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VeriSign likely to announce 100M .com milestone today
DomainTools claims milestone reached; VeriSign earnings call on tap for today. At the end of October VeriSign was very, very close to hitting the 100 million .com domain name milestone. Now, according to DomainTools, there are officially 100 million ...
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VeriSign likely to announce 100M .com milestone today
DomainTools claims milestone reached; VeriSign earnings call on tap for today. At the end of October VeriSign was very, very close to hitting the 100 million .com domain name milestone. Now, according to DomainTools, there are officially 100 million ...
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January 26, 2012, 2:35 pm

Domain Name Wire
LeadRefs.com helps you find buyers for your domains
Free service finds potential buyers for your domain names. Sure, you can sit on your domain portfolio and wait for the right buyer to come along. But you’ll sell a lot more domains if you actually try to sell them. The big challenge is finding ...
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LeadRefs.com helps you find buyers for your domains
Free service finds potential buyers for your domain names. Sure, you can sit on your domain portfolio and wait for the right buyer to come along. But you’ll sell a lot more domains if you actually try to sell them. The big challenge is finding ...
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January 26, 2012, 1:45 pm

Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy .Co Super Bowl commercial model Natalia Velez to attend DOMAINfest
Colombian model to attend dinner party on February 1. DOMAINfest organizers have just announced that Columbian model Natalia Velez, who stars along with Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels in a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial this year, will attend the...
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GoDaddy .Co Super Bowl commercial model Natalia Velez to attend DOMAINfest
Colombian model to attend dinner party on February 1. DOMAINfest organizers have just announced that Columbian model Natalia Velez, who stars along with Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels in a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial this year, will attend the...
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January 26, 2012, 11:36 am

Domain Name Wire
WIPO gives Twitter popular typo Twittr.com
Twitter gets typo of its Twitter.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded Twitter the domain name Twittr.com in a uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) proceeding. Twittr.com was originally register...
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WIPO gives Twitter popular typo Twittr.com
Twitter gets typo of its Twitter.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded Twitter the domain name Twittr.com in a uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) proceeding. Twittr.com was originally register...
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January 26, 2012, 11:20 am

Domain Name Wire
Sedo clarifies listing levels and a price comparison with Afternic
Sedo publishes fact sheet about its promotion and pricing levels. I have to admit I’ve been a bit confused by the various listing levels now offered at Sedo, especially when it comes to the SedoMLS system. Sedo has published a new fact sheet th...
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Sedo clarifies listing levels and a price comparison with Afternic
Sedo publishes fact sheet about its promotion and pricing levels. I have to admit I’ve been a bit confused by the various listing levels now offered at Sedo, especially when it comes to the SedoMLS system. Sedo has published a new fact sheet th...
Discussion
January 26, 2012, 11:02 am

Domain Name Wire
Tucows customers can now list domains in AfternicDLS Premium
Potential inventory boon for Afternic. Customers of Tucows can now list their domains for sale on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, Afternic announced this morning. This means customers can list their domains with “buy now” prices and the...
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Tucows customers can now list domains in AfternicDLS Premium
Potential inventory boon for Afternic. Customers of Tucows can now list their domains for sale on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, Afternic announced this morning. This means customers can list their domains with “buy now” prices and the...
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January 26, 2012, 10:42 am

Domain Name Wire
Is Marchex considering selling its domain name portfolio?
Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at...
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Is Marchex considering selling its domain name portfolio?
Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at...
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January 25, 2012, 4:32 pm

Domain Name Wire
115 Top level domain trademarks and their current status
I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis o...
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115 Top level domain trademarks and their current status
I’ve made plenty of commotion about companies filing for trademarks on future top level domain names. It always seems that they’re successfully pulling a fast one on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. But after an exhaustive analysis o...
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January 25, 2012, 3:41 pm

Domain Name Wire
Best Buy buys PhoneFreedom.com and other end user domain sales
A big retailer makes a small domain purchase. Electronics retailer Best Buy is the biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report. The company paid $2,588 for PhoneFreedom.com through Sedo. This domain is intuitive for one of the larg...
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Best Buy buys PhoneFreedom.com and other end user domain sales
A big retailer makes a small domain purchase. Electronics retailer Best Buy is the biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report. The company paid $2,588 for PhoneFreedom.com through Sedo. This domain is intuitive for one of the larg...
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January 25, 2012, 12:00 pm

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Doh! AARP lawyer forgets to attach screenshot, loses case
AARP wins two cases for similar domain names but loses third. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) just received determinations in three cases it filed for aarpdiscounts.info, aarpdiscounts.net, aarpdiscount.org, and AARPdiscounts.org. ...
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Doh! AARP lawyer forgets to attach screenshot, loses case
AARP wins two cases for similar domain names but loses third. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) just received determinations in three cases it filed for aarpdiscounts.info, aarpdiscounts.net, aarpdiscount.org, and AARPdiscounts.org. ...
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January 24, 2012, 5:37 pm