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New TLD conference finalizes agenda for March event
Third installment of gTLD Strategy Congress returns to New York City in March. The 3rd Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress is coming to New York City March 3-4 at the Dream Hotel. Momentum Event Group, the show’s organizer, has publi...
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New TLD conference finalizes agenda for March event
Third installment of gTLD Strategy Congress returns to New York City in March. The 3rd Digital Marketing & gTLD Strategy Congress is coming to New York City March 3-4 at the Dream Hotel. Momentum Event Group, the show’s organizer, has publi...
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December 18, 2013, 5:44 pm

Domain Name Wire
32 end user domain name sales up to $50,000
Gaming company, natural food store, and rental car company make domain name purchases. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell over $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 32 that were sold to end users. See previous end user sales repor...
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32 end user domain name sales up to $50,000
Gaming company, natural food store, and rental car company make domain name purchases. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell over $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 32 that were sold to end users. See previous end user sales repor...
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December 18, 2013, 4:37 pm

Domain Name Wire
Domain name company Tucows headed to the NASDAQ
Company to list on NASDAQ and perform a reverse stock split. If you’ve watched Tucows’ stock over the fast few years, you’ve seen it go from under $1 to almost $3, and its market cap hit $125 million: The stock surge is due to a cou...
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Domain name company Tucows headed to the NASDAQ
Company to list on NASDAQ and perform a reverse stock split. If you’ve watched Tucows’ stock over the fast few years, you’ve seen it go from under $1 to almost $3, and its market cap hit $125 million: The stock surge is due to a cou...
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December 18, 2013, 3:00 pm

Domain Name Wire
Domainers are going to love and hate the QLP.com UDRP decision
Complaint fails, by why did only one panelist find Quality Logo Products guilty of reverse domain name hijacking? Get On The Web, Ltd has successfully defended the domain name QLP.com in a UDRP brought by Quality Logo Products, Inc. While the overall...
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Domainers are going to love and hate the QLP.com UDRP decision
Complaint fails, by why did only one panelist find Quality Logo Products guilty of reverse domain name hijacking? Get On The Web, Ltd has successfully defended the domain name QLP.com in a UDRP brought by Quality Logo Products, Inc. While the overall...
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December 17, 2013, 8:49 pm

Domain Name Wire
Parajumpers wins a UDRP on third try
Company behind Parajumpers clothing brand takes UDRP more seriously and wins Parajumpers.org domain name. Ape & Partners S. p. A. and licensee PJS International S.A. have finally won a UDRP for a Parajumpers domain name after three tries. The com...
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Parajumpers wins a UDRP on third try
Company behind Parajumpers clothing brand takes UDRP more seriously and wins Parajumpers.org domain name. Ape & Partners S. p. A. and licensee PJS International S.A. have finally won a UDRP for a Parajumpers domain name after three tries. The com...
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December 17, 2013, 7:03 pm

Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling sets the stage for 2014. More domain parking revenue?
Will Google pay more to domain name owners in 2014? Frank Schilling thinks it’s possible. Frank Schilling just sent a newsletter to DomainNameSales.com clients, and in it he makes a couple predictions for 2014. One is that new top level domain ...
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Frank Schilling sets the stage for 2014. More domain parking revenue?
Will Google pay more to domain name owners in 2014? Frank Schilling thinks it’s possible. Frank Schilling just sent a newsletter to DomainNameSales.com clients, and in it he makes a couple predictions for 2014. One is that new top level domain ...
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December 17, 2013, 4:27 pm

Domain Name Wire
Is there such a thing as a brandable generic TLD?
Some generic domain extensions will need to create a brand to be successful. Over a thousand new top level domain names are headed to the web, and hundreds of them will be open to the general public for registration. A lot of them are generic in natu...
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Is there such a thing as a brandable generic TLD?
Some generic domain extensions will need to create a brand to be successful. Over a thousand new top level domain names are headed to the web, and hundreds of them will be open to the general public for registration. A lot of them are generic in natu...
Discussion
December 17, 2013, 2:55 pm

Domain Name Wire
ICANN updates new TLD auction plans, still no resolution for indirect contention
ICANN has published new rules for upcoming auctions which will resolve top level domain strings with more than one applicant. ICANN has published updated rules for its so-called “Auctions of Last Resort” to resolve new top level domain na...
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ICANN updates new TLD auction plans, still no resolution for indirect contention
ICANN has published new rules for upcoming auctions which will resolve top level domain strings with more than one applicant. ICANN has published updated rules for its so-called “Auctions of Last Resort” to resolve new top level domain na...
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December 17, 2013, 2:17 am

Domain Name Wire
People are already frontrunning on the next round of new TLDs
.Whatever trademark applications are still being submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Before the application period for the current round of new top level domain names opened, many people and companies filed trademark applications to tr...
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People are already frontrunning on the next round of new TLDs
.Whatever trademark applications are still being submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Before the application period for the current round of new top level domain names opened, many people and companies filed trademark applications to tr...
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December 16, 2013, 6:18 pm

Domain Name Wire
This company might be willing to pay $12,500 for a new second level domain name
Who would pay over ten grand for a new second level domain name? A lot of people were in shock last week when GoDaddy unveiled its pricing for Donuts’ Early Access Program registrations. The Early Access Program (EAP) is Donuts’ version o...
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This company might be willing to pay $12,500 for a new second level domain name
Who would pay over ten grand for a new second level domain name? A lot of people were in shock last week when GoDaddy unveiled its pricing for Donuts’ Early Access Program registrations. The Early Access Program (EAP) is Donuts’ version o...
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December 16, 2013, 4:13 pm