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How many typos does a drug company need to register?
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals registers over 100 typos for a new drug name. Names of prescription drugs can be difficult to spell, with names like Aciphex, Juxtapid and Xenazine. Drug names put Silicon Valley’s latest vowel-less startups to shame. ...
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How many typos does a drug company need to register?
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals registers over 100 typos for a new drug name. Names of prescription drugs can be difficult to spell, with names like Aciphex, Juxtapid and Xenazine. Drug names put Silicon Valley’s latest vowel-less startups to shame. ...
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May 12, 2016, 2:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside targets $50-$75 million annual registry revenue in 3-5 years
Company predicts strong upswing in registry revenue. Rightside’s revenue from new TLDs might be trivial to its business right now, but the company expects big things in the future. Last year, Rightside generated registry revenue of $8.4 million...
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Rightside targets $50-$75 million annual registry revenue in 3-5 years
Company predicts strong upswing in registry revenue. Rightside’s revenue from new TLDs might be trivial to its business right now, but the company expects big things in the future. Last year, Rightside generated registry revenue of $8.4 million...
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May 11, 2016, 6:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
S.club sells for $38k, leading .Club domain name auction
Single letter .club domain sells for big bucks. The .Club registry sold over $130,000 worth of premium domain names last month, with about half of the sales coming from an auction held on Alibaba’s Ali Auction platform (TaoBao) in China. .Club ...
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S.club sells for $38k, leading .Club domain name auction
Single letter .club domain sells for big bucks. The .Club registry sold over $130,000 worth of premium domain names last month, with about half of the sales coming from an auction held on Alibaba’s Ali Auction platform (TaoBao) in China. .Club ...
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May 11, 2016, 2:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 End User Domain Name Sales
A “body contouring” company, medical chain and general contractor bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 465 domain name transactions last week for a total of about $1 million in sales. Unlike last week, there weren’t a bunch o...
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14 End User Domain Name Sales
A “body contouring” company, medical chain and general contractor bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 465 domain name transactions last week for a total of about $1 million in sales. Unlike last week, there weren’t a bunch o...
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May 11, 2016, 2:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Prince, Panama and Czechia were popular in .com domains last month
News drives domain name registrations. .Com registry Verisign has released its monthly report showing which keywords were trending in new .com domain name registrations. Notable entrants on the list for April included domains paying homage to Prince,...
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Prince, Panama and Czechia were popular in .com domains last month
News drives domain name registrations. .Com registry Verisign has released its monthly report showing which keywords were trending in new .com domain name registrations. Notable entrants on the list for April included domains paying homage to Prince,...
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May 10, 2016, 9:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside: Q-over-Q revenue drops, new TLD revenue builds
Rightside’s revenue was down sequentially, but up compared to the same time last year. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) released earnings after the bell today. The company reported $55.1 million revenue for the first quarter of 2016, a 9% increase over ...
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Rightside: Q-over-Q revenue drops, new TLD revenue builds
Rightside’s revenue was down sequentially, but up compared to the same time last year. Rightside (NASDAQ:NAME) released earnings after the bell today. The company reported $55.1 million revenue for the first quarter of 2016, a 9% increase over ...
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May 10, 2016, 9:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Premium domains are confusing, but can be profitable for domain name registries
I don’t blame registries for holding back premiums. Here’s some data. Premium domain names in new TLDS–those priced higher than the regular price for registration–can be frustrating for domain investors. But there’s no d...
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Premium domains are confusing, but can be profitable for domain name registries
I don’t blame registries for holding back premiums. Here’s some data. Premium domain names in new TLDS–those priced higher than the regular price for registration–can be frustrating for domain investors. But there’s no d...
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May 10, 2016, 7:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
ETH Zurich might need an intellectual property degree program
Company loses two disputes over ETH domains but picks up ETHZ.com. I’m sure that Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) is a fine institution. Albert Einstein once taught there. But the technology university apparently doe...
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ETH Zurich might need an intellectual property degree program
Company loses two disputes over ETH domains but picks up ETHZ.com. I’m sure that Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) is a fine institution. Albert Einstein once taught there. But the technology university apparently doe...
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May 10, 2016, 7:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Cars cybersquatter is about to learn an expensive lesson
Audi files cybersquatting complaint against owner of expensive .cars and .auto domain names. With an annual price tag of over $2,000, you’d think that all cybersquatters would be deterred from registering famous brands in the .car, .cars and .a...
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.Cars cybersquatter is about to learn an expensive lesson
Audi files cybersquatting complaint against owner of expensive .cars and .auto domain names. With an annual price tag of over $2,000, you’d think that all cybersquatters would be deterred from registering famous brands in the .car, .cars and .a...
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May 10, 2016, 1:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Tucows expects $2 million gross margin per year from Melbourne IT acquisition
Company acquired international accounts for $6.0 million on April 1. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) expects its acquisition of reseller accounts from Melbourne IT to generate $2 million in gross margin per year, the company revealed yesterday. The company paid...
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Tucows expects $2 million gross margin per year from Melbourne IT acquisition
Company acquired international accounts for $6.0 million on April 1. Tucows (NASDAQ: TCX) expects its acquisition of reseller accounts from Melbourne IT to generate $2 million in gross margin per year, the company revealed yesterday. The company paid...
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May 10, 2016, 1:31 pm
