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DomainFest Live Auction Cancelled & Moved To Next Week
I just received notice from someone attending the Live DomainFest auction in Barcelona that the auction for today has been cancelled due to technical issues and rescheduled for next week. While we await some official word I’m told the domain na...
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DomainFest Live Auction Cancelled & Moved To Next Week
I just received notice from someone attending the Live DomainFest auction in Barcelona that the auction for today has been cancelled due to technical issues and rescheduled for next week. While we await some official word I’m told the domain na...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 10:45 am
The Domains
Moniker.com Is Down Too
We wrote earlier about Snapnames.com being down for the big DomainFest Live domain name auction. It appears that Moniker.com is also inaccessible.
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Moniker.com Is Down Too
We wrote earlier about Snapnames.com being down for the big DomainFest Live domain name auction. It appears that Moniker.com is also inaccessible.
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 10:38 am
The Domains
Is SnapNames.com Down For DomainFest?
Is SnapNames.com down for DomainFest? I have been trying to connect to Snapnames.com and the direct link to the auction for the past 15 minutes and now at 10:05 Am which is 5 minutes after the auction was suppose to start from Barcelona the site is n...
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Is SnapNames.com Down For DomainFest?
Is SnapNames.com down for DomainFest? I have been trying to connect to Snapnames.com and the direct link to the auction for the past 15 minutes and now at 10:05 Am which is 5 minutes after the auction was suppose to start from Barcelona the site is n...
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June 8, 2011, 9:59 am
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Afternic.com Sells $525k In Domains Led By APSU.com For $15k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday June 5th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $525,766. The top seller of the week was APSU.com followed by PromDresses.org at $11,500. Here is the full list: .Com Sales $1...
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Afternic.com Sells $525k In Domains Led By APSU.com For $15k
Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday June 5th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $525,766. The top seller of the week was APSU.com followed by PromDresses.org at $11,500. Here is the full list: .Com Sales $1...
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June 7, 2011, 6:30 pm
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Data.com Sold For An Amount “Significantly In Excess Of The $1.5 Million Reserve”
I just got an email from Oversee saying that the domain name Data.com which was scheduled to be in tomorrow’s DomainFest auction sold privately today. The domain name Data.com was one of our picks to sell at the auction. The domain had a reserv...
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Data.com Sold For An Amount “Significantly In Excess Of The $1.5 Million Reserve”
I just got an email from Oversee saying that the domain name Data.com which was scheduled to be in tomorrow’s DomainFest auction sold privately today. The domain name Data.com was one of our picks to sell at the auction. The domain had a reserv...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 12:47 pm
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Seomoz.org: 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Exact Match Domains Less Important; Long Domains Suck; eHow Still In Top 10
Seomoz.org has just released data showing the most important ranking factors in for SEO, 2011 edition “”Since 2005, SEOmoz has released a new version of the Search Ranking Factors survey every two years, a piece of content that many...
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Seomoz.org: 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Exact Match Domains Less Important; Long Domains Suck; eHow Still In Top 10
Seomoz.org has just released data showing the most important ranking factors in for SEO, 2011 edition “”Since 2005, SEOmoz has released a new version of the Search Ranking Factors survey every two years, a piece of content that many...
Discussion
June 7, 2011, 11:32 am
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The Biggest Loser Wins Big In A UDRP For TheBiggestLoser.com
The producer of the hit television show, The Biggest Loser won a UDRP against Theodore Lazier on the domain name thebiggestloser.com, finding that the show gained a Common Law Trademark the day the show was announced. While the producer registered US...
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The Biggest Loser Wins Big In A UDRP For TheBiggestLoser.com
The producer of the hit television show, The Biggest Loser won a UDRP against Theodore Lazier on the domain name thebiggestloser.com, finding that the show gained a Common Law Trademark the day the show was announced. While the producer registered US...
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June 7, 2011, 8:23 am
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Despite Trademark Domainer ECorp Beats Back UDRP On ChannelGuide.com
The Complainant Tribune Media Services, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois, lost a UDRP on the domain name ChannelGuide.com brought against Ecorp.com. Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana. Ecorp is owned by a domainer Chad Folkening. Here are the relevant part...
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Despite Trademark Domainer ECorp Beats Back UDRP On ChannelGuide.com
The Complainant Tribune Media Services, Inc. of Chicago, Illinois, lost a UDRP on the domain name ChannelGuide.com brought against Ecorp.com. Inc. of Indianapolis, Indiana. Ecorp is owned by a domainer Chad Folkening. Here are the relevant part...
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June 6, 2011, 10:36 am
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It’s Offical Overstock.com Plans To Change Its Name To O.Co Starting With The Home Field Of The Raiders & A’s
Last week when the .CO registry announced it has surpassed 1 Million domain registrations it teased that there would be a major announcement today from Overstock and as we guessed on our post Overstock.com officially announced today that it is going ...
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It’s Offical Overstock.com Plans To Change Its Name To O.Co Starting With The Home Field Of The Raiders & A’s
Last week when the .CO registry announced it has surpassed 1 Million domain registrations it teased that there would be a major announcement today from Overstock and as we guessed on our post Overstock.com officially announced today that it is going ...
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June 6, 2011, 7:59 am
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Was SnapNames “Verisign High Traffic Score” Domain Name Auction Just A Big Domain Tasting Experiment?
A few days ago we posted about SnapNames.com Flash auction of over 600 domain names “recently registered by SnapNames due to their high VeriSign Data Analyzer Traffic Score and Generic Word strength!” Today courtesy of a reader it appears...
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Was SnapNames “Verisign High Traffic Score” Domain Name Auction Just A Big Domain Tasting Experiment?
A few days ago we posted about SnapNames.com Flash auction of over 600 domain names “recently registered by SnapNames due to their high VeriSign Data Analyzer Traffic Score and Generic Word strength!” Today courtesy of a reader it appears...
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June 5, 2011, 9:52 pm
