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Domain Name Wire
Another fake TLD sighting: .Calm
Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling arou...
Discussion
Another fake TLD sighting: .Calm
Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling arou...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 2:13 pm
The Domains
14 Year Old 4 Letter .Com Lost in UDRP To Trademark Filed in 2012: GECU.com
A one member UDRP panel has just handed over a 14 year old, four letter .com domain, GECU.com to GECU of Texas The domain holder registered the domain gecu.com on June 29, 2001. Terry F. Peppard the Panelist found the credit union had common law trad...
Discussion
14 Year Old 4 Letter .Com Lost in UDRP To Trademark Filed in 2012: GECU.com
A one member UDRP panel has just handed over a 14 year old, four letter .com domain, GECU.com to GECU of Texas The domain holder registered the domain gecu.com on June 29, 2001. Terry F. Peppard the Panelist found the credit union had common law trad...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 2:01 pm
The Domains
Domain Movers: Blocker.com, MaxGrip.com and More
Large companies are acquiring, registering and moving domain name all the time but these domains often go undetected until I do the deep digging and find them! In Domain Movers, I present you what I find!
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Domain Movers: Blocker.com, MaxGrip.com and More
Large companies are acquiring, registering and moving domain name all the time but these domains often go undetected until I do the deep digging and find them! In Domain Movers, I present you what I find!
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 1:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
More Amazon new TLD reg’s and Google’s odd domain names
I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to pa...
Discussion
More Amazon new TLD reg’s and Google’s odd domain names
I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to pa...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 1:40 pm
The Domains
Controversial Bill To Fight Piracy Passes in Florida Senate
The Florida state Senate has passed a bill that would require websites who distribute commercial movies and music to give out the identity of their owners. Bradenton.com posted the news from the Associated Press: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Websites th...
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Controversial Bill To Fight Piracy Passes in Florida Senate
The Florida state Senate has passed a bill that would require websites who distribute commercial movies and music to give out the identity of their owners. Bradenton.com posted the news from the Associated Press: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Websites th...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 11:59 am
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
Man, there are some great names on the list today. Now that I have your attention I’ll admit today is a good list but I’ve had better. I noticed that yesterday I had my day wrong on my title for the 455th time. I copy and paste the ...
Discussion
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
Man, there are some great names on the list today. Now that I have your attention I’ll admit today is a good list but I’ve had better. I noticed that yesterday I had my day wrong on my title for the 455th time. I copy and paste the ...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 11:05 am
The Domains
Domains.com Moving To A Couple New Web Addresses
Domains.com is moving to a new name, not a .domains name or a .website, but rather to a .net, for existing customers and GetYour.com for new customers. When going to Domains.com you will see the following: It will be interesting to see what happens w...
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Domains.com Moving To A Couple New Web Addresses
Domains.com is moving to a new name, not a .domains name or a .website, but rather to a .net, for existing customers and GetYour.com for new customers. When going to Domains.com you will see the following: It will be interesting to see what happens w...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 9:02 am
DomainSherpa
Negotiating Hand-Registered Names; GoDaddy’s 200K Domain Portfolio; 2-Word .NETs Value; Exact Match Domains…
In this DomainSherpa Discussion:• Negotiating a hand-registered domain name• What to do when a hot purchase inquiry has gone cold?• Is there value in two-word .NET domain names with high search volume?• Are exact match domain name...
Discussion
Negotiating Hand-Registered Names; GoDaddy’s 200K Domain Portfolio; 2-Word .NETs Value; Exact Match Domains…
In this DomainSherpa Discussion:• Negotiating a hand-registered domain name• What to do when a hot purchase inquiry has gone cold?• Is there value in two-word .NET domain names with high search volume?• Are exact match domain name...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 7:02 am
Domain Shane
Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Ends Tomorrow: JVA.com, JUR.com, CLM.net Hit Reserve
April’s Great Domains auction at Sedo ends tomorrow, with five names already hitting reserve, and several others with bidding in their reserve range. No surprise to see the short domains ruling the roost again this month. Last month’s res...
Discussion
Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Ends Tomorrow: JVA.com, JUR.com, CLM.net Hit Reserve
April’s Great Domains auction at Sedo ends tomorrow, with five names already hitting reserve, and several others with bidding in their reserve range. No surprise to see the short domains ruling the roost again this month. Last month’s res...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 1:39 am
The Domains
New gTLD’s Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds Movie Self/Less
The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less, opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like ...
Discussion
New gTLD’s Hit The Big Screen As The Official Site For The New Ryan Reynolds Movie Self/Less
The new gTLD’s have made it to the big screen. Big Screen, as in a Movie trailer that a reader of TheDomains.com was nice enough to send me. The movie is Self/Less, opening July 10th and stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kinsley. It looks like ...
Discussion
April 22, 2015, 10:02 pm
