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Law firm sues company for sending deceptive trademark renewal notices
Law firm sues to stop company that it alleges sends misleading trademark notices. Domain name owners often receive official looking notices by snail mail warning them that their domains are about to expire and asking them to renew. Often times these ...
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Law firm sues company for sending deceptive trademark renewal notices
Law firm sues to stop company that it alleges sends misleading trademark notices. Domain name owners often receive official looking notices by snail mail warning them that their domains are about to expire and asking them to renew. Often times these ...
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May 1, 2013, 11:45 am

Domain Name Wire
Slow learners: The Snugg is about to lose its 2nd UDRP
Company files case against Roy Messer’s Snug.com. Some people just don’t get it. Consider Charon International Trading Limited, makers of The Snugg iPad cases. The company owns TheSnugg.com, and desperately wants a shorter domain. So in F...
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Slow learners: The Snugg is about to lose its 2nd UDRP
Company files case against Roy Messer’s Snug.com. Some people just don’t get it. Consider Charon International Trading Limited, makers of The Snugg iPad cases. The company owns TheSnugg.com, and desperately wants a shorter domain. So in F...
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May 1, 2013, 9:51 am

Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets patent for triggering web crawling based on registry data
.Com registry awarded patent for using registry data to trigger web crawling. With Verisign analyzing how to profit from its patent portfolio, competitors should pay close attention to the company’s new patents. Today Verisign was awarded U.S. ...
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Verisign gets patent for triggering web crawling based on registry data
.Com registry awarded patent for using registry data to trigger web crawling. With Verisign analyzing how to profit from its patent portfolio, competitors should pay close attention to the company’s new patents. Today Verisign was awarded U.S. ...
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April 30, 2013, 12:14 pm

Domain Name Wire
pair Networks sues PairShare for trademark infringement
pair Networks takes issue with music app called PairShare. Web hosting company pair Networks has sued Pairshare, LLC for trademark infringement. PairShare offers an app that lets people share music between iPhones, iPods, and iPads via bluetooth. In ...
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pair Networks sues PairShare for trademark infringement
pair Networks takes issue with music app called PairShare. Web hosting company pair Networks has sued Pairshare, LLC for trademark infringement. PairShare offers an app that lets people share music between iPhones, iPods, and iPads via bluetooth. In ...
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April 30, 2013, 11:04 am

Domain Name Wire
Top Level Domain Holdings releases financials through December
TLDH releases annual report and earnings. Top Level Domain Holdings, the only publicly traded pure-play top level domain applicant, today released its annual report and audited financials for the fourteen month period ending December 2012 (pdf). The ...
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Top Level Domain Holdings releases financials through December
TLDH releases annual report and earnings. Top Level Domain Holdings, the only publicly traded pure-play top level domain applicant, today released its annual report and audited financials for the fourteen month period ending December 2012 (pdf). The ...
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April 30, 2013, 9:30 am

Domain Name Wire
7 end users who bought domains from Marchex last quarter
P&G, TomTom among companies that sprung for big ticket domains last quarter. Earlier today Marchex posted its top 20 domain sales for last quarter (sans price tags). As with the company’s prior list of top 500 all time domain sales, the sal...
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7 end users who bought domains from Marchex last quarter
P&G, TomTom among companies that sprung for big ticket domains last quarter. Earlier today Marchex posted its top 20 domain sales for last quarter (sans price tags). As with the company’s prior list of top 500 all time domain sales, the sal...
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April 29, 2013, 3:20 pm

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After being found guilty of RDNH, Procter & Gamble pays up for Swash.com
P&G buys Swash.com after embarrassing legal approach. Last month Procter & Gamble became one of the largest companies to be found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after losing a domain dispute for Swash.com. Among the company’s m...
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After being found guilty of RDNH, Procter & Gamble pays up for Swash.com
P&G buys Swash.com after embarrassing legal approach. Last month Procter & Gamble became one of the largest companies to be found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking after losing a domain dispute for Swash.com. Among the company’s m...
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April 29, 2013, 9:51 am

Domain Name Wire
Marchex sells 50 domains for $1.4 million – here are the top 20
Company reports improved domain name sales compared to previous quarter. Marchex’s Archeo, Inc. sold 50 domains in the first quarter of this year for a total of $1.4 million. Archeo, Inc. is the domain name division of Marchex, which the compan...
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Marchex sells 50 domains for $1.4 million – here are the top 20
Company reports improved domain name sales compared to previous quarter. Marchex’s Archeo, Inc. sold 50 domains in the first quarter of this year for a total of $1.4 million. Archeo, Inc. is the domain name division of Marchex, which the compan...
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April 29, 2013, 9:43 am

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Uniregistry, TLDH strike deal to run .country
Two companies will take equal equity in joint venture to run .country top level domain name. The two applicants for the top level domain name .country have entered into an agreement to partner, rather than fight, over .country. Top Level Domain Holdi...
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Uniregistry, TLDH strike deal to run .country
Two companies will take equal equity in joint venture to run .country top level domain name. The two applicants for the top level domain name .country have entered into an agreement to partner, rather than fight, over .country. Top Level Domain Holdi...
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April 29, 2013, 9:34 am

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Site promises to generate pronounceable, short domain names
New site claims to generate short domain names that can be pronounced and are available for registration. A new site says it can help entrepreneurs find short, pronounceable, and unregistered .com domain names that they can brand for their business. ...
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Site promises to generate pronounceable, short domain names
New site claims to generate short domain names that can be pronounced and are available for registration. A new site says it can help entrepreneurs find short, pronounceable, and unregistered .com domain names that they can brand for their business. ...
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April 29, 2013, 9:25 am