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Alibaba Group Files For Potentially The Biggest IPO in U.S. History
Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba files for IPO The Chinese company is kind of a big deal when it comes to e-Commerce in China, accounting for 80 % of sales. The company has garnered a lot of press over the last two days. Forbes covered it: Chinese ...
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Alibaba Group Files For Potentially The Biggest IPO in U.S. History
Chinese e-Commerce company Alibaba files for IPO The Chinese company is kind of a big deal when it comes to e-Commerce in China, accounting for 80 % of sales. The company has garnered a lot of press over the last two days. Forbes covered it: Chinese ...
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May 7, 2014, 8:04 am
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Orgasms.com Sells Very Quietly On SnapNames.com For $38K: Did It Drop?
The domain name Orgasms.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for $38,166 without much fanfare and without a blog post written about it during or after the auction, which is pretty unusual for a domain that sells for that amount. The domain has an Esti...
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Orgasms.com Sells Very Quietly On SnapNames.com For $38K: Did It Drop?
The domain name Orgasms.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for $38,166 without much fanfare and without a blog post written about it during or after the auction, which is pretty unusual for a domain that sells for that amount. The domain has an Esti...
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May 6, 2014, 6:44 pm
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3 Number .Asia Domains On Namejet.com Are Public Auctions: 888.Asia $2,300; 777.Asia $900
Namejet.com has notified us that several three numbered .Asia domain names all except one which are repeating numbers, that are in auction were incorrect labeled as private auctions and are now marked as public auctions meaning that anyone can bid. T...
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3 Number .Asia Domains On Namejet.com Are Public Auctions: 888.Asia $2,300; 777.Asia $900
Namejet.com has notified us that several three numbered .Asia domain names all except one which are repeating numbers, that are in auction were incorrect labeled as private auctions and are now marked as public auctions meaning that anyone can bid. T...
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May 6, 2014, 4:14 pm
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Twitter Registers Tweet.Cool: WalGreens Beauty.Cool; The First .Cool Registrations
.Cool which is goes into general availability tomorrow May 7th. For me its one of those new gTLD’s where the word is really on the wrong side of the dot, as Cool as used in language generally is the start of the phrase rather than the end of th...
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Twitter Registers Tweet.Cool: WalGreens Beauty.Cool; The First .Cool Registrations
.Cool which is goes into general availability tomorrow May 7th. For me its one of those new gTLD’s where the word is really on the wrong side of the dot, as Cool as used in language generally is the start of the phrase rather than the end of th...
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May 6, 2014, 12:53 pm
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Famous Four Signs Its 100th Registrar & Now Cover 90% Of All Currently Regsitered Domains
Famous Four Media, one of the largest applicants for new gTLD’s announced today they have signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Famous Four Media believes that these 100 registrars provide the largest distribution channel currently held ...
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Famous Four Signs Its 100th Registrar & Now Cover 90% Of All Currently Regsitered Domains
Famous Four Media, one of the largest applicants for new gTLD’s announced today they have signed its 100th ICANN accredited registrar. Famous Four Media believes that these 100 registrars provide the largest distribution channel currently held ...
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May 6, 2014, 12:16 pm
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Swatch Plans to Fight Apple on Trademark for “iWatch”
Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac did a piece on Swiss watch maker Swatch stating that they will look to fight Apple on trademarking “iWatch”. Now Apple already has trademarked the term in Japan, Mexico and Turkey according to the article. From t...
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Swatch Plans to Fight Apple on Trademark for “iWatch”
Mark Gurman of 9 to 5 Mac did a piece on Swiss watch maker Swatch stating that they will look to fight Apple on trademarking “iWatch”. Now Apple already has trademarked the term in Japan, Mexico and Turkey according to the article. From t...
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May 6, 2014, 6:42 am
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NameJet.com Reports Over $460K In Domain Sales In April
Namejet.com just published a list of domain name sales that closed in April which totaled over $463,000 All sales were lead by 472.com which sold for $43,700 Only sales of $2,000 0r more are reported: 472.com $43,700.00 aifa.com ...
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NameJet.com Reports Over $460K In Domain Sales In April
Namejet.com just published a list of domain name sales that closed in April which totaled over $463,000 All sales were lead by 472.com which sold for $43,700 Only sales of $2,000 0r more are reported: 472.com $43,700.00 aifa.com ...
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May 5, 2014, 5:56 pm
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.Vegas Hits The Big Apple With Times Square Billboard
The .Vegas registry has a very nice sized ad that is in New York’s Time Square Thanks to a reader of the domains that spotted it and sent it over. We should expect to see more of the new gTLD’s marketed in a big way especially the Geo&rsq...
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.Vegas Hits The Big Apple With Times Square Billboard
The .Vegas registry has a very nice sized ad that is in New York’s Time Square Thanks to a reader of the domains that spotted it and sent it over. We should expect to see more of the new gTLD’s marketed in a big way especially the Geo&rsq...
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May 5, 2014, 5:54 pm
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Qwalify Loses Bid To Grab Qualify.com In UDRP But Panel Fails To Find RDNH
Qwalify, Inc. of Ontario, Canada, lost its bid to grab the domain name qualify.com from Gregory Ricks the domain holder who represented himself. The Complainant based its claim to the domain based on its trademark on the term QWALIFY which is of cour...
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Qwalify Loses Bid To Grab Qualify.com In UDRP But Panel Fails To Find RDNH
Qwalify, Inc. of Ontario, Canada, lost its bid to grab the domain name qualify.com from Gregory Ricks the domain holder who represented himself. The Complainant based its claim to the domain based on its trademark on the term QWALIFY which is of cour...
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May 5, 2014, 2:44 pm
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Acquired In 2009 As Part of $96 Million Purchase, Getty Images Launches Photos.com
Getty Images officially launched Photos.com, more than five years after they acquired the domain as part of its acquisition of Jupitermedia Corporation (“Jupitermedia”) (NASDAQ: JUPM) We reported back in February of 2009 that Jupit...
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Acquired In 2009 As Part of $96 Million Purchase, Getty Images Launches Photos.com
Getty Images officially launched Photos.com, more than five years after they acquired the domain as part of its acquisition of Jupitermedia Corporation (“Jupitermedia”) (NASDAQ: JUPM) We reported back in February of 2009 that Jupit...
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May 5, 2014, 2:29 pm
