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Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 21st, 2014
It took a few more days than expected but I did end up getting sick. Not the worse I’ve ever had but feel like Hell. I have gotten sick at every Domain Conference I’ve ever been to and I have never been sick otherwise in 15 ye...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on January 21st, 2014
It took a few more days than expected but I did end up getting sick. Not the worse I’ve ever had but feel like Hell. I have gotten sick at every Domain Conference I’ve ever been to and I have never been sick otherwise in 15 ye...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 11:23 am

The Domains
Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet
Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet 27 bids from $20,000 between two bidders. Domain Timeline: The domain was registered 12/13/2000 by DomaiName – A Division of Internet Yakin Aman out of Indonesia 2003 The name look...
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Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet
Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet 27 bids from $20,000 between two bidders. Domain Timeline: The domain was registered 12/13/2000 by DomaiName – A Division of Internet Yakin Aman out of Indonesia 2003 The name look...
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January 21, 2014, 7:47 am

The Domains
Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging, You Should Probably Stop
Guest Blogging Is Pretty Much Done Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google made a post today on his personal blog concerning guest blogging. Matt basically said that if you are guest blogging for links, just stop it. From the article: Okay, I’m ...
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Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging, You Should Probably Stop
Guest Blogging Is Pretty Much Done Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google made a post today on his personal blog concerning guest blogging. Matt basically said that if you are guest blogging for links, just stop it. From the article: Okay, I’m ...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 12:42 am

Domain Name Wire
What WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said about domain names at NamesCon
WordPress enforces its brand in domain names and doesn’t plan to use any new top level domain names. One of the nice surprises at NamesCon last week was a last-minute appearance by Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg created WordPress and is CEO of Autom...
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What WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said about domain names at NamesCon
WordPress enforces its brand in domain names and doesn’t plan to use any new top level domain names. One of the nice surprises at NamesCon last week was a last-minute appearance by Matt Mullenweg. Mullenweg created WordPress and is CEO of Autom...
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January 20, 2014, 8:29 pm

Domain Name Wire
Pool.com gets contract for .wien and .tirol auction services
Pool.com scores sunrise and landrush business for two domains, but this aspect of TLD launches isn’t as important as before. Pool.com announced today that it will handle auction resolution for the sunrise and landrush phases for Austrian TLDs ....
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Pool.com gets contract for .wien and .tirol auction services
Pool.com scores sunrise and landrush business for two domains, but this aspect of TLD launches isn’t as important as before. Pool.com announced today that it will handle auction resolution for the sunrise and landrush phases for Austrian TLDs ....
Discussion
January 20, 2014, 8:12 pm

The Domains
Candy Crush Maker Now Looks To Crush The Competition With Trademark
King.com the company behind the popular Candy Crush Saga was awarded a registered trademark for the word Candy as it relates to video games and clothing. Yes clothing. Here is a link to the TM at the USPTO One important thing to note is there still c...
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Candy Crush Maker Now Looks To Crush The Competition With Trademark
King.com the company behind the popular Candy Crush Saga was awarded a registered trademark for the word Candy as it relates to video games and clothing. Yes clothing. Here is a link to the TM at the USPTO One important thing to note is there still c...
Discussion
January 20, 2014, 7:44 pm

The Domains
Trademark Owner Loses Bid To Grab 11 Year Old Domain With 1 Year Old Trademark
Andtech Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name andtech.com from the domain owner Portmedia Domains/Portmedia Holdings Ltd which was represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com The Complainant Andtech got its trademark on Christma...
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Trademark Owner Loses Bid To Grab 11 Year Old Domain With 1 Year Old Trademark
Andtech Corporation just lost its attempt to grab the domain name andtech.com from the domain owner Portmedia Domains/Portmedia Holdings Ltd which was represented by Ari Goldberger of Esqwire.com The Complainant Andtech got its trademark on Christma...
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January 20, 2014, 6:53 pm

Domain Name Wire
What domains Sprint, Cox, BitTorrent, and Buzzfeed bought
Big companies buy aftermarket domain names. Once again, I’m a bit behind with end user domain names sales reports due to traveling for NamesCon last week. Here are the end user domain sales I found on Sedo’s sales list it sent out last we...
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What domains Sprint, Cox, BitTorrent, and Buzzfeed bought
Big companies buy aftermarket domain names. Once again, I’m a bit behind with end user domain names sales reports due to traveling for NamesCon last week. Here are the end user domain sales I found on Sedo’s sales list it sent out last we...
Discussion
January 20, 2014, 4:50 pm

Domain Shane
Have an Hour? Want to Be Inspired? Watch this Video from Randy Pausch
Many of you may have already seen the video. Sixteen million people have. A hundred million more should. It’s called the “Last Lecture” and is one of my favorite inspirational videos of all time. Many of the...
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Have an Hour? Want to Be Inspired? Watch this Video from Randy Pausch
Many of you may have already seen the video. Sixteen million people have. A hundred million more should. It’s called the “Last Lecture” and is one of my favorite inspirational videos of all time. Many of the...
Discussion
January 20, 2014, 4:46 pm

The Domains
UDRP Panel Oversteps Its Authority & Transfers 17 Year Old Murko.com
UDRP’s were to settle clear cut disputes for trademark holders where a matching domain name or one which was confusing similar. I think this panel has gone way beyond a set of facts that qualifies for simple in awarding a domain name murko.com ...
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UDRP Panel Oversteps Its Authority & Transfers 17 Year Old Murko.com
UDRP’s were to settle clear cut disputes for trademark holders where a matching domain name or one which was confusing similar. I think this panel has gone way beyond a set of facts that qualifies for simple in awarding a domain name murko.com ...
Discussion
January 20, 2014, 4:28 pm