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The Domains
Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Files Federal Lawsuit Over The Domain SDT.com
Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc. just filed a federal lawsuit against SDT INTERNATIONAL of Brussels, Belgium, over the domain name SDT.com after it rejected a $400 offer that got worked up all the way to $1,000. Mr. Cohen is represen...
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Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Files Federal Lawsuit Over The Domain SDT.com
Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy, Inc. just filed a federal lawsuit against SDT INTERNATIONAL of Brussels, Belgium, over the domain name SDT.com after it rejected a $400 offer that got worked up all the way to $1,000. Mr. Cohen is represen...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 9:26 pm
The Domains
Archeo Publishes 3Q Sales Stats
Archeo, a subsidiary of Marchex, issued its newsletter for the third quarter of 2014 . “This newsletter will highlight our sales stats from Q3, featuring a few sales trends we found interesting. We will also continue to focus on educating...
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Archeo Publishes 3Q Sales Stats
Archeo, a subsidiary of Marchex, issued its newsletter for the third quarter of 2014 . “This newsletter will highlight our sales stats from Q3, featuring a few sales trends we found interesting. We will also continue to focus on educating...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 8:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Last week’s 200+ expired domain name sales up to $27.1k
In this report, Joseph Peterson discusses over 200 expired domain name sales from last week. A picture is worth a thousand words, and these – depicting KPF’s architectural plan for the Meixi district of Changsha, a capital city in Ch...
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Last week’s 200+ expired domain name sales up to $27.1k
In this report, Joseph Peterson discusses over 200 expired domain name sales from last week. A picture is worth a thousand words, and these – depicting KPF’s architectural plan for the Meixi district of Changsha, a capital city in Ch...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 5:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
IDN.com owners will lose big if Verisign doesn’t get its way
They could be forced to buy transliterations within a limited time period. Verisign has been negotiating its contracts for transliterations of .com for a long time, and last week we got an idea about what the hold up is. ICM Registry, the domain regi...
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IDN.com owners will lose big if Verisign doesn’t get its way
They could be forced to buy transliterations within a limited time period. Verisign has been negotiating its contracts for transliterations of .com for a long time, and last week we got an idea about what the hold up is. ICM Registry, the domain regi...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 2:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Melbourne hits 2,775 registrations, .restaurant has solid first day
.Melbourne wins the day, but not by much. The .Melbourne domain name launched Wednesday in Australia — Tuesday night in the United States — and had 2,775 domain names registered at the close of business on day one of general availability....
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.Melbourne hits 2,775 registrations, .restaurant has solid first day
.Melbourne wins the day, but not by much. The .Melbourne domain name launched Wednesday in Australia — Tuesday night in the United States — and had 2,775 domain names registered at the close of business on day one of general availability....
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 2:33 pm
The Domains
SnapNames.com End of Year Auction Closes Today: Won.com $90K Bid; Hi.Net $25K
The SnapNames.com End of Year domain name auction closes today at 3:15 EST under snapnames normal closing rules. There are 179 domain names in the auction. As of publication 17 of the 179 domain names have a bid. The domain name Won.com leads all bid...
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SnapNames.com End of Year Auction Closes Today: Won.com $90K Bid; Hi.Net $25K
The SnapNames.com End of Year domain name auction closes today at 3:15 EST under snapnames normal closing rules. There are 179 domain names in the auction. As of publication 17 of the 179 domain names have a bid. The domain name Won.com leads all bid...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 2:32 pm
The Domains
Symantec Withdraws their Uncontested Application for New gTLD .AntiVirus
Symantec Corporation has withdrawn their uncontested application for the new gTLD .Antivirus after saying it would become one of their “core assets” in their application. From its application it appears Symantic wanted to operate the exte...
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Symantec Withdraws their Uncontested Application for New gTLD .AntiVirus
Symantec Corporation has withdrawn their uncontested application for the new gTLD .Antivirus after saying it would become one of their “core assets” in their application. From its application it appears Symantic wanted to operate the exte...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 2:01 pm
The Domains
ICANN Clears the Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names
ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and anal...
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ICANN Clears the Way for Two-character New gTLD Domain Names
ICANN reported last night that it has Cleared the way for Two Character New gTLD domain names, domain names like NN.whatever, NL.whatever or LN.whatever. The jury is still out of two letter new gTLD’s “After reviewing the summary and anal...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 1:51 pm
The Domains
After Hand Registering Its Domain For $10, Quandl Raises $5.4 Million
The Wall Street Journal just covered the story of a startup Quandl.com which has 30,000 registered users, and just raised $5.4 million to expand. The story goes on to note that one of the co-founders of the company in 2010, Tammer Kammer is quoted as...
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After Hand Registering Its Domain For $10, Quandl Raises $5.4 Million
The Wall Street Journal just covered the story of a startup Quandl.com which has 30,000 registered users, and just raised $5.4 million to expand. The story goes on to note that one of the co-founders of the company in 2010, Tammer Kammer is quoted as...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 1:45 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2,518: .Restaurant 2,389; .Gifts 1,010; .Sarl 176
4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark holdersm and all registrations under the landrush in the case of .Melbourne and the Early A...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Melbourne 2,518: .Restaurant 2,389; .Gifts 1,010; .Sarl 176
4 new gTLD entered General Availability (GA) yesterday (.Melbourne was on Tuesday local time) and including all Sunrise domain name registrations by trademark holdersm and all registrations under the landrush in the case of .Melbourne and the Early A...
Discussion
November 13, 2014, 1:36 pm
