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TheDomains.com Hits 80,000 Comments
The Domains hit a milestone last night of 80,000 approved comments. Lucky number 80,000 was Joseph Peterson with this comment. The first comment made on this blog was 12/5/07 by David Castello of CCIN. 80,000 works out to 11.72 comments per post...
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TheDomains.com Hits 80,000 Comments
The Domains hit a milestone last night of 80,000 approved comments. Lucky number 80,000 was Joseph Peterson with this comment. The first comment made on this blog was 12/5/07 by David Castello of CCIN. 80,000 works out to 11.72 comments per post...
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May 19, 2014, 2:29 am

The Domains
You Tube to Buy Videogame Streaming Company Twitch
You Tube Looking to Acquire Twitch In an article out just 21 minutes ago on Variety it looks like You Tube has reached an agreement to purchase Twitch. From the article: Google’s YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-str...
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You Tube to Buy Videogame Streaming Company Twitch
You Tube Looking to Acquire Twitch In an article out just 21 minutes ago on Variety it looks like You Tube has reached an agreement to purchase Twitch. From the article: Google’s YouTube has reached a deal to buy Twitch, a popular videogame-str...
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May 18, 2014, 10:50 pm

The Domains
UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old TVS.com While UDRP on We.com Is Terminated
A UDRP was filed on the three letter domain name, TVS.com The Complainant is a big company, TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited which is located in Madurai, India. The registrant of TVS.in is TVS Electronics Limited. The compa...
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UDRP Filed On 17 Year Old TVS.com While UDRP on We.com Is Terminated
A UDRP was filed on the three letter domain name, TVS.com The Complainant is a big company, TV Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited which is located in Madurai, India. The registrant of TVS.in is TVS Electronics Limited. The compa...
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May 18, 2014, 10:07 pm

The Domains
Flashback: If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother?
Four years ago Michael asked, If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother? I’m sure this will piss off a whole group of folks who invest in .US domains, but looking through the Snapnames.com .US domain auction...
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Flashback: If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother?
Four years ago Michael asked, If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother? I’m sure this will piss off a whole group of folks who invest in .US domains, but looking through the Snapnames.com .US domain auction...
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May 18, 2014, 6:35 pm

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Major League Baseball & The NHL Are Very .Social As They Go In Heavy On Sunrise .Social Domains
Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and its member teams have gone in pretty heavy into the new gTLD .Social registering domain names during Sunrise for almost every team and several variations of teams and for the League it itself. ...
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Major League Baseball & The NHL Are Very .Social As They Go In Heavy On Sunrise .Social Domains
Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League and its member teams have gone in pretty heavy into the new gTLD .Social registering domain names during Sunrise for almost every team and several variations of teams and for the League it itself. ...
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May 17, 2014, 6:02 pm

The Domains
ICANN Votes To Ban .Amazon
ICANN published last minutes of the New gTLD Program Committee (NTAG) which following nerous GAC advice voted Amazon’s Application for .Amazon down Here is the resolution: “”Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 47 meeting in Durban...
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ICANN Votes To Ban .Amazon
ICANN published last minutes of the New gTLD Program Committee (NTAG) which following nerous GAC advice voted Amazon’s Application for .Amazon down Here is the resolution: “”Whereas, the GAC met during the ICANN 47 meeting in Durban...
Discussion
May 17, 2014, 4:42 pm

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Circle Looks To Bring Bitcoin Mainstream
Circle is getting ready to bring Bitcoin to the mainstream according to an article out today on Tech Crunch. The company was founded by the same entrepreneur that founded Bright Cove, the online video service. From the article: Circle, the bitcoin-ba...
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Circle Looks To Bring Bitcoin Mainstream
Circle is getting ready to bring Bitcoin to the mainstream according to an article out today on Tech Crunch. The company was founded by the same entrepreneur that founded Bright Cove, the online video service. From the article: Circle, the bitcoin-ba...
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May 16, 2014, 5:37 pm

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Michael Gilmour: “New gTLD’s Are Pathetic Comapred To Even .Net.Au”
Michael Gilmore of Parklogic.com, just published a post on his DomainNameLogic.com blog, saying that New gTLD’s are Pathetic even compared to a ccTLD, in this case Net.Au. I understand the point Michael is making which is that new ...
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Michael Gilmour: “New gTLD’s Are Pathetic Comapred To Even .Net.Au”
Michael Gilmore of Parklogic.com, just published a post on his DomainNameLogic.com blog, saying that New gTLD’s are Pathetic even compared to a ccTLD, in this case Net.Au. I understand the point Michael is making which is that new ...
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May 16, 2014, 2:22 pm

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Google Adsense Conspiracy a Fake ?
At the end of April we did a post about an ex Google employee and their claims that Google was cheating publishers. Jim Edwards of Business Insider is out with an article on the Google denial and why the conspiracy theory has one giant flaw. From the...
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Google Adsense Conspiracy a Fake ?
At the end of April we did a post about an ex Google employee and their claims that Google was cheating publishers. Jim Edwards of Business Insider is out with an article on the Google denial and why the conspiracy theory has one giant flaw. From the...
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May 16, 2014, 10:27 am

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Our Interview With The CEO Of Maccabim.com On The Serial Cybersquatter Detector
Last week we wrote about a new product called the Serial Cybersquatter Detector (SCD) Network powered by DomainTools® and being run and marketed by Maccabim.com. As we expressed in the original post we had some issues a company using an automated...
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Our Interview With The CEO Of Maccabim.com On The Serial Cybersquatter Detector
Last week we wrote about a new product called the Serial Cybersquatter Detector (SCD) Network powered by DomainTools® and being run and marketed by Maccabim.com. As we expressed in the original post we had some issues a company using an automated...
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May 15, 2014, 10:54 pm