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The Domains
Gucci Wins 184 .Org Domains In a UDRP & Not One Is Worth The Registration Fee
Brand holders god love them. Gucci just won the rights to 184 .Org domain names in a single UDRP. I can safety say there is not one of these .org domain names that is even worth the registration fee. Later today I will publish a list of 50 domain nam...
Discussion
Gucci Wins 184 .Org Domains In a UDRP & Not One Is Worth The Registration Fee
Brand holders god love them. Gucci just won the rights to 184 .Org domain names in a single UDRP. I can safety say there is not one of these .org domain names that is even worth the registration fee. Later today I will publish a list of 50 domain nam...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 3:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
Gucci wins 182 domain names in a UDRP
Gucci wins a lot of domain names in a UDRP decision. Italian design firm Guccio Gucci S.p.A. has won 182 domain names in a UDRP. It’s one of the highest number of domain names I’ve seen transferred in a single UDRP, although there have ce...
Discussion
Gucci wins 182 domain names in a UDRP
Gucci wins a lot of domain names in a UDRP decision. Italian design firm Guccio Gucci S.p.A. has won 182 domain names in a UDRP. It’s one of the highest number of domain names I’ve seen transferred in a single UDRP, although there have ce...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 3:47 pm
The Domains
CNN Covers The Selfie Olympics On Twitter While ICANN Bans Registrations In New gTLD’s
In the domain space The Olympics have been given the strongest protections including a ICANN prohibiting the registration any new gTLD containing the word Olympics in it. However in the rest of cyberspace the Olympics enjoys no such protection CNN j...
Discussion
CNN Covers The Selfie Olympics On Twitter While ICANN Bans Registrations In New gTLD’s
In the domain space The Olympics have been given the strongest protections including a ICANN prohibiting the registration any new gTLD containing the word Olympics in it. However in the rest of cyberspace the Olympics enjoys no such protection CNN j...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 3:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
2013 Top Stories: GoDaddy acquires Afternic
The combined entity will give more reach domain name sellers, but it also means there’s one less competitor in the marketplace. Mergers and acquisitions in the domain name industry happen all the time. Yet one that took place in 2013 has the po...
Discussion
2013 Top Stories: GoDaddy acquires Afternic
The combined entity will give more reach domain name sellers, but it also means there’s one less competitor in the marketplace. Mergers and acquisitions in the domain name industry happen all the time. Yet one that took place in 2013 has the po...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 3:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign files patent application for automatically creating Whois service for TLDs
Verisign wants to patent a way to scale creation of whois service for top level domain names. Verisign has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to automatically creating Whois for new top level domain names. Th...
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Verisign files patent application for automatically creating Whois service for TLDs
Verisign wants to patent a way to scale creation of whois service for top level domain names. Verisign has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office related to automatically creating Whois for new top level domain names. Th...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 2:27 pm
Sully's Blog
A Better Way to Manage Your Domains
This video is a quick review of “Watch My Domains,” which is a software product for keeping track of your domain names. It’s go some great features as you’ll see in the demo. The software is available for a 30 day ...
Discussion
A Better Way to Manage Your Domains
This video is a quick review of “Watch My Domains,” which is a software product for keeping track of your domain names. It’s go some great features as you’ll see in the demo. The software is available for a 30 day ...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 1:54 pm
DomainSherpa
.Club: 1 Million Registrations by Year 1, 5 Million by Year 5 – With Colin Campbell and Jeff Sass
.Club is targeting one million registrations by the end of Year 1, and five million registrations by the end of Year 5. And they have the focus, marketing plans and public relations in place to help achieve their goals.In this interview, .Club CEO Co...
Discussion
.Club: 1 Million Registrations by Year 1, 5 Million by Year 5 – With Colin Campbell and Jeff Sass
.Club is targeting one million registrations by the end of Year 1, and five million registrations by the end of Year 5. And they have the focus, marketing plans and public relations in place to help achieve their goals.In this interview, .Club CEO Co...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 9:00 am
The Domains
Washington Post’s 2014 In and Out List: .Com’s are Out, .EverythingElse is in
The Washington Post published its 2014 In and Out list for 2014 a few days ago and one entry hit the domain industry right in the heart. On the In and Out list along with over 60 items, people and products; .Com is out and “.EverythingEls...
Discussion
Washington Post’s 2014 In and Out List: .Com’s are Out, .EverythingElse is in
The Washington Post published its 2014 In and Out list for 2014 a few days ago and one entry hit the domain industry right in the heart. On the In and Out list along with over 60 items, people and products; .Com is out and “.EverythingEls...
Discussion
January 6, 2014, 6:04 am
The Domains
Can A Three Letter Domain Really Be Worth $2.8 Million; Maybe ioT.com (Internet of Things) Is
After reading a lot of article in the tech world, 2013 was the year of Big Data, 2014 is looking to be the year of the Internet of Things (iot). The Internet of Things as short and concise as I have seen it described in VentureBeat.com, i...
Discussion
Can A Three Letter Domain Really Be Worth $2.8 Million; Maybe ioT.com (Internet of Things) Is
After reading a lot of article in the tech world, 2013 was the year of Big Data, 2014 is looking to be the year of the Internet of Things (iot). The Internet of Things as short and concise as I have seen it described in VentureBeat.com, i...
Discussion
January 5, 2014, 4:35 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 4th, 2014
DomainShane will most likely be closed due to weather on Monday. Due to the -30 temperatures and 18 hours blizzard our offices will be closed for one day. We will resume normal hours on Tuesday as long as all my digits have not dropped of...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 4th, 2014
DomainShane will most likely be closed due to weather on Monday. Due to the -30 temperatures and 18 hours blizzard our offices will be closed for one day. We will resume normal hours on Tuesday as long as all my digits have not dropped of...
Discussion
January 5, 2014, 11:05 am
