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How English speakers can invest in Chinese IDNs
TLD Registry releases tool for discovering Chinese terms available for registration. Last week in London I sat down with TLD Registry, the company behind the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) domain names. These IDNs h...
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How English speakers can invest in Chinese IDNs
TLD Registry releases tool for discovering Chinese terms available for registration. Last week in London I sat down with TLD Registry, the company behind the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) domain names. These IDNs h...
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July 2, 2014, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club domain tops last week’s end user domain name sales
Catering company goes clubbing. Sedo’s top sale last week was MM.com at $1.2 million. But it’s not an end user sale. It appears to have been purchased by the owners of Chinese domain marketplace 4.cn. Instead, this week’s top end us...
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.Club domain tops last week’s end user domain name sales
Catering company goes clubbing. Sedo’s top sale last week was MM.com at $1.2 million. But it’s not an end user sale. It appears to have been purchased by the owners of Chinese domain marketplace 4.cn. Instead, this week’s top end us...
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July 2, 2014, 1:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
North Carolina company guilty of Reverse domain name hijacking
Company claims rights dating to 2010 and domain name was registered in 2002. But… Personal Communication Systems, Inc of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP against th...
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North Carolina company guilty of Reverse domain name hijacking
Company claims rights dating to 2010 and domain name was registered in 2002. But… Personal Communication Systems, Inc of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP against th...
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July 1, 2014, 4:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
Last week’s and this week’s new TLD launches: .Nagoya, .Fish and more
A handful of new TLDs are launching during this holiday week. I try to write a post each week about upcoming new TLD launches, but didn’t get around to it last week. So this week I’m going to rewind and also look at the week ahead. Last w...
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Last week’s and this week’s new TLD launches: .Nagoya, .Fish and more
A handful of new TLDs are launching during this holiday week. I try to write a post each week about upcoming new TLD launches, but didn’t get around to it last week. So this week I’m going to rewind and also look at the week ahead. Last w...
Discussion
July 1, 2014, 3:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names L’Oreal and others bought
L’Oreal among companies buying domain names at Sedo. I’m behind on end user sales because I was busy at the ICANN conference in London last week. Here are the sales that Sedo sent out last week. View previous end user sales lists here. Wa...
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What domain names L’Oreal and others bought
L’Oreal among companies buying domain names at Sedo. I’m behind on end user sales because I was busy at the ICANN conference in London last week. Here are the sales that Sedo sent out last week. View previous end user sales lists here. Wa...
Discussion
July 1, 2014, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Igloo to market 300k+ DomainSponsor domain names
Domain name portfolio acquired by Rook Media will be marketed by Igloo. When Rook Media acquired DomainSponsor earlier this year, it also acquired Oversee.net’s large portfolio of domain names. Domain brokerage Igloo will begin marketing many o...
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Igloo to market 300k+ DomainSponsor domain names
Domain name portfolio acquired by Rook Media will be marketed by Igloo. When Rook Media acquired DomainSponsor earlier this year, it also acquired Oversee.net’s large portfolio of domain names. Domain brokerage Igloo will begin marketing many o...
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June 30, 2014, 5:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Spy on recently backordered domain names with new service
SnoopNames monitors last-minute domain name backorders. A new service called SnoopNames claims to enable you to spy on other peoples’ backorders in order to backorder potentially valuable domain names. The site monitors various expired domain s...
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Spy on recently backordered domain names with new service
SnoopNames monitors last-minute domain name backorders. A new service called SnoopNames claims to enable you to spy on other peoples’ backorders in order to backorder potentially valuable domain names. The site monitors various expired domain s...
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June 30, 2014, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
.London ads spotted in London last week
Here are some ads for the .London domain name spotted in London during the ICANN conference. I spent last week in London at the ICANN meeting. This was interesting timing because the city is gearing up for the launch of .London, which should prove to...
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.London ads spotted in London last week
Here are some ads for the .London domain name spotted in London during the ICANN conference. I spent last week in London at the ICANN meeting. This was interesting timing because the city is gearing up for the launch of .London, which should prove to...
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June 30, 2014, 2:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
About those .io domain names…
Few tech startups understand the origins of their clever domain names. David Meyer of GigaOm published a story this morning titled “The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal.” The stor...
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About those .io domain names…
Few tech startups understand the origins of their clever domain names. David Meyer of GigaOm published a story this morning titled “The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal.” The stor...
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June 30, 2014, 1:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
A “High” week for expired domain name sales
“High” is perched high on the list of last week’s expired domain auctions — specifically, the French word, “Haut”, which sold at NameJet for nearly $5k. Another French four-letter – this time a .NE...
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A “High” week for expired domain name sales
“High” is perched high on the list of last week’s expired domain auctions — specifically, the French word, “Haut”, which sold at NameJet for nearly $5k. Another French four-letter – this time a .NE...
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June 27, 2014, 6:00 pm
