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Quickest Legal Action On A Domain Registration? bbva.careers Hit With URS 5 Days After Registration
In what maybe the quickest action filed by a trademark holder against a domain holder, the domain name bbva.careers has been hit with a URS 5 Days After Registration. The domain name bbva.careers was registered on March 5th on the last day of E...
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Quickest Legal Action On A Domain Registration? bbva.careers Hit With URS 5 Days After Registration
In what maybe the quickest action filed by a trademark holder against a domain holder, the domain name bbva.careers has been hit with a URS 5 Days After Registration. The domain name bbva.careers was registered on March 5th on the last day of E...
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March 11, 2014, 1:30 am

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Chinese Game Company 37wan.net Is Buyer of 37.com For $2.1 Million & Predicts $36 Million In Profit
According to a story out tonight in Chinatechnews.com, the buyer of the domain name 37.com for $2.1 Million dollars is Shanghai-headquartered 37wan.net a Chinese Gaming company The company officially renamed the company 37 Game today. Li...
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Chinese Game Company 37wan.net Is Buyer of 37.com For $2.1 Million & Predicts $36 Million In Profit
According to a story out tonight in Chinatechnews.com, the buyer of the domain name 37.com for $2.1 Million dollars is Shanghai-headquartered 37wan.net a Chinese Gaming company The company officially renamed the company 37 Game today. Li...
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March 11, 2014, 1:14 am

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Fred Krueger of Minds + Machines Book “Stop Drinking and Get Fit” Hits Amazon
Fred Krueger of Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) book entitled “Stop Drinking and Get Fit: A guide to personal transformation” is now in paperback and available at Amazon for purchase for $15.18. This new 200 page “Dire...
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Fred Krueger of Minds + Machines Book “Stop Drinking and Get Fit” Hits Amazon
Fred Krueger of Top Level Domain Holdings (Minds + Machines) book entitled “Stop Drinking and Get Fit: A guide to personal transformation” is now in paperback and available at Amazon for purchase for $15.18. This new 200 page “Dire...
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March 10, 2014, 6:31 pm

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Mashable Looks at “The History of the Domain Name”
Max Knoblauch did a post entitled “A Brief History of the Domain Name” Starting off with Symbolics.com owned by Aron Meystedt, to 1995 and the end of free domain names. 1998 and the privatization of the DNS and ICANN. 1998: Privatiz...
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Mashable Looks at “The History of the Domain Name”
Max Knoblauch did a post entitled “A Brief History of the Domain Name” Starting off with Symbolics.com owned by Aron Meystedt, to 1995 and the end of free domain names. 1998 and the privatization of the DNS and ICANN. 1998: Privatiz...
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March 10, 2014, 6:04 pm

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It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names
Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn’t have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,...
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It’s Official: Google Is Giving Away Free Domain Names
Since the ICANN Big Reveal where we learned that Google applied for over 100 new gTLD extension we have been chatting about whether Google would giving away free domains. Well we didn’t have to wait long to find out. Google is offering 5,...
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March 10, 2014, 5:02 pm

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Purchased For $65K Kiko.com Saved in UDRP
Kiko s.r.l. of Bergamo, Italy just lost its bid to grab the domain name kiko.com in a UDRP The domain holders bought the domain for in 2010 for $65,578.50 to use for a social networking site. Here are the relevant facts and finding by the three membe...
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Purchased For $65K Kiko.com Saved in UDRP
Kiko s.r.l. of Bergamo, Italy just lost its bid to grab the domain name kiko.com in a UDRP The domain holders bought the domain for in 2010 for $65,578.50 to use for a social networking site. Here are the relevant facts and finding by the three membe...
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March 10, 2014, 4:07 pm

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Tencent Pays $15 Million For 15% Stake In JD.com
According to Wall Street Journal, the Chinese Giant, Tencent, has agreed to pay $215 million for a 15% stake in JD.com. JD.Com’s planning on a $1.5 billion IPO. JD.com, formerly known as 360buy.com, is a distant second in the Chinese e-co...
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Tencent Pays $15 Million For 15% Stake In JD.com
According to Wall Street Journal, the Chinese Giant, Tencent, has agreed to pay $215 million for a 15% stake in JD.com. JD.Com’s planning on a $1.5 billion IPO. JD.com, formerly known as 360buy.com, is a distant second in the Chinese e-co...
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March 10, 2014, 3:19 pm

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Larry Smith: CambridgeMovers.com Is Not Very Much in Relation to EyemakeUpRemovers.com
The start of another week and already I have a nice set of spam emails. Sure I get many of these every day and 99.99% I send into trash without regard but this one caught my eye based off the domain listed (which isn’t a bad domain) just a bad ...
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Larry Smith: CambridgeMovers.com Is Not Very Much in Relation to EyemakeUpRemovers.com
The start of another week and already I have a nice set of spam emails. Sure I get many of these every day and 99.99% I send into trash without regard but this one caught my eye based off the domain listed (which isn’t a bad domain) just a bad ...
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March 10, 2014, 2:32 pm

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M.Dot Rebranded as Go Daddy Go Mobile
App Advice reported that M.dot has been rebranded to Go Daddy Go Mobile. M.dot has just been updated to version 2.0. At the same time, it has been rebranded as GoDaddy GoMobile. Released in October 2012, M.dot was acquired by GoDaddy in February 201...
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M.Dot Rebranded as Go Daddy Go Mobile
App Advice reported that M.dot has been rebranded to Go Daddy Go Mobile. M.dot has just been updated to version 2.0. At the same time, it has been rebranded as GoDaddy GoMobile. Released in October 2012, M.dot was acquired by GoDaddy in February 201...
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March 10, 2014, 7:59 am

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Classified Ventures Seeking $3 Billion for Cars.com
Now that the sale of Apartments.com is completed at $585 million, Classified Ventures is looking for $3 billion for Cars.com. William Launder,Dana Mattioli and Mike Spector wrote an article tonight for the Wall Street Journal. A group of newspaper p...
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Classified Ventures Seeking $3 Billion for Cars.com
Now that the sale of Apartments.com is completed at $585 million, Classified Ventures is looking for $3 billion for Cars.com. William Launder,Dana Mattioli and Mike Spector wrote an article tonight for the Wall Street Journal. A group of newspaper p...
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March 10, 2014, 2:46 am