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The Domains
Marc Ostrofsky To Appear On The View On June 9th
Just announced that Marc Ostrofsky, will appear on the June 9th episode of ABC’s “The View” at 11A.M. EST to “discuss how everyday people, sometimes working from home, are making a good living often using popular social ...
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Marc Ostrofsky To Appear On The View On June 9th
Just announced that Marc Ostrofsky, will appear on the June 9th episode of ABC’s “The View” at 11A.M. EST to “discuss how everyday people, sometimes working from home, are making a good living often using popular social ...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 3:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN Responds to U.S. Government Questions About New Top Level Domains
Kurt Pritz responds to Congress. ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz has responded (pdf) to a written question and expanded on his answers to questioning from U.S. representatives during a hearing about new TLDs on May 4. Representative Howard Cob...
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ICANN Responds to U.S. Government Questions About New Top Level Domains
Kurt Pritz responds to Congress. ICANN Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz has responded (pdf) to a written question and expanded on his answers to questioning from U.S. representatives during a hearing about new TLDs on May 4. Representative Howard Cob...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 2:49 pm
The Domains
QuinStreet Takes a Huge Tumble Down Over 20% Today
Shares of Quinstreet the company that bought insurance.com and Carinsurance.com and Insure.com have tumbled over the last few days and is down over 20% today. Shares of Quinstreet are at 1pm EST sitting at around $11.50 down over $3 on the day. Quins...
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QuinStreet Takes a Huge Tumble Down Over 20% Today
Shares of Quinstreet the company that bought insurance.com and Carinsurance.com and Insure.com have tumbled over the last few days and is down over 20% today. Shares of Quinstreet are at 1pm EST sitting at around $11.50 down over $3 on the day. Quins...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 1:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Atlas Shrugged Movie Producers Win 1, Lose 1
Same panelist. Similar domains. Different result, even on confusing similarity. The producers of the new Atlas Shrugged Movie filed two UDRP cases with World Intellectual Property Forum for essentially the same domains: AtlasShruggedMovie.com and Atl...
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Atlas Shrugged Movie Producers Win 1, Lose 1
Same panelist. Similar domains. Different result, even on confusing similarity. The producers of the new Atlas Shrugged Movie filed two UDRP cases with World Intellectual Property Forum for essentially the same domains: AtlasShruggedMovie.com and Atl...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 12:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Technical Problems Postpone Moniker Auction
Auction postponed after web sites go down. If you tried to reach most of Oversee.net’s web sites this morning — Oversee.net, Snapnames, or Moniker — you probably ran into difficulty. The timing couldn’t have been worse for the...
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Technical Problems Postpone Moniker Auction
Auction postponed after web sites go down. If you tried to reach most of Oversee.net’s web sites this morning — Oversee.net, Snapnames, or Moniker — you probably ran into difficulty. The timing couldn’t have been worse for the...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 11:40 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN “Hedge” In Singapore Will Kick off New gTLD Communications Plan
I predict new TLD marketing will start after ICANN’s Singapore meeting this month. Just about everyone — including me — is horrible at predicting what ICANN will do and when it will do it regarding new top level domain names. The on...
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ICANN “Hedge” In Singapore Will Kick off New gTLD Communications Plan
I predict new TLD marketing will start after ICANN’s Singapore meeting this month. Just about everyone — including me — is horrible at predicting what ICANN will do and when it will do it regarding new top level domain names. The on...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 10:59 am
The Domains
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...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 9:59 am
Elliot's Blog
Snapnames & Moniker Down Prior to Auction
With the DomainFest live auction scheduled to begin in about 10 minutes (10:00am) EST, it appears that some Oversee websites are down. I’ve tried to access Moniker, Snapnames, and even the Oversee corporate website with no luck. For some ...
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Snapnames & Moniker Down Prior to Auction
With the DomainFest live auction scheduled to begin in about 10 minutes (10:00am) EST, it appears that some Oversee websites are down. I’ve tried to access Moniker, Snapnames, and even the Oversee corporate website with no luck. For some ...
Discussion
June 8, 2011, 9:48 am