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Why Donuts is revealing domain name renewal rates
By predicting and revealing renewals, Donuts hopes to get registrars and domain name investors on board. Donuts has posted an update on its renewal rates, showing an overall 68.4% rate after ten days. The update also highlights a reason Donuts predic...
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Why Donuts is revealing domain name renewal rates
By predicting and revealing renewals, Donuts hopes to get registrars and domain name investors on board. Donuts has posted an update on its renewal rates, showing an overall 68.4% rate after ten days. The update also highlights a reason Donuts predic...
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March 31, 2015, 1:47 pm

Domain Name Wire
Royal Caribbean files lawsuit to capture typos
Cruise line goes cruising for typos. Cruise company Royal Caribbean Cruises has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against two typos of its RoyalCaribbean.com domain name. The two domains — RoyalCaribean.com and RoyalCarribean.com — forward to...
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Royal Caribbean files lawsuit to capture typos
Cruise line goes cruising for typos. Cruise company Royal Caribbean Cruises has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against two typos of its RoyalCaribbean.com domain name. The two domains — RoyalCaribean.com and RoyalCarribean.com — forward to...
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March 30, 2015, 9:18 pm

Domain Name Wire
Tips to Sell More Domain Names with Jeff Gabriel – DNW Podcast #26
Sell more domains with these expert tips. Want to sell more domain names? Jeff Gabriel, VP of Sales for DomainNameSales.com, has sold many domains (including some record-breakers). He shares tips for how to sell more domain names in this episode of t...
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Tips to Sell More Domain Names with Jeff Gabriel – DNW Podcast #26
Sell more domains with these expert tips. Want to sell more domain names? Jeff Gabriel, VP of Sales for DomainNameSales.com, has sold many domains (including some record-breakers). He shares tips for how to sell more domain names in this episode of t...
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March 30, 2015, 5:53 pm

Domain Name Wire
UPS.com expires in 9 days
UPS and other big companies have domain names expiring soon. OK, so they surely have auto renew turned on. But isn’t this cutting it close? UPS’ main domain name UPS.com, the one it uses to run its company, expires on April 8 and hasn&rsq...
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UPS.com expires in 9 days
UPS and other big companies have domain names expiring soon. OK, so they surely have auto renew turned on. But isn’t this cutting it close? UPS’ main domain name UPS.com, the one it uses to run its company, expires on April 8 and hasn&rsq...
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March 30, 2015, 4:01 pm

Domain Name Wire
Tips to Sell More Domain Names with Jeff Gabriel – DNW Podcast #26
Sell more domains with these expert tips. Want to sell more domain names? Jeff Gabriel, VP of Sales for DomainNameSales.com, has sold many of then (including some record-breakers). He shares tips for how to sell more domain names in this episode of t...
Discussion
Tips to Sell More Domain Names with Jeff Gabriel – DNW Podcast #26
Sell more domains with these expert tips. Want to sell more domain names? Jeff Gabriel, VP of Sales for DomainNameSales.com, has sold many of then (including some record-breakers). He shares tips for how to sell more domain names in this episode of t...
Discussion
March 30, 2015, 3:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
Chehadé : It was just a misunderstanding
ICANN CEO explains domain “hogging” comments made during the Davos Annual Meeting. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has responded (pdf) to a letter from Internet Commerce Association (ICA) regarding domain “hogging” comments he m...
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Chehadé : It was just a misunderstanding
ICANN CEO explains domain “hogging” comments made during the Davos Annual Meeting. ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé has responded (pdf) to a letter from Internet Commerce Association (ICA) regarding domain “hogging” comments he m...
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March 30, 2015, 1:55 pm

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Interesting UDRP: FIMO.club
Potential use as a fan site for a product saves domain name for respondent. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Staedtler Mars GmbH for the domain name FIMO.club. Staedtler Mars GmbH sells a clay ...
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Interesting UDRP: FIMO.club
Potential use as a fan site for a product saves domain name for respondent. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP filed by Staedtler Mars GmbH for the domain name FIMO.club. Staedtler Mars GmbH sells a clay ...
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March 30, 2015, 1:40 pm

Domain Name Wire
IPC asks ICANN to halt controversial .Sucks domain name roll out
Calls it “predatory, exploitative and coercive” and points out bizarre contract with ICANN. The Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) is asking (pdf) ICANN to halt Vox Populi’s roll out of the .sucks top level domain name, callin...
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IPC asks ICANN to halt controversial .Sucks domain name roll out
Calls it “predatory, exploitative and coercive” and points out bizarre contract with ICANN. The Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) is asking (pdf) ICANN to halt Vox Populi’s roll out of the .sucks top level domain name, callin...
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March 27, 2015, 9:01 pm

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Evaluating domain names on ValPak coupons
The majority of advertisers in a ValPak coupon mailer include a web address on their ad. I recently analyzed a coupon mailer I received to see if local businesses are promoting their websites in advertisements. Today I tore open a ValPak mailer to se...
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Evaluating domain names on ValPak coupons
The majority of advertisers in a ValPak coupon mailer include a web address on their ad. I recently analyzed a coupon mailer I received to see if local businesses are promoting their websites in advertisements. Today I tore open a ValPak mailer to se...
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March 27, 2015, 3:27 pm

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Optilead Ltd. engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
WIPO panel determined UK company filed domain name dispute in bad faith. UK company Optilead Ltd has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Optilead.com. Optilead Ltd uses the domain name Optilead.co.uk for i...
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Optilead Ltd. engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
WIPO panel determined UK company filed domain name dispute in bad faith. UK company Optilead Ltd has been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking over the domain name Optilead.com. Optilead Ltd uses the domain name Optilead.co.uk for i...
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March 27, 2015, 1:58 pm