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Zynga Acquires OMGPOP Developer of DrawSomething
Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), just announced that it acquired the developer of the hottest gaming app Draw Something. We wrote about Draw Something last week. According to a Press release issued minutes ago, Zynga just acquired “New York-based social g...
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Zynga Acquires OMGPOP Developer of DrawSomething
Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), just announced that it acquired the developer of the hottest gaming app Draw Something. We wrote about Draw Something last week. According to a Press release issued minutes ago, Zynga just acquired “New York-based social g...
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March 21, 2012, 3:16 pm
The Domains
Ari Goldberger Beats Back UDRP On UTV.com
Ari Goldberger beat back a UDRP on the domain name UTV.com brought by UTV Limited of Belfast The Complainant was formed in November 1958 as Programme Contractor for Northern Ireland and was incorporated as Ulster Television in 1959. It has been broad...
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Ari Goldberger Beats Back UDRP On UTV.com
Ari Goldberger beat back a UDRP on the domain name UTV.com brought by UTV Limited of Belfast The Complainant was formed in November 1958 as Programme Contractor for Northern Ireland and was incorporated as Ulster Television in 1959. It has been broad...
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March 21, 2012, 2:29 pm
The Domains
Sedo.com Sells $1.5MM In Domains Led By Channel.com At $125K
Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending March 19th. In all $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top reportable sale was Channel.com at $125,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were sportbekleidung.de at €25,000 fol...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.5MM In Domains Led By Channel.com At $125K
Sedo.com just announced its sales data for the week ending March 19th. In all $1.5MM of domains were sold. The top reportable sale was Channel.com at $125,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were sportbekleidung.de at €25,000 fol...
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March 20, 2012, 5:53 pm
The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $1.09MM In Domains Led By OnTime.com At $25K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,087,415 for the week ending March 18th. The publically reportable sales were led by OnTime.com at $25,000 followed by CostumesForHalloween.com at $16,500. Below is the co...
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Afternic.com Sells $1.09MM In Domains Led By OnTime.com At $25K
Afternic.com just published its weekly report of domain name sales totalling $1,087,415 for the week ending March 18th. The publically reportable sales were led by OnTime.com at $25,000 followed by CostumesForHalloween.com at $16,500. Below is the co...
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March 20, 2012, 5:18 pm
The Domains
The Hottest Gaming App In The World W/ 20M Users & Someone Sold DrawSomething.com For $3K
Seems like one of the hottest games in the world is Draw Something. It seems some 20 million people have already downloaded the App. Yes 20 Million in only 5 weeks. BusinessInsider.com has published two stories on the game today alone. One highlighti...
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The Hottest Gaming App In The World W/ 20M Users & Someone Sold DrawSomething.com For $3K
Seems like one of the hottest games in the world is Draw Something. It seems some 20 million people have already downloaded the App. Yes 20 Million in only 5 weeks. BusinessInsider.com has published two stories on the game today alone. One highlighti...
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March 19, 2012, 11:30 am
The Domains
Gamechanger? Marketpage Allows Anyone To Set Up A Store on Their Facebook Page & Snoop Dog Is The 1st
There was an interesting press release from MarketPage a system that “allows anyone to have a shop on their Facebook Page and invite others to sell there.” Its seems like a natural. You have a fanbase that wants to connect with you and yo...
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Gamechanger? Marketpage Allows Anyone To Set Up A Store on Their Facebook Page & Snoop Dog Is The 1st
There was an interesting press release from MarketPage a system that “allows anyone to have a shop on their Facebook Page and invite others to sell there.” Its seems like a natural. You have a fanbase that wants to connect with you and yo...
Discussion
March 19, 2012, 8:15 am
The Domains
Cnet: Google Plans to Penalize ‘Overly Optimized’ Sites
According to Cnet.com, Google is planning to penalize sites that overuse search-engine-optimization techniques. Google engineer Matt Cutts discussed the plan at South by Southwest (SXSW) and Search Engine Land posted an audio clip from a panel discus...
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Cnet: Google Plans to Penalize ‘Overly Optimized’ Sites
According to Cnet.com, Google is planning to penalize sites that overuse search-engine-optimization techniques. Google engineer Matt Cutts discussed the plan at South by Southwest (SXSW) and Search Engine Land posted an audio clip from a panel discus...
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March 18, 2012, 7:25 pm
The Domains
Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Apps Will Be Submitted?
We are now less than one month from April 12th, the last day an application for a new gTLD can be submitted. We now know that 294 people have paid $5K to put in an App of course each registered user can file 49 apps so the number of actually apps sub...
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Quick Poll: How Many New gTLD Apps Will Be Submitted?
We are now less than one month from April 12th, the last day an application for a new gTLD can be submitted. We now know that 294 people have paid $5K to put in an App of course each registered user can file 49 apps so the number of actually apps sub...
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March 18, 2012, 12:10 pm
The Domains
Hey Rick Maybe You Should Re-Join The ICA
Rick Schwartz has ferociously been on the attack since getting hit with a UDRP on the domain name Saveme.com. As I’m sure all of you have read by now, Rick registered the domain name Saveme.com in 1996 and now based on a domain name registered ...
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Hey Rick Maybe You Should Re-Join The ICA
Rick Schwartz has ferociously been on the attack since getting hit with a UDRP on the domain name Saveme.com. As I’m sure all of you have read by now, Rick registered the domain name Saveme.com in 1996 and now based on a domain name registered ...
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March 17, 2012, 1:32 pm
The Domains
The Inside Story Of The Fastest Growing TLD .TK Adding 1M Registrations Per Month It’s Free & Soon #1
Over the last couple of Verisign Domain Industry Brief (March 2012 here, December 2011 here) one ccTLD has seemingly come out of nowhere to become the third largest ccTLD in terms of registration. The extension is is .TK and its the ccTLD of th...
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The Inside Story Of The Fastest Growing TLD .TK Adding 1M Registrations Per Month It’s Free & Soon #1
Over the last couple of Verisign Domain Industry Brief (March 2012 here, December 2011 here) one ccTLD has seemingly come out of nowhere to become the third largest ccTLD in terms of registration. The extension is is .TK and its the ccTLD of th...
Discussion
March 17, 2012, 8:30 am
