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1st .XXX Domain Sale Of The Year Turns Out To Defensive As Well: Loft.com Buys Loft.XXX
Yesterday we wrote about what looks to be the 1st .XXX domain sale of the year, coming across Sedo.com sales wire at very respectable $17,000 Yesterday when we wrote about the sale the whois was showing the domain still being in escrow at Sedo.com bu...
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1st .XXX Domain Sale Of The Year Turns Out To Defensive As Well: Loft.com Buys Loft.XXX
Yesterday we wrote about what looks to be the 1st .XXX domain sale of the year, coming across Sedo.com sales wire at very respectable $17,000 Yesterday when we wrote about the sale the whois was showing the domain still being in escrow at Sedo.com bu...
Discussion
January 3, 2013, 10:14 am
The Domains
SmartRecovery.com Lost In UDRP
A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name smartrecovery.com to the Complainant is Alcohol & Drug Abuse Self-Help Network, Inc., d/b/a SMART The domain owner did not submit a formal response. Complainant is the owner of the SMART RECOVE...
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SmartRecovery.com Lost In UDRP
A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name smartrecovery.com to the Complainant is Alcohol & Drug Abuse Self-Help Network, Inc., d/b/a SMART The domain owner did not submit a formal response. Complainant is the owner of the SMART RECOVE...
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January 3, 2013, 9:31 am
The Domains
Amazon Finally Starts Using A.co & Cloud.co
Amazon.com is finally starting to use half of the .co domains they bought back in 2011. A.co is now being used as a shortener for Amazon.com and cloud.co is being used for Amazon’s Cloud Drive service It was back in May 2011 that Amazon announc...
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Amazon Finally Starts Using A.co & Cloud.co
Amazon.com is finally starting to use half of the .co domains they bought back in 2011. A.co is now being used as a shortener for Amazon.com and cloud.co is being used for Amazon’s Cloud Drive service It was back in May 2011 that Amazon announc...
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January 2, 2013, 6:28 pm
The Domains
Sedo Transactions for Two Weeks Total Just $1.38 Million
Sedo just published its weekly sales lists for the two weeks of December 17th—24th and December 24th—31st. Over the past two weeks, only 932 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.38 million. Over...
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Sedo Transactions for Two Weeks Total Just $1.38 Million
Sedo just published its weekly sales lists for the two weeks of December 17th—24th and December 24th—31st. Over the past two weeks, only 932 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.38 million. Over...
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January 2, 2013, 4:24 pm
The Domains
Loft.XXX Becomes 1st Reported .XXX Domain Sale Of 2013 At $17k
Just crossing the Sedo.com wire is the sale of the domain name Loft.XXX for a very respectable 13,000 euros or just over $17,000 based on today’s exchange rates. The seller appears to be Markus Herbig who got the domain back in Decem...
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Loft.XXX Becomes 1st Reported .XXX Domain Sale Of 2013 At $17k
Just crossing the Sedo.com wire is the sale of the domain name Loft.XXX for a very respectable 13,000 euros or just over $17,000 based on today’s exchange rates. The seller appears to be Markus Herbig who got the domain back in Decem...
Discussion
January 2, 2013, 1:03 pm
The Domains
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, 11:11 am
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, 10:54 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, 3:14 pm
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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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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, 12:35 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, 11:50 am
