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Citing New gTLD’Forbes Asks: Did MLB Overpay For Rockies.com?
Forbes.com just published an article asking “Did MLB Overpay By Spending $1.2 Million For Rockies.com?” “All it took was $1.2 million dollars for Major League Baseball (MLB) to purchase the domain name Rockies.com, a URL that was fo...
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Citing New gTLD’Forbes Asks: Did MLB Overpay For Rockies.com?
Forbes.com just published an article asking “Did MLB Overpay By Spending $1.2 Million For Rockies.com?” “All it took was $1.2 million dollars for Major League Baseball (MLB) to purchase the domain name Rockies.com, a URL that was fo...
Discussion
January 9, 2013, 10:07 am

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Marchex is Hit With Another UDRP This Time On uHealth.com
Marchex (MRCX) has been hit with its 11th UDRP since 2011. This time the domain at issue is uHealth.com The complainant is not listed but the domain name YouHealth.com is under management at CSC Corporate Domains Inc. The domain YouHealth.com has a c...
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Marchex is Hit With Another UDRP This Time On uHealth.com
Marchex (MRCX) has been hit with its 11th UDRP since 2011. This time the domain at issue is uHealth.com The complainant is not listed but the domain name YouHealth.com is under management at CSC Corporate Domains Inc. The domain YouHealth.com has a c...
Discussion
January 8, 2013, 8:09 pm

The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $900K In Domains
Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 12/31/12 – 1/6/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 907,271. I like Dropout.com for $11K Here are the reportable sal...
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Afternic.com Sells $900K In Domains
Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 12/31/12 – 1/6/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 907,271. I like Dropout.com for $11K Here are the reportable sal...
Discussion
January 8, 2013, 6:36 pm

The Domains
Sedo Off To A Slow Start in 2013 With Only 870K in Transactions
Sedo.com started off 2013 with a slow holiday week with only 670 transactions taking place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $870,000. Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales in...
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Sedo Off To A Slow Start in 2013 With Only 870K in Transactions
Sedo.com started off 2013 with a slow holiday week with only 670 transactions taking place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $870,000. Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales in...
Discussion
January 8, 2013, 4:09 pm

The Domains
Guest Post: Promoting The New Top Level Domains – No Time For Napping
This is a guest post by Jennie-Marie Larsen, Chief Executive Officer of DomainDiction.com Jennie-Marie has an extensive marketing, PR & business development background in web-based products and services with years of experience launching new busi...
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Guest Post: Promoting The New Top Level Domains – No Time For Napping
This is a guest post by Jennie-Marie Larsen, Chief Executive Officer of DomainDiction.com Jennie-Marie has an extensive marketing, PR & business development background in web-based products and services with years of experience launching new busi...
Discussion
January 8, 2013, 10:02 am

The Domains
Marchex & Berryhill Win Another UDRP This Time On Guarani.com
The Complainant Guarani S.A. of Sao Paolo, Brazil brought this UDRP against Marchex Sales, Inc, who as usual was represented by John Berryhill, Ph.D. Esq. on the domain name guarani.com The Complainant is the owner of several trademark registrations ...
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Marchex & Berryhill Win Another UDRP This Time On Guarani.com
The Complainant Guarani S.A. of Sao Paolo, Brazil brought this UDRP against Marchex Sales, Inc, who as usual was represented by John Berryhill, Ph.D. Esq. on the domain name guarani.com The Complainant is the owner of several trademark registrations ...
Discussion
January 8, 2013, 7:57 am

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Despite TM Going Back To 1998 & Parked Page UDRP Rejected on In-Case.com
The Complainant Incase Designs Corp. of Chino, California, lost a UDRP to get the domain name In-Case.com, despite the fact that complainant had a trademark in the US dating back to 1998 and that the domain holder was parking the domain. The case see...
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Despite TM Going Back To 1998 & Parked Page UDRP Rejected on In-Case.com
The Complainant Incase Designs Corp. of Chino, California, lost a UDRP to get the domain name In-Case.com, despite the fact that complainant had a trademark in the US dating back to 1998 and that the domain holder was parking the domain. The case see...
Discussion
January 8, 2013, 7:37 am

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Discover Card Buys Discoverit.com
Discover Credit Card which already owns Discover.com, quietly acquired the domain name Discoverit.com back in July of last year. The domain name is not yet resolving but would be a great call to action type ...
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Discover Card Buys Discoverit.com
Discover Credit Card which already owns Discover.com, quietly acquired the domain name Discoverit.com back in July of last year. The domain name is not yet resolving but would be a great call to action type ...
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January 7, 2013, 7:33 pm

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Name.com Screws Up On Promo Code & Gives “Thousands” Of Free .Com/Net’s
Prior to the announced sale of Name.com to Demand Media, Inc, it appears Name.com had an issue with a promo code which allowed “thousands” of .com and .net registrations and renewals to go through at zero cost earlier this month In a vide...
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Name.com Screws Up On Promo Code & Gives “Thousands” Of Free .Com/Net’s
Prior to the announced sale of Name.com to Demand Media, Inc, it appears Name.com had an issue with a promo code which allowed “thousands” of .com and .net registrations and renewals to go through at zero cost earlier this month In a vide...
Discussion
January 7, 2013, 11:52 am

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Despite Attempted Sale For $57K, General Motors Loses UDRP Bid To Get MyCadillac.com
General Motors just lost a UDRP on the domain name mycadillac.com desipte the domain holder offering to sell the domain to GM for as much as almost $57,000 Here is what the domain holder contended: -The Disputed Domain Name is not confusingly similar...
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Despite Attempted Sale For $57K, General Motors Loses UDRP Bid To Get MyCadillac.com
General Motors just lost a UDRP on the domain name mycadillac.com desipte the domain holder offering to sell the domain to GM for as much as almost $57,000 Here is what the domain holder contended: -The Disputed Domain Name is not confusingly similar...
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January 7, 2013, 11:09 am