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End user domain sales up to $133,000 (and one by Barack Obama)
A pharma company spends $133,000, and Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action buys a three letter .us domain. December is usually a good sales month but the latter half is also affected by the holidays. This week Sedo sent us two weeks of of sales...
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End user domain sales up to $133,000 (and one by Barack Obama)
A pharma company spends $133,000, and Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action buys a three letter .us domain. December is usually a good sales month but the latter half is also affected by the holidays. This week Sedo sent us two weeks of of sales...
Discussion
January 4, 2017, 4:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Pheenix increases expired domain backorder prices
Price will go up another $10 this month. As the arms race for catching dropping domain names escalates, expired domain catcher Pheenix is raising its prices. The company announced that the price of “gold” .com backorders will increase to ...
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Pheenix increases expired domain backorder prices
Price will go up another $10 this month. As the arms race for catching dropping domain names escalates, expired domain catcher Pheenix is raising its prices. The company announced that the price of “gold” .com backorders will increase to ...
Discussion
January 4, 2017, 2:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Bigfoot wants to hire an “aggressive” litigator
Company posts job description for a California-licensed litigator with IP experience. I wrote earlier today about one of Michael Gleissner’s firms backing down from its challenge to a trademark application filed by Expensify. Expensify alleged ...
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Bigfoot wants to hire an “aggressive” litigator
Company posts job description for a California-licensed litigator with IP experience. I wrote earlier today about one of Michael Gleissner’s firms backing down from its challenge to a trademark application filed by Expensify. Expensify alleged ...
Discussion
January 3, 2017, 9:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
A great UDRP decision for owners of short domain names
Panel acknowledges the inherent value and legitimate interest in ownership of short domain names. Short domain names are valuable, in-demand and tradeable assets. Because of this, lots of companies try to get their hands on them through UDRP rather t...
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A great UDRP decision for owners of short domain names
Panel acknowledges the inherent value and legitimate interest in ownership of short domain names. Short domain names are valuable, in-demand and tradeable assets. Because of this, lots of companies try to get their hands on them through UDRP rather t...
Discussion
January 3, 2017, 6:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Monte Cahn – DNW Podcast #117
Views on the domain industry from someone with 21 years’ experience. Monte Cahn has been in the domain name business for 21 years. On today’s show he discusses what he sees happening with both new TLDs and .com, as well has his upcoming a...
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Monte Cahn – DNW Podcast #117
Views on the domain industry from someone with 21 years’ experience. Monte Cahn has been in the domain name business for 21 years. On today’s show he discusses what he sees happening with both new TLDs and .com, as well has his upcoming a...
Discussion
January 3, 2017, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Gleissner firm backs down in fight against Expensify over “Concierge”
EBB Development withdraws opposition after Expensify alleges fraud. I’ve written several stories about firms owned by or connected to Michael Gleissner making questionable trademark claims, including challenging Expensify on the expense report ...
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Gleissner firm backs down in fight against Expensify over “Concierge”
EBB Development withdraws opposition after Expensify alleges fraud. I’ve written several stories about firms owned by or connected to Michael Gleissner making questionable trademark claims, including challenging Expensify on the expense report ...
Discussion
January 3, 2017, 2:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
In Praise of .XYZ
Joseph Peterson uncovers some great usage examples of .XYZ domain names. This “love letter” to .XYZ may surprise readers who remember me as one of that registry’s more persistent critics. True that I’ve found fault with .XYZ&r...
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In Praise of .XYZ
Joseph Peterson uncovers some great usage examples of .XYZ domain names. This “love letter” to .XYZ may surprise readers who remember me as one of that registry’s more persistent critics. True that I’ve found fault with .XYZ&r...
Discussion
January 2, 2017, 3:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
#1 in 2016: On Cloud 9
A story about the .cloud launch was the most-viewed story on DNW this year. Drumroll please…. The top story on Domain Name Wire this past year based on views was the story of .Cloud’s launch. A lot of new top level domain names launched ...
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#1 in 2016: On Cloud 9
A story about the .cloud launch was the most-viewed story on DNW this year. Drumroll please…. The top story on Domain Name Wire this past year based on views was the story of .Cloud’s launch. A lot of new top level domain names launched ...
Discussion
December 31, 2016, 3:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
#2 in 2016: .Web sells for $135 million but the saga continues
.Web’s record-shattering auction was big news in the domain name industry. The second most-read story on Domain Name Wire this year was about the .Web top level domain nae selling for $135 million. I broke the news about the final auction price...
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#2 in 2016: .Web sells for $135 million but the saga continues
.Web’s record-shattering auction was big news in the domain name industry. The second most-read story on Domain Name Wire this year was about the .Web top level domain nae selling for $135 million. I broke the news about the final auction price...
Discussion
December 30, 2016, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Shop and .Site get Chinese approval
GMO and Radix get good news from China. Just a few weeks after approving .club, .VIP and .XYZ, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has approved two more domain names for sale and hosting within China. GMO Registry&rsq...
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.Shop and .Site get Chinese approval
GMO and Radix get good news from China. Just a few weeks after approving .club, .VIP and .XYZ, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has approved two more domain names for sale and hosting within China. GMO Registry&rsq...
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December 29, 2016, 9:32 pm
