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.Club to release more names through registrars
12,000 more domains will be available at registrars. .Club is getting ready to release more premium names through the registrar channel, making it easier for customers to register the domain names. 12,000 premium domains will be released through the ...
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.Club to release more names through registrars
12,000 more domains will be available at registrars. .Club is getting ready to release more premium names through the registrar channel, making it easier for customers to register the domain names. 12,000 premium domains will be released through the ...
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June 9, 2016, 4:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
NTIA gives green light to IANA transition
NTIA approves transition, but congress might be a roadblock. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today gave its approval of a community-led proposal to eliminate the U.S. government role in overseeing the Internet As...
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NTIA gives green light to IANA transition
NTIA approves transition, but congress might be a roadblock. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today gave its approval of a community-led proposal to eliminate the U.S. government role in overseeing the Internet As...
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June 9, 2016, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Ted Cruz and Duffy present bill to nix IANA transition
Bill should probably be called “Protecting U.S. Control of the Internet”. Senators Ted Cruz and Sean Duffy introduced the Protecting Internet Freedom Act in Congress today. The act would forbid the National Telecommunications and Informat...
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Ted Cruz and Duffy present bill to nix IANA transition
Bill should probably be called “Protecting U.S. Control of the Internet”. Senators Ted Cruz and Sean Duffy introduced the Protecting Internet Freedom Act in Congress today. The act would forbid the National Telecommunications and Informat...
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June 8, 2016, 10:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name sales up to $156,700
Purple.co.uk leads the bunch, and Procter & Gamble buys a .co.uk, too. Sedo handled 526 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million. The biggest (public) sale was Purple.co.uk for £108,000 ($156,700). There were some othe...
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End user domain name sales up to $156,700
Purple.co.uk leads the bunch, and Procter & Gamble buys a .co.uk, too. Sedo handled 526 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million. The biggest (public) sale was Purple.co.uk for £108,000 ($156,700). There were some othe...
Discussion
June 8, 2016, 6:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Book Review: Domain Name Arbitration by Gerald Levine
[Editor’s note: In this post, Chris LaHatte reviews Gerald Levine’s book Domain Name Arbitration, A Practical Guide to Asserting And Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Although LaHa...
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Book Review: Domain Name Arbitration by Gerald Levine
[Editor’s note: In this post, Chris LaHatte reviews Gerald Levine’s book Domain Name Arbitration, A Practical Guide to Asserting And Defending Claims of Cybersquatting Under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. Although LaHa...
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June 8, 2016, 2:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Hanes spends about $30,000 to buy T-Shirts.store
Company registers domain on first day of EAP. Radix started the Early Access period for .store today. When I wrote about it yesterday, I noted Radix’s steep day one prices of about $30,000 retail. I wrote: “While that number might seem cr...
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Hanes spends about $30,000 to buy T-Shirts.store
Company registers domain on first day of EAP. Radix started the Early Access period for .store today. When I wrote about it yesterday, I noted Radix’s steep day one prices of about $30,000 retail. I wrote: “While that number might seem cr...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 5:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Complainants should hire domain name attorneys, too
Two cases show why you need competent counsel to file a UDRP. A good number of domain names are lost via UDRP when the domain name owner fails to put up an adequate defense. The domain name owner fails to hire a qualified domain name attorney who und...
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Complainants should hire domain name attorneys, too
Two cases show why you need competent counsel to file a UDRP. A good number of domain names are lost via UDRP when the domain name owner fails to put up an adequate defense. The domain name owner fails to hire a qualified domain name attorney who und...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 1:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
.VIP domain hits $5.5 million and 400,000 registrations
New domain continues to grow in China. .VIP is proving to be a winner for MMX (Minds + Machines). The company announced today that it already has $5.5 million in sales (wholesale) of .VIP domains after three weeks on the market. It paid $3.0 million ...
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.VIP domain hits $5.5 million and 400,000 registrations
New domain continues to grow in China. .VIP is proving to be a winner for MMX (Minds + Machines). The company announced today that it already has $5.5 million in sales (wholesale) of .VIP domains after three weeks on the market. It paid $3.0 million ...
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June 7, 2016, 12:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new TLDs: .Group, .Salon and .Store EAP
New domain names are headed for release this week. There are a handful of new top level domain name opportunities this week. The .Store early access period starts on Tuesday when you can get .store domains for a hefty price of about $30,000. While th...
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This week’s new TLDs: .Group, .Salon and .Store EAP
New domain names are headed for release this week. There are a handful of new top level domain name opportunities this week. The .Store early access period starts on Tuesday when you can get .store domains for a hefty price of about $30,000. While th...
Discussion
June 6, 2016, 5:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Selling a 6 figure domain name – Kate Buckley – DNW Podcast #87
How to sell a really valuable domain name like Rate.com. Kate Buckley just brokered the sale of Rate.com to GuaranteedRate.com for $725,000. In this episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast, she explains her process for selling Rate.com, which should ...
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Selling a 6 figure domain name – Kate Buckley – DNW Podcast #87
How to sell a really valuable domain name like Rate.com. Kate Buckley just brokered the sale of Rate.com to GuaranteedRate.com for $725,000. In this episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast, she explains her process for selling Rate.com, which should ...
Discussion
June 6, 2016, 3:30 pm
