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39 end user domain name buyers including Lowe’s and Experian
Home improvement company and credit data provider are among big names who bought domains through Sedo over the holidays. Sedo didn’t publish sales reports over the holiday, so this week we have a doozy. This report includes sales from December ...
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39 end user domain name buyers including Lowe’s and Experian
Home improvement company and credit data provider are among big names who bought domains through Sedo over the holidays. Sedo didn’t publish sales reports over the holiday, so this week we have a doozy. This report includes sales from December ...
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January 9, 2014, 6:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
Women in Domaining comes to NamesCon
Event for women in the domain name business will be held Monday afternoon. Women in Domaining, one of the mainstays of the annual Domainfest/Webfest conference in Santa Monica, will be making an appearance at next week’s NamesCon conference. Al...
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Women in Domaining comes to NamesCon
Event for women in the domain name business will be held Monday afternoon. Women in Domaining, one of the mainstays of the annual Domainfest/Webfest conference in Santa Monica, will be making an appearance at next week’s NamesCon conference. Al...
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January 9, 2014, 4:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Direct nav company files patent application for bidding on domain parking traffic
Santa Monica company wants to patent optimized bidding on zero click domain parking traffic. Adrenalads, a direct navigation company based in Santa Monica, has filed a patent application for analyzing and bidding on zero click traffic. U.S. Patent ap...
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Direct nav company files patent application for bidding on domain parking traffic
Santa Monica company wants to patent optimized bidding on zero click domain parking traffic. Adrenalads, a direct navigation company based in Santa Monica, has filed a patent application for analyzing and bidding on zero click traffic. U.S. Patent ap...
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January 9, 2014, 4:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Another day, another domain name escrow service launches: EscrowHill.com
EscrowHill launches ahead of NamesCon conference. Earlier this week I wrote about Agreed, a new domain name escrow service. Fast forward a couple days, and another domain name escrow service is officially opening its doors. But there’s a small ...
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Another day, another domain name escrow service launches: EscrowHill.com
EscrowHill launches ahead of NamesCon conference. Earlier this week I wrote about Agreed, a new domain name escrow service. Fast forward a couple days, and another domain name escrow service is officially opening its doors. But there’s a small ...
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January 9, 2014, 2:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names De Beers and 20 other end users bought last week
De Beers was among the famous brands that bought domain names last week. GoDaddy and Afternic sold $1.36 million worth of aftermarket domain names during the New Years week of 12/30/13-1/5/14. Below are some of the domain names that were purchased by...
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What domain names De Beers and 20 other end users bought last week
De Beers was among the famous brands that bought domain names last week. GoDaddy and Afternic sold $1.36 million worth of aftermarket domain names during the New Years week of 12/30/13-1/5/14. Below are some of the domain names that were purchased by...
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January 8, 2014, 4:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Gold is not a clearly delineated community, panel rules
Rival applicants fails to eliminate Donuts’ .gold top level domain application. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled that “gold” is not a clearly delineated community, and has thus rejected a community objection f...
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Gold is not a clearly delineated community, panel rules
Rival applicants fails to eliminate Donuts’ .gold top level domain application. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled that “gold” is not a clearly delineated community, and has thus rejected a community objection f...
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January 8, 2014, 3:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Brazilian company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Dental company went after domain name used by Korean dentist. A three person WIPO panel has found JJGC Industria E Comercio de Materiais Dentarios S.A. of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which sp...
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Brazilian company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Dental company went after domain name used by Korean dentist. A three person WIPO panel has found JJGC Industria E Comercio de Materiais Dentarios S.A. of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company, which sp...
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January 8, 2014, 3:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
UDRP Panel orders HP.nu to be transferred to Hewlett-Packard
HP gets two letter ccTLD in WIPO decision. Hewlett-Packard has won the transfer of the domain name HP.nu in a UDRP decision at World Intellectual Property Organization. .Nu is the ccTLD for the island state of Niue. The operators of .nu use the stand...
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UDRP Panel orders HP.nu to be transferred to Hewlett-Packard
HP gets two letter ccTLD in WIPO decision. Hewlett-Packard has won the transfer of the domain name HP.nu in a UDRP decision at World Intellectual Property Organization. .Nu is the ccTLD for the island state of Niue. The operators of .nu use the stand...
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January 8, 2014, 3:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
New escrow service Agreed.com launches
New domain name escrow service offers a good user experience to streamline domain transactions. Thought Convergence has formally launched its new online escrow service, Agreed. Those of you at TRAFFIC in Florida last October will recall that I wore a...
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New escrow service Agreed.com launches
New domain name escrow service offers a good user experience to streamline domain transactions. Thought Convergence has formally launched its new online escrow service, Agreed. Those of you at TRAFFIC in Florida last October will recall that I wore a...
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January 7, 2014, 9:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Republican National Committee loses fight over .republican
RNC loses objection against Demand Media’s application to run .republican top level domain name. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has lost a community objection it filed against Demand Media’s application to run the .republican top...
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Republican National Committee loses fight over .republican
RNC loses objection against Demand Media’s application to run .republican top level domain name. The Republican National Committee (RNC) has lost a community objection it filed against Demand Media’s application to run the .republican top...
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January 7, 2014, 9:30 pm
