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The Domains
.BUZZ Release Premium Domain List With Prices As High As $46,880
The new gTLD .Buzz has released its premium list of domain names on its website, names.buzz . The most expensive domain name on the list is Games.Buzz at $46,880 but its on the ICANN collision list so its not quiet available yet. The most expe...
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.BUZZ Release Premium Domain List With Prices As High As $46,880
The new gTLD .Buzz has released its premium list of domain names on its website, names.buzz . The most expensive domain name on the list is Games.Buzz at $46,880 but its on the ICANN collision list so its not quiet available yet. The most expe...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 7:48 pm
The Domains
If You Want To Bid On A .Club Auction Domain At Sedo You Need To Send In A Form
The Sedo.com auction for 25 .club domain names started today but you won’t be able to bid on any of them unless and until you fill out the Auction Bidder Certification form print it out and submit it to Sedo.com via email or faxe...
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If You Want To Bid On A .Club Auction Domain At Sedo You Need To Send In A Form
The Sedo.com auction for 25 .club domain names started today but you won’t be able to bid on any of them unless and until you fill out the Auction Bidder Certification form print it out and submit it to Sedo.com via email or faxe...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 5:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Southpark, Kraft, American Eagle, and 21 others bought last week
Some big companies bought domain names on Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) AEO.pl €744 – clothing company Amer...
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What domain names Southpark, Kraft, American Eagle, and 21 others bought last week
Some big companies bought domain names on Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. (You can see previous end user sales reports here.) AEO.pl €744 – clothing company Amer...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 5:33 pm
The Domains
.Org Adds 206K Registrations; Up 2.6% in 2013; 85% Of Registrants Renew For 3 Years Or More
PIR, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG Top Level domain name extension, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the increased growth of .ORG throughout 2013. The report reveals that...
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.Org Adds 206K Registrations; Up 2.6% in 2013; 85% Of Registrants Renew For 3 Years Or More
PIR, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG Top Level domain name extension, today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the increased growth of .ORG throughout 2013. The report reveals that...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 4:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
The non-.com leakage factor and what it means for new TLDs
In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your websi...
Discussion
The non-.com leakage factor and what it means for new TLDs
In today’s world, secondary domains leak traffic to .com and dominant country code domains. Will this change? One of the challenges of registering a domain under a top level domain that’s not dominant in the location of most of your websi...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 4:27 pm
The Domains
The New gTLD .HIV Project Has Pretty Creative Way Of Distributing Money To Non-Profits
At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning a presentation by the supporters of the new gTLD .HIV explained that part of the project will “generate funds to support the dedicated all over the world, raise awareness of the topic HIV...
Discussion
The New gTLD .HIV Project Has Pretty Creative Way Of Distributing Money To Non-Profits
At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning a presentation by the supporters of the new gTLD .HIV explained that part of the project will “generate funds to support the dedicated all over the world, raise awareness of the topic HIV...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 4:26 pm
The Domains
.UNO Wants To Be The Spanish Equivalent of .Com
At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning Shaul Jones President and CEO of the the .Uno registry laid out his goal for the .UNO registry .UNO wants to be the .COM to the spanish speaking market. .UNO will globally connect over 490 milli...
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.UNO Wants To Be The Spanish Equivalent of .Com
At the Fairwinds Beyond The Dot conference this morning Shaul Jones President and CEO of the the .Uno registry laid out his goal for the .UNO registry .UNO wants to be the .COM to the spanish speaking market. .UNO will globally connect over 490 milli...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 3:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets patent for Recovery of a Failed Registry
Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one t...
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Verisign gets patent for Recovery of a Failed Registry
Verisign adds to patent war chest. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Verisign patent number 8,656,209 for “Recovery of a Failed Registry”. I wrote about the patent application in 2012. Verisign describes the system as one t...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 2:50 pm
The Domains
13 Year Old SocialPoint.com Saved In UDRP
Social Point, S.L. of Barcelona, Spain, just lost it attempt to grab the domain name socialpoint.com who was represented by Erika L. Hengst, Esquire of Florida The domain name SocialPoint was registered on August 30, 2001. The Complainant is the deve...
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13 Year Old SocialPoint.com Saved In UDRP
Social Point, S.L. of Barcelona, Spain, just lost it attempt to grab the domain name socialpoint.com who was represented by Erika L. Hengst, Esquire of Florida The domain name SocialPoint was registered on August 30, 2001. The Complainant is the deve...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 2:11 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on February 19th, 2014
There were some interesting comments about dot nets in the comment section of DomainPicks last night. One person says they are being dropped like the plague and Owen Frager says Frank Schilling is buying them up. I have thought abou...
Discussion
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on February 19th, 2014
There were some interesting comments about dot nets in the comment section of DomainPicks last night. One person says they are being dropped like the plague and Owen Frager says Frank Schilling is buying them up. I have thought abou...
Discussion
February 19, 2014, 11:24 am
