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DomainSherpa
Domain Name News: February 27 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.• Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top Level Domain• Minds + Machines Patent App for Using Domain Names As Currency• Google: Make Your Website Mobil...
Discussion
Domain Name News: February 27 Week in Review
Hand-curated, no-B.S., important domain name industry news that is hand-picked for you.• Google Pays $25 Million for .App Top Level Domain• Minds + Machines Patent App for Using Domain Names As Currency• Google: Make Your Website Mobil...
Discussion
February 27, 2015, 10:30 am
The Domains
Google Paid Developers More than $7 BILLION in 2014 For Apps & Games On Google Play
According to a blog post on it company blog today “Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries” “In the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and...
Discussion
Google Paid Developers More than $7 BILLION in 2014 For Apps & Games On Google Play
According to a blog post on it company blog today “Google Play now reaches more than 1 billion people on Android devices in more than 190 countries” “In the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 9:54 pm
The Domains
Jennifer Wolfe Joins the DomainDiction.com Board
According to a press release we just received DomainDiction, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announced that Jennifer Wolfe, “the world’s leading expert on TLDs for brands”, will be joining the DomainDicti...
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Jennifer Wolfe Joins the DomainDiction.com Board
According to a press release we just received DomainDiction, a PR and marketing agency dedicated to the domain industry, announced that Jennifer Wolfe, “the world’s leading expert on TLDs for brands”, will be joining the DomainDicti...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 9:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling defends DBAT.com in UDRP
Owner of .net domain name filed cybersquatting complaint. Baseball equipment company DBAT has lost a UDRP it filed against Frank Schilling for the domain name DBAT.com. The baseball company uses the DBAT.NET domain name. According to the decision (em...
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Frank Schilling defends DBAT.com in UDRP
Owner of .net domain name filed cybersquatting complaint. Baseball equipment company DBAT has lost a UDRP it filed against Frank Schilling for the domain name DBAT.com. The baseball company uses the DBAT.NET domain name. According to the decision (em...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 8:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google: Make your website mobile friendly by April 21…or suffer
Google says major mobile search changes are coming. Unless you want to lose search traffic, you need to make your site mobile friendly before April 21. Google announced today that it will place more weight on how mobile-friendly a website is when use...
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Google: Make your website mobile friendly by April 21…or suffer
Google says major mobile search changes are coming. Unless you want to lose search traffic, you need to make your site mobile friendly before April 21. Google announced today that it will place more weight on how mobile-friendly a website is when use...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 6:41 pm
Domain Shane
Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Results, Including Videos.de for 50,000 EUR, MNB.com, JUR.com
I was stuck on a long conference call about construction dewatering permits (thrilling!) and chose to instead focus my attention on the Sedo Great Domains auction which ended earlier today. Below are the unofficial results of the mixture of .com, .de...
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Sedo’s Great Domains Auction Results, Including Videos.de for 50,000 EUR, MNB.com, JUR.com
I was stuck on a long conference call about construction dewatering permits (thrilling!) and chose to instead focus my attention on the Sedo Great Domains auction which ended earlier today. Below are the unofficial results of the mixture of .com, .de...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 6:33 pm
The Domains
Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million
The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. The previously high price paid ...
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Google Wins The new gTLD .APP For $25 Million
The new gTLD .APP sold for $25 Million to Google today in a ICANN Last Resort Auction which I think is very good news for the new gTLD program in general. This is the highest price paid in an ICANN Last Resort Auction. The previously high price paid ...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 5:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google pays $25 million for .App domain
Google pays dearly for rights to control .App domain name. Google has won the rights to operate the .App top level domain name after paying what may be a record-breaking price for a top level domain name. 13 companies applied to run the .app domain n...
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Google pays $25 million for .App domain
Google pays dearly for rights to control .App domain name. Google has won the rights to operate the .App top level domain name after paying what may be a record-breaking price for a top level domain name. 13 companies applied to run the .app domain n...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 5:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Interesting: Minds + Machines patent app for using domain names as currency
Patent application describes a novel way to use domain names as a currency. So far, we’ve seen some innovation in how new top level domain names are distributed and sold, but not much innovation in how they’re actually used. Minds + Machi...
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Interesting: Minds + Machines patent app for using domain names as currency
Patent application describes a novel way to use domain names as a currency. So far, we’ve seen some innovation in how new top level domain names are distributed and sold, but not much innovation in how they’re actually used. Minds + Machi...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 5:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Wow, how was this case not reverse domain name hijacking?
WIPO panelist drops the ball in RDNH decision. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP complaint against the domain name alessandro.com, but failed to find the complainant guilty of reverse domain name hijacki...
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Wow, how was this case not reverse domain name hijacking?
WIPO panelist drops the ball in RDNH decision. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization panel has denied a UDRP complaint against the domain name alessandro.com, but failed to find the complainant guilty of reverse domain name hijacki...
Discussion
February 26, 2015, 4:03 pm
