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Tucows resumes stock buybacks, up to 12.2% of outstanding shares
Company offers to buy up to 6.5 million shares of its stock. Tucows, which owns the world’s third largest domain name registrar, announced a Dutch auction tender offer to repurchase up to 6,500,000 shares of its common stock. That’s up to...
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Tucows resumes stock buybacks, up to 12.2% of outstanding shares
Company offers to buy up to 6.5 million shares of its stock. Tucows, which owns the world’s third largest domain name registrar, announced a Dutch auction tender offer to repurchase up to 6,500,000 shares of its common stock. That’s up to...
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December 16, 2011, 11:31 am
Domain Name Wire
Even CSC doesn’t enforce whois accuracy
Two months later Cocomo.com still has bogus whois information. You would think that a brand management intellectual property company would enforce whois accuracy on its customers. But apparently not. Two months ago I wrote about the sale of Cocomo.co...
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Even CSC doesn’t enforce whois accuracy
Two months later Cocomo.com still has bogus whois information. You would think that a brand management intellectual property company would enforce whois accuracy on its customers. But apparently not. Two months ago I wrote about the sale of Cocomo.co...
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December 15, 2011, 3:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
191 domain .co auction ends today
No reserve auction attracting lots of bidding attention. An auction of nearly 200 keyword .co domain names ends today at Sedo. With just two hours to go over 60% of the domain names in the no reserve auction already have bids. 31 bids have been place...
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191 domain .co auction ends today
No reserve auction attracting lots of bidding attention. An auction of nearly 200 keyword .co domain names ends today at Sedo. With just two hours to go over 60% of the domain names in the no reserve auction already have bids. 31 bids have been place...
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December 15, 2011, 10:11 am
Domain Name Wire
Google doesn’t think YouTube.ae is a tube trading marketplace
Company files complaint against site that says it’s for “tube trading”. Google has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization in an attempt to get the domain name YouTube.ae. .Ae is the country code for United A...
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Google doesn’t think YouTube.ae is a tube trading marketplace
Company files complaint against site that says it’s for “tube trading”. Google has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization in an attempt to get the domain name YouTube.ae. .Ae is the country code for United A...
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December 15, 2011, 9:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Major League Baseball and Current TV buy domain names
A look at end user domain name sales from the past week. My list of end user domain purchases for the week is a little bit shorter than usual, but contains big names including Major League Baseball. All sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted. ...
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Major League Baseball and Current TV buy domain names
A look at end user domain name sales from the past week. My list of end user domain purchases for the week is a little bit shorter than usual, but contains big names including Major League Baseball. All sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted. ...
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December 14, 2011, 8:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Macy’s sues company trying to restore its legacy brands
Company tries to revive old brands such as Bullock’s and The Broadway. File this one under “did you think to ask a lawyer about this first?” Department store company Macy’s has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) against a company t...
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Macy’s sues company trying to restore its legacy brands
Company tries to revive old brands such as Bullock’s and The Broadway. File this one under “did you think to ask a lawyer about this first?” Department store company Macy’s has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) against a company t...
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December 14, 2011, 3:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 20 web sites now safe in .xxx
Top 20 web sites won’t be “sexsquatted”. The top 20 most visited web sites (according to Quantcast) are now “safe” from cybersquatting/sexsquatting in the new .xxx domain name. Earlier this week I ran an analysis and fou...
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Top 20 web sites now safe in .xxx
Top 20 web sites won’t be “sexsquatted”. The top 20 most visited web sites (according to Quantcast) are now “safe” from cybersquatting/sexsquatting in the new .xxx domain name. Earlier this week I ran an analysis and fou...
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December 14, 2011, 10:11 am
Domain Name Wire
James Brown estate fights for JamesBrown.com
Late singer’s estate files complaint over domain name JamesBrown.com. The estate of the late “Godfather of Soul” James Brown has filed an arbitration case with National Arbitration Forum over the domain name JamesBrown.com. The doma...
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James Brown estate fights for JamesBrown.com
Late singer’s estate files complaint over domain name JamesBrown.com. The estate of the late “Godfather of Soul” James Brown has filed an arbitration case with National Arbitration Forum over the domain name JamesBrown.com. The doma...
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December 14, 2011, 10:00 am
Domain Name Wire
Better Business Bureau thinks it should have first dibs on BBB.xxx
Group’s IP attorney miffed that it couldn’t get bbb.xxx under ICM Registry sunrise process. In planned testimony for today’s hearing about new TLDs in the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on new TLDs, Council of Better ...
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Better Business Bureau thinks it should have first dibs on BBB.xxx
Group’s IP attorney miffed that it couldn’t get bbb.xxx under ICM Registry sunrise process. In planned testimony for today’s hearing about new TLDs in the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on new TLDs, Council of Better ...
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December 14, 2011, 9:39 am
Domain Name Wire
Walden messes up Apple domain example in ICANN hearing
Chairman of committee calls out iPad.com as an example of someone buying a domain just to sell it to a big brand. Want to know how to lose credibility in a hurry? Take a look at the statement of Greg Walden Chairman, Subcommittee on Communications an...
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Walden messes up Apple domain example in ICANN hearing
Chairman of committee calls out iPad.com as an example of someone buying a domain just to sell it to a big brand. Want to know how to lose credibility in a hurry? Take a look at the statement of Greg Walden Chairman, Subcommittee on Communications an...
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December 14, 2011, 9:19 am
