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Google’s CIO to discuss new TLDs at Google I/O
Session will help progress toward universal acceptance of new TLDs. Google’s developer-focused conference Google I/O kicks off tomorrow, and one of the sessions will focus on new TLDs. CIO Ben Fried will lead a presentation about new top level ...
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Google’s CIO to discuss new TLDs at Google I/O
Session will help progress toward universal acceptance of new TLDs. Google’s developer-focused conference Google I/O kicks off tomorrow, and one of the sessions will focus on new TLDs. CIO Ben Fried will lead a presentation about new top level ...
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June 24, 2014, 11:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Why Google is becoming a domain name registrar & what it means for the business
Google is becoming a public domain name registrar. Here’s why. A few months ago a prominent figure in the domain name industry told me a prediction: in a short time, GoDaddy will no longer be the top domain name registrar. It will be Google. Th...
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Why Google is becoming a domain name registrar & what it means for the business
Google is becoming a public domain name registrar. Here’s why. A few months ago a prominent figure in the domain name industry told me a prediction: in a short time, GoDaddy will no longer be the top domain name registrar. It will be Google. Th...
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June 24, 2014, 9:33 am
Domain Name Wire
MM.com domain name sells for $1.2 million
Two letter domain name sells for $1.2 million. No, it wasn’t bought by a candy company. Sedo domain name broker Dave Evanson just posted on Facebook that he has brokered the sale of MM.com for $1.2 million. The whois record recently updated to ...
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MM.com domain name sells for $1.2 million
Two letter domain name sells for $1.2 million. No, it wasn’t bought by a candy company. Sedo domain name broker Dave Evanson just posted on Facebook that he has brokered the sale of MM.com for $1.2 million. The whois record recently updated to ...
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June 23, 2014, 9:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Colgate, AOL and others bought
Colgate buys a domain for its teeth whitening products. Sedo sold about $1 million worth of domains the week before last, including some to big brands. Here’s a look at some of the end user sales. You can view previous end user sales lists here...
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What domain names Colgate, AOL and others bought
Colgate buys a domain for its teeth whitening products. Sedo sold about $1 million worth of domains the week before last, including some to big brands. Here’s a look at some of the end user sales. You can view previous end user sales lists here...
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June 23, 2014, 5:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rightside to switch to EAP in lieu of traditional landush
Domain name registry to switch up the phase between sunrise and general availability. Rightside, applicant for dozens of top level domain names, is replacing its traditional landrush phase with an Early Access Program (EAP). The switch will occur lat...
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Rightside to switch to EAP in lieu of traditional landush
Domain name registry to switch up the phase between sunrise and general availability. Rightside, applicant for dozens of top level domain names, is replacing its traditional landrush phase with an Early Access Program (EAP). The switch will occur lat...
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June 23, 2014, 1:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Cleveland Clinic’s .Med domain name application is back on the table
Medistry’s application for .Med is alive and well following a decision Friday by ICANN. ICANN ruled that the Independent Objector should not have been able to file a community objection against Medistry’s application because there were no...
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Cleveland Clinic’s .Med domain name application is back on the table
Medistry’s application for .Med is alive and well following a decision Friday by ICANN. ICANN ruled that the Independent Objector should not have been able to file a community objection against Medistry’s application because there were no...
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June 23, 2014, 11:17 am
Domain Name Wire
Michael Berkens wins UDRP case involving two colorful lawyers
Randazza and Berryhill square off over X-Videos.com. Two of the most colorful lawyers in the trademark/UDRP business squared off in a UDRP over one of Michael Berkens’ domain names. Marc Randazza’s law firm represented WGCZ S.R.O., which ...
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Michael Berkens wins UDRP case involving two colorful lawyers
Randazza and Berryhill square off over X-Videos.com. Two of the most colorful lawyers in the trademark/UDRP business squared off in a UDRP over one of Michael Berkens’ domain names. Marc Randazza’s law firm represented WGCZ S.R.O., which ...
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June 20, 2014, 4:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Vistaprint may have just delayed .Web by filing an Independent Review
Vistaprint challenges (again) string similarity between .web and .webs. What does this man for the .web timeline? Vistaprint is the latest new top level domain name applicant to invoke the Independent Review process regarding an application. The comp...
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Vistaprint may have just delayed .Web by filing an Independent Review
Vistaprint challenges (again) string similarity between .web and .webs. What does this man for the .web timeline? Vistaprint is the latest new top level domain name applicant to invoke the Independent Review process regarding an application. The comp...
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June 20, 2014, 3:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
UDRPsearch owner sues after being threatened with UDRP
Virtual Point sues after person threatens UDRP if it doesn’t sell a domain for $1,000. The owner of UDRP database site UDRPSearch.com has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) after being threatened with a UDRP. Virtual Point Inc filed the lawsuit afte...
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UDRPsearch owner sues after being threatened with UDRP
Virtual Point sues after person threatens UDRP if it doesn’t sell a domain for $1,000. The owner of UDRP database site UDRPSearch.com has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) after being threatened with a UDRP. Virtual Point Inc filed the lawsuit afte...
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June 20, 2014, 12:41 pm
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Retweet.com Resold and other expired domain sales
People inject new words into language constantly. “Tweet” has taken on new meaning thanks to Twitter, while “Retweet” would have meant nothing a decade ago. Yet in that short space of time, this formerly unkno...
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Retweet.com Resold and other expired domain sales
People inject new words into language constantly. “Tweet” has taken on new meaning thanks to Twitter, while “Retweet” would have meant nothing a decade ago. Yet in that short space of time, this formerly unkno...
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June 19, 2014, 7:50 pm
