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First Rakuten dropped Buy.com, now it plans to nix Play.com
Company to nix the Play.com brand in favor of Rakuten.co.uk. Japanese ecommerce company Rakuten is doing something rather unusual: it is dropping the use of great, generic domain names in favor of its own brand Rakuten. Last year the company dropped ...
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First Rakuten dropped Buy.com, now it plans to nix Play.com
Company to nix the Play.com brand in favor of Rakuten.co.uk. Japanese ecommerce company Rakuten is doing something rather unusual: it is dropping the use of great, generic domain names in favor of its own brand Rakuten. Last year the company dropped ...
Discussion
October 22, 2014, 2:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN slashes new TLD forecast, but is it enough?
ICANN is forecasting 15 million new TLD registrations during the current fiscal year. ICANN has slashed the number of new top level domain name registrations it expects during this fiscal year for budgeting purposes, but is its picture still too rosy...
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ICANN slashes new TLD forecast, but is it enough?
ICANN is forecasting 15 million new TLD registrations during the current fiscal year. ICANN has slashed the number of new top level domain name registrations it expects during this fiscal year for budgeting purposes, but is its picture still too rosy...
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October 21, 2014, 6:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN struggles to beat echo chamber after .Gay decision
Many responses to .gay community application decision are oversimplifying what happened…and getting it wrong. In headlines and tweets, it’s pretty easy to knock ICANN for a recent decision not granting .gay applicant dotgay llc community...
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ICANN struggles to beat echo chamber after .Gay decision
Many responses to .gay community application decision are oversimplifying what happened…and getting it wrong. In headlines and tweets, it’s pretty easy to knock ICANN for a recent decision not granting .gay applicant dotgay llc community...
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October 21, 2014, 3:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Paradise.com, Holiday.com and Iraq.com hit auction block next month
Valuable domain names go up for sale next month. For a company I hadn’t heard of before it announced it was auctioning Holiday.com a couple months ago, Breathe Luxury has assembled an impressive list of domain names for its auction next month. ...
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Paradise.com, Holiday.com and Iraq.com hit auction block next month
Valuable domain names go up for sale next month. For a company I hadn’t heard of before it announced it was auctioning Holiday.com a couple months ago, Breathe Luxury has assembled an impressive list of domain names for its auction next month. ...
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October 21, 2014, 3:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
AnnualCreditReport.com goes after a big typosquatter
Company behind government-mandated free annual credit report site demands control of 227 typos. Central Source, a company created by the three major U.S. consumer credit bureaus, has filed an in rem lawsuit against 227 typos of its AnnualCreditReport...
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AnnualCreditReport.com goes after a big typosquatter
Company behind government-mandated free annual credit report site demands control of 227 typos. Central Source, a company created by the three major U.S. consumer credit bureaus, has filed an in rem lawsuit against 227 typos of its AnnualCreditReport...
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October 21, 2014, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Afilias plans to raise $100 million, warchest will help in new top level domain auctions
Afilias will float its shares on the AIM next month, and use proceeds in part to fund upcoming new TLD auctions. Domain name registry Afilias announced today that it intends to trade on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM, raising $100 million. In ...
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Afilias plans to raise $100 million, warchest will help in new top level domain auctions
Afilias will float its shares on the AIM next month, and use proceeds in part to fund upcoming new TLD auctions. Domain name registry Afilias announced today that it intends to trade on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM, raising $100 million. In ...
Discussion
October 21, 2014, 2:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
GetFixed.me upgrades to Fixed.com for $40k and other end user domain name sales
Fixed app fixes its domain name problem. I’m behind on last week’s end user domain name sales list since I was at the ICANN conference last week. This list is for sales taking place the week before last. The top reported sale was GoldPay....
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GetFixed.me upgrades to Fixed.com for $40k and other end user domain name sales
Fixed app fixes its domain name problem. I’m behind on last week’s end user domain name sales list since I was at the ICANN conference last week. This list is for sales taking place the week before last. The top reported sale was GoldPay....
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 8:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
YourNeighborhood.co owner tries to “pull a fast one” in UDRP
Trademark disclaims rights to “YourNeighborhood”. Eric Levy, who runs the neighborhood information site YourNeighborhood.co, has lost a UDRP against the domain name YourNeighborhood.com. He’s lucky the panelist didn’t bother t...
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YourNeighborhood.co owner tries to “pull a fast one” in UDRP
Trademark disclaims rights to “YourNeighborhood”. Eric Levy, who runs the neighborhood information site YourNeighborhood.co, has lost a UDRP against the domain name YourNeighborhood.com. He’s lucky the panelist didn’t bother t...
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October 20, 2014, 3:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire Podcast #3: Tessa Holcomb on Igloo’s big domain name sales
Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #3. Every week, you read about domain name sales here on Domain Name Wire and on sites like DNJournal. These public sales just scratch the surface of total transactions taking place each week. Most sales, including ...
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Domain Name Wire Podcast #3: Tessa Holcomb on Igloo’s big domain name sales
Listen to Domain Name Wire Podcast #3. Every week, you read about domain name sales here on Domain Name Wire and on sites like DNJournal. These public sales just scratch the surface of total transactions taking place each week. Most sales, including ...
Discussion
October 20, 2014, 2:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
2 character domains get green light under new TLDs
ICANN Board approves resolution paving way for two character second level domains. Last week’s ICANN meeting started with good news for new top level domain name applicants: governments said they weren’t concerned about two letter second ...
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2 character domains get green light under new TLDs
ICANN Board approves resolution paving way for two character second level domains. Last week’s ICANN meeting started with good news for new top level domain name applicants: governments said they weren’t concerned about two letter second ...
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October 20, 2014, 2:19 pm
