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After acquiring TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name team went to work
Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education comp...
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After acquiring TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name team went to work
Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education comp...
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October 14, 2013, 10:52 am
Domain Name Wire
What domain names the Jacksonville Jaguars and 30 others bought last week
NFL team was among the end user buyers of domain names last week. When GoDaddy acquired Afternic, one of my unspoken concerns was that Afternic would no longer release sales data. GoDaddy has historically released less information than other large do...
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What domain names the Jacksonville Jaguars and 30 others bought last week
NFL team was among the end user buyers of domain names last week. When GoDaddy acquired Afternic, one of my unspoken concerns was that Afternic would no longer release sales data. GoDaddy has historically released less information than other large do...
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October 12, 2013, 11:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Oh brother, .Shop applicant has really lost it this time
Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be...
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Oh brother, .Shop applicant has really lost it this time
Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be...
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October 11, 2013, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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October 11, 2013, 10:18 am
Domain Name Wire
True Religion loses domain dispute, but you need to read the dissent
True Religion can’t get TrueReligion.com domain name through UDRP. In July I wrote about how True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, had filed a UDRP against the owner of TrueReligion.com to try to get the domain name. Pr...
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True Religion loses domain dispute, but you need to read the dissent
True Religion can’t get TrueReligion.com domain name through UDRP. In July I wrote about how True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, had filed a UDRP against the owner of TrueReligion.com to try to get the domain name. Pr...
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October 11, 2013, 10:06 am
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.Wed becomes one of the first new TLDs to submit a new registry service request
Company wants to let second level domain registrants transition to third level domain names. The ink is barely dry on Atgron, Inc.’s contract with ICANN to run the .wed top level domain name, and the company has already submitted a Registry Ser...
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.Wed becomes one of the first new TLDs to submit a new registry service request
Company wants to let second level domain registrants transition to third level domain names. The ink is barely dry on Atgron, Inc.’s contract with ICANN to run the .wed top level domain name, and the company has already submitted a Registry Ser...
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October 11, 2013, 9:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Are you going to TRAFFIC?
The next TRAFFIC domain conference takes place in Fort Lauderdale starting October 20. This year’s fall TRAFFIC conference is just ten days away. The conference returns to The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale October 20-23. As usual, there...
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Are you going to TRAFFIC?
The next TRAFFIC domain conference takes place in Fort Lauderdale starting October 20. This year’s fall TRAFFIC conference is just ten days away. The conference returns to The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale October 20-23. As usual, there...
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October 10, 2013, 2:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Signed new TLD registry contracts have a wide range of priority numbers
Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a pri...
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Signed new TLD registry contracts have a wide range of priority numbers
Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a pri...
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October 10, 2013, 10:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Google and Amazon.com backpeddle on closed top level domain names
Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies h...
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Google and Amazon.com backpeddle on closed top level domain names
Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies h...
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October 10, 2013, 10:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after conflicting .cars decisions
A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor ...
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Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after conflicting .cars decisions
A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor ...
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October 9, 2013, 5:22 pm
