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5 questions to be answered at this week’s DomainFest
Attendance, new TLDs, and other questions to be answered this week. I’m writing this while airborne on my way to Los Angeles for this week’s DomainFest conference. Here are five questions that will be answered by the end of the week. 1. H...
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5 questions to be answered at this week’s DomainFest
Attendance, new TLDs, and other questions to be answered this week. I’m writing this while airborne on my way to Los Angeles for this week’s DomainFest conference. Here are five questions that will be answered by the end of the week. 1. H...
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March 31, 2014, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Wow: is this the most expensive new TLD sale yet?
English.club sells for $17,500. The .Club domain name enters landrush tomorrow, and already the domain name is showing solid early results. Point in fact: English.club sold for $17,500. Given the huge supply of new TLDs hitting the market, solid keyw...
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Wow: is this the most expensive new TLD sale yet?
English.club sells for $17,500. The .Club domain name enters landrush tomorrow, and already the domain name is showing solid early results. Point in fact: English.club sold for $17,500. Given the huge supply of new TLDs hitting the market, solid keyw...
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March 31, 2014, 2:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Could NamesCon hit 1,000 attendees next year?
Conference sets ambitious attendance goal…and it might hit it. The inaugural NamesCon domain name conference happened just two months ago, but organizers are already planning a repeat in 2015. The event will take place Jan 11-14, 2015 at the T...
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Could NamesCon hit 1,000 attendees next year?
Conference sets ambitious attendance goal…and it might hit it. The inaugural NamesCon domain name conference happened just two months ago, but organizers are already planning a repeat in 2015. The event will take place Jan 11-14, 2015 at the T...
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March 31, 2014, 1:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Fortune 1000 company loses 2 URS cases
Heartland Payment Systems loses claims to “Heartland” domain names. So far the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy for new top level domain names appears to be working. URS was designed to be a faster and cheaper version of UDRP for sla...
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Fortune 1000 company loses 2 URS cases
Heartland Payment Systems loses claims to “Heartland” domain names. So far the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) policy for new top level domain names appears to be working. URS was designed to be a faster and cheaper version of UDRP for sla...
Discussion
March 28, 2014, 2:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
4chan demands 4chan.com domain name
Popular bulletin board asks arbitration panel to give it the 4chan.com domain name. One of the world’s most trafficked websites is on a .org domain name, and now its asking an arbitration panel to give it the matching .com. Image-based bulletin...
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4chan demands 4chan.com domain name
Popular bulletin board asks arbitration panel to give it the 4chan.com domain name. One of the world’s most trafficked websites is on a .org domain name, and now its asking an arbitration panel to give it the matching .com. Image-based bulletin...
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March 28, 2014, 1:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo domain names get kicked off GoDaddy on Monday
Domain sales partnership comes to an end next week. Last November GoDaddy announced it was ending its syndication agreement with Sedo effective the end of March 2014. That date is just around the corner: Monday. Domain names listed with SedoMLS will ...
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Sedo domain names get kicked off GoDaddy on Monday
Domain sales partnership comes to an end next week. Last November GoDaddy announced it was ending its syndication agreement with Sedo effective the end of March 2014. That date is just around the corner: Monday. Domain names listed with SedoMLS will ...
Discussion
March 27, 2014, 8:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
24 more end user domain name sales
End user domain name sales of up to $35,000. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the sales made to end users. View previous end user sales reports here. SnowBusiness.at 1,500 EUR – Snow Business GmbH, which ...
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24 more end user domain name sales
End user domain name sales of up to $35,000. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the sales made to end users. View previous end user sales reports here. SnowBusiness.at 1,500 EUR – Snow Business GmbH, which ...
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March 27, 2014, 3:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
United Internet taking market share from GoDaddy in new TLDs
After slow start, company is grabbing share in recent TLD launches. United Internet, a group of companies that includes 1&1, Sedo, InterNetX, and United Domains, appears to be taking a good chunk of the new TLDs market share away from GoDaddy. Un...
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United Internet taking market share from GoDaddy in new TLDs
After slow start, company is grabbing share in recent TLD launches. United Internet, a group of companies that includes 1&1, Sedo, InterNetX, and United Domains, appears to be taking a good chunk of the new TLDs market share away from GoDaddy. Un...
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March 26, 2014, 9:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sign.com and Signs.com settle dispute
You can’t trademark “sign” for selling signs. The owners of the category-killer domain names Sign.com and Signs.com have settled a legal battle over their ability to co-exist. In Janauary 2013 I wrote about how the owner of Sign.com...
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Sign.com and Signs.com settle dispute
You can’t trademark “sign” for selling signs. The owners of the category-killer domain names Sign.com and Signs.com have settled a legal battle over their ability to co-exist. In Janauary 2013 I wrote about how the owner of Sign.com...
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March 26, 2014, 7:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
.UK adds registry lock option
.UK domains can now get added protection against nameserver and domain hijacking. .UK registry Nominet is now offering its own version of a registry lock service, dubbed “Domain Lock.” Similar to Verisign’s Registry Lock service for...
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.UK adds registry lock option
.UK domains can now get added protection against nameserver and domain hijacking. .UK registry Nominet is now offering its own version of a registry lock service, dubbed “Domain Lock.” Similar to Verisign’s Registry Lock service for...
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March 26, 2014, 5:04 pm
