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DomainTools Turns on ?Recent Whois? For Go Daddy Domain Names
Site begins showing older whois records. DomainTools has come up with a (perhaps interim) solution after Go Daddy started blocking some whois services from accessing its full records. Searches at DomainTools for domain names registered at Go Daddy no...
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January 6, 2011, 6:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Pepsi Goes After Arabic Bebsi.com Web Site
Company filed domain name dispute. PepsiCo, Inc. has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name Bebsi.com. This isn't just a typo of Pepsi as it may appear. In fact, 'b' is far away from &...
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January 6, 2011, 1:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Gives ICANN $500k for Sponsorship
Hefty price tags to sponsor March event. I've written before about the relationship between ICANN and sponsors of its meetings. It looks like ICANN has upped the ante for its Spring meeting in San Francisco. As Kevin Murphy spotted today, ICANN...
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January 5, 2011, 9:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
HTML5.com: An Example of Buying Ahead of the Curve
Old domain is suddenly relevant. There's been a bit of buzz lately about the domain name HTML5.com, which was redirected to a page at Apple.com about HTML5. A quick look at the whois shows that Apple did not buy the domain name, but it recently...
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January 5, 2011, 9:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Why Creating and Canceling TRAFFIC at ICANN Were Both Smart Moves
It was a great idea, but ultimately doesn't work out. When ICANN announced that its Spring meeting would be held in San Francisco, I immediately thought "this would be a great time to hold a domain name conference." An hour later I ...
Discussion
January 5, 2011, 11:24 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy Explains Whois Blocking
Company explains access restrictions on third party sites. Users of third party whois search tools have been frustrated in the past few days whenever they look up a domain name registered at Go Daddy. Instead of seeing who owns the domain name, they ...
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January 4, 2011, 9:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
PodNova.com Finally Changes Hands for $90,000, OnlineKredit.net for EUR 100,000
Podnova.com and OnlineKredit.net make for strong sales week. The domain name PodNova.com has sold at Sedo for $90,000. This was an active web site until earlier this year. Compete.com shows it getting as many as 20,000 unique visitors in February 201...
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January 4, 2011, 4:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
My Thoughts on the Moniker Whois Privacy Incident
It's an unfortunate incident. Not a scandal. I've waited a few days to write about the Moniker whois privacy flap. My first reaction was that this whole thing was being blown way out of proportion, so I wanted to wait and see how I felt i...
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January 4, 2011, 2:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
TechCrunch Interviews Sex.com Buyer: 125k Visits a Day
Robin Wauters tracks down Clover Holdings Limited. TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters has tracked down and interviewed the mystery buyer behind Clover Holdings Limited who paid $13 million for Sex.com last year. But we still don't know who the buy...
Discussion
January 4, 2011, 12:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire
Lazy Complainants Lose Two Cases to Serial Cybersquatter in One Week
If domain name is registered before a trademark is filed, complainants need to provide good evidence of common law rights. So you're legal counsel for a company that feels that someone is cybersquatting on your trademark. That someone is “...
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January 4, 2011, 10:10 am
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