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What Would Happen if Employ Media Loses .Jobs?
A non-amicable transfer of the .jobs registry contract would be challenging. Last month ICANN surprised many observers by sending a breach notice to .jobs registry Employ Media. This was a shock because ICANN’s board had approved recent changes...
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What Would Happen if Employ Media Loses .Jobs?
A non-amicable transfer of the .jobs registry contract would be challenging. Last month ICANN surprised many observers by sending a breach notice to .jobs registry Employ Media. This was a shock because ICANN’s board had approved recent changes...
Discussion
March 10, 2011, 10:07 am
Domain Name Wire
Original CamRoulette.com Owner Tells His Story of Ups, Downs, and Up
Guy who originally registered CamRoulette.com tells his whole story. Craig Snyder (no affiliation with Oversee.net Craig Snyder) went through the ringer last year. He registered the domain name CamRoulette.com, which is similar to the (then) popular ...
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Original CamRoulette.com Owner Tells His Story of Ups, Downs, and Up
Guy who originally registered CamRoulette.com tells his whole story. Craig Snyder (no affiliation with Oversee.net Craig Snyder) went through the ringer last year. He registered the domain name CamRoulette.com, which is similar to the (then) popular ...
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March 9, 2011, 3:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Wire Turns 6 Today
Thanks for making Domain Name Wire possible. Domain Name Wire turns six today. I suppose six years is a long time in the blogosphere. It seems like just yesterday that I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. But it was March 9, 2005, when I wrote...
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Domain Name Wire Turns 6 Today
Thanks for making Domain Name Wire possible. Domain Name Wire turns six today. I suppose six years is a long time in the blogosphere. It seems like just yesterday that I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. But it was March 9, 2005, when I wrote...
Discussion
March 9, 2011, 10:59 am
Domain Name Wire
Domainers (Still) Bullish on Domain Values
Domain investors predict rising values in 2011. Domainers are nothing if not an optimistic lot. 55% of people who took Domain Name Wire’s 2011 survey think domain values will increase in 2011 compared to 2010. Only 14% predict a drop. This shou...
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Domainers (Still) Bullish on Domain Values
Domain investors predict rising values in 2011. Domainers are nothing if not an optimistic lot. 55% of people who took Domain Name Wire’s 2011 survey think domain values will increase in 2011 compared to 2010. Only 14% predict a drop. This shou...
Discussion
March 9, 2011, 10:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Adult Industry Plans Rally Against .XXX at ICANN Meeting
Group calls for rally outside ICANN meeting. Adult industry lobbying group Free Speech Coalition is calling for a rally outside the ICANN meeting at the Westin in San Francisco next week. Citing “a time when rallies are changing the world aroun...
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Adult Industry Plans Rally Against .XXX at ICANN Meeting
Group calls for rally outside ICANN meeting. Adult industry lobbying group Free Speech Coalition is calling for a rally outside the ICANN meeting at the Westin in San Francisco next week. Citing “a time when rallies are changing the world aroun...
Discussion
March 8, 2011, 9:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo Sells DoorHardware.com for $85,000
Gary Chernoff scores with latest domain sale. One of the earliest domain investors, Garry Chernoff, has sold the domain name DoorHardware.com for a solid $85,000 with the help of Sedo. The buyer doesn’t have a clear connection to the business b...
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Sedo Sells DoorHardware.com for $85,000
Gary Chernoff scores with latest domain sale. One of the earliest domain investors, Garry Chernoff, has sold the domain name DoorHardware.com for a solid $85,000 with the help of Sedo. The buyer doesn’t have a clear connection to the business b...
Discussion
March 8, 2011, 5:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
Time Warner To Pick up 41 3-D Domain Names
Company files complaint to get branded 3-D domain names. Over the past year there’s been a bit of buzz in the domain name community about domain names targeting the increased hoopla around 3-D. While I don’t think the opportunity is as gr...
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Time Warner To Pick up 41 3-D Domain Names
Company files complaint to get branded 3-D domain names. Over the past year there’s been a bit of buzz in the domain name community about domain names targeting the increased hoopla around 3-D. While I don’t think the opportunity is as gr...
Discussion
March 8, 2011, 2:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Watermelon Farmer Allowed To Keep Crops (.com)
DigiMedia’s founder can keep growing crops. Oh, the irony. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled that DigiMedia.com, L.P., founded by watermelon farmer Scott Day, can keep the domain name Crops.com (pdf). The case was filed...
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Watermelon Farmer Allowed To Keep Crops (.com)
DigiMedia’s founder can keep growing crops. Oh, the irony. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ruled that DigiMedia.com, L.P., founded by watermelon farmer Scott Day, can keep the domain name Crops.com (pdf). The case was filed...
Discussion
March 8, 2011, 11:48 am
Domain Name Wire
Nearly 1,000 Charlie Sheen Domain Names Registered in a Week
Lots of new domain registrations seek to take advantage of Charlie Sheen’s news making ability. Whenever a celebrity starts making news you can rest assured that domain registrants see an opportunity. With Charlie Sheen’s downward spiral ...
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Nearly 1,000 Charlie Sheen Domain Names Registered in a Week
Lots of new domain registrations seek to take advantage of Charlie Sheen’s news making ability. Whenever a celebrity starts making news you can rest assured that domain registrants see an opportunity. With Charlie Sheen’s downward spiral ...
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March 8, 2011, 11:23 am
Domain Name Wire
iPhone Jailbreak App Store Loses Domain Dispute For Cydia.com
Alternative iPhone app store loses dispute for domain name. The company behind an app store for jailbroken iPhones has lost a dispute to get the domain name Cydia.com. Saurikit, LLC launched its alternative to Apple’s app store in 2008 at cydia...
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iPhone Jailbreak App Store Loses Domain Dispute For Cydia.com
Alternative iPhone app store loses dispute for domain name. The company behind an app store for jailbroken iPhones has lost a dispute to get the domain name Cydia.com. Saurikit, LLC launched its alternative to Apple’s app store in 2008 at cydia...
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March 8, 2011, 10:46 am