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Domain Name Wire
Why Sonic.net rebranded as Sonic, and how it got Sonic.com
Nearly decades after it was founded, Sonic.net acquired the matching .com domain name and rebranded. When Dane Jasper co-founded California ISP and telecom company Sonic.net in 1994, he settled on .net because the .com was already taken. Another Cali...
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Why Sonic.net rebranded as Sonic, and how it got Sonic.com
Nearly decades after it was founded, Sonic.net acquired the matching .com domain name and rebranded. When Dane Jasper co-founded California ISP and telecom company Sonic.net in 1994, he settled on .net because the .com was already taken. Another Cali...
Discussion
February 12, 2015, 3:32 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Energy 1,084; .Delivery 790
Two new gTLD launched yesterday into General Availability (GA), including those domain names registered in Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) where people pay additional fees to register their domain names early here are the totals after the ...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Energy 1,084; .Delivery 790
Two new gTLD launched yesterday into General Availability (GA), including those domain names registered in Sunrise and the Early Access Program (EAP) where people pay additional fees to register their domain names early here are the totals after the ...
Discussion
February 12, 2015, 2:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
36 End User Domain Name Purchases
Here are 36 domain names sold at Sedo recently that were acquired by end users. Sedo had another strong batch of sales last week: 12 spanning $10k – $18k and another 4 ranging from $35k all the way up to $150k. Most of ...
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36 End User Domain Name Purchases
Here are 36 domain names sold at Sedo recently that were acquired by end users. Sedo had another strong batch of sales last week: 12 spanning $10k – $18k and another 4 ranging from $35k all the way up to $150k. Most of ...
Discussion
February 12, 2015, 2:15 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, Feb 12th, 2015
Last week I did a post having a little fun with the comment section of DomainInvesting.coms weekly broker listings. One name sold off the list and it was the name that I said was the most accurate in pricing IMO. The rest were ridiculous....
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, Feb 12th, 2015
Last week I did a post having a little fun with the comment section of DomainInvesting.coms weekly broker listings. One name sold off the list and it was the name that I said was the most accurate in pricing IMO. The rest were ridiculous....
Discussion
February 12, 2015, 11:55 am
Domain Name Wire
.Online partnership splits, one company will operate new TLD
Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Rad...
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.Online partnership splits, one company will operate new TLD
Companies end .online partnership, but all three will help market the domain name. A three company partnership for the .online top level domain name has broken up, and it appears Radix will now run the domain name by itself. A partnership between Rad...
Discussion
February 12, 2015, 2:35 am
The Domains
Here Is The GAC Advice to ICANN from The GAC Communique-Singapore
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) issued its Communique from the ICANN Singapore meeting. Here is the GAC Advice: Safeguards Advice Applicable to all new gTLDs and Category 1 ...
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Here Is The GAC Advice to ICANN from The GAC Communique-Singapore
The Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) issued its Communique from the ICANN Singapore meeting. Here is the GAC Advice: Safeguards Advice Applicable to all new gTLDs and Category 1 ...
Discussion
February 12, 2015, 1:23 am
The Domains
To The CEO Of ICANN Fadi Chehade: Do You Think Vodafone Is The Biggest Domain Hogger?
Two weeks ago we called out the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade, for some remarks he made in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com to wit: “The reality is, the more there are names (new gTLD’s), less people will actually be hogging ...
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To The CEO Of ICANN Fadi Chehade: Do You Think Vodafone Is The Biggest Domain Hogger?
Two weeks ago we called out the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade, for some remarks he made in a story published by the HuffingtonPost.com to wit: “The reality is, the more there are names (new gTLD’s), less people will actually be hogging ...
Discussion
February 12, 2015, 12:00 am
The Domains
Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry Beats Donuts & Famous Four To The new gTLD .Forum
Domain investor and the one of the creators of DomainTools.com, Jay Westerdal’s company Fegistry, LLC just won the rights to the new gTLD .Forum beating Donuts & Famous Four. Fegistry won an ICANN Last Resort auction for the new gTLD .Realt...
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Jay Westerdal’s Fegistry Beats Donuts & Famous Four To The new gTLD .Forum
Domain investor and the one of the creators of DomainTools.com, Jay Westerdal’s company Fegistry, LLC just won the rights to the new gTLD .Forum beating Donuts & Famous Four. Fegistry won an ICANN Last Resort auction for the new gTLD .Realt...
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February 11, 2015, 7:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Taylor Swift registers ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com (no joke)
Domain name registered at MarkMonitor today after guitar teacher domain name makes the news. New York Daily News reported yesterday about Taylor Swift going after her former guitar teacher, who registered the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. Her m...
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Taylor Swift registers ITaughtTaylorSwiftHowToGiveHead.com (no joke)
Domain name registered at MarkMonitor today after guitar teacher domain name makes the news. New York Daily News reported yesterday about Taylor Swift going after her former guitar teacher, who registered the domain name ITaughtTaylorSwift.com. Her m...
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February 11, 2015, 4:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Email domain name owner YoYo sues three Banks over UDRP
YoYo.email asks UK court to reverse UDRP decision. YoYo.email has sued RBS Bank (Royal Bank of Scotland), Natwest Bank and Coutts & Co in the United Kingdom in an effort to overturn an adverse UDRP decision. YoYo registered about 4,000 .email dom...
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.Email domain name owner YoYo sues three Banks over UDRP
YoYo.email asks UK court to reverse UDRP decision. YoYo.email has sued RBS Bank (Royal Bank of Scotland), Natwest Bank and Coutts & Co in the United Kingdom in an effort to overturn an adverse UDRP decision. YoYo registered about 4,000 .email dom...
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February 11, 2015, 3:00 pm
