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ICANN Sends Out Notices Of Breach Due To Non-Payment Of ICANN Fees
ICANN send three registrars Notices Of Breach Of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement The three domain name registrars are: Dotted Ventures, Inc. (IANA# 833) of Atlanta, GA which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $9,289.10 A. Telecom...
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ICANN Sends Out Notices Of Breach Due To Non-Payment Of ICANN Fees
ICANN send three registrars Notices Of Breach Of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement The three domain name registrars are: Dotted Ventures, Inc. (IANA# 833) of Atlanta, GA which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $9,289.10 A. Telecom...
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April 24, 2013, 12:47 am
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On GAC Advice For New gTLD’s
ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. Comments can be left from now until the period closed on May 14th 2013 at 23:59 UTC. If...
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On GAC Advice For New gTLD’s
ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. Comments can be left from now until the period closed on May 14th 2013 at 23:59 UTC. If...
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April 24, 2013, 12:12 am
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold f...
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold f...
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April 23, 2013, 5:17 pm
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million
Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·&nb...
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million
Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·&nb...
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April 23, 2013, 3:03 pm
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Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwo...
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Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwo...
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April 23, 2013, 11:12 am
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Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com
Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registe...
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Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com
Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registe...
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April 23, 2013, 10:34 am
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.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks
According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web&...
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.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks
According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web&...
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April 23, 2013, 9:51 am
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After 8 Years TickerNetwork.com Lost In UDRP
Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just got the domain name TickerNetwork.com in a UDRP based off a trademark for the term Ticket Network. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel: “The Complainant hosts...
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After 8 Years TickerNetwork.com Lost In UDRP
Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just got the domain name TickerNetwork.com in a UDRP based off a trademark for the term Ticket Network. Here are the relevant facts and findings of the one member panel: “The Complainant hosts...
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April 23, 2013, 8:53 am
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FreshDrop Rolls Out Drop Catching/Backorder Program With Prices @ $18.95
FreshDrop Inc., today announces their new domain backordering service which has been opened in beta, is now open to the public and goes by the name Pheenix.com Pheenix customers are allowed to backorder .com and .net domain names for a low pri...
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FreshDrop Rolls Out Drop Catching/Backorder Program With Prices @ $18.95
FreshDrop Inc., today announces their new domain backordering service which has been opened in beta, is now open to the public and goes by the name Pheenix.com Pheenix customers are allowed to backorder .com and .net domain names for a low pri...
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April 23, 2013, 8:28 am
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NAF Sets URS Fees $375-$500 Per Complaint & $400 For Domain Holder
The National Arbitration Forum, (NAF) has just released its proposed Supplemental Rules for Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) , including complainant fees that range from $375 – $500 depending on number of domains involved. The fee for the domain ...
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NAF Sets URS Fees $375-$500 Per Complaint & $400 For Domain Holder
The National Arbitration Forum, (NAF) has just released its proposed Supplemental Rules for Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS) , including complainant fees that range from $375 – $500 depending on number of domains involved. The fee for the domain ...
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April 22, 2013, 12:02 pm




