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51 of 64 Finalists & Alternatives for SXSW Accelerator Competition Using A .Com: Next is .io
The South by Southwest Interactive Festival announced on Friday the finalists, and alternatives for the seventh annual SXSW Accelerator competition presented by Oracle, March 14-15, during SXSW Interactive Festival’s Startup Village. &ldqu...
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51 of 64 Finalists & Alternatives for SXSW Accelerator Competition Using A .Com: Next is .io
The South by Southwest Interactive Festival announced on Friday the finalists, and alternatives for the seventh annual SXSW Accelerator competition presented by Oracle, March 14-15, during SXSW Interactive Festival’s Startup Village. &ldqu...
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January 19, 2015, 4:26 pm

The Domains
Breaking: Domaining.com Is NOT Sold, Yet
On Friday the daily newsletter of Domaining carried this simple message: “”Game is over. Next week I will announce the new owner of Domaining.com” That one sentence that appeared on the top of the Domaining.com newsletter caused the...
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Breaking: Domaining.com Is NOT Sold, Yet
On Friday the daily newsletter of Domaining carried this simple message: “”Game is over. Next week I will announce the new owner of Domaining.com” That one sentence that appeared on the top of the Domaining.com newsletter caused the...
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January 19, 2015, 1:30 pm

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Beware: DefendNames.com Spamming, Trying To Sell Unregistered Domains For $39.95
Over the last several days I have been receiving over 20 emails a day offering me domains for sale for $39.95 each. Until tonight I didn’t pay too much attention but the sheer volume of the emails I have received today led to me t...
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Beware: DefendNames.com Spamming, Trying To Sell Unregistered Domains For $39.95
Over the last several days I have been receiving over 20 emails a day offering me domains for sale for $39.95 each. Until tonight I didn’t pay too much attention but the sheer volume of the emails I have received today led to me t...
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January 19, 2015, 4:07 am

The Domains
EZTV packs up its Virtual Bags and Moves to .Ch from .IT
Just like The Pirate Bay has done several time, EZTV has had to pick up and move, leaving EZTV.it and moving to EZTV.ch. BetaNews wrote: EZTV made a quick comeback, but problems have continued for the service, as Italian authorities closed in on its ...
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EZTV packs up its Virtual Bags and Moves to .Ch from .IT
Just like The Pirate Bay has done several time, EZTV has had to pick up and move, leaving EZTV.it and moving to EZTV.ch. BetaNews wrote: EZTV made a quick comeback, but problems have continued for the service, as Italian authorities closed in on its ...
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January 18, 2015, 9:24 pm

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Owner of Sols.co Raises $8.5 Million & Buys Sols.com
Forbes Magazine published a story about the women who started Sols, which has one storefront in New York and makes shoes using a 3d printer and a iPad which measures the foot and provider the information to 3d print the shoe. It’s an amazing ra...
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Owner of Sols.co Raises $8.5 Million & Buys Sols.com
Forbes Magazine published a story about the women who started Sols, which has one storefront in New York and makes shoes using a 3d printer and a iPad which measures the foot and provider the information to 3d print the shoe. It’s an amazing ra...
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January 18, 2015, 4:29 pm

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.ForSale (IN EAP) Has Almost 200 Registrations: Apple & Microsoft Leads The Way
The new gTLD .Forsale is launching next week and has just under 200 registrations through Sunrise and the first two days of the Early Access Program (EAP) Both Apple and Microsoft went in heavy into the Sunrise program registering most of their tech ...
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.ForSale (IN EAP) Has Almost 200 Registrations: Apple & Microsoft Leads The Way
The new gTLD .Forsale is launching next week and has just under 200 registrations through Sunrise and the first two days of the Early Access Program (EAP) Both Apple and Microsoft went in heavy into the Sunrise program registering most of their tech ...
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January 17, 2015, 10:57 pm

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Fox Sports Owned Domain SportsSouth.com Saved In A UDRP Decision: No Use in 4+ Years Is Not Bad Faith
Well here is something you don’t see very often in UDRP land a Fortune 500 Company defending a domain name it owns against a UDRP claim and they didn’t even elect to pay for a three member panel The UDRP was brought by Sports South, LLC o...
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Fox Sports Owned Domain SportsSouth.com Saved In A UDRP Decision: No Use in 4+ Years Is Not Bad Faith
Well here is something you don’t see very often in UDRP land a Fortune 500 Company defending a domain name it owns against a UDRP claim and they didn’t even elect to pay for a three member panel The UDRP was brought by Sports South, LLC o...
Discussion
January 17, 2015, 9:02 pm

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Republican Net Neutrality Bills Would Strip FCC Of Its Power to Regulate The Net
Gizmodo published a piece on Republican legislation that could neuter the Federal Communications Commission, and leave consumers with no one watching their back vs the interests of telecom companies. President Obama recommended a plan that would recl...
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Republican Net Neutrality Bills Would Strip FCC Of Its Power to Regulate The Net
Gizmodo published a piece on Republican legislation that could neuter the Federal Communications Commission, and leave consumers with no one watching their back vs the interests of telecom companies. President Obama recommended a plan that would recl...
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January 17, 2015, 6:16 pm

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A Couple Interesting Websites Getting a lot of attention
Australia and New Zealand each have websites that our causing quite a stir, ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com which Shane wrote about last night is on Flippa. HackerListings.com is based out of New Zealand and they got a write up on ReadWrite.com. You...
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A Couple Interesting Websites Getting a lot of attention
Australia and New Zealand each have websites that our causing quite a stir, ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com which Shane wrote about last night is on Flippa. HackerListings.com is based out of New Zealand and they got a write up on ReadWrite.com. You...
Discussion
January 17, 2015, 5:17 pm

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Snapchat Loses UDRP On SnapChatCheck.com
Snapchat, Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name snapchatcheck.com and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Houston Putnam Lowry, Chartered Arbitrator, was the sole Panelist. Here are the highlights: “Complainant claims Responde...
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Snapchat Loses UDRP On SnapChatCheck.com
Snapchat, Inc. just lost a UDRP on the domain name snapchatcheck.com and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Houston Putnam Lowry, Chartered Arbitrator, was the sole Panelist. Here are the highlights: “Complainant claims Responde...
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January 17, 2015, 3:44 am