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Verisign announces another .net price hike
25 days after prices went up, Verisign announces another price increase. The wholesale registry fee for .net domain names just increased from $5.11 to $5.62 on July 1. Today, Verisign announced another price hike that will increase the price to $6.18...
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Verisign announces another .net price hike
25 days after prices went up, Verisign announces another price increase. The wholesale registry fee for .net domain names just increased from $5.11 to $5.62 on July 1. Today, Verisign announced another price hike that will increase the price to $6.18...
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July 25, 2013, 5:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Song and .YellowPages new TLD objections denied
Two more objections fail, bringing total to 18. World Intellectual Property Organization panelists have denied two more Legal Rights Objections to new top level domain name applications. The latest failed objections are for .song and .yellowpages. Of...
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.Song and .YellowPages new TLD objections denied
Two more objections fail, bringing total to 18. World Intellectual Property Organization panelists have denied two more Legal Rights Objections to new top level domain name applications. The latest failed objections are for .song and .yellowpages. Of...
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July 25, 2013, 3:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media successfully defends .CAM TLD against objection
Company defends one objection for .cam, still faces a string confusion objection. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD Holdco Ltd has defended itself against a legal rights objection over its .cam top level domain name application. AC Webconnecting Hol...
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Demand Media successfully defends .CAM TLD against objection
Company defends one objection for .cam, still faces a string confusion objection. Demand Media subsidiary United TLD Holdco Ltd has defended itself against a legal rights objection over its .cam top level domain name application. AC Webconnecting Hol...
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July 25, 2013, 12:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sports training company fouls out in D1.com domain name grab
Company fails to take D1.com domain name from rightful owner. D1 Sports Holdings, LLC has lost a UDRP complaint it filed against the domain name D1.com. As you can imagine, D1.com was registered a long time ago. It was registered in 1995 and belongs ...
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Sports training company fouls out in D1.com domain name grab
Company fails to take D1.com domain name from rightful owner. D1 Sports Holdings, LLC has lost a UDRP complaint it filed against the domain name D1.com. As you can imagine, D1.com was registered a long time ago. It was registered in 1995 and belongs ...
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July 25, 2013, 11:43 am
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Trademark frontrunner TLDDOT GmbH loses .GMBH objection
Company that trademarked .GMBH loses legal rights objection to competing applicant. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the .gmbh domain name that has tried to “frontrun” the new TLD process with trademarks, has lost a legal rights objection ag...
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Trademark frontrunner TLDDOT GmbH loses .GMBH objection
Company that trademarked .GMBH loses legal rights objection to competing applicant. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the .gmbh domain name that has tried to “frontrun” the new TLD process with trademarks, has lost a legal rights objection ag...
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July 25, 2013, 10:56 am
Domain Name Wire
What domains L’Oreal and others bought at Sedo last week
L’Oreal is one of end user domain buyers at Sedo. Sedo had some solid end user domain name sales last week. Here’s the list. L’Oreal bought Beaute.fr and beauté.fr for 17,650 EUR each. Yotta Ltd, which sells technology and se...
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What domains L’Oreal and others bought at Sedo last week
L’Oreal is one of end user domain buyers at Sedo. Sedo had some solid end user domain name sales last week. Here’s the list. L’Oreal bought Beaute.fr and beauté.fr for 17,650 EUR each. Yotta Ltd, which sells technology and se...
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July 24, 2013, 12:01 pm
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Royal baby domain name registrations spike
GoDaddy reports increase in domain registrations related to baby. I have to admit, I don’t really get this royal baby nonsense. But it’s still the top news story today, even on the U.S. version of CNN.com. Punters* are lining up to cash i...
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Royal baby domain name registrations spike
GoDaddy reports increase in domain registrations related to baby. I have to admit, I don’t really get this royal baby nonsense. But it’s still the top news story today, even on the U.S. version of CNN.com. Punters* are lining up to cash i...
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July 24, 2013, 11:29 am
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Aptus Tech nailed for trying to hijack domain name from Frank Schilling
Panel determines that Aptus Tech engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Last month I asked why people didn’t do a bit of research before filing a UDRP against Frank Schilling. The specific case that prompted my article was Klipz.com, which h...
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Aptus Tech nailed for trying to hijack domain name from Frank Schilling
Panel determines that Aptus Tech engaged in reverse domain name hijacking. Last month I asked why people didn’t do a bit of research before filing a UDRP against Frank Schilling. The specific case that prompted my article was Klipz.com, which h...
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July 24, 2013, 10:31 am
Domain Name Wire
Misguided UDRP complainant #3,267
Guy starts company in 2011, files UDRP against domain registered in 1999. Sigh. Another day, another completely baseless UDRP. This one comes courtesy of WowWe, Inc., which was represented by the law firm Lewis & Barnes. WowWe began using its mar...
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Misguided UDRP complainant #3,267
Guy starts company in 2011, files UDRP against domain registered in 1999. Sigh. Another day, another completely baseless UDRP. This one comes courtesy of WowWe, Inc., which was represented by the law firm Lewis & Barnes. WowWe began using its mar...
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July 24, 2013, 9:58 am
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What domain names the U.S. Treasury and 27 others bought last week
A division of the U.S. Department of Treasury was among last week’s domain name buyers. Afternic sold another $1 million+ worth of domain names last week. Here’s a run down of some of the end user domain sales. Forester Media Inc., which ...
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What domain names the U.S. Treasury and 27 others bought last week
A division of the U.S. Department of Treasury was among last week’s domain name buyers. Afternic sold another $1 million+ worth of domain names last week. Here’s a run down of some of the end user domain sales. Forester Media Inc., which ...
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July 23, 2013, 2:18 pm
