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.Fyi Donuts Beats Google To The New gTLD .Fyi
Donuts has won the rights to the new gTLD .fyi beating Google Fyi for those who don’t know is short for “For Your Information” There is also a television network owned by A & E, called fyi.tv There is of course already a .info e...
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.Fyi Donuts Beats Google To The New gTLD .Fyi
Donuts has won the rights to the new gTLD .fyi beating Google Fyi for those who don’t know is short for “For Your Information” There is also a television network owned by A & E, called fyi.tv There is of course already a .info e...
Discussion
March 16, 2015, 12:48 pm
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Donuts Wins The New Domain Extension .Family Beating Google & Uniregistry The Winner of .Mom
Donuts has won the right to operate another new gTLD extension .Family beating Google and Uniregistry. Uniregistry just won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Mom over the weekend beating Google and Rightside. It would think if you won one of these ...
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Donuts Wins The New Domain Extension .Family Beating Google & Uniregistry The Winner of .Mom
Donuts has won the right to operate another new gTLD extension .Family beating Google and Uniregistry. Uniregistry just won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Mom over the weekend beating Google and Rightside. It would think if you won one of these ...
Discussion
March 16, 2015, 12:39 pm
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Donuts To Initiate First Advertising Campaign
MediaPost published an article a couple hours ago on Donuts initiating its first advertising campaign. Comments from Jeff Davidoff the CMO at Donuts are quoted in the article. One interesting quote, “Dot-com doesn’t mean anything. The Goo...
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Donuts To Initiate First Advertising Campaign
MediaPost published an article a couple hours ago on Donuts initiating its first advertising campaign. Comments from Jeff Davidoff the CMO at Donuts are quoted in the article. One interesting quote, “Dot-com doesn’t mean anything. The Goo...
Discussion
March 15, 2015, 10:53 pm
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Why Did It Take This TM Holder 10 Years To File A UDRP On The Parked Domain HumanRightsWatch.com?
Human Rights Watch was awarded the domain name HumanRightsWatch.com in a otherwise unremarkable UDRP opinion. “The organization has a United States Trademark on the term since 2003 and “uses the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH mark to identify its eff...
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Why Did It Take This TM Holder 10 Years To File A UDRP On The Parked Domain HumanRightsWatch.com?
Human Rights Watch was awarded the domain name HumanRightsWatch.com in a otherwise unremarkable UDRP opinion. “The organization has a United States Trademark on the term since 2003 and “uses the HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH mark to identify its eff...
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March 15, 2015, 1:47 pm
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Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts, Uniregistry M +M
Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon a...
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Amazon Wins The .Free New Domain Extension Beating Google, Donuts, Uniregistry M +M
Amazon has won the rights to operate the .Free new gTLD. Amazon beat Google, Donuts, Minds +Machines, and Uniregistry in a private auction to win the rights to .Free .Free was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Amazon a...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 4:48 pm
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Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside
Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here ...
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Uniregisty Wins The New Domain Extension .Mom Beating Google & Rightside
Uniregistry has won a three way battle for the new gTLD .Mom. Both Google and United TLD Holdco Ltd. which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN. .Mom was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month. Here ...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 4:33 pm
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RealSaltLake.com The Professional Sports Team (MLS) Buys RSL.com For $45K
The domain name RSL.com has been sold to the profession MLS Soccer Team “Real Salt Lake” which uses the domain name RealSaltLake.com Aron Meystedt the Director of the Intellectual Property Department of Heritage Auctions brokered the doma...
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RealSaltLake.com The Professional Sports Team (MLS) Buys RSL.com For $45K
The domain name RSL.com has been sold to the profession MLS Soccer Team “Real Salt Lake” which uses the domain name RealSaltLake.com Aron Meystedt the Director of the Intellectual Property Department of Heritage Auctions brokered the doma...
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March 14, 2015, 3:17 pm
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Report: BufferApp Buys Buffer.com For $600,000 & It Took Almost 2 Years
inc42.com published a story about how BufferApp.com purchased the domain name Buffer.com for $600,000. Interestingly the company itself, Bufferapp.com, published a lot of details about the acquisition of the domain name which took almost 2 years to c...
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Report: BufferApp Buys Buffer.com For $600,000 & It Took Almost 2 Years
inc42.com published a story about how BufferApp.com purchased the domain name Buffer.com for $600,000. Interestingly the company itself, Bufferapp.com, published a lot of details about the acquisition of the domain name which took almost 2 years to c...
Discussion
March 14, 2015, 2:17 pm
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Salesforce Paid $2.6 Million Dollars For Social.com & Now It Just To Redirects To Another URL
Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that “Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monit...
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Salesforce Paid $2.6 Million Dollars For Social.com & Now It Just To Redirects To Another URL
Back in 2011, SalesForce.com made headlines buying the domain name Social.com for $2.6 Million dollars At the time one Tech publication opined that “Social.com could be used as a new name for Radian6, the social media monit...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 7:17 pm
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the v...
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TheRegister.co.uk Publishes Story on New gTLD’s: They Think The Period To Apply Is Still Opened
TheRegister.co.uk, just published a story today on the new gTLD program and it contains plenty of very basic factually inaccurate statements about the program. Here we go: “The internet is poised to gain a whole lot of new domain names in the v...
Discussion
March 13, 2015, 6:28 pm
