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Robert Downey Jr. Wins Rights to The Domain Name RobertDowneyJr.Actor
Robert Downey Jr. won the rights to the domain name RobertDowneyJr.actor in a one member UDRP panel handed down by the National Arbitration Forum. Although the domain in question was a new gTLD Mr. Downey filed the Complainant as a UDRP The reg...
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Robert Downey Jr. Wins Rights to The Domain Name RobertDowneyJr.Actor
Robert Downey Jr. won the rights to the domain name RobertDowneyJr.actor in a one member UDRP panel handed down by the National Arbitration Forum. Although the domain in question was a new gTLD Mr. Downey filed the Complainant as a UDRP The reg...
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November 17, 2014, 4:36 pm

The Domains
Mike Mann Featured In Washington Post: DomainMarket Grosses $4M A Year
The Washington Post just published a post on legendary domain name investor Mike Mann, entitled “Domain-name mogul Mike Mann will sell you happybirthday.com — for $2 million” While this is far from the first press Mike has received,...
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Mike Mann Featured In Washington Post: DomainMarket Grosses $4M A Year
The Washington Post just published a post on legendary domain name investor Mike Mann, entitled “Domain-name mogul Mike Mann will sell you happybirthday.com — for $2 million” While this is far from the first press Mike has received,...
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November 17, 2014, 2:03 pm

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Mobile.co.com & Movil.co.com Sell for $32K
The co.com LLC announced today that the premium domains names mobile.co.com and movil.co.com have been sold to the freelancing and mobile “micro jobbing” company, Mobile Inc. for $32K. Mobile.co.com was sold for $25K and Movil.co.com for ...
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Mobile.co.com & Movil.co.com Sell for $32K
The co.com LLC announced today that the premium domains names mobile.co.com and movil.co.com have been sold to the freelancing and mobile “micro jobbing” company, Mobile Inc. for $32K. Mobile.co.com was sold for $25K and Movil.co.com for ...
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November 17, 2014, 1:42 pm

The Domains
SchoolLoans.com 1st Domain Name Sold For The CryptoCurrency Sync Coin
According to a press release we just received from the The Sync Foundation, the Domain-Backed CryptoCurrency has recorded it first sale. The domain name SchoolLoans.com was sold in Private Transaction, a first for the organization which backs a...
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SchoolLoans.com 1st Domain Name Sold For The CryptoCurrency Sync Coin
According to a press release we just received from the The Sync Foundation, the Domain-Backed CryptoCurrency has recorded it first sale. The domain name SchoolLoans.com was sold in Private Transaction, a first for the organization which backs a...
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November 17, 2014, 11:16 am

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Godaddy Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Top 500,000 New gTLD Registrations
According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registr...
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Godaddy Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Top 500,000 New gTLD Registrations
According to ntldstats.com, Godaddy.com has become the first domain name registration to have registered more than 500,000 domain names. Godaddy has 500,091 new gTLD domain names under registration, 100,000 more than the second closest domain registr...
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November 17, 2014, 7:49 am

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Tech Companies Want Senate To End NSA Collection Programs Before Republicans Take Control
Tech companies coming together to get the Senate to act to eliminate the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Companies like Google and Microsoft etc… are worried about losing business around the world as foreign governments might fear t...
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Tech Companies Want Senate To End NSA Collection Programs Before Republicans Take Control
Tech companies coming together to get the Senate to act to eliminate the NSA’s bulk data collection programs. Companies like Google and Microsoft etc… are worried about losing business around the world as foreign governments might fear t...
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November 16, 2014, 9:39 pm

The Domains
The Government of Quebec Ends Its Participation In The .Quebec Days Before The Extension Launches
According to ici.radio-canada.ca, the Government of Quebec has decided to end its participation in the new gTLD .Quebec, just days before .Quebec launches. According to the story the Government has decided not to change Gove...
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The Government of Quebec Ends Its Participation In The .Quebec Days Before The Extension Launches
According to ici.radio-canada.ca, the Government of Quebec has decided to end its participation in the new gTLD .Quebec, just days before .Quebec launches. According to the story the Government has decided not to change Gove...
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November 16, 2014, 2:30 pm

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.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be?
The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with ...
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.Realtor: Is it The Best Example Of How Slow End User Adoption Of New gTLD May Be?
The National Association of Realtors launched .Realtor about 3 weeks ago on October 23rd To date there have been less than 85,000 .Realtor domain names registered. The good news is that the extension has by far the lowest rate of parked domains with ...
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November 14, 2014, 4:04 pm

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PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. ...
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PIR Operator Of .Org Reveals Its OnGood Campaign For The New gTLD’s .NGO & .ONG
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .org extension, today unveiled “OnGood” – the new brand identity for the upcoming .ngo & .ong domain extensions along with their accompanying suite of services. ...
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November 14, 2014, 1:21 pm

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More Details Emerge On New York’s Deal On .NYC: But 50K New Yorkers Did Not Register 50K Domains
According to a post on crainsnewyork.com, the city of New York is making a “cool $40,000 a week on the Internet”. According to the story, the City of New York collects 40% of all domain registration fees collected by Neustar the ope...
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More Details Emerge On New York’s Deal On .NYC: But 50K New Yorkers Did Not Register 50K Domains
According to a post on crainsnewyork.com, the city of New York is making a “cool $40,000 a week on the Internet”. According to the story, the City of New York collects 40% of all domain registration fees collected by Neustar the ope...
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November 13, 2014, 10:28 pm