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The languages of new top level domains (Part 8)
Joseph Peterson continues his deep dive into the languages of new top level domains. Almost all new domain endings (nTLDs) are meaningful terms – from English suffixes like .WORLD and .ROCKS to the Spanish .UNO or German .JETZT. ...
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The languages of new top level domains (Part 8)
Joseph Peterson continues his deep dive into the languages of new top level domains. Almost all new domain endings (nTLDs) are meaningful terms – from English suffixes like .WORLD and .ROCKS to the Spanish .UNO or German .JETZT. ...
Discussion
March 20, 2017, 1:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
35,000 domains at MarkMonitor need to be updated soon
Registrant name will need to be updated after Serlin departs. About 35,000 domain names at MarkMonitor use the company’s version of Whois Proxy. They are all registered in the name of Matt Serlin, DNStination Inc. Names registered in this name ...
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35,000 domains at MarkMonitor need to be updated soon
Registrant name will need to be updated after Serlin departs. About 35,000 domain names at MarkMonitor use the company’s version of Whois Proxy. They are all registered in the name of Matt Serlin, DNStination Inc. Names registered in this name ...
Discussion
March 17, 2017, 7:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Should Zions Bank have been hit with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking?
Panelist questions Zions Bank’s decision to file a UDRP. I want to give World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby some credit. He recently decided a case involving Zions Bank. He found in favor of a person in Pakistan wh...
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Should Zions Bank have been hit with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking?
Panelist questions Zions Bank’s decision to file a UDRP. I want to give World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby some credit. He recently decided a case involving Zions Bank. He found in favor of a person in Pakistan wh...
Discussion
March 17, 2017, 5:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
What does BBB stand for? A Bad Bad Bad UDRP decision.
I don’t follow the panelists logic in this UDRP. If I told you about the domain name BBB.cc, what would come to mind? If you’re in the U.S., it would undoubtedly be the Better Business Bureau. If you were a domain trader or in China, it w...
Discussion
What does BBB stand for? A Bad Bad Bad UDRP decision.
I don’t follow the panelists logic in this UDRP. If I told you about the domain name BBB.cc, what would come to mind? If you’re in the U.S., it would undoubtedly be the Better Business Bureau. If you were a domain trader or in China, it w...
Discussion
March 17, 2017, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
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...
Discussion
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...
Discussion
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...
Discussion
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...
Discussion
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
