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Righthaven Gets Punked By Invalid Whois
“Copyright Troll” domain name suspended due to invalid whois information. Copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC has been punked thanks to allegedly invalid whois information. The company’s web site Righthaven.com currently shows an inva...
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Righthaven Gets Punked By Invalid Whois
“Copyright Troll” domain name suspended due to invalid whois information. Copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC has been punked thanks to allegedly invalid whois information. The company’s web site Righthaven.com currently shows an inva...
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April 21, 2011, 12:33 pm
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Porsche Wins Rights to Cyrillic Script Internationalized Domain Name
Porsche wins dispute over IDN. Porsche has won a UDRP for the domain name порше.com, which is xn--e1arcf4b.com in punycode. The company claims that the internationalized domain name translates as “Porsche”. This case created some cha...
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Porsche Wins Rights to Cyrillic Script Internationalized Domain Name
Porsche wins dispute over IDN. Porsche has won a UDRP for the domain name порше.com, which is xn--e1arcf4b.com in punycode. The company claims that the internationalized domain name translates as “Porsche”. This case created some cha...
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April 21, 2011, 12:16 pm
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ICANN Sends Breach Notice to EuroDNS Over Facebook UDRP
ICANN threatens EuroDNS if it fails to transfer domain name to Facebook. ICANN has sent a Notice of Breach (pdf) to popular European domain name registrar EuroDNS for its failure to transfer a client domain name after an adverse UDRP decision. In Sep...
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ICANN Sends Breach Notice to EuroDNS Over Facebook UDRP
ICANN threatens EuroDNS if it fails to transfer domain name to Facebook. ICANN has sent a Notice of Breach (pdf) to popular European domain name registrar EuroDNS for its failure to transfer a client domain name after an adverse UDRP decision. In Sep...
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April 21, 2011, 8:33 am
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22 Pre-Release Domains to Backorder Now
Some domain names to add to your backorder list. It’s been a while since I’ve published a list of dropping domain names I think are worth backordering. So here’s a list of 22 domain names currently in pre-release at NameJet that I t...
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22 Pre-Release Domains to Backorder Now
Some domain names to add to your backorder list. It’s been a while since I’ve published a list of dropping domain names I think are worth backordering. So here’s a list of 22 domain names currently in pre-release at NameJet that I t...
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April 20, 2011, 2:15 pm
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Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars Web Sites Are Coming Back
Poker domain names to be restored and open for business. Internet users will soon be able to access and play poker at popular poker sites FullTiltPoker.com and PokerStars.com soon. Last week the U.S. government had seized the domain names in response...
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Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars Web Sites Are Coming Back
Poker domain names to be restored and open for business. Internet users will soon be able to access and play poker at popular poker sites FullTiltPoker.com and PokerStars.com soon. Last week the U.S. government had seized the domain names in response...
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April 20, 2011, 11:31 am
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Warner Bros Picks Up WizardofOzMovie.com Ahead of Remake
Movie studio gets key domain name for future Wizard of Oz remake. Turner Entertainment, owned by Warner Bros, has picked up the domain name WizardofOzMovie.com ahead of a planned remake of the 1939 classic Wizard of Oz. The domain name was owned by a...
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Warner Bros Picks Up WizardofOzMovie.com Ahead of Remake
Movie studio gets key domain name for future Wizard of Oz remake. Turner Entertainment, owned by Warner Bros, has picked up the domain name WizardofOzMovie.com ahead of a planned remake of the 1939 classic Wizard of Oz. The domain name was owned by a...
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April 20, 2011, 10:26 am
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Navidad.com (Spanish for Christmas) Sells for $100,000
Domain broker completes six figure holiday domain sale. Sedo has brokered the sale of Navidad.com for $100,000 to an as-yet undisclosed buyer, capping off a week with about $1 million in sales. In second place was approvals.com for $60,000. The compa...
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Navidad.com (Spanish for Christmas) Sells for $100,000
Domain broker completes six figure holiday domain sale. Sedo has brokered the sale of Navidad.com for $100,000 to an as-yet undisclosed buyer, capping off a week with about $1 million in sales. In second place was approvals.com for $60,000. The compa...
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April 19, 2011, 5:29 pm
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I Still Question the $10 Million Fund.com Sale
It just doesn’t add up. I’ve always questioned the 2008 sale of Fund.com for $10 million. It’s mostly in my gut: why did a new company that went public by buying another company pay a ridiculous price for this domain through a broke...
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I Still Question the $10 Million Fund.com Sale
It just doesn’t add up. I’ve always questioned the 2008 sale of Fund.com for $10 million. It’s mostly in my gut: why did a new company that went public by buying another company pay a ridiculous price for this domain through a broke...
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April 19, 2011, 1:48 pm
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Comparing the Toll Free Phone Numbers to Domain Names
AP sheds light on using toll free numbers to capture business. The Associated Press published a story this morning about companies that reserve mass quantities of toll free phone numbers, either to capture callers or sell them to businesses that migh...
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Comparing the Toll Free Phone Numbers to Domain Names
AP sheds light on using toll free numbers to capture business. The Associated Press published a story this morning about companies that reserve mass quantities of toll free phone numbers, either to capture callers or sell them to businesses that migh...
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April 19, 2011, 12:49 pm
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Decide, Which Bought Domain Decide.com for $175,000, Raises Series B
Decide banks $6 million in series B. Stealth start up Decide has closed on a $6 million series B round led by Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Google founding board member Ram Shriram, and former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford, TechCrunch reports. The com...
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Decide, Which Bought Domain Decide.com for $175,000, Raises Series B
Decide banks $6 million in series B. Stealth start up Decide has closed on a $6 million series B round led by Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Google founding board member Ram Shriram, and former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford, TechCrunch reports. The com...
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April 19, 2011, 12:14 pm
