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Sedo Gets StartingDot Sunrise, Landrush & Premium Domains For New gTLD’s .Ski; .Immo; .Bio & .Archi
Sedo announced today that they will run “sunrise” and “landrush” auctions for Starting Dot new gTLD extensions, and assist with sales and brokerage of premium domains for .Bio, .Ski, .Archi and .Immo. Here is how e...
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Sedo Gets StartingDot Sunrise, Landrush & Premium Domains For New gTLD’s .Ski; .Immo; .Bio & .Archi
Sedo announced today that they will run “sunrise” and “landrush” auctions for Starting Dot new gTLD extensions, and assist with sales and brokerage of premium domains for .Bio, .Ski, .Archi and .Immo. Here is how e...
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July 15, 2013, 7:21 am
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DomainIndex.com Checks Up On 100 Oldest Domains: 12 Don’t Resolve; 35 Owned By Fortune 500 Co.
Domainindex.com published some research about the oldest 100 domain names and came up with some pretty interesting stats. From the 100 names registered between January 1, 1985 and November 30, 1987: 58 are now owned by a different entity from the...
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DomainIndex.com Checks Up On 100 Oldest Domains: 12 Don’t Resolve; 35 Owned By Fortune 500 Co.
Domainindex.com published some research about the oldest 100 domain names and came up with some pretty interesting stats. From the 100 names registered between January 1, 1985 and November 30, 1987: 58 are now owned by a different entity from the...
Discussion
July 14, 2013, 4:42 pm
The Domains
ICANN’s Update Of New gTLD Program Status By The Numbers + 1st 50 Start Contracting Proceess
ICANN’s Christine Willett just gave an update on the New gTLD program from the first session at the ICANN meeting in Durban: “As Yesterday my team has published results for through priority number 1,200 of the application. so ...
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ICANN’s Update Of New gTLD Program Status By The Numbers + 1st 50 Start Contracting Proceess
ICANN’s Christine Willett just gave an update on the New gTLD program from the first session at the ICANN meeting in Durban: “As Yesterday my team has published results for through priority number 1,200 of the application. so ...
Discussion
July 13, 2013, 9:07 am
The Domains
Six Figure, One Word Domain Name, Action.com Being Forwarded To A Facebook Page
Poking around the net this week I found that the one word .com domain name action.com is being simply forwarded to a Facebook page. The domain which I would estimate as a low six figure domain name doesn’t resolve to a site but is going to a Fa...
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Six Figure, One Word Domain Name, Action.com Being Forwarded To A Facebook Page
Poking around the net this week I found that the one word .com domain name action.com is being simply forwarded to a Facebook page. The domain which I would estimate as a low six figure domain name doesn’t resolve to a site but is going to a Fa...
Discussion
July 13, 2013, 7:52 am
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95 New gTLD Pass IE: .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam; .Bible; .Adult; .Landrover; .Amazon; .Dodge; .Jaguar; .Bestbuy
95 new gTLD application passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and 2 applications are headed for the dreaded Extended Evaluation. Leading the way passing IE, today are the Geographical applications for .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam. Beyond that a c...
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95 New gTLD Pass IE: .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam; .Bible; .Adult; .Landrover; .Amazon; .Dodge; .Jaguar; .Bestbuy
95 new gTLD application passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and 2 applications are headed for the dreaded Extended Evaluation. Leading the way passing IE, today are the Geographical applications for .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam. Beyond that a c...
Discussion
July 12, 2013, 2:43 pm
The Domains
Express. LLC Really Screwed Up By Not Spending $185K To File For .Express; Instead Loses Objection To Donuts
Donuts defeated an objection by Express, LLC brought under WIPO to the new gTLD string .Express in a case published yesterday I started to write about the decision and it occurred to me that the real story is why didn’t this company just ...
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Express. LLC Really Screwed Up By Not Spending $185K To File For .Express; Instead Loses Objection To Donuts
Donuts defeated an objection by Express, LLC brought under WIPO to the new gTLD string .Express in a case published yesterday I started to write about the decision and it occurred to me that the real story is why didn’t this company just ...
Discussion
July 12, 2013, 9:53 am
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Breaking: Suit Filed Against Scott Ross & Others Over Non-Payment of MD.Org Namejet $555,650 Auction
On April 12, 2012, the domain name MD.org sold at a record setting NameJet.com auction for $555,650.00 to the high bidder ID of ‘Winters” Today the seller of the domain name, Privacy LLC, (Privacy) filed a lawsuit along with NameJet, LLC ...
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Breaking: Suit Filed Against Scott Ross & Others Over Non-Payment of MD.Org Namejet $555,650 Auction
On April 12, 2012, the domain name MD.org sold at a record setting NameJet.com auction for $555,650.00 to the high bidder ID of ‘Winters” Today the seller of the domain name, Privacy LLC, (Privacy) filed a lawsuit along with NameJet, LLC ...
Discussion
July 11, 2013, 2:55 pm
The Domains
Internet Architecture Board: Dotless Domains May “Cause Significant Harm To The Security of the Internet”
The Internet Architecture Board, has come out strongly against Dotless Domains as proposed by Google to operate the .Search new gTLD. “It has come to the attention of the IAB that there are proposals for so-called “dotless” domains ...
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Internet Architecture Board: Dotless Domains May “Cause Significant Harm To The Security of the Internet”
The Internet Architecture Board, has come out strongly against Dotless Domains as proposed by Google to operate the .Search new gTLD. “It has come to the attention of the IAB that there are proposals for so-called “dotless” domains ...
Discussion
July 11, 2013, 9:40 am
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UDRP Complainant Agrees To Buy Quirk.com For $85K; Backs Out: Now Loses UDRP
Quirk Productions, Inc. (“Complainant”), which owns QuirkBooks.com lost its bid to grab the generic domain name Quirk.com The domain holder officially was TobyClements.com, LLC / Toby Clements but in fact the domain was owned by Mic...
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UDRP Complainant Agrees To Buy Quirk.com For $85K; Backs Out: Now Loses UDRP
Quirk Productions, Inc. (“Complainant”), which owns QuirkBooks.com lost its bid to grab the generic domain name Quirk.com The domain holder officially was TobyClements.com, LLC / Toby Clements but in fact the domain was owned by Mic...
Discussion
July 10, 2013, 4:08 pm
The Domains
Dan Warner Picks The Winners & Losers: New gTLD’s In The Sports Category
Dan Warner, who many in the domain industry know is a numbers/stats guy, has some interesting thoughts on winners and losers of the new gTLD’s in the “sports” category which he recently published. Mr. Warner has done guest posts for...
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Dan Warner Picks The Winners & Losers: New gTLD’s In The Sports Category
Dan Warner, who many in the domain industry know is a numbers/stats guy, has some interesting thoughts on winners and losers of the new gTLD’s in the “sports” category which he recently published. Mr. Warner has done guest posts for...
Discussion
July 10, 2013, 12:29 pm
