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Internet wins as court denies motion to seize ccTLDs
Court rules .ir, .sy, .kp and related IDNs cannot be “attached” as compensation. ICANN and the internet community at large got a victory this week as a U.S. court denied a request (pdf) to seize country code top level domains (ccTLDs) as ...
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Internet wins as court denies motion to seize ccTLDs
Court rules .ir, .sy, .kp and related IDNs cannot be “attached” as compensation. ICANN and the internet community at large got a victory this week as a U.S. court denied a request (pdf) to seize country code top level domains (ccTLDs) as ...
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November 13, 2014, 1:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Phone service continues to bolster Tucows’ top line
Ting product shows continued growth, OpenSRS takes a dip. Domain name and mobile phone service provider Tucows continues to see growth in its Ting offering, offsetting stagnating revenues in its domain name business. Net revenue for the third quarter...
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Phone service continues to bolster Tucows’ top line
Ting product shows continued growth, OpenSRS takes a dip. Domain name and mobile phone service provider Tucows continues to see growth in its Ting offering, offsetting stagnating revenues in its domain name business. Net revenue for the third quarter...
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November 12, 2014, 9:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Disney buys a .club domain & 21 other end user domain name sales
Disney, AMC and other big names bought domain names last week. Sedo had a busy sales week when it came to selling domain names to big name end users. From Disney, to $10 billion clothing company Next, to AMC, a number of household brands bought domai...
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Disney buys a .club domain & 21 other end user domain name sales
Disney, AMC and other big names bought domain names last week. Sedo had a busy sales week when it came to selling domain names to big name end users. From Disney, to $10 billion clothing company Next, to AMC, a number of household brands bought domai...
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November 12, 2014, 7:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Major Chinese travel sites Ctrip.com and eLong.com go down due to domain change
Domains placed in clienthold status. The websites for two major publicly traded Chinese travel sites went down today as a result of their domain names being place in “ClientHold” status at the registrar. Sites for $8 billion (market cap) ...
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Major Chinese travel sites Ctrip.com and eLong.com go down due to domain change
Domains placed in clienthold status. The websites for two major publicly traded Chinese travel sites went down today as a result of their domain names being place in “ClientHold” status at the registrar. Sites for $8 billion (market cap) ...
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November 12, 2014, 5:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs should emulate the Startup.club model for premium domains
Program promotes .Club while also generating premium domain sales revenue. .Club’s new Startup.club program is ingenious, and something that other new top level domains should consider emulating. Here’s startup.club in a nutshell: get a p...
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New TLDs should emulate the Startup.club model for premium domains
Program promotes .Club while also generating premium domain sales revenue. .Club’s new Startup.club program is ingenious, and something that other new top level domains should consider emulating. Here’s startup.club in a nutshell: get a p...
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November 12, 2014, 3:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s new TLDs: .Melbourne, .Restaurant and more
A big geo among this week’s new TLD releases. I’ve been a bit remiss about my weekly new TLD posts, perhaps because the past couple Mondays have been busy news days. That, and new TLD rollouts have slowed down to a trickle. But I’m ...
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This week’s new TLDs: .Melbourne, .Restaurant and more
A big geo among this week’s new TLD releases. I’ve been a bit remiss about my weekly new TLD posts, perhaps because the past couple Mondays have been busy news days. That, and new TLD rollouts have slowed down to a trickle. But I’m ...
Discussion
November 12, 2014, 2:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
John Oliver’s five .NYC domain names making fun of Michael Bloomberg
Comedian pokes fun at Michael Bloomberg’s domain names, which Domain Name Wire revealed last week. Last week I wrote a story about Michael Bloomberg’s 400 .nyc domain names. The over-the-top defensive registrations included everything fro...
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John Oliver’s five .NYC domain names making fun of Michael Bloomberg
Comedian pokes fun at Michael Bloomberg’s domain names, which Domain Name Wire revealed last week. Last week I wrote a story about Michael Bloomberg’s 400 .nyc domain names. The over-the-top defensive registrations included everything fro...
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November 11, 2014, 5:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Moncler goes on (domain) defense after geese allegations
Company registers boycott domain names after negative news report. Luxury Italian coat maker Moncler saw its shares drubbed after an Italian news report suggested that makers of down jackets were plucking geese inhumanely. The company has responded i...
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Moncler goes on (domain) defense after geese allegations
Company registers boycott domain names after negative news report. Luxury Italian coat maker Moncler saw its shares drubbed after an Italian news report suggested that makers of down jackets were plucking geese inhumanely. The company has responded i...
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November 11, 2014, 4:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Judging by the sponsor list, NamesCon 2015 is going to be huge
Already 40 sponsors lined up for January’s NamesCon event. It may be hard to believe, but NamesCon 2015 is just two months away. And, judging by an updated sponsorship list for 2015, it’s going to be a very big conference. Uniregistry is ...
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Judging by the sponsor list, NamesCon 2015 is going to be huge
Already 40 sponsors lined up for January’s NamesCon event. It may be hard to believe, but NamesCon 2015 is just two months away. And, judging by an updated sponsorship list for 2015, it’s going to be a very big conference. Uniregistry is ...
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November 11, 2014, 3:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com wins .Book top level domain name battle
Amazon wins 9-way battle for .book domain name. Amazon.com has won an auction for rights to run the .book top level domain name. The company went head-to-head with 8 other applicants for the domain name, including Google, but ultimately agreed to pay...
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Amazon.com wins .Book top level domain name battle
Amazon wins 9-way battle for .book domain name. Amazon.com has won an auction for rights to run the .book top level domain name. The company went head-to-head with 8 other applicants for the domain name, including Google, but ultimately agreed to pay...
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November 11, 2014, 2:14 pm
