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How did the new Kozmo.com get the old Kozmo.com’s domain name?
Because Kozmo.com never fully expired, the group trying to relaunch the brand had to go to extraordinary measures to get the domain. Kozmo.com, the delivery service that became a poster child for the dot.com boom and bust, is coming back. Sort of. I ...
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How did the new Kozmo.com get the old Kozmo.com’s domain name?
Because Kozmo.com never fully expired, the group trying to relaunch the brand had to go to extraordinary measures to get the domain. Kozmo.com, the delivery service that became a poster child for the dot.com boom and bust, is coming back. Sort of. I ...
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September 30, 2013, 11:22 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain parking company named to bad hosts list, but…
Sedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker “Bad Hosts”). Domain name parking company Sedo shows ...
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Domain parking company named to bad hosts list, but…
Sedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker “Bad Hosts”). Domain name parking company Sedo shows ...
Discussion
September 30, 2013, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
Apple drops .com button in iOS7
Shortcut to .com websites not as prominent in latest operating system. The only device my daughter has used to visit a website is the iPad. So when I let her use my laptop one day, she looked at the keyboard with a puzzled look. “Where’s ...
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Apple drops .com button in iOS7
Shortcut to .com websites not as prominent in latest operating system. The only device my daughter has used to visit a website is the iPad. So when I let her use my laptop one day, she looked at the keyboard with a puzzled look. “Where’s ...
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September 27, 2013, 12:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Scooby says new TLDs will be full of scams and the options will stink
Ruh roh! Choice will be limited and scam sites will persist in new top level domains. When I come home from work I like to kick my feet up, crack open a beer and watch a couple episodes of the new Scooby Doo*. Last night while watching the gang solve...
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Scooby says new TLDs will be full of scams and the options will stink
Ruh roh! Choice will be limited and scam sites will persist in new top level domains. When I come home from work I like to kick my feet up, crack open a beer and watch a couple episodes of the new Scooby Doo*. Last night while watching the gang solve...
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September 27, 2013, 9:50 am
Domain Name Wire
Claiming trademark to the term “women”, company files UDRP against women-asia.com
Sorry guys, you don’t own “women”. An international modeling agency claiming to have trademarks for the term “women” used them to try to wrestle away the domain name women-asia.com in a UDRP. It lost. PEC Intellectual Pr...
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Claiming trademark to the term “women”, company files UDRP against women-asia.com
Sorry guys, you don’t own “women”. An international modeling agency claiming to have trademarks for the term “women” used them to try to wrestle away the domain name women-asia.com in a UDRP. It lost. PEC Intellectual Pr...
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September 27, 2013, 9:37 am
Domain Name Wire
15 end user domain name sales from Sedo
An organic food company, bowling alley, and baby photo site bought domain names via Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.4M worth of domain names last week. Here are fifteen domain name sales to end users. BabyVote Limited, which holds baby picture contests ...
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15 end user domain name sales from Sedo
An organic food company, bowling alley, and baby photo site bought domain names via Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.4M worth of domain names last week. Here are fifteen domain name sales to end users. BabyVote Limited, which holds baby picture contests ...
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September 26, 2013, 10:42 am
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic buys Mex.com. Yourname.Mex.com coming soon?
Domain name company picks up Mex.com at auction and will likely use it to sell subdomains. Last month I wrote about an auction at Sedo for Mex.com. The auction closed for 29,111 EUR. The domain has changed hands and the buyer is domain name company C...
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CentralNic buys Mex.com. Yourname.Mex.com coming soon?
Domain name company picks up Mex.com at auction and will likely use it to sell subdomains. Last month I wrote about an auction at Sedo for Mex.com. The auction closed for 29,111 EUR. The domain has changed hands and the buyer is domain name company C...
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September 26, 2013, 10:04 am
Domain Name Wire
JetGo guilty of RDNH after filing “seriously misleading” case against Frank Schilling
Australian charter jet company didn’t give the full story to WIPO panel. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended another UDRP filed against one of its domain names. The three person UDRP panel also found the compla...
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JetGo guilty of RDNH after filing “seriously misleading” case against Frank Schilling
Australian charter jet company didn’t give the full story to WIPO panel. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended another UDRP filed against one of its domain names. The three person UDRP panel also found the compla...
Discussion
September 25, 2013, 4:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Walmart goes after gripe website and guy responds with angry rant
Gripe site creator demands Walmart pay him before he hands over domain name. Walmart has filed a dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to take control of the domain name WalmartDoorGreeter.com. The domain name was reg...
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Walmart goes after gripe website and guy responds with angry rant
Gripe site creator demands Walmart pay him before he hands over domain name. Walmart has filed a dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to take control of the domain name WalmartDoorGreeter.com. The domain name was reg...
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September 25, 2013, 3:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Coke, Dreamworks, Shell and 40 others bought last week
Big names and small businesses bought domain names through Afternic last week. Afternic’s weekly sales lists usually only include sales of $1,000 or more. This week the company included lower priced domains on its list, and it’s rather ey...
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What domain names Coke, Dreamworks, Shell and 40 others bought last week
Big names and small businesses bought domain names through Afternic last week. Afternic’s weekly sales lists usually only include sales of $1,000 or more. This week the company included lower priced domains on its list, and it’s rather ey...
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September 25, 2013, 2:15 pm
