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WIPO touts record UDRP filings in 2016
UDRP filings at WIPO crossed the 3,000 threshold for the first time last year. 3,036 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases were filed with WIPO in 2016, a record. This record is only as it pertains to disputes filed with WIPO and...
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WIPO touts record UDRP filings in 2016
UDRP filings at WIPO crossed the 3,000 threshold for the first time last year. 3,036 Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) cases were filed with WIPO in 2016, a record. This record is only as it pertains to disputes filed with WIPO and...
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March 17, 2017, 2:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
That’s Zero, X-E-R-O
This company’s name (and domain name) is hard to spell. I was listening to a podcast yesterday and heard an ad for Xero (prounounced Zero), an online small business accounting program similar to Quickbooks Online. Xero is a nice looking name. I...
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That’s Zero, X-E-R-O
This company’s name (and domain name) is hard to spell. I was listening to a podcast yesterday and heard an ad for Xero (prounounced Zero), an online small business accounting program similar to Quickbooks Online. Xero is a nice looking name. I...
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March 16, 2017, 4:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameJet adds seller dashboard
Dashboard will let sellers get the status of their domains for sale on the popular auction platform. Selling domain names on NameJet has always been somewhat of a manual process. NameJet just took a step to make it easier to monitor domains you have ...
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NameJet adds seller dashboard
Dashboard will let sellers get the status of their domains for sale on the popular auction platform. Selling domain names on NameJet has always been somewhat of a manual process. NameJet just took a step to make it easier to monitor domains you have ...
Discussion
March 16, 2017, 2:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon and chonkpur cheetahs? Your guess is as good as mine
Amazon.com just registered 28 weird domain names. Amazon.com does a good job buying up new product names and typos of them the moment before it releases a new service. This latest one has me baffled. Yesterday the company registered 28 domain names r...
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Amazon and chonkpur cheetahs? Your guess is as good as mine
Amazon.com just registered 28 weird domain names. Amazon.com does a good job buying up new product names and typos of them the moment before it releases a new service. This latest one has me baffled. Yesterday the company registered 28 domain names r...
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March 16, 2017, 1:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Blockchain is trending in domain names
Lots of .com domains with “blockchain” in them were registered last month. “Block” and “chain” were among the top ten trending words in new .com domain name registrations last month, according to .com registry Veri...
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Blockchain is trending in domain names
Lots of .com domains with “blockchain” in them were registered last month. “Block” and “chain” were among the top ten trending words in new .com domain name registrations last month, according to .com registry Veri...
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March 15, 2017, 6:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
20 End User Domain Name Sales
Company that “forgot” a letter returns to buy the right domain name. There were no headline-grabbing sales on Sedo’s domain sales list this week. But that’s OK; most of us make sales that won’t make headlines, anyway. Am...
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20 End User Domain Name Sales
Company that “forgot” a letter returns to buy the right domain name. There were no headline-grabbing sales on Sedo’s domain sales list this week. But that’s OK; most of us make sales that won’t make headlines, anyway. Am...
Discussion
March 15, 2017, 4:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
A TLD registry just slashed its wholesale prices up to 97%
This company is taking the opposite approach of Uniregistry. Will it work? In light of Uniregistry’s sharp price increases for registering and renewing many of its top level domain names, it was interesting to learn this week that another regis...
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A TLD registry just slashed its wholesale prices up to 97%
This company is taking the opposite approach of Uniregistry. Will it work? In light of Uniregistry’s sharp price increases for registering and renewing many of its top level domain names, it was interesting to learn this week that another regis...
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March 15, 2017, 1:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Valuable domain name Bespoke.com hit with another cybersquatting complaint
Yet another company called Bespoke wants to get Bespoke.com without paying for it. When Garth Piesse paid $18,805 to acquire the domain name Bespoke.com in an expired domain name auction in 2014, I bet he didn’t expect to be hit with a couple c...
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Valuable domain name Bespoke.com hit with another cybersquatting complaint
Yet another company called Bespoke wants to get Bespoke.com without paying for it. When Garth Piesse paid $18,805 to acquire the domain name Bespoke.com in an expired domain name auction in 2014, I bet he didn’t expect to be hit with a couple c...
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March 14, 2017, 2:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy drops Uniregistry domain names due to price hike
World’s largest domain name registrar will no longer carry Uniregistry’s top level domains. GoDaddy has stopped selling Uniregistry top level domain names after Uniregistry announced a wholesale price hike effective this coming August. Th...
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GoDaddy drops Uniregistry domain names due to price hike
World’s largest domain name registrar will no longer carry Uniregistry’s top level domains. GoDaddy has stopped selling Uniregistry top level domain names after Uniregistry announced a wholesale price hike effective this coming August. Th...
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March 13, 2017, 11:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
There are lots of ways to make money with domain name investing
There are lots of domain investing business models. I’m always amazed at the niches people find within our relatively small industry of buying and selling domain names. Yesterday, Elliot Silver posted an update about the types of domains he&rsq...
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There are lots of ways to make money with domain name investing
There are lots of domain investing business models. I’m always amazed at the niches people find within our relatively small industry of buying and selling domain names. Yesterday, Elliot Silver posted an update about the types of domains he&rsq...
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March 13, 2017, 7:19 pm
