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Frank Schilling beats IBM in domain dispute
Reserved three letter .link domains won’t be suspended. Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names, the company under which he registers premium domains in his new TLDs, has defended two such domain names from a URS filed by IBM. IBM filed a Uni...
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Frank Schilling beats IBM in domain dispute
Reserved three letter .link domains won’t be suspended. Frank Schilling’s North Sound Names, the company under which he registers premium domains in his new TLDs, has defended two such domain names from a URS filed by IBM. IBM filed a Uni...
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July 8, 2014, 1:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week in new TLDs: .Pub, .Christmas and more
Frank Schilling tries to put you in the holiday spirit and Rightside raises its glass. You know what amazes me? One of the .brand TLDs to “go live” this week, .中信 and .citic, has a better information page than some of the other new TL...
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This week in new TLDs: .Pub, .Christmas and more
Frank Schilling tries to put you in the holiday spirit and Rightside raises its glass. You know what amazes me? One of the .brand TLDs to “go live” this week, .中信 and .citic, has a better information page than some of the other new TL...
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July 7, 2014, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Salesforce.com sells Do.com domain name to startup
After shutting down service that used Do.com, company sells domain name to startup. It appears Salesforce.com has sold the domain name Do.com to Redo, Inc., parent company of meeting productive application DoMeetings.com. If you go to DoMeetings.com ...
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Salesforce.com sells Do.com domain name to startup
After shutting down service that used Do.com, company sells domain name to startup. It appears Salesforce.com has sold the domain name Do.com to Redo, Inc., parent company of meeting productive application DoMeetings.com. If you go to DoMeetings.com ...
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July 7, 2014, 1:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines files patent for “Domain Name Registration and Resale”
Patent describes system similar to AfternicDLS and SedoMLS but at the registry level. Minds + Machines Chairman Fred Krueger has filed a patent application (pdf) for the resale of domain names, titled “Domain Name Registration and Resale”...
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Minds + Machines files patent for “Domain Name Registration and Resale”
Patent describes system similar to AfternicDLS and SedoMLS but at the registry level. Minds + Machines Chairman Fred Krueger has filed a patent application (pdf) for the resale of domain names, titled “Domain Name Registration and Resale”...
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July 3, 2014, 4:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy wants to patent way of onboarding new TLDs
GoDaddy files four patents related to adding new TLD options to a registrar. GoDaddy has filed four patent applications describing methods for adding new top level domain names to a registrar’s offerings. Each top level domain name a registrar ...
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GoDaddy wants to patent way of onboarding new TLDs
GoDaddy files four patents related to adding new TLD options to a registrar. GoDaddy has filed four patent applications describing methods for adding new top level domain names to a registrar’s offerings. Each top level domain name a registrar ...
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July 3, 2014, 4:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
ShoeBuy.com’s UDRP record drops to 3-4
Company loses a UDRP for the fourth time in just 7 tries. Online shoe retailer ShoeBuy.com might need to re-read the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy. It just lost its fourth UDRP. It’s only won three times. This latest loss comes courtesy of...
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ShoeBuy.com’s UDRP record drops to 3-4
Company loses a UDRP for the fourth time in just 7 tries. Online shoe retailer ShoeBuy.com might need to re-read the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy. It just lost its fourth UDRP. It’s only won three times. This latest loss comes courtesy of...
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July 3, 2014, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s Expired Domain Name Roundup
Joseph Peterson reports on the past week in expired domain name sales. What’s an UNCH? And how many of them would Dr. Seuss need to sell in order to recoup the $11.6k spent on UNCHS.org? Well, actually, some 36 years ago, ...
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This week’s Expired Domain Name Roundup
Joseph Peterson reports on the past week in expired domain name sales. What’s an UNCH? And how many of them would Dr. Seuss need to sell in order to recoup the $11.6k spent on UNCHS.org? Well, actually, some 36 years ago, ...
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July 3, 2014, 2:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
2nd level .UK domain name registrations top 100,000
A strong sales month for .UK. Over 100,000 second level domain names under .uk have been registered since they became available for registration last month, .uk registry Nominet announced today. About two-thirds have been registered by people who hav...
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2nd level .UK domain name registrations top 100,000
A strong sales month for .UK. Over 100,000 second level domain names under .uk have been registered since they became available for registration last month, .uk registry Nominet announced today. About two-thirds have been registered by people who hav...
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July 3, 2014, 1:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLD Luxury.Estate sells for $50k
A new high water mark for a domain sale in a new TLD? Hot of the heels of news that eat.club sold for $20,000, DomainHoldings announced today that it brokered the sale of Luxury.Estate for a whopping $50,000. The Luxury.Estate sale is different from ...
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New TLD Luxury.Estate sells for $50k
A new high water mark for a domain sale in a new TLD? Hot of the heels of news that eat.club sold for $20,000, DomainHoldings announced today that it brokered the sale of Luxury.Estate for a whopping $50,000. The Luxury.Estate sale is different from ...
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July 2, 2014, 11:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories from June
Moniker “wins” three spots on June’s top stories list. Is there no such thing as bad press? That phrase probably went out the window last month for Moniker. It took three of the month’s top five spots on Domain Name Wire for h...
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories from June
Moniker “wins” three spots on June’s top stories list. Is there no such thing as bad press? That phrase probably went out the window last month for Moniker. It took three of the month’s top five spots on Domain Name Wire for h...
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July 2, 2014, 5:22 pm
