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Texas to auction more personalized license plates
Record price paid for Texas vanity plate is $15,000, a far cry from the UAE. I know several domainers were interested in license plate auctions in the United Arab Emirates. Who wouldn’t be shocked to see license plates sell for millions of doll...
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Texas to auction more personalized license plates
Record price paid for Texas vanity plate is $15,000, a far cry from the UAE. I know several domainers were interested in license plate auctions in the United Arab Emirates. Who wouldn’t be shocked to see license plates sell for millions of doll...
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January 7, 2013, 10:00 am
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media acquires Name.com as registrar consolidation continues
Name.com the latest domain name registrar to be snapped up. Domain name registrar consolidations continues as Demand Media, parent company of eNom, has acquired Name.com. The Denver based domain name registrar is known for its good social media prese...
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Demand Media acquires Name.com as registrar consolidation continues
Name.com the latest domain name registrar to be snapped up. Domain name registrar consolidations continues as Demand Media, parent company of eNom, has acquired Name.com. The Denver based domain name registrar is known for its good social media prese...
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January 7, 2013, 9:27 am
Domain Name Wire
New TLD startup Donuts one of the top 15 venture capital deals of 2012
Company lands on list of top fundings for 2012. After the holiday VentureBeat posted a story with the 15 biggest venture capital funding rounds of 2012. Coming in at #10 is new top level domain startup Donuts with its $100 million raise: Sweetly name...
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New TLD startup Donuts one of the top 15 venture capital deals of 2012
Company lands on list of top fundings for 2012. After the holiday VentureBeat posted a story with the 15 biggest venture capital funding rounds of 2012. Coming in at #10 is new top level domain startup Donuts with its $100 million raise: Sweetly name...
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January 4, 2013, 8:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Over 50 end user domain sales including Paramount Pictures’ $65k purchase
End users close deals before the new year. A lot of small businesses buy domain names toward the end of the year. One reason is they want to get the purchase on this year’s books. That’s what one buyer told me the last week of December &m...
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Over 50 end user domain sales including Paramount Pictures’ $65k purchase
End users close deals before the new year. A lot of small businesses buy domain names toward the end of the year. One reason is they want to get the purchase on this year’s books. That’s what one buyer told me the last week of December &m...
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January 4, 2013, 12:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
First look at Webfest auction, plus Mike Mann auction on SnapNames
First dozen domains from Webfest auction released and Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com teams up with SnapNames. Pre-bidding has opened for the Webfest Live Auction taking place next month at Webfest Global (formerly DOMAINfest). Only a dozen of the...
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First look at Webfest auction, plus Mike Mann auction on SnapNames
First dozen domains from Webfest auction released and Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com teams up with SnapNames. Pre-bidding has opened for the Webfest Live Auction taking place next month at Webfest Global (formerly DOMAINfest). Only a dozen of the...
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January 4, 2013, 10:24 am
Domain Name Wire
Model and .me user Bar Refaeli to start in Go Daddy commercial
Israeli model is also a .me fan. Israeli model Bar Refaeli will star alongside Danica Patrick in one of Go Daddy’s Super Bowl Commercials this year, the company announced today. A press release from the company doesn’t mention a connectio...
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Model and .me user Bar Refaeli to start in Go Daddy commercial
Israeli model is also a .me fan. Israeli model Bar Refaeli will star alongside Danica Patrick in one of Go Daddy’s Super Bowl Commercials this year, the company announced today. A press release from the company doesn’t mention a connectio...
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January 4, 2013, 10:00 am
Domain Name Wire
You’ve got to read this one: Marchex wins Reverse Domain Hijacking charge
UDRP panel finds pet transportation company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Marchex, with the help of domain name attorney John Berryhill, has won a charge of reverse domain name hijacking. The case was brought by Airpet Animal Transport, In...
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You’ve got to read this one: Marchex wins Reverse Domain Hijacking charge
UDRP panel finds pet transportation company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. Marchex, with the help of domain name attorney John Berryhill, has won a charge of reverse domain name hijacking. The case was brought by Airpet Animal Transport, In...
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January 3, 2013, 8:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
FTC rules search bias is OK, settles on Google scraping
FTC says it’s OK that Google promotes its own vertical search properties over rivals since it is designed to improve overall search experience. The FTC has closed its investigation of Google and the search giant has agreed to make certain chang...
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FTC rules search bias is OK, settles on Google scraping
FTC says it’s OK that Google promotes its own vertical search properties over rivals since it is designed to improve overall search experience. The FTC has closed its investigation of Google and the search giant has agreed to make certain chang...
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January 3, 2013, 2:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
WIPO received record number of cybersquatting cases in 2012
UDRP cases hit record at WIPO in 2012. World Intellectual Property Organization received a record number of UDRP cases in 2012. The organization’s web site reports 2,879 cases were filed in 2012, compared to 2,764 in 2011. The cases covered a t...
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WIPO received record number of cybersquatting cases in 2012
UDRP cases hit record at WIPO in 2012. World Intellectual Property Organization received a record number of UDRP cases in 2012. The organization’s web site reports 2,879 cases were filed in 2012, compared to 2,764 in 2011. The cases covered a t...
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January 3, 2013, 1:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo holiday end user sales report
A slow couple weeks but some good end user domain purchases. Domain sales typically slow during the holidays, and that’s evident in Sedo’s year end sales report. The company turned in $1.38 million in sales over two weeks. It typically se...
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Sedo holiday end user sales report
A slow couple weeks but some good end user domain purchases. Domain sales typically slow during the holidays, and that’s evident in Sedo’s year end sales report. The company turned in $1.38 million in sales over two weeks. It typically se...
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January 3, 2013, 10:14 am
