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Sedo updates stats and issues credit from DDOS
Domain parking company resolves stats issues. Domain parking company Sedo was hit with a DDOS attack on March 9. This caused a few hours of downtime, and then some difficulties with monetizing “related links” on its parking pages. Today t...
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Sedo updates stats and issues credit from DDOS
Domain parking company resolves stats issues. Domain parking company Sedo was hit with a DDOS attack on March 9. This caused a few hours of downtime, and then some difficulties with monetizing “related links” on its parking pages. Today t...
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March 27, 2012, 10:17 am
Domain Name Wire
Apple files complaint over iTunes.net
Company requests transfer of domain name. Apple has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over the iTunes.net domain name. The domain has long been a parked domain name with links related to downloading music, so it’s ...
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Apple files complaint over iTunes.net
Company requests transfer of domain name. Apple has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization over the iTunes.net domain name. The domain has long been a parked domain name with links related to downloading music, so it’s ...
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March 27, 2012, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
Two Texas universities win .xxx domain disputes
Triple-X domains to be transferred to Texas universities in two separate arbitration proceedings. Two Texas universities have won arbitration disputes over the new .xxx domain names. The University of Texas System won a case for UTsystem.xxx and Bayl...
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Two Texas universities win .xxx domain disputes
Triple-X domains to be transferred to Texas universities in two separate arbitration proceedings. Two Texas universities have won arbitration disputes over the new .xxx domain names. The University of Texas System won a case for UTsystem.xxx and Bayl...
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March 27, 2012, 8:46 am
Domain Name Wire
Hot.net is hot! Gets $75,000 bid at Sedo
Hot.net gets a nice bid at Sedo and is now up for auction. The domain name Hot.net has landed a 56,700 EUR bid at Sedo — or about $75,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The owner of the domain has pushed it to auction with this starting p...
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Hot.net is hot! Gets $75,000 bid at Sedo
Hot.net gets a nice bid at Sedo and is now up for auction. The domain name Hot.net has landed a 56,700 EUR bid at Sedo — or about $75,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The owner of the domain has pushed it to auction with this starting p...
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March 26, 2012, 10:57 am
Domain Name Wire
“Really cool” guys at Digimedia sold Box.com for about $1 million
Box.com sold for about $1 million. Last year file sharing service Box.net bought the Box.com domain name from Scott Day at Digimedia. The purchase price was not disclosed. But now it has — just shy of a million bucks. CNET writer Rafe Needleman...
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“Really cool” guys at Digimedia sold Box.com for about $1 million
Box.com sold for about $1 million. Last year file sharing service Box.net bought the Box.com domain name from Scott Day at Digimedia. The purchase price was not disclosed. But now it has — just shy of a million bucks. CNET writer Rafe Needleman...
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March 25, 2012, 11:23 am
Domain Name Wire
As new domains like .nyc get announced, watch out for bogus web sites like this one
Be careful about sites for new TLDs. Yesterday Information Week reported that Neustar will be running the .nyc domain name when it launches. As definitive news about new top level domains starts hitting the web, people should be careful about mislead...
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As new domains like .nyc get announced, watch out for bogus web sites like this one
Be careful about sites for new TLDs. Yesterday Information Week reported that Neustar will be running the .nyc domain name when it launches. As definitive news about new top level domains starts hitting the web, people should be careful about mislead...
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March 23, 2012, 11:47 am
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft’s latest ad campaign? Find your 25th hour.
Microsoft registers domains that could be used in marketing next major software release. Don’t we all wish we had an extra hour in a day? That might be the idea behind a possible new marketing campaign from Microsoft. Earlier this week it regis...
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Microsoft’s latest ad campaign? Find your 25th hour.
Microsoft registers domains that could be used in marketing next major software release. Don’t we all wish we had an extra hour in a day? That might be the idea behind a possible new marketing campaign from Microsoft. Earlier this week it regis...
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March 23, 2012, 10:46 am
Domain Name Wire
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
