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Flippa Opens Up Voting For The 1st Annual Flippie Awards
Flippa.com, has just opened voting for the first annual Flippie Awards, by honoring some of the best sites sold in 2012. Nominated websites were chosen from over 29,000 websites and domains that were sold on Flippa.com in 2012. The Flippie Committee ...
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Flippa Opens Up Voting For The 1st Annual Flippie Awards
Flippa.com, has just opened voting for the first annual Flippie Awards, by honoring some of the best sites sold in 2012. Nominated websites were chosen from over 29,000 websites and domains that were sold on Flippa.com in 2012. The Flippie Committee ...
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January 2, 2013, 12:11 pm

The Domains
Bloomberg Asks Online Experts What To Expect From New gTLD’s, ICANN IN 2013
Bloomberg issued its Electronic Commerce & Law Report where they asked asked several dozen leading attorneys and online experts “for their views on the most important legal developments in online law during 2012 and on what policy area...
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Bloomberg Asks Online Experts What To Expect From New gTLD’s, ICANN IN 2013
Bloomberg issued its Electronic Commerce & Law Report where they asked asked several dozen leading attorneys and online experts “for their views on the most important legal developments in online law during 2012 and on what policy area...
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January 1, 2013, 11:54 am

The Domains
Domainer Page Howe Gets A Feature Article On BusinessInsider
Long time domainer Page Howe just got covered by Businessinsider.com with a big assist from DnJournal.com and DomainSherpa.com Page was covered by BusinessInsider.com in an article entitled: “Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of...
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Domainer Page Howe Gets A Feature Article On BusinessInsider
Long time domainer Page Howe just got covered by Businessinsider.com with a big assist from DnJournal.com and DomainSherpa.com Page was covered by BusinessInsider.com in an article entitled: “Meet Page Howe, A Man Who Made Millions Selling 2 Of...
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December 31, 2012, 4:14 pm

The Domains
Domain King, Rick Schwartz Closes Out 2012 With A $250K Deal on A Hand Reg Domain
In a email sent out to domain holders on the JointVenture.com project, the Domain King Rick Schwartz announced that he just closed a deal on a hand registered domain name which will return him over $250,000 over the next 8 years “”I have ...
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Domain King, Rick Schwartz Closes Out 2012 With A $250K Deal on A Hand Reg Domain
In a email sent out to domain holders on the JointVenture.com project, the Domain King Rick Schwartz announced that he just closed a deal on a hand registered domain name which will return him over $250,000 over the next 8 years “”I have ...
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December 31, 2012, 1:35 pm

The Domains
House Representative Drafting Bill To Stop ICE Domain Seizures Without Notice or Hearing
According to jdsupra.com, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif), is drafting legislation that would seek to increase judicial oversight ICE’s ability to seize domain names. To date the U.S. Immigrat...
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House Representative Drafting Bill To Stop ICE Domain Seizures Without Notice or Hearing
According to jdsupra.com, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif), is drafting legislation that would seek to increase judicial oversight ICE’s ability to seize domain names. To date the U.S. Immigrat...
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December 31, 2012, 12:50 pm

The Domains
Rchard Lau Becomes Director of the Water School
Uber Domainer Richard Lau has just announced he has taken on the position of the Executive Director at Water School. In his year end newsletter he wrote, “2012 is almost at an end. It’s Christmas Eve and while my shopping is all done, wra...
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Rchard Lau Becomes Director of the Water School
Uber Domainer Richard Lau has just announced he has taken on the position of the Executive Director at Water School. In his year end newsletter he wrote, “2012 is almost at an end. It’s Christmas Eve and while my shopping is all done, wra...
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December 29, 2012, 4:41 pm

The Domains
We Think .TK Domains Are Screwing With Verisign’s Quarterly Domain Report?
Last week when Verisign released its 3rd Quarter Domain Name Industry Brief everyone focused in on the raw numbers 246 million domain names. However what if I was to tell you that one change made by Verisign has made a huge impact on the ...
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We Think .TK Domains Are Screwing With Verisign’s Quarterly Domain Report?
Last week when Verisign released its 3rd Quarter Domain Name Industry Brief everyone focused in on the raw numbers 246 million domain names. However what if I was to tell you that one change made by Verisign has made a huge impact on the ...
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December 29, 2012, 12:08 pm

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Vietnamese Man Registers TM Domain, Points It To Porn; Company Agrees To Pay $50K & Calls Police
Well not your typical domain story. A Vietnamese man Nguyen Trong Khoahas was summoned by police after a company, Eurowindow Holding accused him of buying four domain names related to the company and directing users of one of the sites to porn in &ld...
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Vietnamese Man Registers TM Domain, Points It To Porn; Company Agrees To Pay $50K & Calls Police
Well not your typical domain story. A Vietnamese man Nguyen Trong Khoahas was summoned by police after a company, Eurowindow Holding accused him of buying four domain names related to the company and directing users of one of the sites to porn in &ld...
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December 28, 2012, 7:14 am

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Alert!! Some Of The Domains You Got At SnapNames.com May Not Be Owned By You
If you use SnapNames.com you need to check the domain names you acquired since October, especially November and December. You may not be the owner of the domain. There are a few issues going on with SnapNames.com which I was first informed about by a...
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Alert!! Some Of The Domains You Got At SnapNames.com May Not Be Owned By You
If you use SnapNames.com you need to check the domain names you acquired since October, especially November and December. You may not be the owner of the domain. There are a few issues going on with SnapNames.com which I was first informed about by a...
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December 27, 2012, 8:31 am

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Our List Of The First 80 Non-IDN/Brand New gTLD’s That Will Come To Market
This a list of the first 80 Non-IDN , Non-.Brand new gTLDs that should come to market first. Why? Because all of these are new gTLD’s are non contested, meaning there was only one application made for the string, none were subject to an GAC ear...
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Our List Of The First 80 Non-IDN/Brand New gTLD’s That Will Come To Market
This a list of the first 80 Non-IDN , Non-.Brand new gTLDs that should come to market first. Why? Because all of these are new gTLD’s are non contested, meaning there was only one application made for the string, none were subject to an GAC ear...
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December 26, 2012, 8:29 am