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The story of how Microryza rebranded as Experiment.com for $54,000
Story is typical of startups and explains the benefits of using a great domain name. Startups go through the name game all the time. Picking a name and acquiring the matching domain name is often no easy feat. But rarely is the story chronicled so we...
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The story of how Microryza rebranded as Experiment.com for $54,000
Story is typical of startups and explains the benefits of using a great domain name. Startups go through the name game all the time. Picking a name and acquiring the matching domain name is often no easy feat. But rarely is the story chronicled so we...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 11:13 pm
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Marchex sells $1.6 million in domain names in Q4
Marchex’s Archeo division continues to sell domains at fairly high prices. Marchex reported its fourth quarter earnings after the bell today. It included sales results from Archeo, its domain name division. Archeo sold 262 domain names for a to...
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Marchex sells $1.6 million in domain names in Q4
Marchex’s Archeo division continues to sell domains at fairly high prices. Marchex reported its fourth quarter earnings after the bell today. It included sales results from Archeo, its domain name division. Archeo sold 262 domain names for a to...
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February 19, 2014, 10:36 pm
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What domain names Southpark, Kraft, American Eagle, and 21 others bought last week
Some big companies bought domain names on Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) AEO.pl €744 – clothing company Amer...
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What domain names Southpark, Kraft, American Eagle, and 21 others bought last week
Some big companies bought domain names on Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) AEO.pl €744 – clothing company Amer...
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February 19, 2014, 5:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
The non-.com leakage factor and what it means for new TLDs
In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your websi...
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The non-.com leakage factor and what it means for new TLDs
In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your websi...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 4:27 pm
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Verisign gets patent for Recovery of a Failed Registry
Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one t...
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Verisign gets patent for Recovery of a Failed Registry
Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one t...
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February 19, 2014, 2:50 pm
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.Music new top level domain community objections fail
All community objections against .music and .band have failed. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied Constantine Roussos’ community objections against competing applications for .music as well as applications for .band. All o...
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.Music new top level domain community objections fail
All community objections against .music and .band have failed. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has denied Constantine Roussos’ community objections against competing applications for .music as well as applications for .band. All o...
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February 18, 2014, 10:53 pm
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Insurance.pro decision acknowledges limits on UDRP and trademarks
Facing legitimate questions over a trademark’s legitimacy, UDRP panel determines case is outside the scope of the policy. A couple weeks ago a National Arbitration Forum panel handed down a decision in a complaint brought over the domain name i...
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Insurance.pro decision acknowledges limits on UDRP and trademarks
Facing legitimate questions over a trademark’s legitimacy, UDRP panel determines case is outside the scope of the policy. A couple weeks ago a National Arbitration Forum panel handed down a decision in a complaint brought over the domain name i...
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February 18, 2014, 5:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Aeropostale files Uniform Rapid Suspension case for .clothing domain name
Clothing company is second company to take advantage of new policy to defend against cybersquatting. Clothing company Aeropostale (NYSE:ARO) has filed a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case against the domain name aeropostale.clothing. This is just th...
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Aeropostale files Uniform Rapid Suspension case for .clothing domain name
Clothing company is second company to take advantage of new policy to defend against cybersquatting. Clothing company Aeropostale (NYSE:ARO) has filed a Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) case against the domain name aeropostale.clothing. This is just th...
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February 18, 2014, 2:54 pm
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Sedo sold $70.5 million worth of domain domains last year, 53% were .com
Sedo releases 2013 sales data. Sedo published an infographic today highlighting its sales results from 2013. Here are some notable facts: * The company sold 37,241 domain names for a total of $70.5 million * 53% of sales were .com, followed by .de wi...
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Sedo sold $70.5 million worth of domain domains last year, 53% were .com
Sedo releases 2013 sales data. Sedo published an infographic today highlighting its sales results from 2013. Here are some notable facts: * The company sold 37,241 domain names for a total of $70.5 million * 53% of sales were .com, followed by .de wi...
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February 18, 2014, 2:25 pm
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Top Level Domain Length vs. Total Domain Length
Some top level domain names are longer than we’re used to, but they can still be shorter overall. A lot of people have questioned if some new top level domain names are simply too long. Will people type in an eleven character top level domain n...
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Top Level Domain Length vs. Total Domain Length
Some top level domain names are longer than we’re used to, but they can still be shorter overall. A lot of people have questioned if some new top level domain names are simply too long. Will people type in an eleven character top level domain n...
Discussion
February 17, 2014, 5:54 pm
