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Even .com registry Verisign has to buy an aftermarket domain every once in a while (end user sales report)
VeriSign among domain buyers this week. I’m a bit behind on getting the end user sales report out this week, but there are some good ones in here. One notable purchase is by .com registry VeriSign, which bought a .org domain to match one of its...
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Even .com registry Verisign has to buy an aftermarket domain every once in a while (end user sales report)
VeriSign among domain buyers this week. I’m a bit behind on getting the end user sales report out this week, but there are some good ones in here. One notable purchase is by .com registry VeriSign, which bought a .org domain to match one of its...
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March 23, 2012, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain sales are going up. Way up.
Just ask the company that handles a good portion of the private transactions. Afternic and Sedo release weekly sales reports that are reported by a number of domain blogs. DNJournal aggregates reports from these sources and others. But at the end of ...
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Domain sales are going up. Way up.
Just ask the company that handles a good portion of the private transactions. Afternic and Sedo release weekly sales reports that are reported by a number of domain blogs. DNJournal aggregates reports from these sources and others. But at the end of ...
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March 22, 2012, 12:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
Kraft gets domain for snack division spin-off for just $10
Kraft able to hand register domains for spin-off snack company. Yesterday I wrote about how Abbott Labs was able to freely register the domain name for its new pharmaceuticals spin-off, AbbVie. AbbVie.com was available. Now Kraft has announced the na...
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Kraft gets domain for snack division spin-off for just $10
Kraft able to hand register domains for spin-off snack company. Yesterday I wrote about how Abbott Labs was able to freely register the domain name for its new pharmaceuticals spin-off, AbbVie. AbbVie.com was available. Now Kraft has announced the na...
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March 22, 2012, 10:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain privacy isn’t free, Thursday edition
Responding to lawsuits is expensive. I keep preaching about how providing whois privacy services isn’t free for domain registrars, and here’s another example. Timothy Sykes has just sued Moniker (pdf) in federal district court to find out...
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Domain privacy isn’t free, Thursday edition
Responding to lawsuits is expensive. I keep preaching about how providing whois privacy services isn’t free for domain registrars, and here’s another example. Timothy Sykes has just sued Moniker (pdf) in federal district court to find out...
Discussion
March 22, 2012, 10:28 am
Domain Name Wire
New TLD registrations now up to at least 329
329 people have registered for ICANN’s new TLD system. ICANN has updated its new top level domain program statistics to show that it has 329 registrants for its TLD Application System (TAS). Each registrant can apply for up to 50 top level doma...
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New TLD registrations now up to at least 329
329 people have registered for ICANN’s new TLD system. ICANN has updated its new top level domain program statistics to show that it has 329 registrants for its TLD Application System (TAS). Each registrant can apply for up to 50 top level doma...
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March 22, 2012, 10:12 am
Domain Name Wire
Facebook registers a bunch of domains but the strategy makes no sense
Company appears to be registering previously expired domains, but isn’t picking up some obvious domains. Facebook registered at least 22 domain names yesterday, many of them typos of Facebook. But the strategy is perplexing. Here’s the li...
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Facebook registers a bunch of domains but the strategy makes no sense
Company appears to be registering previously expired domains, but isn’t picking up some obvious domains. Facebook registered at least 22 domain names yesterday, many of them typos of Facebook. But the strategy is perplexing. Here’s the li...
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March 22, 2012, 10:06 am
Domain Name Wire
Hot gossip: media company demands GossipGirl.com domain name
Alloy Entertainment wants the GossipGirl.com domain name. Alloy Entertainment, the company behind the Gossip Girl books and TV show on CW, has filed a complaint to get the domain name GossipGirl.com. The complaint was filed with World Intellectual Pr...
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Hot gossip: media company demands GossipGirl.com domain name
Alloy Entertainment wants the GossipGirl.com domain name. Alloy Entertainment, the company behind the Gossip Girl books and TV show on CW, has filed a complaint to get the domain name GossipGirl.com. The complaint was filed with World Intellectual Pr...
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March 21, 2012, 1:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Abbott Labs registers over 500 domains for AbbVie spinoff, hand registers brand domain
Abbott Labs paid the normal registration fee for its new brand domain, but gets defensive with hundreds of registrations. How much did Abbott Labs, a $95 billion market cap company, pay to get the domain name for its spinoff pharmaceuticals unit? Abo...
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Abbott Labs registers over 500 domains for AbbVie spinoff, hand registers brand domain
Abbott Labs paid the normal registration fee for its new brand domain, but gets defensive with hundreds of registrations. How much did Abbott Labs, a $95 billion market cap company, pay to get the domain name for its spinoff pharmaceuticals unit? Abo...
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March 21, 2012, 10:54 am
Domain Name Wire
Company files class action lawsuit against GoDaddy over “Free” privacy service rebilling
Company says it should not have been charged to renew whois privacy services that were initially free. A Florida company has initiated a lawsuit seeking class action status against domain name registrar GoDaddy for its practice of rebilling for whois...
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Company files class action lawsuit against GoDaddy over “Free” privacy service rebilling
Company says it should not have been charged to renew whois privacy services that were initially free. A Florida company has initiated a lawsuit seeking class action status against domain name registrar GoDaddy for its practice of rebilling for whois...
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March 21, 2012, 10:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Matt Cutts publishes video about new top level domains and Google search results
Likely to be a “transition period” where Google figures out how to index new top level domains. Today’s Google webmaster video is about new top level domains. Google engineer Matt Cutts already grabbed some headlines when talking ab...
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Matt Cutts publishes video about new top level domains and Google search results
Likely to be a “transition period” where Google figures out how to index new top level domains. Today’s Google webmaster video is about new top level domains. Google engineer Matt Cutts already grabbed some headlines when talking ab...
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March 20, 2012, 5:02 pm
