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22 end user domain name sales
A car dealer, a dog poop bag seller, and a church bought domain names last month. Afternic sold about $1.2 million worth of domain names in the week ending September 1. Here are 22 domain names that were purchased by end users. Dentl.com sold for a w...
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22 end user domain name sales
A car dealer, a dog poop bag seller, and a church bought domain names last month. Afternic sold about $1.2 million worth of domain names in the week ending September 1. Here are 22 domain names that were purchased by end users. Dentl.com sold for a w...
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September 4, 2013, 12:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
A stellar week for end user domain name sales at Sedo
OPS.com, DPC.com, and Fork.com all sold to end users. Sedo had a great past week for end user domain name sales. Several companies paid serious cash for good three letter domain names and category defining names. Two companies plunked down $100k each...
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A stellar week for end user domain name sales at Sedo
OPS.com, DPC.com, and Fork.com all sold to end users. Sedo had a great past week for end user domain name sales. Several companies paid serious cash for good three letter domain names and category defining names. Two companies plunked down $100k each...
Discussion
September 4, 2013, 10:50 am
Domain Name Wire
Verisign lists its grievances with ICANN
VP of Policy cites six ways ICANN could be more accountable. During the ICANN meeting in Durban in July, Verisign VP of Policy Chuck Gomes complained that ICANN’s number one priority seemed to be “protecting ICANN the corporation”, ...
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Verisign lists its grievances with ICANN
VP of Policy cites six ways ICANN could be more accountable. During the ICANN meeting in Durban in July, Verisign VP of Policy Chuck Gomes complained that ICANN’s number one priority seemed to be “protecting ICANN the corporation”, ...
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September 4, 2013, 9:37 am
Domain Name Wire
NoktaDomains domain name sales and leases from last month
Company sold 29 domains and made five leases that are public. I always find NoktaDomains’ monthly sales lists interesting. It gives insight into a mid-sized domain portfolio owner and it also shows the types of domain names it’s leasing r...
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NoktaDomains domain name sales and leases from last month
Company sold 29 domains and made five leases that are public. I always find NoktaDomains’ monthly sales lists interesting. It gives insight into a mid-sized domain portfolio owner and it also shows the types of domain names it’s leasing r...
Discussion
September 3, 2013, 11:41 am
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy auctions sells 40,264 domain names in August
A good month for GoDaddy Auctions including a public six figure sale. GoDaddy Auctions sold 40,264 domain names last month, up slightly from July’s 39,264 sales. (Numbers aren’t finalized immediately when the month ends, so August’s...
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GoDaddy auctions sells 40,264 domain names in August
A good month for GoDaddy Auctions including a public six figure sale. GoDaddy Auctions sold 40,264 domain names last month, up slightly from July’s 39,264 sales. (Numbers aren’t finalized immediately when the month ends, so August’s...
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September 3, 2013, 10:28 am
Domain Name Wire
New expired domain name rules now in effect
Registrars must follow new guidelines for expired domain names. New expired domain name rules governing all gTLDs went into effect on Saturday. The Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP) regulates how domain name registrars handle expiring domai...
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New expired domain name rules now in effect
Registrars must follow new guidelines for expired domain names. New expired domain name rules governing all gTLDs went into effect on Saturday. The Expired Registration Recovery Policy (ERRP) regulates how domain name registrars handle expiring domai...
Discussion
September 3, 2013, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic goes public: a look at the numbers
CentralNic went public yesterday. Here are some of the company’s financials. Yesterday CentralNic, a company best known for offering third level domain names similar to ccTLDs, went public. The company plans to use proceeds for a number of purp...
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CentralNic goes public: a look at the numbers
CentralNic went public yesterday. Here are some of the company’s financials. Yesterday CentralNic, a company best known for offering third level domain names similar to ccTLDs, went public. The company plans to use proceeds for a number of purp...
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September 3, 2013, 8:41 am
Domain Name Wire
Owner of Corediagnostics.in Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
M/s. Core Diagnostics filed UDRP against domain name registered a decade before it was founded. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Richard Hill has found M/s. Core Diagnostics, owner of CoreDiagnostics.in, guilty of attempting reverse ...
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Owner of Corediagnostics.in Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
M/s. Core Diagnostics filed UDRP against domain name registered a decade before it was founded. World Intellectual Property Organization panelist Richard Hill has found M/s. Core Diagnostics, owner of CoreDiagnostics.in, guilty of attempting reverse ...
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September 2, 2013, 1:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
17 new top level domain registry contracts signed
Finally some progress for new TLD applicants, but it’s slow. ICANN has updated its statistics through yesterday for the number of new top level domain contracts it has signed. It signed 13 contracts this past week. 12 of those were signed by Do...
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17 new top level domain registry contracts signed
Finally some progress for new TLD applicants, but it’s slow. ICANN has updated its statistics through yesterday for the number of new top level domain contracts it has signed. It signed 13 contracts this past week. 12 of those were signed by Do...
Discussion
August 31, 2013, 12:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
For The Limited, “The” comes back to haunt it in another domain case
The brand is The Limited, not Limited. There were many reasons that new TLD applicant Donuts prevailed in a legal rights objection filed by fashion retailer Limited over .limited. One of those was that “The” is a big part of the The Limit...
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For The Limited, “The” comes back to haunt it in another domain case
The brand is The Limited, not Limited. There were many reasons that new TLD applicant Donuts prevailed in a legal rights objection filed by fashion retailer Limited over .limited. One of those was that “The” is a big part of the The Limit...
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August 30, 2013, 12:55 pm
