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Breaking: GoDaddy acquires Afternic from NameMedia
Acquisition will make it easier for customers to buy domain names that are already registered. GoDaddy has acquired domain name sales platform Afternic from NameMedia in a move that will make it easier for people to buy domain names that are already ...
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Breaking: GoDaddy acquires Afternic from NameMedia
Acquisition will make it easier for customers to buy domain names that are already registered. GoDaddy has acquired domain name sales platform Afternic from NameMedia in a move that will make it easier for people to buy domain names that are already ...
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September 19, 2013, 9:26 am
Domain Name Wire
MO.com domain name sells
Two letter domain name has sold. The MO.com domain name has sold, the website’s owners disclosed in a recent blog post. The site, which interviews business founders and asked “What’s your M.O.”, has relocated to BusinessInterv...
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MO.com domain name sells
Two letter domain name has sold. The MO.com domain name has sold, the website’s owners disclosed in a recent blog post. The site, which interviews business founders and asked “What’s your M.O.”, has relocated to BusinessInterv...
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September 18, 2013, 12:10 pm
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What domain names CBS, JPMorgan, and 30 others bought last week
CBS and JPMorgan among the big names buying domain names in the aftermarket last week. Afternic sold just shy of $1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. St. John Cantius Church bought Cantius.com for $1,800; ...
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What domain names CBS, JPMorgan, and 30 others bought last week
CBS and JPMorgan among the big names buying domain names in the aftermarket last week. Afternic sold just shy of $1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. St. John Cantius Church bought Cantius.com for $1,800; ...
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September 18, 2013, 11:22 am
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Verisign loses objection against Dish’s .DTV top level domain name
Panelist says .DTV can coexist with .TV. Verisign has lost a String Confusion Objection against Dish DBS over the string .DTV. Verisign runs the registry for .TV, and argued that having .TV and .DTV as top level domain names would confuse the average...
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Verisign loses objection against Dish’s .DTV top level domain name
Panelist says .DTV can coexist with .TV. Verisign has lost a String Confusion Objection against Dish DBS over the string .DTV. Verisign runs the registry for .TV, and argued that having .TV and .DTV as top level domain names would confuse the average...
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September 18, 2013, 10:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Bright.com raises $14 million in Series B
Bright.com, sold for six figures in 2010, is being put to good use. Job search site Bright.com has raised $14 million in a Series B round. The Bright.com domain name sold through Sedo for $112,500 back in 2010. Looking at historical whois records, I&...
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Bright.com raises $14 million in Series B
Bright.com, sold for six figures in 2010, is being put to good use. Job search site Bright.com has raised $14 million in a Series B round. The Bright.com domain name sold through Sedo for $112,500 back in 2010. Looking at historical whois records, I&...
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September 18, 2013, 10:01 am
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Southwest Airlines bags BagsFlyFree.com domain name
Domain name complements no bag fee marketing efforts. Charging for bags has been the saving grace of the airline industry in recent years. Airlines that don’t charge for luggage – most notably Southwest Airlines – have done a lot to...
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Southwest Airlines bags BagsFlyFree.com domain name
Domain name complements no bag fee marketing efforts. Charging for bags has been the saving grace of the airline industry in recent years. Airlines that don’t charge for luggage – most notably Southwest Airlines – have done a lot to...
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September 18, 2013, 9:45 am
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Thought Convergence to launch domain name escrow service Agreed.com
Domain company ready to enter the domain escrow business. Thought Convergence, the company behind domain parking company TrafficZ and domain sales and parking platform Aftermarket.com, is getting ready to launch its own domain escrow service. The com...
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Thought Convergence to launch domain name escrow service Agreed.com
Domain company ready to enter the domain escrow business. Thought Convergence, the company behind domain parking company TrafficZ and domain sales and parking platform Aftermarket.com, is getting ready to launch its own domain escrow service. The com...
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September 17, 2013, 5:39 pm
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20 domain registrars sign 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Most large domain name registrars have yet to sign the new agreement. Two months after the first five domain registrars signed the new 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement with ICANN, only 15 more have signed on. In fact, two of the registrars that...
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20 domain registrars sign 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Most large domain name registrars have yet to sign the new agreement. Two months after the first five domain registrars signed the new 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement with ICANN, only 15 more have signed on. In fact, two of the registrars that...
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September 17, 2013, 11:54 am
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CentralNic business model will cause lots of new TLD confusion
Selling registrations under second level domains that match new TLD strings will increase confusion as new TLDs launch. Earlier this month CentralNic went public, largely on the promise that new top level domain names can generate significant revenue...
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CentralNic business model will cause lots of new TLD confusion
Selling registrations under second level domains that match new TLD strings will increase confusion as new TLDs launch. Earlier this month CentralNic went public, largely on the promise that new top level domain names can generate significant revenue...
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September 17, 2013, 10:37 am
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Tencent is latest to challenge ICANN on new TLD objections
Company lost legal rights objections for weibo domain names. Chinese internet giant Tencent is the latest company to ask ICANN to reconsider a new top level domain objection decision. The company is challenging the legal rights objections brought by ...
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Tencent is latest to challenge ICANN on new TLD objections
Company lost legal rights objections for weibo domain names. Chinese internet giant Tencent is the latest company to ask ICANN to reconsider a new top level domain objection decision. The company is challenging the legal rights objections brought by ...
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September 17, 2013, 9:52 am
