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What if TLDs are Chinese?
Do certain top level domain names have a Chinese meaning? We’ve often seen TLDs repurposed. For instance, .ME and .TV – originally the country codes of Montenegro and Tuvalu, respectively – are mainly understood as wo...
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What if TLDs are Chinese?
Do certain top level domain names have a Chinese meaning? We’ve often seen TLDs repurposed. For instance, .ME and .TV – originally the country codes of Montenegro and Tuvalu, respectively – are mainly understood as wo...
Discussion
December 23, 2015, 5:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user domain name sales up to $50,000
A “Merry Christmas” edition of the end user sales report. Sedo has changed its weekly sales disclosure to only include sales of $2,000 or less. Their median sales price is well below $2,000, so this means the volume of end user sales I ca...
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End user domain name sales up to $50,000
A “Merry Christmas” edition of the end user sales report. Sedo has changed its weekly sales disclosure to only include sales of $2,000 or less. Their median sales price is well below $2,000, so this means the volume of end user sales I ca...
Discussion
December 23, 2015, 4:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Viral restaurant robbery video features .Vegas domain name
Video has nearly 800,000 views already. A Las Vegas Mexican restaurant turned a robbery into a viral video hit, giving the .Vegas top level domain name a bit of publicity at the same time. Frijoles & Frescas was recently robbed. That sucks for th...
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Viral restaurant robbery video features .Vegas domain name
Video has nearly 800,000 views already. A Las Vegas Mexican restaurant turned a robbery into a viral video hit, giving the .Vegas top level domain name a bit of publicity at the same time. Frijoles & Frescas was recently robbed. That sucks for th...
Discussion
December 23, 2015, 3:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets patent for generating Pronounceable domain names
Patent describes method of generating made up words that can be pronounced. .Com registry Verisign has obtained U.S. patent number 9,218,334 for “Pronounceable domain names”. The patent describes a method of generating domain names that c...
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Verisign gets patent for generating Pronounceable domain names
Patent describes method of generating made up words that can be pronounced. .Com registry Verisign has obtained U.S. patent number 9,218,334 for “Pronounceable domain names”. The patent describes a method of generating domain names that c...
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December 22, 2015, 4:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Make your NamesCon scheduling easy with Sched
Tool makes it easy to sync session calendar with personal calendar. Sched, a nifty tool for planning your schedule during NamesCon, is back this year. You can use Sched to plan which sessions you want to attend and then easily import them into your c...
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Make your NamesCon scheduling easy with Sched
Tool makes it easy to sync session calendar with personal calendar. Sched, a nifty tool for planning your schedule during NamesCon, is back this year. You can use Sched to plan which sessions you want to attend and then easily import them into your c...
Discussion
December 22, 2015, 4:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Tucows CEO Elliot Noss – DNW Podcast #63
Noss explains the evolution of Tucows. Tucows (NADSAQ: TCX) started in the early 90s as a software download site, but is now one of the world’s largest domain name registrars and has a market cap of about $250 million. CEO Elliot Noss explains ...
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Tucows CEO Elliot Noss – DNW Podcast #63
Noss explains the evolution of Tucows. Tucows (NADSAQ: TCX) started in the early 90s as a software download site, but is now one of the world’s largest domain name registrars and has a market cap of about $250 million. CEO Elliot Noss explains ...
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December 21, 2015, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Shilling gets RDNH win on 3 letter domain name
Complainant failed to disclose prior negotiations. With the help of attorney John Berryhill, Frank Schilling has successfully defended his three letter domain name DKY.com in a UDRP. And, even though Berryhill didn’t ask for a finding of revers...
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Frank Shilling gets RDNH win on 3 letter domain name
Complainant failed to disclose prior negotiations. With the help of attorney John Berryhill, Frank Schilling has successfully defended his three letter domain name DKY.com in a UDRP. And, even though Berryhill didn’t ask for a finding of revers...
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December 21, 2015, 3:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign IDNs: Landrush details and Premium Domains
Landrush will not be like Early Access. Verisign is getting ready to launch its first internationalized domain name, a Japanese transliteration of .com .コム. Based on comments Verisign CEO James Bidzos made on an investor conference call, it seeme...
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Verisign IDNs: Landrush details and Premium Domains
Landrush will not be like Early Access. Verisign is getting ready to launch its first internationalized domain name, a Japanese transliteration of .com .コム. Based on comments Verisign CEO James Bidzos made on an investor conference call, it seeme...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 4:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report – Chewbacca, Adorno…
Any bets: Who needs to be more frequently Flead.com ($211) – an ewok or Chewbacca? Seeing Adorno.com ($2.8k) in the charts this week, I’m sorely tempted to bore everybody with an essay on the philosopher, Theodor Adorno, who’ll...
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Expired Domain Report – Chewbacca, Adorno…
Any bets: Who needs to be more frequently Flead.com ($211) – an ewok or Chewbacca? Seeing Adorno.com ($2.8k) in the charts this week, I’m sorely tempted to bore everybody with an essay on the philosopher, Theodor Adorno, who’ll...
Discussion
December 18, 2015, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Neustar: Linking What Matters
As company continues to evolve, it files trademarks for likely new slogan. Neustar has been shifting its revenue base from a telecom contract to marketing, domain names and more. Based on recent trademark filings, it appears the company will adopt th...
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Neustar: Linking What Matters
As company continues to evolve, it files trademarks for likely new slogan. Neustar has been shifting its revenue base from a telecom contract to marketing, domain names and more. Based on recent trademark filings, it appears the company will adopt th...
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December 18, 2015, 2:05 pm
