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20 end user domain name sales
Companies that upgraded from a .cc domain name and a us.com (gasp!) domain name among those end users buying domain names last week. Afternic and GoDaddy combined to sell $1.9 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the sales that w...
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20 end user domain name sales
Companies that upgraded from a .cc domain name and a us.com (gasp!) domain name among those end users buying domain names last week. Afternic and GoDaddy combined to sell $1.9 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the sales that w...
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March 13, 2014, 2:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Patient.com domain name hit with UDRP
UK health software company claims that owner of Patient.com is cybersquatting. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited, an electronic healthcare records software company, has filed a UDRP against the domain name Patient.com. The domain name was reg...
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Patient.com domain name hit with UDRP
UK health software company claims that owner of Patient.com is cybersquatting. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited, an electronic healthcare records software company, has filed a UDRP against the domain name Patient.com. The domain name was reg...
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March 13, 2014, 1:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
New York man may have lucked out with Apple CarPlay
New York registered CarPlay.com domain name in 2000. Nearly 14 years ago New Yorker Thomas Fitzgibbon registered the domain name CarPlay.com. “I just thought cars are going to be automated in the future, and we’re getting to the point whe...
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New York man may have lucked out with Apple CarPlay
New York registered CarPlay.com domain name in 2000. Nearly 14 years ago New Yorker Thomas Fitzgibbon registered the domain name CarPlay.com. “I just thought cars are going to be automated in the future, and we’re getting to the point whe...
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March 12, 2014, 4:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Grumpy the Cat and Rob Corddry give Name.com a High Five
Celebrities give Name.com a high five. Name.com did a rather clever marketing gimmick during SXSW Interactive in Austin. It sent one of its customer service reps to the city as “High Five Guy”. For every high five he got (10,000) the comp...
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Grumpy the Cat and Rob Corddry give Name.com a High Five
Celebrities give Name.com a high five. Name.com did a rather clever marketing gimmick during SXSW Interactive in Austin. It sent one of its customer service reps to the city as “High Five Guy”. For every high five he got (10,000) the comp...
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March 12, 2014, 3:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Obama: I don’t go to .com and .net sites
Obama discusses top level domain names in humor video. As of this morning Barrack Obama’s appearance on Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis has been viewed a whopping 12 million times. Obama’s appearance on the s...
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Obama: I don’t go to .com and .net sites
Obama discusses top level domain names in humor video. As of this morning Barrack Obama’s appearance on Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis has been viewed a whopping 12 million times. Obama’s appearance on the s...
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March 12, 2014, 1:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Former Apple executive joins GoDaddy board
GoDaddy adds woman to board and her background might signal a coming IPO. GoDaddy has appointed Betsy Rafael to its board of directors. She is the former Chief Accounting Officer at Apple and Finance VP at Cisco Systems. Rafael also serves on the boa...
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Former Apple executive joins GoDaddy board
GoDaddy adds woman to board and her background might signal a coming IPO. GoDaddy has appointed Betsy Rafael to its board of directors. She is the former Chief Accounting Officer at Apple and Finance VP at Cisco Systems. Rafael also serves on the boa...
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March 11, 2014, 8:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Companies are exposed to .exposed top level domain name
Trademark counsel should pay attention to the latest TLD to enter sunrise. A lot of people have focused on .sucks as an example of a top level domain “shakedown” in which companies will feel compelled to register domains for protective pu...
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Companies are exposed to .exposed top level domain name
Trademark counsel should pay attention to the latest TLD to enter sunrise. A lot of people have focused on .sucks as an example of a top level domain “shakedown” in which companies will feel compelled to register domains for protective pu...
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March 11, 2014, 4:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
New Top Level Domain Names still facing compatibility issues
Important software still not recognizing new domain names. Registrants of second level domain names under new TLDs such as .photography and .tattoo are learning firsthand about the issue of Universal Acceptance. The term refers to systems not recogni...
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New Top Level Domain Names still facing compatibility issues
Important software still not recognizing new domain names. Registrants of second level domain names under new TLDs such as .photography and .tattoo are learning firsthand about the issue of Universal Acceptance. The term refers to systems not recogni...
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March 11, 2014, 3:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Fiskars is Stoppable, domain name panel rules
Company loses dispute for Unstoppable.com domain name. Fiskars, a company you most likely know for its scissors, has a trademark on “Unstoppable”. But a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) panel has ruled that its rights ...
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Fiskars is Stoppable, domain name panel rules
Company loses dispute for Unstoppable.com domain name. Fiskars, a company you most likely know for its scissors, has a trademark on “Unstoppable”. But a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) panel has ruled that its rights ...
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March 11, 2014, 3:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLD trademark notifications top 20,000
The Trademark Clearinghouse has sent over 20,000 notices to trademark holders based on domain registrations matching trademarks. The Trademark Clearinghouse has now issued 20,076 trademark notifications based on second level registrations in new TLDs...
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New TLD trademark notifications top 20,000
The Trademark Clearinghouse has sent over 20,000 notices to trademark holders based on domain registrations matching trademarks. The Trademark Clearinghouse has now issued 20,076 trademark notifications based on second level registrations in new TLDs...
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March 11, 2014, 1:47 pm
