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According To Estibot.com TRAFFIC Auction List Is Valued At $1,850,000
Today the organizers of TRAFFIC released the list of domain names to be auctioned off during the TRAFFIC Vegas conference. The auction will be held on May 30th from 2PM-4PM Local time, in Las Vegas. “More than 50% of the list has NO RESER...
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According To Estibot.com TRAFFIC Auction List Is Valued At $1,850,000
Today the organizers of TRAFFIC released the list of domain names to be auctioned off during the TRAFFIC Vegas conference. The auction will be held on May 30th from 2PM-4PM Local time, in Las Vegas. “More than 50% of the list has NO RESER...
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May 14, 2013, 11:25 am

The Domains
Sedo Reports: Domain Revenue Down 14%; Domains For Sale Up Tp 16.6 M
Sedo Holding AG published its consolidated financial results for first three months 2013. Revenue grew of 7.3% to EUR 36.9 million. This growth was particularly driven by the Affiliate Marketing segment. “The Domain Marketing segment remai...
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Sedo Reports: Domain Revenue Down 14%; Domains For Sale Up Tp 16.6 M
Sedo Holding AG published its consolidated financial results for first three months 2013. Revenue grew of 7.3% to EUR 36.9 million. This growth was particularly driven by the Affiliate Marketing segment. “The Domain Marketing segment remai...
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May 14, 2013, 10:40 am

The Domains
Radix Withdraws New gTLD Application For .Movie
Radix which had applied for 31 new gTLD’s has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Movie. Radix application for .Movie had a prioritization number of 592. There are 7 other applicants for the .movie new gTLD including Google, Amazon, Fam...
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Radix Withdraws New gTLD Application For .Movie
Radix which had applied for 31 new gTLD’s has withdrawn its application for the new gTLD .Movie. Radix application for .Movie had a prioritization number of 592. There are 7 other applicants for the .movie new gTLD including Google, Amazon, Fam...
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May 14, 2013, 2:15 am

The Domains
UDRP Files Against Two Letter Domain Name SM.net
A UDRP was just filed yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name SM.net The domain name is owned by a M.A. Stenzel (info@topname.com) of Kahului, Hawaii and has been owned by him since at least 2003 but cou...
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UDRP Files Against Two Letter Domain Name SM.net
A UDRP was just filed yesterday the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on the domain name SM.net The domain name is owned by a M.A. Stenzel (info@topname.com) of Kahului, Hawaii and has been owned by him since at least 2003 but cou...
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May 12, 2013, 10:03 am

The Domains
Quick Poll: How Many Domain Names Will Exist By The End of 2016?
Yesterday we published a blog post about Pinky Brand’s prediction for how many domain names will be in existence by the end of 2016 Pinky’s prediction was 403.5 Million domain names in the zone files by the end of 2016 including 73 millio...
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Quick Poll: How Many Domain Names Will Exist By The End of 2016?
Yesterday we published a blog post about Pinky Brand’s prediction for how many domain names will be in existence by the end of 2016 Pinky’s prediction was 403.5 Million domain names in the zone files by the end of 2016 including 73 millio...
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May 11, 2013, 9:41 am

The Domains
Panel Hands Over Stolen Domain GVP.com In UDRP To Global Village Publishing
Global Village Publishing, Inc. just won the rights to the three letter domain name gvp.com, in a one member panel UDRP decision, a domain which is owned for many years until their Godaddy account was hacked and the domain transferred. Here is what ...
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Panel Hands Over Stolen Domain GVP.com In UDRP To Global Village Publishing
Global Village Publishing, Inc. just won the rights to the three letter domain name gvp.com, in a one member panel UDRP decision, a domain which is owned for many years until their Godaddy account was hacked and the domain transferred. Here is what ...
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May 10, 2013, 9:45 pm

The Domains
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice, Inc. represented by Matthew H. Swyers of The Trademark Company, LLC, Virginia, USA. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in attempted theft of the domain names hivinnocencegrouptrut...
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Office of Medical & Scientific Justice Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Office of Medical & Scientific Justice, Inc. represented by Matthew H. Swyers of The Trademark Company, LLC, Virginia, USA. was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) in attempted theft of the domain names hivinnocencegrouptrut...
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May 10, 2013, 9:37 pm

The Domains
38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne
38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo’s of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn) .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon’s applica...
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38 More New gTLD Pass IE: .Paris; .Forex; .Cpa; .Airforce, .Guide, .Melbourne
38 More new gTLD applications passed ICANN Initial Evaluation Today. Heading the list are the Geo’s of .Paris (which had been earlier passed over on its turn) .Melbourne and .Durban Other generics passing IE include Amazon’s applica...
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May 10, 2013, 1:30 pm

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.Sexy Is Just For The Sexy People
Unregistry in a Press Release put everyone on notice that the new gTLD .Sexy will be for only the Sexy people: “”Uniregistry, the Cayman based new gTLD applicant, has announced new registration requirements to improve quality and combat a...
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.Sexy Is Just For The Sexy People
Unregistry in a Press Release put everyone on notice that the new gTLD .Sexy will be for only the Sexy people: “”Uniregistry, the Cayman based new gTLD applicant, has announced new registration requirements to improve quality and combat a...
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May 10, 2013, 1:13 pm

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Pinky Brand Predicts 408.5 Million Domains By The End Of 2016, 73.6M New gTLD’s
Pinky Brand just published some bold predictions for the number of domain names that will exist in 2016 including registrations from new gTLD’s. For those that don’t know Pinky is one of the founders of .mobi, which is “today ranked...
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Pinky Brand Predicts 408.5 Million Domains By The End Of 2016, 73.6M New gTLD’s
Pinky Brand just published some bold predictions for the number of domain names that will exist in 2016 including registrations from new gTLD’s. For those that don’t know Pinky is one of the founders of .mobi, which is “today ranked...
Discussion
May 10, 2013, 12:12 pm