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ICANN Updates New gTLD Collision Auction Schedule; Here Is The New 2014 Schedule
ICANN has published an updated schedule of the ICANN Last Resort Auction for those new gTLD in Collision. ICANN will hold a Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings that had more than one ...
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ICANN Updates New gTLD Collision Auction Schedule; Here Is The New 2014 Schedule
ICANN has published an updated schedule of the ICANN Last Resort Auction for those new gTLD in Collision. ICANN will hold a Last Resort Auction for new gTLD strings that had more than one ...
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July 7, 2014, 5:27 pm
The Domains
Will This Domain Portfolio Owned By The Castello’s Be The 1st To Sell For Over $1 Billion?
Last week I received a tweet to @thedomains, asking the question: “Is any domain name portfolio worth over $1 Billion Dollars? We are about to find out.” The link in the Tweet goes to this site, which says: “The...
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Will This Domain Portfolio Owned By The Castello’s Be The 1st To Sell For Over $1 Billion?
Last week I received a tweet to @thedomains, asking the question: “Is any domain name portfolio worth over $1 Billion Dollars? We are about to find out.” The link in the Tweet goes to this site, which says: “The...
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July 7, 2014, 1:15 pm
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TMZ.com: Lil Wayne Spent $600,000 To Buy The Domain YoungMoney.com & Is In Default
According to TMZ.com, hip hop artist Lil Wayne purchased the domain name YoungMoney.com which matches the name of his record label which has signed artists like Drake and Nicki Minaj for $600,000 in 2011. In a lawsuit filed by the compa...
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TMZ.com: Lil Wayne Spent $600,000 To Buy The Domain YoungMoney.com & Is In Default
According to TMZ.com, hip hop artist Lil Wayne purchased the domain name YoungMoney.com which matches the name of his record label which has signed artists like Drake and Nicki Minaj for $600,000 in 2011. In a lawsuit filed by the compa...
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July 7, 2014, 12:10 pm
The Domains
Napster.FM Hit With a UDRP by Rhapsody
A name from the past is back in the news, this time the second coming of Napster located at Napster.Fm was hit with a UDRP by online subscription service Rhapsody International, Inc. Rhapsody owns Napster.com and purchased the company a few years bac...
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Napster.FM Hit With a UDRP by Rhapsody
A name from the past is back in the news, this time the second coming of Napster located at Napster.Fm was hit with a UDRP by online subscription service Rhapsody International, Inc. Rhapsody owns Napster.com and purchased the company a few years bac...
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July 7, 2014, 10:29 am
The Domains
CentralNic Launches BuyDomans.London, Domain & Website Included For £39.00 A Year
CentralNic announced today that they have launched the BuyDomains.LondonA “website for Small SMEs to obtain their .london domain names” CentralNic is taking aim a the “75% of London’s 841,000 SMEs that will fail to register fo...
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CentralNic Launches BuyDomans.London, Domain & Website Included For £39.00 A Year
CentralNic announced today that they have launched the BuyDomains.LondonA “website for Small SMEs to obtain their .london domain names” CentralNic is taking aim a the “75% of London’s 841,000 SMEs that will fail to register fo...
Discussion
July 7, 2014, 9:13 am
The Domains
Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s
Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registra...
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Have Trademark Holders Given Up On The URS? Last 17 Disputes Filed, 15 Were UDRP’s
Have trademark holders given up on the Uniform Resolution Service? The URS is something that trademark holders and their representative pushed for at ICANN for years. A cheap, quick take down on obviously trademark infringing new gTLD domain registra...
Discussion
July 6, 2014, 6:30 pm
The Domains
Who is the greatest domain investor of all time ?
There have been many fortunes made a few lost in the domain world over the last 20 years or so, some were there early and some made a big splash when most thought it was too late to do so. There have been successful domainers from every continent on ...
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Who is the greatest domain investor of all time ?
There have been many fortunes made a few lost in the domain world over the last 20 years or so, some were there early and some made a big splash when most thought it was too late to do so. There have been successful domainers from every continent on ...
Discussion
July 6, 2014, 5:42 pm
The Domains
Company that bought Mi.com for $3.6m sells 50,000 Tablets in 4 minutes
Xiaomi paid $3.6 million for the domain name Mi.com back in April, and today they sold 50,000 MiPad tablets in four minutes. The company said on their website: Good news! Mi Pad goes on sale for the first time today, and 50, 000 sets of Mi Pad sold o...
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Company that bought Mi.com for $3.6m sells 50,000 Tablets in 4 minutes
Xiaomi paid $3.6 million for the domain name Mi.com back in April, and today they sold 50,000 MiPad tablets in four minutes. The company said on their website: Good news! Mi Pad goes on sale for the first time today, and 50, 000 sets of Mi Pad sold o...
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July 6, 2014, 12:16 am
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California Democrats and Wineries Around The Country Oppose .Wine and .Vin
Tech Crunch covered the .Wine and .Vin extensions and the resistance from politicians in California. Apparently many vineyards and wineries are fearful of someone scooping up their name in .wine and .vin. From the article: In May, California Democrat...
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California Democrats and Wineries Around The Country Oppose .Wine and .Vin
Tech Crunch covered the .Wine and .Vin extensions and the resistance from politicians in California. Apparently many vineyards and wineries are fearful of someone scooping up their name in .wine and .vin. From the article: In May, California Democrat...
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July 5, 2014, 7:43 pm
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The 1st Installment of Things You Can’t Believe People Did This Week In The Domain World
I spotted a few hard to believe things that happened in the domain world this week and I thought I would put them into one post. I’m thinking about making this a regular weekend feature as there is typically no shortage of incredibly hard to un...
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The 1st Installment of Things You Can’t Believe People Did This Week In The Domain World
I spotted a few hard to believe things that happened in the domain world this week and I thought I would put them into one post. I’m thinking about making this a regular weekend feature as there is typically no shortage of incredibly hard to un...
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July 5, 2014, 5:35 pm
