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How JustDropped.com profits from domain names by focusing on volume
Behind a popular expired domain site lies a business model of selling lots of domain names for under $100. There are a handful of people and companies that make a living buying and selling domain names. There are some, like Frank Schilling, who make ...
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How JustDropped.com profits from domain names by focusing on volume
Behind a popular expired domain site lies a business model of selling lots of domain names for under $100. There are a handful of people and companies that make a living buying and selling domain names. There are some, like Frank Schilling, who make ...
Discussion
August 8, 2013, 10:38 am
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets patent for non-existent domain traffic analysis
Patent covers tool to identify potentially valuable unregistered domain names. The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Verisign that covers analysis of traffic to non-existent domain names. U.S. Patent number 8,504,673 (pdf) is ti...
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Verisign gets patent for non-existent domain traffic analysis
Patent covers tool to identify potentially valuable unregistered domain names. The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent to Verisign that covers analysis of traffic to non-existent domain names. U.S. Patent number 8,504,673 (pdf) is ti...
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August 7, 2013, 12:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
9 things I learned from running a contest on 99Designs
These tips will help you if you do a logo design contest on 99Designs. A new logo was part of the Domain Name Wire redesign released last month. I designed the original logo myself back in 2005, and only had it refreshed a few years later by a design...
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9 things I learned from running a contest on 99Designs
These tips will help you if you do a logo design contest on 99Designs. A new logo was part of the Domain Name Wire redesign released last month. I designed the original logo myself back in 2005, and only had it refreshed a few years later by a design...
Discussion
August 7, 2013, 11:16 am
Domain Name Wire
After sweeping it under the rug, Name Collisions come back to haunt new TLD program
Name collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to &l...
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After sweeping it under the rug, Name Collisions come back to haunt new TLD program
Name collisions derail new top level domain name timeline. Everyone in the executive suite at Verisign must have been smiling this morning. That’s because ICANN dropped a bombshell, delaying a big portion of new top level domain names due to &l...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Del Monte v. Del Monte: first new TLD objection to be upheld
Objector wins .delmonte Legal Rights Objection. If you look at the list of filed Legal Rights Objections for new top level domains, only a few stand out as plausible cases. One of those was Del Monte Corporation v. Del Monte International GmbH for .d...
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Del Monte v. Del Monte: first new TLD objection to be upheld
Objector wins .delmonte Legal Rights Objection. If you look at the list of filed Legal Rights Objections for new top level domains, only a few stand out as plausible cases. One of those was Del Monte Corporation v. Del Monte International GmbH for .d...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 2:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
What the heck is a “premium domain”?
A domain that would qualify as premium in .com may not be premium under different extensions. Just like grade inflation, the quality of what people are labeling a “premium domain” has been slipping in recent years. That’s because an...
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What the heck is a “premium domain”?
A domain that would qualify as premium in .com may not be premium under different extensions. Just like grade inflation, the quality of what people are labeling a “premium domain” has been slipping in recent years. That’s because an...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 12:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy’s sales and Nokta’s sales and leases from July
Domain name companies release sales information. GoDaddy Auctions sold 38,601 in July, according to the company’s Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report. The top sale, which I’ve written about previously, was body.com for $380,000. Here a...
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GoDaddy’s sales and Nokta’s sales and leases from July
Domain name companies release sales information. GoDaddy Auctions sold 38,601 in July, according to the company’s Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report. The top sale, which I’ve written about previously, was body.com for $380,000. Here a...
Discussion
August 6, 2013, 11:33 am
Domain Name Wire
This is funny: SM.net UDRP claims domain couldn’t be related to porn
A rather curious argument in a UDRP for SM.net. Spanish education publishing company Fundación Santa María-Ediciones SM has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of SM.net. Although the company’s trademarks include the term &ldqu...
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This is funny: SM.net UDRP claims domain couldn’t be related to porn
A rather curious argument in a UDRP for SM.net. Spanish education publishing company Fundación Santa María-Ediciones SM has lost a UDRP it filed against the owner of SM.net. Although the company’s trademarks include the term &ldqu...
Discussion
August 5, 2013, 2:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
Now.com owner Starbucks (HK) Limited loses dispute over .now
Company that owns now.com loses the first of many objections it filed over the .now top level domain. IPTV company Starbucks (HK) Limited has lost its legal rights objection against One.com A/S’ application for the .now top level domain name. S...
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Now.com owner Starbucks (HK) Limited loses dispute over .now
Company that owns now.com loses the first of many objections it filed over the .now top level domain. IPTV company Starbucks (HK) Limited has lost its legal rights objection against One.com A/S’ application for the .now top level domain name. S...
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August 5, 2013, 1:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Interesting: Network Solutions’ invisible pricing
Finding Network Solutions’ pricing takes a lot of commitment. Web.com customers who use Network Solutions or Register.com are not very price sensitive (or price knowledgeable). That’s how the companies are able to charge roughly $35 for a...
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Interesting: Network Solutions’ invisible pricing
Finding Network Solutions’ pricing takes a lot of commitment. Web.com customers who use Network Solutions or Register.com are not very price sensitive (or price knowledgeable). That’s how the companies are able to charge roughly $35 for a...
Discussion
August 5, 2013, 12:05 pm
