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December’s top Domain Name News
A look back at December in the domain world. It’s time to kick-off 2017! The domain name investor community’s biggest annual meeting is on tap for Las Vegas later this month, and the energy will certainly be buzzing. But before we close o...
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December’s top Domain Name News
A look back at December in the domain world. It’s time to kick-off 2017! The domain name investor community’s biggest annual meeting is on tap for Las Vegas later this month, and the energy will certainly be buzzing. But before we close o...
Discussion
January 6, 2017, 3:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
A threat to the importance of domain names
Domain names face a number of threats, including AI personal assistants. Our industry seems to spend a lot of energy battling between the relative value of old top level domain names versus new ones. It doesn’t spend enough time paying attentio...
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A threat to the importance of domain names
Domain names face a number of threats, including AI personal assistants. Our industry seems to spend a lot of energy battling between the relative value of old top level domain names versus new ones. It doesn’t spend enough time paying attentio...
Discussion
January 5, 2017, 5:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
The latest .Com winners & losers
Here’s how registrars did with .com domains in the most recently-reported month. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from September. The new registrations leaderboard remains ...
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The latest .Com winners & losers
Here’s how registrars did with .com domains in the most recently-reported month. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from September. The new registrations leaderboard remains ...
Discussion
January 5, 2017, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
10 notable sales on NameJet last month
These ten notable domain names sold on NameJet last month. NameJet sold 122 domain names last month at $2,000 or above for a total of just over a half million dollars. The top reported sale was eLuxury.com for $35,200. As I do every month, I’m ...
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10 notable sales on NameJet last month
These ten notable domain names sold on NameJet last month. NameJet sold 122 domain names last month at $2,000 or above for a total of just over a half million dollars. The top reported sale was eLuxury.com for $35,200. As I do every month, I’m ...
Discussion
January 5, 2017, 3:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Toby Clements is back, and this is what he has to say
Toby Clements hopes to reboot after running into financial trouble. Last week David Clements announced changes to his domain brokering service Brannans to focus on only bigger ticket domain names rather than daily newsletter sales. As part of this, h...
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Toby Clements is back, and this is what he has to say
Toby Clements hopes to reboot after running into financial trouble. Last week David Clements announced changes to his domain brokering service Brannans to focus on only bigger ticket domain names rather than daily newsletter sales. As part of this, h...
Discussion
January 4, 2017, 7:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
comScore gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking win
Canadian firm tries to take away comScore’s Markescore.com domain, but fails miserably. It’s not often that you find a large company like analytics service comScore on the receiving end of a UDRP. But the company was recently forced to de...
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comScore gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking win
Canadian firm tries to take away comScore’s Markescore.com domain, but fails miserably. It’s not often that you find a large company like analytics service comScore on the receiving end of a UDRP. But the company was recently forced to de...
Discussion
January 4, 2017, 4:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain sales up to $133,000 (and one by Barack Obama)
A pharma company spends $133,000, and Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action buys a three letter .us domain. December is usually a good sales month but the latter half is also affected by the holidays. This week Sedo sent us two weeks of of sales...
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End user domain sales up to $133,000 (and one by Barack Obama)
A pharma company spends $133,000, and Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action buys a three letter .us domain. December is usually a good sales month but the latter half is also affected by the holidays. This week Sedo sent us two weeks of of sales...
Discussion
January 4, 2017, 4:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pheenix increases expired domain backorder prices
Price will go up another $10 this month. As the arms race for catching dropping domain names escalates, expired domain catcher Pheenix is raising its prices. The company announced that the price of “gold” .com backorders will increase to ...
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Pheenix increases expired domain backorder prices
Price will go up another $10 this month. As the arms race for catching dropping domain names escalates, expired domain catcher Pheenix is raising its prices. The company announced that the price of “gold” .com backorders will increase to ...
Discussion
January 4, 2017, 2:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bigfoot wants to hire an “aggressive” litigator
Company posts job description for a California-licensed litigator with IP experience. I wrote earlier today about one of Michael Gleissner’s firms backing down from its challenge to a trademark application filed by Expensify. Expensify alleged ...
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Bigfoot wants to hire an “aggressive” litigator
Company posts job description for a California-licensed litigator with IP experience. I wrote earlier today about one of Michael Gleissner’s firms backing down from its challenge to a trademark application filed by Expensify. Expensify alleged ...
Discussion
January 3, 2017, 9:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
A great UDRP decision for owners of short domain names
Panel acknowledges the inherent value and legitimate interest in ownership of short domain names. Short domain names are valuable, in-demand and tradeable assets. Because of this, lots of companies try to get their hands on them through UDRP rather t...
Discussion
A great UDRP decision for owners of short domain names
Panel acknowledges the inherent value and legitimate interest in ownership of short domain names. Short domain names are valuable, in-demand and tradeable assets. Because of this, lots of companies try to get their hands on them through UDRP rather t...
Discussion
January 3, 2017, 6:27 pm
