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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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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 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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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
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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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
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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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...
Discussion
October 30, 2023, 11:50 am
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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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
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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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
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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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
Domain Name Wire
Namecheap institutes deposit requirement to improve auction integrity
New users must deposit $100 in their Namecheap account before bidding on auctions. Namecheap has started requiring some users to make a deposit before bidding in auctions, with the goal of improving auction integrity. New users must deposit $100 in t...
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Namecheap institutes deposit requirement to improve auction integrity
New users must deposit $100 in their Namecheap account before bidding on auctions. Namecheap has started requiring some users to make a deposit before bidding in auctions, with the goal of improving auction integrity. New users must deposit $100 in t...
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October 26, 2023, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Afternic launches “bring your own sale” links that work with long term payments
Service leverages Dan.com checkout and Afternic’s transfer/payment service. Afternic has launched “custom checkout links” that allow domain sellers to use Afternic’s transfer service for sales completed elsewhere. This is simi...
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Afternic launches “bring your own sale” links that work with long term payments
Service leverages Dan.com checkout and Afternic’s transfer/payment service. Afternic has launched “custom checkout links” that allow domain sellers to use Afternic’s transfer service for sales completed elsewhere. This is simi...
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October 25, 2023, 5:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s end user domain sales
An auctioneer of Indonesian art, a directory of Iranian lawyers, and an employee survey company bought domain names. I’m coming to you short-handed this week. Although Sedo published 53 domain sales of $2,000 or more from the past week, very fe...
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This week’s end user domain sales
An auctioneer of Indonesian art, a directory of Iranian lawyers, and an employee survey company bought domain names. I’m coming to you short-handed this week. Although Sedo published 53 domain sales of $2,000 or more from the past week, very fe...
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October 24, 2023, 5:43 pm
