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Are 10,000 registrations a realistic goal for niche new top level domains?
So far, most new TLD registries are pricing their domains at a big premium to .com. Will that limit registration numbers? We’re starting to get a better idea of how new top level domain name registries are going to price domain names. It appear...
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Are 10,000 registrations a realistic goal for niche new top level domains?
So far, most new TLD registries are pricing their domains at a big premium to .com. Will that limit registration numbers? We’re starting to get a better idea of how new top level domain name registries are going to price domain names. It appear...
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December 4, 2013, 2:44 pm

Domain Name Wire
NameJet reveals top sales from November
NameJet’s top sales include many a handful of letter .com domain names. Expired domain name site NameJet released a list today of top sales from November. Here are all of the sales of $5,000 or more: ojr.org $19,100 hase.com $17,851 clio.com $1...
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NameJet reveals top sales from November
NameJet’s top sales include many a handful of letter .com domain names. Expired domain name site NameJet released a list today of top sales from November. Here are all of the sales of $5,000 or more: ojr.org $19,100 hase.com $17,851 clio.com $1...
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December 4, 2013, 2:12 am

Domain Name Wire
Rutgers University and 15 other end user domain name buyers
Rutgers University buys a .net and other end user domain name sales. I’m now caught up on end user sales reports due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This report is for sales made by GoDaddy/Afternic two weeks ago. You can see previous end user sal...
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Rutgers University and 15 other end user domain name buyers
Rutgers University buys a .net and other end user domain name sales. I’m now caught up on end user sales reports due to the Thanksgiving holiday. This report is for sales made by GoDaddy/Afternic two weeks ago. You can see previous end user sal...
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December 3, 2013, 3:24 pm

Domain Name Wire
Square Grouper Tiki Bar guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Florida bar filed UDRP despite knowing domain name wasn’t registered in bad faith. Castaways Bar, LLC , owner of Square Grouper Tiki Bar in Jupiter, Florida, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by filing a UDRP against Square...
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Square Grouper Tiki Bar guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Florida bar filed UDRP despite knowing domain name wasn’t registered in bad faith. Castaways Bar, LLC , owner of Square Grouper Tiki Bar in Jupiter, Florida, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by filing a UDRP against Square...
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December 3, 2013, 2:53 pm

Domain Name Wire
18 end user domain name sales
An expensive .co purchase is among Sedo’s big end user domain name sales. Sedo sent out its weekly domain name sales report last week, but due to the U.S. holiday I’m a week behind. Here’s the list, with format domain price – ...
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18 end user domain name sales
An expensive .co purchase is among Sedo’s big end user domain name sales. Sedo sent out its weekly domain name sales report last week, but due to the U.S. holiday I’m a week behind. Here’s the list, with format domain price – ...
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December 2, 2013, 5:37 pm

Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com registers domain names for its delivery-by-drone Prime Air service
Company registers over 40 domains, but can’t get its hands on some key ones. Will your Amazon.com packages be delivered by drone in the future? That’s the vision of Jeff Bezos. And millions have already watched a video (embedded below) of...
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Amazon.com registers domain names for its delivery-by-drone Prime Air service
Company registers over 40 domains, but can’t get its hands on some key ones. Will your Amazon.com packages be delivered by drone in the future? That’s the vision of Jeff Bezos. And millions have already watched a video (embedded below) of...
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December 2, 2013, 4:09 pm

Domain Name Wire
Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories for November
GoDaddy, Sedo, Frank Schilling’s new TLDs, and a .xxx domain name make the news. Tired of turkey leftovers yet? Here are some domain name leftovers from last month…the top five stories on Domain Name Wire, ranked by order of views. 1. Go...
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories for November
GoDaddy, Sedo, Frank Schilling’s new TLDs, and a .xxx domain name make the news. Tired of turkey leftovers yet? Here are some domain name leftovers from last month…the top five stories on Domain Name Wire, ranked by order of views. 1. Go...
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December 2, 2013, 3:38 pm

Domain Name Wire
Will companies use .BlackFriday domain names?
.BlackFriday domain names will soon be available. Will they be useful? It’s Black Friday in the United States, the day that kicks off the holiday shopping season. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry applied to run the .blackfriday top level dom...
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Will companies use .BlackFriday domain names?
.BlackFriday domain names will soon be available. Will they be useful? It’s Black Friday in the United States, the day that kicks off the holiday shopping season. Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry applied to run the .blackfriday top level dom...
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November 29, 2013, 4:54 pm

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Grand Theft Domain Name: Take-Two Interactive loses domain name dispute
Grand Theft Auto publisher fails in case to get GTA.tv domain name. Take-Two Interactive, the creator of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto video game series, has lost a dispute it filed against the domain name GTA.tv. Take-Two has a trademark fo...
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Grand Theft Domain Name: Take-Two Interactive loses domain name dispute
Grand Theft Auto publisher fails in case to get GTA.tv domain name. Take-Two Interactive, the creator of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto video game series, has lost a dispute it filed against the domain name GTA.tv. Take-Two has a trademark fo...
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November 27, 2013, 6:19 pm

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21 community objections have been decided. So far it’s unpredictable.
It’s difficult to predict the outcome of community objections. As of yesterday the International Chamber of Commerce had published 21 community objection decisions. Objectors have won just four of the cases. Time for new top level domain applic...
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21 community objections have been decided. So far it’s unpredictable.
It’s difficult to predict the outcome of community objections. As of yesterday the International Chamber of Commerce had published 21 community objection decisions. Objectors have won just four of the cases. Time for new top level domain applic...
Discussion
November 26, 2013, 3:23 pm