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Donuts explains auction results to date
Donuts discusses first new TLD auction results. New TLD applicant Donuts participated in six private auctions to resolve contention sets. It won one of the auctions and lost the other five. Here is a statement from the company about the results so fa...
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Donuts explains auction results to date
Donuts discusses first new TLD auction results. New TLD applicant Donuts participated in six private auctions to resolve contention sets. It won one of the auctions and lost the other five. Here is a statement from the company about the results so fa...
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June 13, 2013, 5:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Co is not just for tech startups
A lawn care company uses a great .co domain name. It seems like every day TechCrunch is covering a startup using a .co domain. But it’s not just tech companies that have taken an eye to the domain. On the way to work yesterday I passed a lawn c...
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.Co is not just for tech startups
A lawn care company uses a great .co domain name. It seems like every day TechCrunch is covering a startup using a .co domain. But it’s not just tech companies that have taken an eye to the domain. On the way to work yesterday I passed a lawn c...
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June 13, 2013, 11:26 am
Domain Name Wire
Kim Dotcom buys K.im domain name for $20,000
Mega Upload founder buys short (and expensive) domain name. Last month I wrote about how k.im had received a $20,000 bid at Sedo, and suggested that Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom might be the buyer. I was right. The Sedo auction closed for $20,000 a...
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Kim Dotcom buys K.im domain name for $20,000
Mega Upload founder buys short (and expensive) domain name. Last month I wrote about how k.im had received a $20,000 bid at Sedo, and suggested that Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom might be the buyer. I was right. The Sedo auction closed for $20,000 a...
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June 13, 2013, 9:59 am
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft registers domains to thwart botnets
Microsoft registers domains previously used by Citadel malware. Microsoft has registered a number of domain names to thwart a cybercrime ring credited with over a half billion dollars in financial fraud. The action aims to thwart Citadel malware, whi...
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Microsoft registers domains to thwart botnets
Microsoft registers domains previously used by Citadel malware. Microsoft has registered a number of domain names to thwart a cybercrime ring credited with over a half billion dollars in financial fraud. The action aims to thwart Citadel malware, whi...
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June 13, 2013, 8:56 am
Domain Name Wire
Company ordered to pay $5,000 after reverse domain name hijacking charge
Panel believe complainant was trying to use arbitration as a “short cut” to acquire domain. Domain name attorney Zak Muscovitch has helped the owner of ClevelandCyclewerks.ca save his domain name in a cybersquatting arbitration case. Not ...
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Company ordered to pay $5,000 after reverse domain name hijacking charge
Panel believe complainant was trying to use arbitration as a “short cut” to acquire domain. Domain name attorney Zak Muscovitch has helped the owner of ClevelandCyclewerks.ca save his domain name in a cybersquatting arbitration case. Not ...
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June 12, 2013, 11:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Yu have one interesting UDRP…
The case for Yu.com was much more complicated than it should have been. All the facts of the UDRP for Yu.com point to an slam dunk, open-and-shut victory for the respondent. Yet getting to that determination – a win for the respondent – w...
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Yu have one interesting UDRP…
The case for Yu.com was much more complicated than it should have been. All the facts of the UDRP for Yu.com point to an slam dunk, open-and-shut victory for the respondent. Yet getting to that determination – a win for the respondent – w...
Discussion
June 12, 2013, 3:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Marchex releases more details about Archeo spinoff
SEC filing details plans for spin-off of domain business. Later this year, Marchex hopes to spin off its pay-per-click and domain name business into a new publicly traded business called Archeo. It will trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker ACHX. It r...
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Marchex releases more details about Archeo spinoff
SEC filing details plans for spin-off of domain business. Later this year, Marchex hopes to spin off its pay-per-click and domain name business into a new publicly traded business called Archeo. It will trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker ACHX. It r...
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June 12, 2013, 11:01 am
Domain Name Wire
Wanna lawsuit? WannaDo battles WannaDo in court, claims cybersquatting
App creator sues event ticketing site over Wannado name and domain name. Two businesses offer relatively similar services at a about the same time and use the same name: WannaDo. One secures the best domain name for the service. Wanna bet that result...
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Wanna lawsuit? WannaDo battles WannaDo in court, claims cybersquatting
App creator sues event ticketing site over Wannado name and domain name. Two businesses offer relatively similar services at a about the same time and use the same name: WannaDo. One secures the best domain name for the service. Wanna bet that result...
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June 12, 2013, 10:12 am
Domain Name Wire
86 civil liberties group and internet companies launch StopWatching.US in wake of NSA revelations
Group chooses .us domain name to launch campaign against government surveillance. 86 civil liberties organizations and internet companies today launched a campaign to demand congress to act in light of recent National Security Administration spying p...
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86 civil liberties group and internet companies launch StopWatching.US in wake of NSA revelations
Group chooses .us domain name to launch campaign against government surveillance. 86 civil liberties organizations and internet companies today launched a campaign to demand congress to act in light of recent National Security Administration spying p...
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June 11, 2013, 2:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Registrar may lose accreditation for failing to provide transfer authorization code
PacNames didn’t provide AuthInfo code within 5 days, according to breach notice. ICANN is threatening to cancel accreditation of New Zealand domain name registrar PacNames Ltd for the registrar’s failure to provide a domain transfer out c...
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Registrar may lose accreditation for failing to provide transfer authorization code
PacNames didn’t provide AuthInfo code within 5 days, according to breach notice. ICANN is threatening to cancel accreditation of New Zealand domain name registrar PacNames Ltd for the registrar’s failure to provide a domain transfer out c...
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June 11, 2013, 11:33 am
