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Sleep Number tries to reverse hijack beds.com
Company wrongfully alleged that the domain owner stole the domain. A UDRP panel has found that mattress company Sleep Number Corporation tried to reverse domain name hijack beds.com. Sleep Number once owned and used the domain name, and in 2018, star...
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November 2, 2023, 3:13 pm
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Domain Name Wire
Amazon makes .bot domain names easier to register
Bot no longer required for registration. If you surveyed new top level domain name proponents about which of the big applicants has been the biggest disappointment, I’d bet Amazon would top the list. The company applied for 76 top level domains...
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November 1, 2023, 7:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
10 recent end user domain sales at Sedo
A bottle cap manufacturer, a water flavoring company, and an audio products business bought domain names. Sedo’s public sales chart this week was led by AIQ.com for $325,000 and SecondBrain.com for $120,000. Both of these purchases are candidat...
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October 31, 2023, 6:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Unstoppable Domains files three more trademark applications
Company continues to go after U.S. trademarks for its alt-root top level domains. Alt-root web3 domain name provider Unstoppable Domains has filed three more U.S. trademark applications corresponding to the names it offers. The company has attempted ...
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October 31, 2023, 3:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Domain investor sues to try to get one character .com domain names
Company claims it should get 1.com, a.com etc based on its registration of internationalized domain names. A domain name investor has sued ICANN (pdf), arguing that the investor should have exclusive rights to many single-character .com domain names....
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October 30, 2023, 6:27 pm
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Domain Name Wire
Checkmate! The chess.com story – DNW Podcast #459
How a great domain powered a huge online business. If you want to talk to someone who understands the power of a great domain, look no further than Erik Allebest. In 2005, he acquired the domain name chess.com for only $55,000 in a bankruptcy auction...
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October 30, 2023, 3:41 pm
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Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy adds domain search data to domain control center
GoDaddy provides more data to help evaluate your domain names. How interested are people in owning your domain names? Domain investors get very little data about interest in their domains. It can only be measured by traffic to a domain (a bad measure...
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October 30, 2023, 11:50 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
HBO paid about $1.8 million for Max.com
Price revealed in seller’s IPO filing. The company that sold the max.com domain name to HBO has filed to go public, and the filing indicates how much it sold the domain name for. HBO’s streaming service HBO Max rebranded to Max earlier th...
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October 27, 2023, 5:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
China sinks Verisign’s Q3
.Com would be growing if it weren’t for China. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported third-quarter earnings after the market closed yesterday. The combined base of .com and .net domain names continues to shrink, which the company blames on lackluste...
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October 27, 2023, 11:55 am
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Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy Auctions raising minimum bid to $25
Higher starting bids will go into effect for auctions starting Monday, October 30. GoDaddy Auctions will raise the minimum bid in expired domain auctions from $12 to $25 on October 30. The increase will apply to auctions that begin on that day and wo...
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October 26, 2023, 5:05 pm
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