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Wow: .Hotel contention set resolved after CPE
.Hotel applicant wipes out competition by winning community status. In what is sure to be a shocker to many new TLD applicants, HOTEL Top-Level Domain s.a.r.l has prevailed in its Community Priority Evaluation for the .hotel domain name. It was the o...
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Wow: .Hotel contention set resolved after CPE
.Hotel applicant wipes out competition by winning community status. In what is sure to be a shocker to many new TLD applicants, HOTEL Top-Level Domain s.a.r.l has prevailed in its Community Priority Evaluation for the .hotel domain name. It was the o...
Discussion
June 13, 2014, 1:58 am
Domain Name Wire
EDR: Results and analysis from over 150 expired domain name auctions
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy. It’s not ...
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EDR: Results and analysis from over 150 expired domain name auctions
In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson gives the rundown on over 150 expired domain name auctions. “Smart” is the word of the day, judging by the top 2 expired auction results from GoDaddy. It’s not ...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 6:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
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Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 5:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, but it should have been reverse domain name hijacking
Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularl...
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Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, but it should have been reverse domain name hijacking
Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularl...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 4:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy End User domain name sales
A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple wee...
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GoDaddy End User domain name sales
A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple wee...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sorry, Moniker. It’s Over.
My long relationship with Moniker is coming to an end due to irreconcilable differences. I’ve been a Moniker customer for a decade. Probably longer. I haven’t been a completely satisfied customer, but I have been a content customer. Until...
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Sorry, Moniker. It’s Over.
My long relationship with Moniker is coming to an end due to irreconcilable differences. I’ve been a Moniker customer for a decade. Probably longer. I haven’t been a completely satisfied customer, but I have been a content customer. Until...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 4:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Will WHOIS be assassinated?
166 page report describes plan to completely scrap WHOIS as we know it. Last year I wrote about a plan to scrap Whois as we know it and replace it with a new Registration Directory Service (RDS). The initial proposal, created by an ICANN working grou...
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Will WHOIS be assassinated?
166 page report describes plan to completely scrap WHOIS as we know it. Last year I wrote about a plan to scrap Whois as we know it and replace it with a new Registration Directory Service (RDS). The initial proposal, created by an ICANN working grou...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 2:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why no RDNH for Thingify.com?
A classic abuse-of-proceeding case, but no RDNH finding. A WIPO panel just handed down a decision in a UDRP for Thingify.com. It follows a familiar story line: 1. Person starts company, but matching .com domain is taken. 2. Company opts to use a diff...
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Why no RDNH for Thingify.com?
A classic abuse-of-proceeding case, but no RDNH finding. A WIPO panel just handed down a decision in a UDRP for Thingify.com. It follows a familiar story line: 1. Person starts company, but matching .com domain is taken. 2. Company opts to use a diff...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 1:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Co.com drops pricing on “Premium” domain names, releases reserved
Company will slash prices on premium domains and offer many reserved domains at regular prices. .Co.com, a new third level domain name option, is dropping prices on premium domain names and has removed tens of thousands of domain names from its reser...
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.Co.com drops pricing on “Premium” domain names, releases reserved
Company will slash prices on premium domains and offer many reserved domains at regular prices. .Co.com, a new third level domain name option, is dropping prices on premium domain names and has removed tens of thousands of domain names from its reser...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 9:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy gets patent for “Domain name hijack protection”
Patent is mostly about whois proxy email services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,751,685 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Domain name hijack protection”. The patent, applied for in 2010, is actually a divisional pa...
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GoDaddy gets patent for “Domain name hijack protection”
Patent is mostly about whois proxy email services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,751,685 (pdf) to GoDaddy for “Domain name hijack protection”. The patent, applied for in 2010, is actually a divisional pa...
Discussion
June 10, 2014, 4:41 pm
