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Sedo’s Transactions Total $1.2 Million Led By Response.com At $150K
Sedo just reported that over the past week, 588 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million dollars 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .c...
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Sedo’s Transactions Total $1.2 Million Led By Response.com At $150K
Sedo just reported that over the past week, 588 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million dollars 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .c...
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February 10, 2015, 9:30 pm

The Domains
Reuters: US Government Creating Agency To Deal With Cybersecurity Threats
According to Reuters citing a story in the The Washington Post, the U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, which will be called “The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) According to the story...
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Reuters: US Government Creating Agency To Deal With Cybersecurity Threats
According to Reuters citing a story in the The Washington Post, the U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, which will be called “The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) According to the story...
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February 10, 2015, 9:11 pm

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Verisign Names Lori Greiner of QVC & Shark Tank & Bill Rancic Winner of The Apprentice As Celebrity Judges: #InternetOfficial
Verisign named its two celebrity judges for its #InternetOfficial contest in celebration of the 30th anniversary of .Com. The “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner and one of the stars of Shark Tank, joins Panel of Judges for the #Intern...
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Verisign Names Lori Greiner of QVC & Shark Tank & Bill Rancic Winner of The Apprentice As Celebrity Judges: #InternetOfficial
Verisign named its two celebrity judges for its #InternetOfficial contest in celebration of the 30th anniversary of .Com. The “Queen of QVC” Lori Greiner and one of the stars of Shark Tank, joins Panel of Judges for the #Intern...
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February 10, 2015, 7:57 pm

The Domains
Indian Banks Offering A Service to Transfer Money Through Facebook
Rediff.com published an article on using Facebook as a way to transfer money, kind of the way we currently use Paypal. The service is currently being provided by two Indian banks, Kotak Mahindra and ICICI. The article makes clear this is for tech sav...
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Indian Banks Offering A Service to Transfer Money Through Facebook
Rediff.com published an article on using Facebook as a way to transfer money, kind of the way we currently use Paypal. The service is currently being provided by two Indian banks, Kotak Mahindra and ICICI. The article makes clear this is for tech sav...
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February 10, 2015, 5:31 pm

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.LGBT Launched Today: Meet The first 5 Pioneers .LGBT Sites
Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: “dot LGBT” or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organ...
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.LGBT Launched Today: Meet The first 5 Pioneers .LGBT Sites
Afilias announced today the first and only top-level domain (TLD) dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is now open for registration: “dot LGBT” or .LGBT. All LGBT community members and businesses, organ...
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February 10, 2015, 3:23 pm

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Cremation.com Sues Cremations.com, Sold By FMA For TM Infringement & Seeks Transfer of Domain
In a pretty unusual case, Directors Advantage, Inc., of Clinton NC, owner of the domain name Cremation.com filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Cremations.com, for cybersquatting under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U...
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Cremation.com Sues Cremations.com, Sold By FMA For TM Infringement & Seeks Transfer of Domain
In a pretty unusual case, Directors Advantage, Inc., of Clinton NC, owner of the domain name Cremation.com filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Cremations.com, for cybersquatting under the Federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, 15 U...
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February 10, 2015, 6:39 am

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Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on Three Letter .Com NAE.com
Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on Three Letter .Com domain name NAE.com. The domain has been owned by the company since at least 2007. When it comes to trademarks filed in the USPTO there is no shortage for NAE National Automotive Expert...
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Vertical Axis Hit With UDRP on Three Letter .Com NAE.com
Vertical Axis has just been Hit With a UDRP on Three Letter .Com domain name NAE.com. The domain has been owned by the company since at least 2007. When it comes to trademarks filed in the USPTO there is no shortage for NAE National Automotive Expert...
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February 9, 2015, 11:14 pm

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Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy Extensions, But…
Architelos.com, a issued today a report on the state of domain name abuse in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) space in 2014, the first full year when many new gTLDs were launched and operated. This report focuses on the detec...
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Architelos Reports New gTLD’s Have 1/4 of the Level Of Abuse Found In Legacy Extensions, But…
Architelos.com, a issued today a report on the state of domain name abuse in new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) space in 2014, the first full year when many new gTLDs were launched and operated. This report focuses on the detec...
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February 9, 2015, 10:40 pm

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Figaro.club Saved In UDRP Against Societe du Figaro, Which publishes a Daily Newspaper
A one member World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel of Christopher J. Pibus has denied the attempt of the Societe du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, to grab the domain name figaro.club The domain name is owned by Cognac Inc., Juan Hervad...
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Figaro.club Saved In UDRP Against Societe du Figaro, Which publishes a Daily Newspaper
A one member World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel of Christopher J. Pibus has denied the attempt of the Societe du Figaro S.A. of Paris, France, to grab the domain name figaro.club The domain name is owned by Cognac Inc., Juan Hervad...
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February 9, 2015, 5:29 pm

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Vice.com Covers Gary Millin of World.com “The Man Squatting on Millions of Dollars Worth of Domains”
Vice.com just did a story of about Gary Millin of World.com who has one of the great domain name Portfolio’s in the world. Unfortunately the author of the story, Jason Koebler chose...
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Vice.com Covers Gary Millin of World.com “The Man Squatting on Millions of Dollars Worth of Domains”
Vice.com just did a story of about Gary Millin of World.com who has one of the great domain name Portfolio’s in the world. Unfortunately the author of the story, Jason Koebler chose...
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February 9, 2015, 4:15 pm