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16 end user domain name sales including radar dector company Escort
Radar detector company is among those who bought domain names at GoDaddy last week. GoDaddy/Afternic sold $1.76M worth of aftermarket domain names last week. Here are 16 that were sold to end users. SurvivalCollege.com $1,000 – Survival College...
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16 end user domain name sales including radar dector company Escort
Radar detector company is among those who bought domain names at GoDaddy last week. GoDaddy/Afternic sold $1.76M worth of aftermarket domain names last week. Here are 16 that were sold to end users. SurvivalCollege.com $1,000 – Survival College...
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December 11, 2013, 5:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
Drug giant Sanofi loses domain dispute thanks to diligent arbitration panelist
Despite no response from domain name owner, panelist considers all of the facts. I often call out UDRP panelists who “phone in” their decisions without considering the other site of the story. So today I’m happy to write about a cas...
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Drug giant Sanofi loses domain dispute thanks to diligent arbitration panelist
Despite no response from domain name owner, panelist considers all of the facts. I often call out UDRP panelists who “phone in” their decisions without considering the other site of the story. So today I’m happy to write about a cas...
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December 11, 2013, 5:17 pm

Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy has a $12,500 price tag for Donuts’ Early Access Program
GoDaddy issues its pricing for jumping the line for Donuts’ domain names. Last month I wrote about how Donuts was eschewing a traditional “landrush” period for its domain names in favor of a so-called “Early Access Program&rdq...
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GoDaddy has a $12,500 price tag for Donuts’ Early Access Program
GoDaddy issues its pricing for jumping the line for Donuts’ domain names. Last month I wrote about how Donuts was eschewing a traditional “landrush” period for its domain names in favor of a so-called “Early Access Program&rdq...
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December 11, 2013, 3:21 am

Domain Name Wire
Some Bitcoin domain name owners have cashed in
Domain domain investors have made good money with bitcoin domain names. Bitcoins are hot, and some domain name investors are cashing in. Not by investing in Bitcoins, but by investing in Bitcoin domain names. Here are some recent sales involving Bitc...
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Some Bitcoin domain name owners have cashed in
Domain domain investors have made good money with bitcoin domain names. Bitcoins are hot, and some domain name investors are cashing in. Not by investing in Bitcoins, but by investing in Bitcoin domain names. Here are some recent sales involving Bitc...
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December 11, 2013, 1:02 am

Domain Name Wire
Verisign is testing lower .com prices on deleted domain names
.Com registry offers $2 discount on deleting domain names. Verisign is testing lower wholesale prices for deleting .com domain names later this month. From December 15-31, registrars will be able to register .com domain names on the day they delete f...
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Verisign is testing lower .com prices on deleted domain names
.Com registry offers $2 discount on deleting domain names. Verisign is testing lower wholesale prices for deleting .com domain names later this month. From December 15-31, registrars will be able to register .com domain names on the day they delete f...
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December 10, 2013, 8:54 pm

Domain Name Wire
Verisign loses new TLD objection against .brand applicant M-NET
Verisign loses another string confusion challenge. Verisign, the registry for .net domain names, has lost a string confusion objection it brought against M-Net and its application for the top level domain .mnet. M-Net is a pay-TV channel in South Afr...
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Verisign loses new TLD objection against .brand applicant M-NET
Verisign loses another string confusion challenge. Verisign, the registry for .net domain names, has lost a string confusion objection it brought against M-Net and its application for the top level domain .mnet. M-Net is a pay-TV channel in South Afr...
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December 10, 2013, 3:54 pm

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Hardheaded governments vs. Amazon.com
Amazon details some of the concessions it was willing to make to governments in the Amazon region. One of the more peculiar new top level domain name battles is the one between Amazon.com and and governments of the Amazon area, including Brazil and P...
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Hardheaded governments vs. Amazon.com
Amazon details some of the concessions it was willing to make to governments in the Amazon region. One of the more peculiar new top level domain name battles is the one between Amazon.com and and governments of the Amazon area, including Brazil and P...
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December 10, 2013, 2:49 pm

Domain Name Wire
Tony Willoughby finds another company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Panelist finds another company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby has found Aero Club of New Delhi, India guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP. This is Willoughby&rs...
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Tony Willoughby finds another company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Panelist finds another company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Tony Willoughby has found Aero Club of New Delhi, India guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP. This is Willoughby&rs...
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December 9, 2013, 10:36 pm

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.Music, .Song, and .Tunes new top level domain name objections against Amazon.com dismissed
Amazon.com prevails in dispute over three music related top level domain names. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled against the American Association of Independent Music’s (A2IM) community objections to Amazon.com’s bi...
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.Music, .Song, and .Tunes new top level domain name objections against Amazon.com dismissed
Amazon.com prevails in dispute over three music related top level domain names. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled against the American Association of Independent Music’s (A2IM) community objections to Amazon.com’s bi...
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December 9, 2013, 8:53 pm

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How I busted another click fraud (and auction fraud) scheme
A silly mistake tipped me off to a click fraud and pump-and-dump scheme. Every once in a while, someone running a click fraud scam slips up. And sometimes they slip up in a big way: by accidentally tipping me off about it. For example, In August this...
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How I busted another click fraud (and auction fraud) scheme
A silly mistake tipped me off to a click fraud and pump-and-dump scheme. Every once in a while, someone running a click fraud scam slips up. And sometimes they slip up in a big way: by accidentally tipping me off about it. For example, In August this...
Discussion
December 9, 2013, 4:56 pm