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Block your trademark on 200+ top level domains for $600 a year
Donuts’ service is not cheap, but it’s much easier and cheaper than the alternative. Donuts, applicant for over 300 top level domain names, has launched its “Domains Protected Marks List” offering to trademark holders. The ser...
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Block your trademark on 200+ top level domains for $600 a year
Donuts’ service is not cheap, but it’s much easier and cheaper than the alternative. Donuts, applicant for over 300 top level domain names, has launched its “Domains Protected Marks List” offering to trademark holders. The ser...
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September 25, 2013, 12:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Authentic Web wants to make .brand domains easier for corporations
Company will act as domain name registrar and offer the workflows necessary for a corporate environment. Most large companies have a process in place for registering new domain names. This may get more complex when brands secure their own top level d...
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Authentic Web wants to make .brand domains easier for corporations
Company will act as domain name registrar and offer the workflows necessary for a corporate environment. Most large companies have a process in place for registering new domain names. This may get more complex when brands secure their own top level d...
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September 25, 2013, 11:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Wow, United Domains is all in with New TLDs
Want to register a .com at United Domains? You’ll need to poke around the site a bit. We know that new top level domains are a growth opportunity for domain name registrars. But should domain name registrars forgo current registrations in favor...
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Wow, United Domains is all in with New TLDs
Want to register a .com at United Domains? You’ll need to poke around the site a bit. We know that new top level domains are a growth opportunity for domain name registrars. But should domain name registrars forgo current registrations in favor...
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September 25, 2013, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
Superyacht company rebrands as Y.CO
YCO Yacht rebrands its business to Y.CO. A superyacht brokerage and management company has changed its brand to Y.CO, and announced the change in conjunction with the Monaco Yacht Show going on now. The company’s previous brand was YCO Yacht, s...
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Superyacht company rebrands as Y.CO
YCO Yacht rebrands its business to Y.CO. A superyacht brokerage and management company has changed its brand to Y.CO, and announced the change in conjunction with the Monaco Yacht Show going on now. The company’s previous brand was YCO Yacht, s...
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September 25, 2013, 9:39 am
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic reports results: revenue up 16%
CentralNic profit spikes in first half of year. Domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), which went public last month, has released interim results for the first half of 2013. For the first half of 2013, the company pulled in £1,735 million...
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CentralNic reports results: revenue up 16%
CentralNic profit spikes in first half of year. Domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), which went public last month, has released interim results for the first half of 2013. For the first half of 2013, the company pulled in £1,735 million...
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September 25, 2013, 9:21 am
Domain Name Wire
Google beats Donuts in .Games top level domain name dispute
.Games domain names will likely be confused with .game domains, panelist rules. Donuts has lost another string confusion objection for a plural domain name, this time .games. Google, one of five applicants for the .game top level domain, argued that ...
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Google beats Donuts in .Games top level domain name dispute
.Games domain names will likely be confused with .game domains, panelist rules. Donuts has lost another string confusion objection for a plural domain name, this time .games. Google, one of five applicants for the .game top level domain, argued that ...
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September 24, 2013, 4:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
With .Sex, more proof the ICDR doesn’t have its act together
Despite what the official list says, SX Registry lost its objection against .sex. So I’m going through the updated list of string confusion objection decisions when I think I’ve hit a great story: SX Registry SA has prevailed in its strin...
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With .Sex, more proof the ICDR doesn’t have its act together
Despite what the official list says, SX Registry lost its objection against .sex. So I’m going through the updated list of string confusion objection decisions when I think I’ve hit a great story: SX Registry SA has prevailed in its strin...
Discussion
September 24, 2013, 4:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
The company is called Sold, but finding it isn’t easy
If you use a generic name like Sold and don’t own Sold.com, it might be harder for people to find you. TechCrunch is reporting today about Sold, a company that apparently make selling your used stuff easy. The company has raised seed funding fr...
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The company is called Sold, but finding it isn’t easy
If you use a generic name like Sold and don’t own Sold.com, it might be harder for people to find you. TechCrunch is reporting today about Sold, a company that apparently make selling your used stuff easy. The company has raised seed funding fr...
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September 24, 2013, 1:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Axis TLD appears dead after WIPO decision
WIPO decides not to accept late response to objection. World Intellectual Property Organization has made a determination that it will not accept a late response to a Legal Rights Objection against .axis, thereby effectively killing off Saudi Telecom ...
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.Axis TLD appears dead after WIPO decision
WIPO decides not to accept late response to objection. World Intellectual Property Organization has made a determination that it will not accept a late response to a Legal Rights Objection against .axis, thereby effectively killing off Saudi Telecom ...
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September 24, 2013, 12:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
What GoDaddy’s acquisition of Afternic means for domainers
Domainers will see some immediate benefits and should keep a close eye on changes at the combined GoDaddy/Afternic. Last week GoDaddy announced that it acquired domain name aftermarket Afternic. My in-depth article about the acquisition covered some ...
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What GoDaddy’s acquisition of Afternic means for domainers
Domainers will see some immediate benefits and should keep a close eye on changes at the combined GoDaddy/Afternic. Last week GoDaddy announced that it acquired domain name aftermarket Afternic. My in-depth article about the acquisition covered some ...
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September 24, 2013, 9:56 am
