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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, 12:47 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...
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March 14, 2015, 3:48 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 which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN.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 which is now Rightside, have withdrawn their application with ICANN.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 ...
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March 14, 2015, 3:33 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, 2:17 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...
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March 14, 2015, 1:17 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...
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March 13, 2015, 6:17 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, 5:28 pm
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International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
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International Domains Competing Against Each Other in the Serps
Econsultancy took a look at three companies and how providing similar content on multiple international domains may be affecting their search results. Graham Charlton took a look at 888.com, Expedia.com and HotelsCombined.com. At the end of the artic...
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March 13, 2015, 3:53 pm
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of December 31
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as ...
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Verisign Report: There are Now 288 Million Registered Domains As Of December 31
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), today announced that 4 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2014, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 288 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as ...
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March 12, 2015, 7:46 pm
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VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
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VVV.com sells for $136,400
One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between me...
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March 12, 2015, 7:39 pm
