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UDRP: Girls Do Porn, but company Doesn’t Do Trademarks well
Company runs site that is rather descriptive of its services. BLL Media Holdings has lost a UDRP it filed against Infinitoria Ltd over the domain name GirlDoPorn.com (in which “girl” in singular). The complainant purports to run the site ...
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UDRP: Girls Do Porn, but company Doesn’t Do Trademarks well
Company runs site that is rather descriptive of its services. BLL Media Holdings has lost a UDRP it filed against Infinitoria Ltd over the domain name GirlDoPorn.com (in which “girl” in singular). The complainant purports to run the site ...
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August 27, 2014, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Christine Jones’ gubernatorial bid ends in primaries
Former GoDaddy exec places third in Republican primary. Christine Jones, former general counsel for GoDaddy, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona in the Republican primary yesterday. Doug Ducey, current Arizona treasurer and former CEO...
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Christine Jones’ gubernatorial bid ends in primaries
Former GoDaddy exec places third in Republican primary. Christine Jones, former general counsel for GoDaddy, lost her bid to become the next governor of Arizona in the Republican primary yesterday. Doug Ducey, current Arizona treasurer and former CEO...
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August 27, 2014, 3:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Walmart’s questionable domains, eBay gets Flooke, Google’s hat bin and CHiPs, the movie?
Some interesting domain name registrations from Walmart, eBay and Google. A handful of companies have made some interesting domain name registrations lately, potentially tipping off plans. First, let’s start with a couple domain registrations t...
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Walmart’s questionable domains, eBay gets Flooke, Google’s hat bin and CHiPs, the movie?
Some interesting domain name registrations from Walmart, eBay and Google. A handful of companies have made some interesting domain name registrations lately, potentially tipping off plans. First, let’s start with a couple domain registrations t...
Discussion
August 27, 2014, 2:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
App maker spends $80k to drop “app” from domain name
Ridescout pays big bucks for shorter domain name and other end user domain name purchases. The .app domain name is coming. Until then, many app makers have plugged “app” onto the end of their domain names when they can’t get the .co...
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App maker spends $80k to drop “app” from domain name
Ridescout pays big bucks for shorter domain name and other end user domain name purchases. The .app domain name is coming. Until then, many app makers have plugged “app” onto the end of their domain names when they can’t get the .co...
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August 27, 2014, 1:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement
Company says material terms are “substantially similar” to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the compa...
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Rightside signs new Google domain parking agreement
Company says material terms are “substantially similar” to the prior agreement. Rightside, parent company of eNom and domain parking platform HotKeys, has signed a new domain name parking agreement with Google. In an SEC filing, the compa...
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August 26, 2014, 9:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
One of the worst domain names. Ever.
We lost some vowels along the way. Good luck finding us. I’ve seen a lot of bad domain names in my day. There was the women’s site sk-rt.com (it’s cute for skirt!). Then there was some made up name like schmoop or shloop or somethin...
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One of the worst domain names. Ever.
We lost some vowels along the way. Good luck finding us. I’ve seen a lot of bad domain names in my day. There was the women’s site sk-rt.com (it’s cute for skirt!). Then there was some made up name like schmoop or shloop or somethin...
Discussion
August 26, 2014, 8:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
How 22 end users are (or aren’t!) using domain names they bought this year
Each week I write at least one post about which end users bought domain names over the past week. What do end users do with these domain names they buy on the aftermarket? I was curious, so I went back to one of the weekly end user reports I publishe...
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How 22 end users are (or aren’t!) using domain names they bought this year
Each week I write at least one post about which end users bought domain names over the past week. What do end users do with these domain names they buy on the aftermarket? I was curious, so I went back to one of the weekly end user reports I publishe...
Discussion
August 26, 2014, 5:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why your new TLDs won’t work well with domain parking (yet)
Domain parking ads don’t consider the full meaning of a domain name that spans the dot. A couple weeks ago Donuts launched the .cash top level domain name. This got me thinking about domain parking. I’ve owned a few .com domain names with...
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Why your new TLDs won’t work well with domain parking (yet)
Domain parking ads don’t consider the full meaning of a domain name that spans the dot. A couple weeks ago Donuts launched the .cash top level domain name. This got me thinking about domain parking. I’ve owned a few .com domain names with...
Discussion
August 26, 2014, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Quickly find the top websites built on new TLDs
Two tools show you which sites built on new TLDs are gaining traction. A key for the long run success of each new top level domain name is usage. Which TLDs are getting traction with actual end users? Two tools based on Alexa data can help you find o...
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Quickly find the top websites built on new TLDs
Two tools show you which sites built on new TLDs are gaining traction. A key for the long run success of each new top level domain name is usage. Which TLDs are getting traction with actual end users? Two tools based on Alexa data can help you find o...
Discussion
August 26, 2014, 1:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain name registration and the Paradox of Choice
Offering too many choices might lead to more abandoned shopping carts. One of my favorite books is Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice. The premise of the book is that more choice doesn’t necessarily mean more satisfaction. It can lead...
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Domain name registration and the Paradox of Choice
Offering too many choices might lead to more abandoned shopping carts. One of my favorite books is Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice. The premise of the book is that more choice doesn’t necessarily mean more satisfaction. It can lead...
Discussion
August 25, 2014, 6:06 pm
