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Domain Leases and Options with Zac Muscovitch – DNW Podcast #89
How to sell a domain name through a lease/option. Leasing a domain or selling an option to buy a domain is a good way to close a domain name transaction when the buyer can’t pay for it up front. This week, domain attorney Zac Muscovitch explain...
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Domain Leases and Options with Zac Muscovitch – DNW Podcast #89
How to sell a domain name through a lease/option. Leasing a domain or selling an option to buy a domain is a good way to close a domain name transaction when the buyer can’t pay for it up front. This week, domain attorney Zac Muscovitch explain...
Discussion
June 20, 2016, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moniker customer sues over expired domain names
Customer, which has previously sued Moniker, says domains should have been renewed. A client of domain name registrar Moniker has sued the registrar, arguing that the registrar mistakenly let domain names expire. Given the troubles Moniker has experi...
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Moniker customer sues over expired domain names
Customer, which has previously sued Moniker, says domains should have been renewed. A client of domain name registrar Moniker has sued the registrar, arguing that the registrar mistakenly let domain names expire. Given the troubles Moniker has experi...
Discussion
June 20, 2016, 2:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic to relaunch Christmas Island .CX Domain
.CX to stand for Customer eXperience, but is most likely targeted to Chinese domain investors. CentralNic is going to relaunch Christmas Island’s country code top level domain, .CX, as an acronym for Costumer eXperience. While CX is an acronym ...
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CentralNic to relaunch Christmas Island .CX Domain
.CX to stand for Customer eXperience, but is most likely targeted to Chinese domain investors. CentralNic is going to relaunch Christmas Island’s country code top level domain, .CX, as an acronym for Costumer eXperience. While CX is an acronym ...
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June 20, 2016, 12:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name sales including a .MX and .Bet
Here are end user domain name sales that recently took place. Sedo completed 481 domain name transactions for a total of $1 million last week. The top reported sale–Kredit.com for €46,000–is still in escrow, so we don’t know th...
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End user domain name sales including a .MX and .Bet
Here are end user domain name sales that recently took place. Sedo completed 481 domain name transactions for a total of $1 million last week. The top reported sale–Kredit.com for €46,000–is still in escrow, so we don’t know th...
Discussion
June 17, 2016, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic grabs another client from Verisign
.Art switches backend providers. CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) announced today that it will be the backend registry services provider for the .art top level domain name. .Art operator UK Creative Ideas Limited originally selected Verisign as its ba...
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CentralNic grabs another client from Verisign
.Art switches backend providers. CentralNic Group plc (AIM:CNIC) announced today that it will be the backend registry services provider for the .art top level domain name. .Art operator UK Creative Ideas Limited originally selected Verisign as its ba...
Discussion
June 17, 2016, 12:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Video: Take a look inside a Chinese domain name conference
Over 1,000 people attended Global Domain Summit this month. By all accounts, it sounds like this month’s Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou was a big success. More than 1,000 people attended. Pinky Brand of ChopChop and TLD Registry released a vi...
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Video: Take a look inside a Chinese domain name conference
Over 1,000 people attended Global Domain Summit this month. By all accounts, it sounds like this month’s Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou was a big success. More than 1,000 people attended. Pinky Brand of ChopChop and TLD Registry released a vi...
Discussion
June 16, 2016, 5:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
TLD Registry moves registry services to China
Move should help company get license in China. TLD Registry Ltd is switching its two top level domain names’ back-end services from Afilias to Teleinfo Network Technology Co., Ltd. The company operates two domain names: .在线 (.xn--3ds443g) D...
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TLD Registry moves registry services to China
Move should help company get license in China. TLD Registry Ltd is switching its two top level domain names’ back-end services from Afilias to Teleinfo Network Technology Co., Ltd. The company operates two domain names: .在线 (.xn--3ds443g) D...
Discussion
June 16, 2016, 3:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Efty now lets you create your own BrandBucket
New marketplace templates make it easier to showcase your domain portfolio. Domain name sales platform Efty has released a couple of new themes that let domainers create their own domain store, including a BrandBucket-style theme where you can showca...
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Efty now lets you create your own BrandBucket
New marketplace templates make it easier to showcase your domain portfolio. Domain name sales platform Efty has released a couple of new themes that let domainers create their own domain store, including a BrandBucket-style theme where you can showca...
Discussion
June 16, 2016, 2:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
UDRP filed against Circus.com
Gambling company wants domain name registered in 1993. Huh? A cybersquatting complaint has been filed at World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name Circus.com. Circus Belgium, which operates a gambling website at Circus.be, file...
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UDRP filed against Circus.com
Gambling company wants domain name registered in 1993. Huh? A cybersquatting complaint has been filed at World Intellectual Property Organization against the domain name Circus.com. Circus Belgium, which operates a gambling website at Circus.be, file...
Discussion
June 16, 2016, 12:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domainers say first Verisign IDN launch bungled
Some people were able to jump the gun to register domains early, but they didn’t get to keep the domain names. Investors in IDN.com domain names (internationalized domain names) have waited a long time for Verisign to release its IDN.IDN-transl...
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Domainers say first Verisign IDN launch bungled
Some people were able to jump the gun to register domains early, but they didn’t get to keep the domain names. Investors in IDN.com domain names (internationalized domain names) have waited a long time for Verisign to release its IDN.IDN-transl...
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June 15, 2016, 4:31 pm
