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Domain Name Wire
Comcast provides a lesson on firing off C&D letters over domain names
Companies should think hard before firing off cease & desist letters. Comcast is getting dragged through the mud for sending a cease & desist letter to the owner of a domain name that has “comcast” in it, and there’s a lesso...
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Comcast provides a lesson on firing off C&D letters over domain names
Companies should think hard before firing off cease & desist letters. Comcast is getting dragged through the mud for sending a cease & desist letter to the owner of a domain name that has “comcast” in it, and there’s a lesso...
Discussion
May 24, 2017, 2:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
UDRPSearch owner wins UDRP, court case still pending
Panel rules against company that claimed FastTrak.com was cybersquatting against it. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled in favor of Virtual Point in a UDRP over the domain name FastTrak.com. Virtual Point has common ownersh...
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UDRPSearch owner wins UDRP, court case still pending
Panel rules against company that claimed FastTrak.com was cybersquatting against it. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled in favor of Virtual Point in a UDRP over the domain name FastTrak.com. Virtual Point has common ownersh...
Discussion
May 24, 2017, 1:27 pm
Sully's Blog
This shop gets about 50,000 uniques per month
Max Robinson, marketing manager of ScotlandShop.com. The company was founded in 2002 selling Scottish crafts, gifts and goods. Max’s talked to me about this global business and the decision behind the name and TLD that was chosen. ...
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This shop gets about 50,000 uniques per month
Max Robinson, marketing manager of ScotlandShop.com. The company was founded in 2002 selling Scottish crafts, gifts and goods. Max’s talked to me about this global business and the decision behind the name and TLD that was chosen. ...
Discussion
May 24, 2017, 11:57 am
The Domains
Sedo weekly sales led by Leem.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Leem.com was the top sale at $30,000. OnlyYou.com sold for $27,000. Songs and movies have both been titled Only You, so this is a pretty cool buy. Country codes were dominated by .De and .Ca, 3 sales for the Canad...
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Sedo weekly sales led by Leem.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Leem.com was the top sale at $30,000. OnlyYou.com sold for $27,000. Songs and movies have both been titled Only You, so this is a pretty cool buy. Country codes were dominated by .De and .Ca, 3 sales for the Canad...
Discussion
May 23, 2017, 8:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Asia is opening up in July
Domains will be easier to register and open to people outside of Asia. Ten years after its initial release, the .Asia top level domain name will become easier to register for people outside of Asia this summer. Currently, registrants need to provide ...
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.Asia is opening up in July
Domains will be easier to register and open to people outside of Asia. Ten years after its initial release, the .Asia top level domain name will become easier to register for people outside of Asia this summer. Currently, registrants need to provide ...
Discussion
May 23, 2017, 6:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo adds new escrow option through partnership with Escrow.domains
Service targets people who can handle the domain transfer themselves. Domain name marketplace Sedo has added a new domain name escrow option through a partnership with Escrow.domains, a service offered by law firm Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC. The ...
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Sedo adds new escrow option through partnership with Escrow.domains
Service targets people who can handle the domain transfer themselves. Domain name marketplace Sedo has added a new domain name escrow option through a partnership with Escrow.domains, a service offered by law firm Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC. The ...
Discussion
May 23, 2017, 2:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
125 people to attend DNSeattle on Thursday
Off to Seattle, the center of the domain name universe. 125 people from the domain name industry are expected to attend the sold-out DNSeattle meetup at Amazon.com’s headquarters on Thursday evening. The event is organized by Michael Cyger of D...
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125 people to attend DNSeattle on Thursday
Off to Seattle, the center of the domain name universe. 125 people from the domain name industry are expected to attend the sold-out DNSeattle meetup at Amazon.com’s headquarters on Thursday evening. The event is organized by Michael Cyger of D...
Discussion
May 23, 2017, 2:26 pm
The Domains
Homes.Forsale and Houses.Forsale sell for $90,000
Robert Bruce a self described expert in online marketing strategies, wrote an article on Entrepreneur.com that he purchased two .forsale domains for $90,000 in total. From the article: The startup I’m currently building aims to modernize real e...
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Homes.Forsale and Houses.Forsale sell for $90,000
Robert Bruce a self described expert in online marketing strategies, wrote an article on Entrepreneur.com that he purchased two .forsale domains for $90,000 in total. From the article: The startup I’m currently building aims to modernize real e...
Discussion
May 23, 2017, 9:46 am
Domain Name Wire
Rightside has sold over 400 two letter domain names
Average sales price is over $1,000 and they come with premium renewals. Rightside began offering two-letter domain names under its 40 top level domain names back in September. The company has sold 416 of these domain names to date, the company told D...
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Rightside has sold over 400 two letter domain names
Average sales price is over $1,000 and they come with premium renewals. Rightside began offering two-letter domain names under its 40 top level domain names back in September. The company has sold 416 of these domain names to date, the company told D...
Discussion
May 22, 2017, 8:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Blockchain and Common Law Trademarks – DNW Podcast #137
A unique service using blockchain wants to help companies prove their rights in common law trademarks. Is the blockchain the answer to proving common law use of trademarks? Bennett Collen, founder of Cognate, is banking on it. Billed as a “comm...
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Blockchain and Common Law Trademarks – DNW Podcast #137
A unique service using blockchain wants to help companies prove their rights in common law trademarks. Is the blockchain the answer to proving common law use of trademarks? Bennett Collen, founder of Cognate, is banking on it. Billed as a “comm...
Discussion
May 22, 2017, 3:30 pm
