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The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon is Live On Snapnames.com
The extended RightoftheDot.com auction is now live on Snapnames and there is already almost $250,000 in bids. As you know by now almost $1 million dollars in domains were sold on Tuesday at the Namescon show in Las Vegas. There are over 300 domain na...
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The RightoftheDot.com Extended Auction From Namescon is Live On Snapnames.com
The extended RightoftheDot.com auction is now live on Snapnames and there is already almost $250,000 in bids. As you know by now almost $1 million dollars in domains were sold on Tuesday at the Namescon show in Las Vegas. There are over 300 domain na...
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January 16, 2015, 10:44 pm
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Roadcam.com Saved in a Very Interesting UDRP With A Very Good Lesson In TM Law
In a very interesting UDRP decision Roadcam, Inc. lost its bid to grab the domain roadcam.com The domain holder is Jon Smejkal of Pittsburg, California Actually there were three domain names in disputed domain names, roadcam.com and roadcam.net dashc...
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Roadcam.com Saved in a Very Interesting UDRP With A Very Good Lesson In TM Law
In a very interesting UDRP decision Roadcam, Inc. lost its bid to grab the domain roadcam.com The domain holder is Jon Smejkal of Pittsburg, California Actually there were three domain names in disputed domain names, roadcam.com and roadcam.net dashc...
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January 16, 2015, 8:38 pm
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale
Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. Registered.Today-5K – developed site with d...
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New Gtld Resource Site Registered.Today is For Sale
Gtld.Link is a new forum that focuses strictly on the new gtlds, I just joined a couple nights ago. While I was going through the names for sale listings, I came across a listing for Registered.Today. Registered.Today-5K – developed site with d...
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January 16, 2015, 7:14 pm
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China to set up $6.5 Billion Government Venture Capital Fund
China is looking to set up a $6.5 Billion venture capital fund. The Financial Times mentioned that, the launch of the government-sponsored VC fund will be apart of China’s efforts at financial reform. China will set up a government venture capi...
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China to set up $6.5 Billion Government Venture Capital Fund
China is looking to set up a $6.5 Billion venture capital fund. The Financial Times mentioned that, the launch of the government-sponsored VC fund will be apart of China’s efforts at financial reform. China will set up a government venture capi...
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January 16, 2015, 6:38 pm
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD
Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was...
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD
Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was...
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January 15, 2015, 11:24 am
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 4 Million
The number of domain names registered using a gTLD new domain name extension has topped over 4 million domain names according to ntldstats.com. The official total according to ntldstats.com is 4,010,951. Not too much has changed since our post when t...
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New gTLD Domain Name Registrations Top 4 Million
The number of domain names registered using a gTLD new domain name extension has topped over 4 million domain names according to ntldstats.com. The official total according to ntldstats.com is 4,010,951. Not too much has changed since our post when t...
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January 15, 2015, 10:30 am
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .World 5,081; .Degree 160; .Gives 158
Three new gTLD’s entered General Availability (GA) yesterday and after the first day, including all registration in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and including those domain names registered for an extra fee in the Early Access P...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .World 5,081; .Degree 160; .Gives 158
Three new gTLD’s entered General Availability (GA) yesterday and after the first day, including all registration in the Sunrise period by trademark holders and including those domain names registered for an extra fee in the Early Access P...
Discussion
January 15, 2015, 10:14 am
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications
Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a presentation at NamesCon that took a look back at 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is certainly worth reading and saving if you have any interest in the new extensi...
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New gTLD Statistics and Business Implications
Dot TBA and TLD Watch put on a presentation at NamesCon that took a look back at 2014 and what insights were gained. The 29 page PDF is filled with stats and graphs and is certainly worth reading and saving if you have any interest in the new extensi...
Discussion
January 15, 2015, 9:13 am
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View The Space Gets $3.3 M Investment From Blackstone & Buys/Rebrands As VTS.com
VTS (formerly View The Space) announced today that they received a $3.3M strategic investment from real estate private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX). The company also announced they have re-branded View The Space as VTS. The comp...
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View The Space Gets $3.3 M Investment From Blackstone & Buys/Rebrands As VTS.com
VTS (formerly View The Space) announced today that they received a $3.3M strategic investment from real estate private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE:BX). The company also announced they have re-branded View The Space as VTS. The comp...
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January 15, 2015, 3:09 am
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Sofia Vergara Wins Rights To SofiaVergara.org
Sofia Vergara has won control of the domain name SofiaVergara.org which the domain owner alleged was a fan site for the Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominated actress who currently stars in the Emmy Award winning ...
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Sofia Vergara Wins Rights To SofiaVergara.org
Sofia Vergara has won control of the domain name SofiaVergara.org which the domain owner alleged was a fan site for the Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominated actress who currently stars in the Emmy Award winning ...
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January 15, 2015, 2:37 am
