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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
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July 7, 2011, 9:52 am

Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
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July 6, 2011, 5:32 pm

Domain Name Wire
For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition
Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market...
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For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition
Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market...
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July 6, 2011, 2:10 pm

Domain Name Wire
French Company Wants to Cancel Adwords Trademark, Hit with UDRP
French company files to cancel one of Google’s trademarks, gets hit with UDRP over .mobi domain name. Google has filed a UDRP against the owner of a French trademark for “adwords” over his domain name ad-words.mobi. The domain owner...
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French Company Wants to Cancel Adwords Trademark, Hit with UDRP
French company files to cancel one of Google’s trademarks, gets hit with UDRP over .mobi domain name. Google has filed a UDRP against the owner of a French trademark for “adwords” over his domain name ad-words.mobi. The domain owner...
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July 6, 2011, 11:55 am

Domain Name Wire
DNForum Now Easier to Access on the Road
Forum releases mobile apps for quicker and better access away from the desktop. Earlier this week DNForum released apps for iPhone and iPad devices. A couple weeks ago it released an app for Android users. The app makes it easier to read and respond ...
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DNForum Now Easier to Access on the Road
Forum releases mobile apps for quicker and better access away from the desktop. Earlier this week DNForum released apps for iPhone and iPad devices. A couple weeks ago it released an app for Android users. The app makes it easier to read and respond ...
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July 6, 2011, 11:27 am

Domain Name Wire
Only $750k To Raise Awareness of New TLDs? Seriously?
Raising awareness about new TLDs on a microscopic budget. If you’re about to usher in what Peter Dengate Thrush calls “the biggest change I think we have seen on the Internet”, how much would you spend to raise awareness of a limite...
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Only $750k To Raise Awareness of New TLDs? Seriously?
Raising awareness about new TLDs on a microscopic budget. If you’re about to usher in what Peter Dengate Thrush calls “the biggest change I think we have seen on the Internet”, how much would you spend to raise awareness of a limite...
Discussion
July 6, 2011, 10:32 am

Domain Name Wire
WhyPark Continues to Diversify Revenue Streams with 2 New Apps
Company adds new apps to system including one that pays on a cost-per-action basis. Domain name content system WhyPark has released two new Domain Apps, one designed to boost traffic and the other to boost traffic while generating non-PPC revenue. Th...
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WhyPark Continues to Diversify Revenue Streams with 2 New Apps
Company adds new apps to system including one that pays on a cost-per-action basis. Domain name content system WhyPark has released two new Domain Apps, one designed to boost traffic and the other to boost traffic while generating non-PPC revenue. Th...
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July 6, 2011, 10:14 am

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Company Behind Diapers.com and Soap.com Launches Wag.com
Another category-generic domain name site from Quidsi. Amazon.com-owned Quidsi, which has a habit of launching category stores on category specific generic domain names, has launched a pet store at Wag.com. Over the past few days I’ve been tryi...
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Company Behind Diapers.com and Soap.com Launches Wag.com
Another category-generic domain name site from Quidsi. Amazon.com-owned Quidsi, which has a habit of launching category stores on category specific generic domain names, has launched a pet store at Wag.com. Over the past few days I’ve been tryi...
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July 6, 2011, 9:55 am

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Domain Names End Users Bought This Week
8 examples of end users buying generic domains for their businesses. As I did with last week’s sales report, I’m taking a look at some of Afternic‘s sales to end users for the week. Laser Spine Institute bought GoodbyeBackPain.com f...
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Domain Names End Users Bought This Week
8 examples of end users buying generic domains for their businesses. As I did with last week’s sales report, I’m taking a look at some of Afternic‘s sales to end users for the week. Laser Spine Institute bought GoodbyeBackPain.com f...
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July 5, 2011, 10:24 pm

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More TLD Trademarks: .Law, .Kom, .Tom, .Construction, .Hub
The “ticking time bomb” in new TLDs continues with no work from ICANN. New top level domain name trademark “frontrunning” continues as 9 more trademarks have been filed related to new TLDs. USM CHINA/HONG KONG LTD filed applic...
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More TLD Trademarks: .Law, .Kom, .Tom, .Construction, .Hub
The “ticking time bomb” in new TLDs continues with no work from ICANN. New top level domain name trademark “frontrunning” continues as 9 more trademarks have been filed related to new TLDs. USM CHINA/HONG KONG LTD filed applic...
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July 5, 2011, 4:41 pm