a holding page that says “Get Rea...
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16 end user domain name sales up to $45,000
Here are domain names that end users recently bought. What is Feedjit up to with the domain name Defiant.com? We’ll have to way to find out why it invested $45,000 in this domain name, but the company has a holding page that says “Get Rea...
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February 22, 2017, 2:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Data.world gets $19 million funding
Data company that uses a new TLD gets more funding. Slowly but surely, businesses that use new top level domain names are becoming more common. Austin, Texas-based Data.world has snagged $19 million in funding, bringing its total capital raised to $3...
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Data.world gets $19 million funding
Data company that uses a new TLD gets more funding. Slowly but surely, businesses that use new top level domain names are becoming more common. Austin, Texas-based Data.world has snagged $19 million in funding, bringing its total capital raised to $3...
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February 21, 2017, 9:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
All about these popular .AI domain names
.AI domain names are very popular right now, but buyers should know what they are getting. .AI domain names have become popular over the past year thanks to the explosion of Artificial Intelligence companies. Artificial intelligence is a mouthful, so...
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All about these popular .AI domain names
.AI domain names are very popular right now, but buyers should know what they are getting. .AI domain names have become popular over the past year thanks to the explosion of Artificial Intelligence companies. Artificial intelligence is a mouthful, so...
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February 21, 2017, 6:22 pm
