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Chooze clothing company is a reverse domain name hijacker
Panelist calls case “particularly abusive”. A shoe and accessories company that uses the domain name MyChooze.com has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Chooze.com. Vegan shoe company Degani D...
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Chooze clothing company is a reverse domain name hijacker
Panelist calls case “particularly abusive”. A shoe and accessories company that uses the domain name MyChooze.com has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Chooze.com. Vegan shoe company Degani D...
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April 15, 2016, 1:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Facebook now owns a domain name registrar
Company acquires existing domain name registrar. Facebook now owns a domain name registrar. As spotted by Pinky Brand today, the company has acquired RegistrarSec. Weekly email report from #ICANN indicates that #FaceBook has acquired a registrar http...
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Facebook now owns a domain name registrar
Company acquires existing domain name registrar. Facebook now owns a domain name registrar. As spotted by Pinky Brand today, the company has acquired RegistrarSec. Weekly email report from #ICANN indicates that #FaceBook has acquired a registrar http...
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April 14, 2016, 10:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
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“Gen Z are not [visiting] dot coms.”
Are websites less important than they used to be? Let me start by noting that this is not a story about youngsters visiting new TLDs rather than .com. It’s about the younger generation not visiting domain names at all. Business of Fashion publi...
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April 14, 2016, 7:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Man files UDRP against his ex-wife
Maybe you shouldn’t let your spouse register domain names for you. I’m sure there are a lot of allegations made against ex-spouses. But calling your ex-wife a cybersquatter? An Ontario man filed a UDRP against his ex-wife over the domain ...
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Man files UDRP against his ex-wife
Maybe you shouldn’t let your spouse register domain names for you. I’m sure there are a lot of allegations made against ex-spouses. But calling your ex-wife a cybersquatter? An Ontario man filed a UDRP against his ex-wife over the domain ...
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April 14, 2016, 7:20 pm
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“That’s radio with five o’s…”
This company has a horrible name. It was painful to my ears. NPR aired a story last Friday about music discovery service Radiooooo. When the correspondent mentioned the name, it went something like this “It’s a service called Radio. That&...
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“That’s radio with five o’s…”
This company has a horrible name. It was painful to my ears. NPR aired a story last Friday about music discovery service Radiooooo. When the correspondent mentioned the name, it went something like this “It’s a service called Radio. That&...
Discussion
April 14, 2016, 3:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lending Club buys Lending.Club domain name
Big company in marketplace/peer-to-peer lending business buys .club domain name. Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. Th...
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Lending Club buys Lending.Club domain name
Big company in marketplace/peer-to-peer lending business buys .club domain name. Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. Th...
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April 14, 2016, 2:26 pm
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Master Call Connections is a domain name hijacker
Company filed cybersquatting complaint in abuse of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Master Call Connections, LLC has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in one of the most egregious UDRP filings in recent ...
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Master Call Connections is a domain name hijacker
Company filed cybersquatting complaint in abuse of Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Master Call Connections, LLC has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in one of the most egregious UDRP filings in recent ...
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April 14, 2016, 1:49 pm
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Berkens and Mike Mann cash in selling to end users
Michael Berkens and Mike Mann both land on the end user sales chart this week. Michael Berkens can’t quit domain name investing cold turkey. He bought YouCoin.com on DropCatch.com in December for $1,050. This past week he sold it for a whopping...
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Berkens and Mike Mann cash in selling to end users
Michael Berkens and Mike Mann both land on the end user sales chart this week. Michael Berkens can’t quit domain name investing cold turkey. He bought YouCoin.com on DropCatch.com in December for $1,050. This past week he sold it for a whopping...
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April 13, 2016, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Boats and .Yachts launched recently, but you probably didn’t hear about them
Restrictions mean little exposure for .boat and .yachts. Publishing company Dominion Enterprises launched the .boats and .yachts top level domain names last week. Odds are you didn’t hear about the launch. The reason is simple: these are restri...
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.Boats and .Yachts launched recently, but you probably didn’t hear about them
Restrictions mean little exposure for .boat and .yachts. Publishing company Dominion Enterprises launched the .boats and .yachts top level domain names last week. Odds are you didn’t hear about the launch. The reason is simple: these are restri...
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April 13, 2016, 2:40 pm
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Trump drops, Bots soar in latest .Com report
The bots are coming (in .com)! Verisign has released its latest trending keywords report for .com domain name registration. Donald Trump has bee knocked off his perch at number one but was still the second most popular trending keyword in new .com re...
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Trump drops, Bots soar in latest .Com report
The bots are coming (in .com)! Verisign has released its latest trending keywords report for .com domain name registration. Donald Trump has bee knocked off his perch at number one but was still the second most popular trending keyword in new .com re...
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April 12, 2016, 7:27 pm
