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Walmart defeats union website
Panel orders union’s domain name be transferred to Walmart. Walmart has succeeded in taking down a criticism website created by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. In July, the retailer filed a dispute with World Intelle...
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Walmart defeats union website
Panel orders union’s domain name be transferred to Walmart. Walmart has succeeded in taking down a criticism website created by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. In July, the retailer filed a dispute with World Intelle...
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October 21, 2013, 10:33 am
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Bob Parsons buys marketing agency
GoDaddy founder buys a marketing firm. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons apprently never wants to be bored. He owns a bunch of motorcycle dealers and has been snapping up real estate in the Phoenix area. His latest purchase: a marketing and advertising fir...
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Bob Parsons buys marketing agency
GoDaddy founder buys a marketing firm. GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons apprently never wants to be bored. He owns a bunch of motorcycle dealers and has been snapping up real estate in the Phoenix area. His latest purchase: a marketing and advertising fir...
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October 18, 2013, 5:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic offers financing for new TLD auctions as well as working capital
CentralNic will back new TLD applicants at auction and provide working capital. With ICANN’s auctions to settle new TLD contention sets coming soon, and applicants realizing they might need more money to launch their TLDs than previously expect...
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CentralNic offers financing for new TLD auctions as well as working capital
CentralNic will back new TLD applicants at auction and provide working capital. With ICANN’s auctions to settle new TLD contention sets coming soon, and applicants realizing they might need more money to launch their TLDs than previously expect...
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October 18, 2013, 10:51 am
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Verisign combines domain name searching tools into DomainScope
DomainScope helps registrants find available domain names, including those with traffic or that recently expired. Verisign has released a new domain name search tool called DomainScope, which combines the functionality of its DomainFinder, DomainScor...
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Verisign combines domain name searching tools into DomainScope
DomainScope helps registrants find available domain names, including those with traffic or that recently expired. Verisign has released a new domain name search tool called DomainScope, which combines the functionality of its DomainFinder, DomainScor...
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October 18, 2013, 10:21 am
Domain Name Wire
3 things to check out at next week’s TRAFFIC conference
Here are three sessions I plan to attend at next week’s conference. The TRAFFIC conference kicks off in Ft. Lauderdale Sunday evening, with programming beginning Monday morning. You’ll rarely see me attend the actual conference sessions a...
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3 things to check out at next week’s TRAFFIC conference
Here are three sessions I plan to attend at next week’s conference. The TRAFFIC conference kicks off in Ft. Lauderdale Sunday evening, with programming beginning Monday morning. You’ll rarely see me attend the actual conference sessions a...
Discussion
October 17, 2013, 1:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
5 with…Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver answers five questions about rebranding his blog. Elliot Silver has an occasional series on his blog called “5 with…” in which he asks someone in the domain industry five questions. In light of Elliot’s rebrand ...
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5 with…Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver answers five questions about rebranding his blog. Elliot Silver has an occasional series on his blog called “5 with…” in which he asks someone in the domain industry five questions. In light of Elliot’s rebrand ...
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October 17, 2013, 10:21 am
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23 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy and Afternic
A furniture company, entrepreneur group, and a large electronics cases company buy domain names. Before jumping into this week’s Afternic/GoDaddy end user sales report, I’d like to call attention to two very timely domain name sales: Debt...
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23 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy and Afternic
A furniture company, entrepreneur group, and a large electronics cases company buy domain names. Before jumping into this week’s Afternic/GoDaddy end user sales report, I’d like to call attention to two very timely domain name sales: Debt...
Discussion
October 17, 2013, 9:50 am
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Over 7,000 .LA domains registered at GoDaddy since June
GoDaddy registers over 7,000 .LA domain names since promoting the domain for Los Angeles. A reader who invested in .la domain names asked me this week if I knew how the domain name was doing since GoDaddy put some of its marketing weight behind the d...
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Over 7,000 .LA domains registered at GoDaddy since June
GoDaddy registers over 7,000 .LA domain names since promoting the domain for Los Angeles. A reader who invested in .la domain names asked me this week if I knew how the domain name was doing since GoDaddy put some of its marketing weight behind the d...
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October 16, 2013, 10:00 pm
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Donuts’ .Shopping found too similar to .shop, will be placed in contention set
Once again, who the string confusion panelist is determines the outcome of an objection. A string confusion objection panelist has ruled that having both .shop and .shopping as top level domain names will confuse the average internet user, and thus b...
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Donuts’ .Shopping found too similar to .shop, will be placed in contention set
Once again, who the string confusion panelist is determines the outcome of an objection. A string confusion objection panelist has ruled that having both .shop and .shopping as top level domain names will confuse the average internet user, and thus b...
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October 16, 2013, 2:57 pm
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Polo sport beats Polo brand in .Polo top level domain name dispute
.Polo brand top level domain name application killed off by polo sport association. A panel has upheld a community objection (pdf) filed by The United States Polo Association against Ralph Lauren Corporation’s application to run the .polo top l...
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Polo sport beats Polo brand in .Polo top level domain name dispute
.Polo brand top level domain name application killed off by polo sport association. A panel has upheld a community objection (pdf) filed by The United States Polo Association against Ralph Lauren Corporation’s application to run the .polo top l...
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October 16, 2013, 1:33 pm
