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National Football League Fights Over Super Bowl Web Site
NFL wants to take over Super Bowl web site. The National Football League’s lawyers may be busy trying to settle the lockout, but its lawyers have time to play games with domain names, too. The NFL just filed a domain name dispute with World Int...
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National Football League Fights Over Super Bowl Web Site
NFL wants to take over Super Bowl web site. The National Football League’s lawyers may be busy trying to settle the lockout, but its lawyers have time to play games with domain names, too. The NFL just filed a domain name dispute with World Int...
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July 20, 2011, 10:53 am
Domain Name Wire
Google Promotes Domain Names to Small Businesses
Google evangelizes web sites for small businesses. Remember all those getonline.com domain names Google registered last month? Now we know what they’re for, and it’s good news for domain name owners. Google is going state-to-state, city-t...
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Google Promotes Domain Names to Small Businesses
Google evangelizes web sites for small businesses. Remember all those getonline.com domain names Google registered last month? Now we know what they’re for, and it’s good news for domain name owners. Google is going state-to-state, city-t...
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July 20, 2011, 9:57 am
Domain Name Wire
Those Zuccarini Domains on NameJet? They Sold for $302k in April.
Buyer in April auction turns to NameJet to sell domain names. So why are these John Zuccarini domain names suddenly showing up on NameJet? Whomever picked them up at auction in April is trying to make a quick flip. The auction on April 8 attracted th...
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Those Zuccarini Domains on NameJet? They Sold for $302k in April.
Buyer in April auction turns to NameJet to sell domain names. So why are these John Zuccarini domain names suddenly showing up on NameJet? Whomever picked them up at auction in April is trying to make a quick flip. The auction on April 8 attracted th...
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July 19, 2011, 9:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Up Next, Trademark Applications for .Auto, .Tax, and .Food
More trademarks filed for new top level domain names. ICANN won’t consider top level domain-specific trademarks when new TLD applications are evaluated. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office won’t even grant them. But that’s not stop...
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Up Next, Trademark Applications for .Auto, .Tax, and .Food
More trademarks filed for new top level domain names. ICANN won’t consider top level domain-specific trademarks when new TLD applications are evaluated. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office won’t even grant them. But that’s not stop...
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July 19, 2011, 9:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft Adds More Domains to Sedo
Company adds typo, .co, and other domains up for sale. Microsoft has added more domain names for sale on domain name brokerage site Sedo. Abdu Tarabichi, who spotted the initial batch of Microsoft domains listed for sale, noticed that Microsoft added...
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Microsoft Adds More Domains to Sedo
Company adds typo, .co, and other domains up for sale. Microsoft has added more domain names for sale on domain name brokerage site Sedo. Abdu Tarabichi, who spotted the initial batch of Microsoft domains listed for sale, noticed that Microsoft added...
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July 19, 2011, 6:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
Samsung Buys Chaton.com and Other End User Sales This Week
Samsung among biggest names buying domain names on the secondary market this week. Afternic tallied over $650,000 in “announceable” domain sales over the past week. Here are some of the more interesting end user purchases: Samsung bought ...
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Samsung Buys Chaton.com and Other End User Sales This Week
Samsung among biggest names buying domain names on the secondary market this week. Afternic tallied over $650,000 in “announceable” domain sales over the past week. Here are some of the more interesting end user purchases: Samsung bought ...
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July 19, 2011, 6:07 pm
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Domain Holdings Grabs $2.9 Million Investment, Releases Improved Domain Builder
Domain name company lands outside investment and releases upgraded domain development platform. Domain name development company Domain Holdings has raised $2.9 million in funding. The company was founded by domainer Chad Folkening, who was later join...
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Domain Holdings Grabs $2.9 Million Investment, Releases Improved Domain Builder
Domain name company lands outside investment and releases upgraded domain development platform. Domain name development company Domain Holdings has raised $2.9 million in funding. The company was founded by domainer Chad Folkening, who was later join...
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July 19, 2011, 1:18 pm
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Peter Dengate Thrush Discusses His New Role with Top Level Domain Holdings
Peter Dengate Thrush and Antony Van Couvering discuss future of TLDH. Yesterday former ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced he was joining Top Level Domain Holdings (parent company of Minds + Machines) as Executive Chairman. I just got off t...
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Peter Dengate Thrush Discusses His New Role with Top Level Domain Holdings
Peter Dengate Thrush and Antony Van Couvering discuss future of TLDH. Yesterday former ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced he was joining Top Level Domain Holdings (parent company of Minds + Machines) as Executive Chairman. I just got off t...
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July 19, 2011, 11:21 am
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Latest Moniker Auction Tops $7.2 Million in Sales, Data.com Sales Price Around $4.5 Million
Although auction was boring, sales results are positive. Many people called Moniker‘s Barcelona domain name auction a failure. It’s easy to see why. After all, the auction didn’t end up taking place in Barcelona thanks to technical ...
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Latest Moniker Auction Tops $7.2 Million in Sales, Data.com Sales Price Around $4.5 Million
Although auction was boring, sales results are positive. Many people called Moniker‘s Barcelona domain name auction a failure. It’s easy to see why. After all, the auction didn’t end up taking place in Barcelona thanks to technical ...
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July 19, 2011, 9:51 am
Domain Name Wire
900,000 .XXX Domain Names? You Make The Call.
How many .xxx domain names will be registered in the first year? ICM Registry says it has received nearly 900,000 “expressions of interest” for its .xxx top level domain name. It has also extended the sunrise period for trademark holders,...
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900,000 .XXX Domain Names? You Make The Call.
How many .xxx domain names will be registered in the first year? ICM Registry says it has received nearly 900,000 “expressions of interest” for its .xxx top level domain name. It has also extended the sunrise period for trademark holders,...
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July 18, 2011, 9:42 pm
