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The 1st Godaddy/Afternic Weekly Sales List: $1.625 Million In Sales: MGM Buys SkyLofts.com For $41,250
GoDaddy.com and Afternic.com just issued its first combined weekly domain sales list since Godaddy acquired Afternic.com Here are the reportable or the week of 9/30/13 – 10/6/13 Total domain sales for the week, including confidentia...
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The 1st Godaddy/Afternic Weekly Sales List: $1.625 Million In Sales: MGM Buys SkyLofts.com For $41,250
GoDaddy.com and Afternic.com just issued its first combined weekly domain sales list since Godaddy acquired Afternic.com Here are the reportable or the week of 9/30/13 – 10/6/13 Total domain sales for the week, including confidentia...
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October 10, 2013, 3:16 pm
The Domains
ICANN Sends Out 1st Community Priority Evaluation Invitations; .Immo & .Taxi
ICANN has invited eligible community applicants to elect Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) as a potential method to resolve string contention. Today, the first two invitations were sent via ICANN’s Customer Portal to STARTING DOT on its .IMMO...
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ICANN Sends Out 1st Community Priority Evaluation Invitations; .Immo & .Taxi
ICANN has invited eligible community applicants to elect Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) as a potential method to resolve string contention. Today, the first two invitations were sent via ICANN’s Customer Portal to STARTING DOT on its .IMMO...
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October 10, 2013, 10:27 am
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NameJet.com Holding its 1st Ever .US Domain Name Auction
For the very first time, NameJet is offering .US domains on our auction platform. “These exclusive domains are priced to sell at no or low reserves, between now and 10/24/2013.” advertisements.us bed.us bras.us clip.us connection.us...
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NameJet.com Holding its 1st Ever .US Domain Name Auction
For the very first time, NameJet is offering .US domains on our auction platform. “These exclusive domains are priced to sell at no or low reserves, between now and 10/24/2013.” advertisements.us bed.us bras.us clip.us connection.us...
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October 10, 2013, 10:12 am
The Domains
Afilias .Info Domain Auction Ends On SnapNames Today & Total Bids Are Under $5K
The domain name auction of registry owned .Info domains closes on SnapNames.com in a few hours and as of time of publication bids for all 25 domain names in the auction total less than $5,000. The auction closes at 3:15pm EST in according with ...
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Afilias .Info Domain Auction Ends On SnapNames Today & Total Bids Are Under $5K
The domain name auction of registry owned .Info domains closes on SnapNames.com in a few hours and as of time of publication bids for all 25 domain names in the auction total less than $5,000. The auction closes at 3:15pm EST in according with ...
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October 10, 2013, 9:44 am
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After 12 Years & Over 70 UDRP’s Sony Finally Gets Around To Filing A UDRP On SonyStore.com
Sony has over 35 retail stores in the United States which sell just Sony Products and they are called Sony Stores. The official website for the stores is store.sony.com. So its pretty mind blowing to see that it took Sony over 12 years to file ...
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After 12 Years & Over 70 UDRP’s Sony Finally Gets Around To Filing A UDRP On SonyStore.com
Sony has over 35 retail stores in the United States which sell just Sony Products and they are called Sony Stores. The official website for the stores is store.sony.com. So its pretty mind blowing to see that it took Sony over 12 years to file ...
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October 10, 2013, 7:24 am
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Google Backs Off On Closed Generic Strings Including .Search So Does L’OreĢal
It looks like Google has given up operating new gTLD generic stings as a close registry, even for .Search which at one point it wanted to operate as a Dotless Domain. According to an ICANN announcement tonight Google d/b/a Charleston Road...
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Google Backs Off On Closed Generic Strings Including .Search So Does L’OreĢal
It looks like Google has given up operating new gTLD generic stings as a close registry, even for .Search which at one point it wanted to operate as a Dotless Domain. According to an ICANN announcement tonight Google d/b/a Charleston Road...
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October 10, 2013, 12:01 am
The Domains
Brazilian Senate Formally Opposes Amazon’s Application For .Amazon
In a letter sent from the BRAZILIAN EMBASSY in Washington today to ICANN, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defense of the Brazilian Senate formally opposed the application of Amazon to the new gTLD .Amazon I would love to know the number...
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Brazilian Senate Formally Opposes Amazon’s Application For .Amazon
In a letter sent from the BRAZILIAN EMBASSY in Washington today to ICANN, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Defense of the Brazilian Senate formally opposed the application of Amazon to the new gTLD .Amazon I would love to know the number...
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October 9, 2013, 10:02 pm
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CEO Of ICANN Seems To Have Thrown Himself Into the Snowden/NSA Mess With Brazil
According to Mercopress.com, Bhe President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announced today that Brazil will host a global summit on Internet governance in April 2014 The announcement was made after conferring the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade. &ldq...
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CEO Of ICANN Seems To Have Thrown Himself Into the Snowden/NSA Mess With Brazil
According to Mercopress.com, Bhe President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff announced today that Brazil will host a global summit on Internet governance in April 2014 The announcement was made after conferring the CEO of ICANN Fadi Chehade. &ldq...
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October 9, 2013, 8:11 pm
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Internet Advertising Blows Past $20 Billion In 1st Half Of 2013; Up 18%; Check Out This Crazy Chart Starting From 1996
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet advertising revenue surged past $20 billion for an all time record in the first half of this year. Leading the way was an “explosion in mobile ads shown by companies including Face...
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Internet Advertising Blows Past $20 Billion In 1st Half Of 2013; Up 18%; Check Out This Crazy Chart Starting From 1996
According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, Internet advertising revenue surged past $20 billion for an all time record in the first half of this year. Leading the way was an “explosion in mobile ads shown by companies including Face...
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October 9, 2013, 6:38 pm
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In A UDRP With Wide Implications In New gTLD’s Domains, Panel Awards Tes.co to Tesco
In a very interesting case having implication for the new gTLD’s domain names, Tesco Stores Limited of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, UK was just awarded the domain name Tes.co on the basis of having a trademark on the term Tesco. The panel com...
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In A UDRP With Wide Implications In New gTLD’s Domains, Panel Awards Tes.co to Tesco
In a very interesting case having implication for the new gTLD’s domain names, Tesco Stores Limited of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, UK was just awarded the domain name Tes.co on the basis of having a trademark on the term Tesco. The panel com...
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October 9, 2013, 1:03 pm
