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Interesting: Oversee.net knew Network Solutions was leaving before it bought SnapNames
Company knew it would lose Network Solutions’ expired domain inventory when it bought SnapNames. Shortly after Oversee.net acquired expired domain platform SnapNames in 2007, Network Solutions pulled its inventory from the service in order to t...
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Interesting: Oversee.net knew Network Solutions was leaving before it bought SnapNames
Company knew it would lose Network Solutions’ expired domain inventory when it bought SnapNames. Shortly after Oversee.net acquired expired domain platform SnapNames in 2007, Network Solutions pulled its inventory from the service in order to t...
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April 19, 2012, 3:25 pm
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1-800-PETMEDS says it owns “PetMeds” term
Company files complaint against rival store but loses. When you hear “Pet Meds”, what do you think about? The store 1-800-PetMeds.com or simply “pet medications”. Pet meds is a simple descriptive term, shorthand for pet medica...
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1-800-PETMEDS says it owns “PetMeds” term
Company files complaint against rival store but loses. When you hear “Pet Meds”, what do you think about? The store 1-800-PetMeds.com or simply “pet medications”. Pet meds is a simple descriptive term, shorthand for pet medica...
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April 19, 2012, 10:48 am
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Inventor of the WWW not a fan of new TLDs
Count Tim Berners-Lee among new TLD detractors. Tim Berners-Lee, known as the inventor of the world wide web, isn’t a fan of new top level domains, he told Wired in a press conference at the W3C conference. “My personal perspective is tha...
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Inventor of the WWW not a fan of new TLDs
Count Tim Berners-Lee among new TLD detractors. Tim Berners-Lee, known as the inventor of the world wide web, isn’t a fan of new top level domains, he told Wired in a press conference at the W3C conference. “My personal perspective is tha...
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April 19, 2012, 10:25 am
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Germany’s .De crosses 15 million domain mark
Biggest county code domain name hits a milestone. .De registry DENIC has announced that Germany’s country code domain name has hit a major milestone: 15 million domains currently registered. The milestone was hit yesterday with the registration...
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Germany’s .De crosses 15 million domain mark
Biggest county code domain name hits a milestone. .De registry DENIC has announced that Germany’s country code domain name has hit a major milestone: 15 million domains currently registered. The milestone was hit yesterday with the registration...
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April 19, 2012, 10:03 am
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Huffington Post Union of Bloggers loses domain name
The man sticks it to group that was trying to stick it to the man. A group that bills itself as a union for current an former Huffington Post bloggers has lost its main domain name. Huffington Post Union of Bloggers (HPUB) just lost a dispute brought...
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Huffington Post Union of Bloggers loses domain name
The man sticks it to group that was trying to stick it to the man. A group that bills itself as a union for current an former Huffington Post bloggers has lost its main domain name. Huffington Post Union of Bloggers (HPUB) just lost a dispute brought...
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April 18, 2012, 5:41 pm
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Jackpot.com domain sells for $500,000
Jackpot! Moniker sells Jackpot.com for a big payout. A British Virgin Islands company has purchased the domain name Jackpot.com for $500,000. The sale was brokered by Moniker. The domain name has been listed in multiple Moniker live auctions, but the...
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Jackpot.com domain sells for $500,000
Jackpot! Moniker sells Jackpot.com for a big payout. A British Virgin Islands company has purchased the domain name Jackpot.com for $500,000. The sale was brokered by Moniker. The domain name has been listed in multiple Moniker live auctions, but the...
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April 18, 2012, 2:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
18 end user domain sales including IAC and McKinsey
Web giant and consulting firm buy aftermarket domains. Here are 18 notable domain sales over the past week involving end users. All sales are at Afternic unless otherwise noted. A DNW reader wrote it to to me they sold GetCube.com for $2,500 to point...
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18 end user domain sales including IAC and McKinsey
Web giant and consulting firm buy aftermarket domains. Here are 18 notable domain sales over the past week involving end users. All sales are at Afternic unless otherwise noted. A DNW reader wrote it to to me they sold GetCube.com for $2,500 to point...
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April 18, 2012, 11:32 am
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WirelessPhone.com sold for $355k in 2006. WirelessPhones.com just sold for $70k.
A good deal or a reality check of the domain market? Afternic just brokered the sale of WirelessPhones.com for $70,000. The name rang a bell, so I started searching around. As it turns out, I wrote about an auction for WirelessPhone.com (singular) ba...
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WirelessPhone.com sold for $355k in 2006. WirelessPhones.com just sold for $70k.
A good deal or a reality check of the domain market? Afternic just brokered the sale of WirelessPhones.com for $70,000. The name rang a bell, so I started searching around. As it turns out, I wrote about an auction for WirelessPhone.com (singular) ba...
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April 18, 2012, 10:56 am
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Dissecting Deloitte’s .deloitte press release
Deloitte’s benefits from .deloitte seem murky at best. Global consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited put out a press release today announcing its application for the .deloitte top level domain. (That the company was applying for .delo...
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Dissecting Deloitte’s .deloitte press release
Deloitte’s benefits from .deloitte seem murky at best. Global consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited put out a press release today announcing its application for the .deloitte top level domain. (That the company was applying for .delo...
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April 18, 2012, 10:17 am
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California Toyota dealer guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Hooman Toyota of Long Beach chastised by National Arbitration Forum. A California Toyota dealer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a National Arbitration Forum panel. Hooman Toyota of Long Beach, also known as HTL Automotive, I...
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California Toyota dealer guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Hooman Toyota of Long Beach chastised by National Arbitration Forum. A California Toyota dealer has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a National Arbitration Forum panel. Hooman Toyota of Long Beach, also known as HTL Automotive, I...
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April 17, 2012, 10:01 pm
