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20 end user domain sales from the past week
Fox Broadcasting Company among end user buyers this past week. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly wrap of end user domain name purchases from Afternic and Sedo. Afternic Fox Broadcasting Company bought MidnightBlack.com for $3,588. Any idea...
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20 end user domain sales from the past week
Fox Broadcasting Company among end user buyers this past week. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly wrap of end user domain name purchases from Afternic and Sedo. Afternic Fox Broadcasting Company bought MidnightBlack.com for $3,588. Any idea...
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July 26, 2012, 1:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy releases its three Olympic ads
Three ads explain that Go Daddy is about more than just attractive women. Go Daddy has released the three television commercials it will run during the Olympics. You may have seen the first one a few weeks ago, called “Inside Out – Otter&...
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Go Daddy releases its three Olympic ads
Three ads explain that Go Daddy is about more than just attractive women. Go Daddy has released the three television commercials it will run during the Olympics. You may have seen the first one a few weeks ago, called “Inside Out – Otter&...
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July 26, 2012, 11:56 am
Domain Name Wire
Google loses dispute with oogle.com owner
Google fails to win arbitration case over high traffic typo. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has ruled that the owner of Oogle.com can keep his domain name despite Google’s claims that the registration of the domain name amounts to cybers...
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Google loses dispute with oogle.com owner
Google fails to win arbitration case over high traffic typo. A National Arbitration Forum panelist has ruled that the owner of Oogle.com can keep his domain name despite Google’s claims that the registration of the domain name amounts to cybers...
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July 25, 2012, 5:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Tickets applicant files trademark applications for new top level domain
Company files trademark applications for .tickets and dottickets. .Tickets is up there on the list of most contested top level domain applications. Five companies have applied for the name. Applicant Shubert Internet last week filed two intent-to-use...
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.Tickets applicant files trademark applications for new top level domain
Company files trademark applications for .tickets and dottickets. .Tickets is up there on the list of most contested top level domain applications. Five companies have applied for the name. Applicant Shubert Internet last week filed two intent-to-use...
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July 25, 2012, 1:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Alarm.com raises $136 million
Company with a fantastic domain gets a big round of equity financing. Alarm.com, which offers wireless home security solutions and home automation, has raised $136 million in an equity round. I’m not going to get on my high horse talking about ...
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Alarm.com raises $136 million
Company with a fantastic domain gets a big round of equity financing. Alarm.com, which offers wireless home security solutions and home automation, has raised $136 million in an equity round. I’m not going to get on my high horse talking about ...
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July 25, 2012, 7:02 am
Domain Name Wire
UN (still) asking for IGO exclusions in new top level domain program
Wait, you mean the application period has closed? The Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) of the United Nations has sent a letter to ICANN asking for restrictions on applying for Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) names and acronyms as to...
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UN (still) asking for IGO exclusions in new top level domain program
Wait, you mean the application period has closed? The Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) of the United Nations has sent a letter to ICANN asking for restrictions on applying for Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) names and acronyms as to...
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July 24, 2012, 2:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Recruiter Harry Joiner strikes again with two more domain buys
Recruiter finds strong value in descriptive domain names. I’ve written about headhunter Harry Joiner and his domain name purchases many times. That’s because he’s amassed a great portfolio of quality descriptive domain names for his...
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Recruiter Harry Joiner strikes again with two more domain buys
Recruiter finds strong value in descriptive domain names. I’ve written about headhunter Harry Joiner and his domain name purchases many times. That’s because he’s amassed a great portfolio of quality descriptive domain names for his...
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July 24, 2012, 1:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Just how much do new top level domains cost, anyway?
Confusing ICANN fee structure for new top level domains. The headline number for new top level domains is $185,000, the price of submitting an application. But domain registries also pay ongoing fees to ICANN each quarter. Amazingly, what exactly tho...
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Just how much do new top level domains cost, anyway?
Confusing ICANN fee structure for new top level domains. The headline number for new top level domains is $185,000, the price of submitting an application. But domain registries also pay ongoing fees to ICANN each quarter. Amazingly, what exactly tho...
Discussion
July 24, 2012, 11:49 am
Domain Name Wire
L.A. Company wants to relaunch Kozmo.com delivery brand
The Kozmo.com brand may be re-birthed a decade later. Remember Kozmo.com, the dot.com bubble service that would deliver a pack of gum to you at no charge? The company raised about $250 million, tried to go public, and then went belly up. It looks lik...
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L.A. Company wants to relaunch Kozmo.com delivery brand
The Kozmo.com brand may be re-birthed a decade later. Remember Kozmo.com, the dot.com bubble service that would deliver a pack of gum to you at no charge? The company raised about $250 million, tried to go public, and then went belly up. It looks lik...
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July 24, 2012, 10:47 am
Domain Name Wire
Poll: Are you going to TRAFFIC or ICANN?
Two domain conferences in back-to-back weeks this fall. After a long absence of North America domain name conferences, two are on tap for October: TRAFFIC in Fort Lauderdale October 7-10 and ICANN in Toronto October 14-19. While both shows are sure t...
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Poll: Are you going to TRAFFIC or ICANN?
Two domain conferences in back-to-back weeks this fall. After a long absence of North America domain name conferences, two are on tap for October: TRAFFIC in Fort Lauderdale October 7-10 and ICANN in Toronto October 14-19. While both shows are sure t...
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July 23, 2012, 1:38 pm
