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Verisign signs .com contract extension, amends cooperative agreement
Company enters into three agreements today, including the .com contract extension. Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) today signed amended agreements with ICANN and the Department of Commerce (DOC) related to the U.S. government IANA functions transition. The comp...
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Verisign signs .com contract extension, amends cooperative agreement
Company enters into three agreements today, including the .com contract extension. Verisign (NYSE:VRSN) today signed amended agreements with ICANN and the Department of Commerce (DOC) related to the U.S. government IANA functions transition. The comp...
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October 20, 2016, 8:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in GWG.com case
GWG Holdings guilty of abusing policy to try to get valuable three letter domain name. Insurance company GWG Holdings (NASDAQ: GWGH) has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain namd GWG.com. The co...
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Reverse Domain Name Hijacking in GWG.com case
GWG Holdings guilty of abusing policy to try to get valuable three letter domain name. Insurance company GWG Holdings (NASDAQ: GWGH) has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in its attempt to get the domain namd GWG.com. The co...
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October 20, 2016, 5:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
BadHombres.com and NastyWoman.com registered before debate, but Rick Schwartz got…
Key terms from last night’s debate were registered well before the debate, but Rick Schwartz snapped up one phrase. Donald Trump uttered some phrases in yesterday’s debate that are taking on a life of their own today. But the terms in .co...
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BadHombres.com and NastyWoman.com registered before debate, but Rick Schwartz got…
Key terms from last night’s debate were registered well before the debate, but Rick Schwartz snapped up one phrase. Donald Trump uttered some phrases in yesterday’s debate that are taking on a life of their own today. But the terms in .co...
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October 20, 2016, 1:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
A BIG week for end user domain name sales
At least three $10 billion+ companies bought domain names last week. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sales list from Sedo this full of big end users. I count at least three companies with market caps of over $10 billion that bough...
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A BIG week for end user domain name sales
At least three $10 billion+ companies bought domain names last week. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a sales list from Sedo this full of big end users. I count at least three companies with market caps of over $10 billion that bough...
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October 19, 2016, 2:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Dot brand gTLDs–still yet to hit the mainstream
Angie Graves explores the current state of .brand top level domain names. Dot brands have made great strides in the two years since the first delegations in the most recent round of new gTLDs. According to calzone.org’s gTLD calendar, CITIC Gro...
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Dot brand gTLDs–still yet to hit the mainstream
Angie Graves explores the current state of .brand top level domain names. Dot brands have made great strides in the two years since the first delegations in the most recent round of new gTLDs. According to calzone.org’s gTLD calendar, CITIC Gro...
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October 19, 2016, 1:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Daniel Negari exits Rightside position
XYZ founder sells his remaining shares in Rightside. Daniel Negari, CEO of top level domain name company XYZ, has sold all of his remaining shares in Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME). Negari made the disclosure in a Facebook post about the Google open source ...
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Daniel Negari exits Rightside position
XYZ founder sells his remaining shares in Rightside. Daniel Negari, CEO of top level domain name company XYZ, has sold all of his remaining shares in Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME). Negari made the disclosure in a Facebook post about the Google open source ...
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October 18, 2016, 10:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Small Businesses and Investors Losing Domains in Flawed UDRP Decisions
[Editor’s note: Nat Cohen takes a look at recent UDRP decisions in this extensive report.] Are you guilty of “cybersquatting” without knowing it? Take a look at these recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (&ldqu...
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Small Businesses and Investors Losing Domains in Flawed UDRP Decisions
[Editor’s note: Nat Cohen takes a look at recent UDRP decisions in this extensive report.] Are you guilty of “cybersquatting” without knowing it? Take a look at these recent Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (&ldqu...
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October 18, 2016, 6:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts
Donuts makes key contributions to open source registry platform, setting up a possible migration in the future. The shakeup in the backend domain name registry services business continues. Today, Google launched an open source cloud-based registry pl...
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Google open sources domain registry, Donuts collaborates as pressure on registry providers mounts
Donuts makes key contributions to open source registry platform, setting up a possible migration in the future. The shakeup in the backend domain name registry services business continues. Today, Google launched an open source cloud-based registry pl...
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October 18, 2016, 3:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
All LLL.com domain names worth $2 billion, new report says
A new report sheds light on the health of the domain name aftermarket for short .com domain names. Domain name valuation service Estibot and short domain name brokerage GGRG have released a report on the state of the market for short domain names. Th...
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All LLL.com domain names worth $2 billion, new report says
A new report sheds light on the health of the domain name aftermarket for short .com domain names. Domain name valuation service Estibot and short domain name brokerage GGRG have released a report on the state of the market for short domain names. Th...
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October 18, 2016, 1:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Mike Mann gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking win
Operator of Dollar City stores tries to argue “retroactive bad faith.” Domain name investor Mike Mann has successfully defended against a UDRP on his domain name DollarCity.com, and the panel found complainant Centroamerica Comercial guil...
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Mike Mann gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking win
Operator of Dollar City stores tries to argue “retroactive bad faith.” Domain name investor Mike Mann has successfully defended against a UDRP on his domain name DollarCity.com, and the panel found complainant Centroamerica Comercial guil...
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October 17, 2016, 5:03 pm
