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The Domains
DomainNameSales Sells $1.5 Million In Domain In Sept Led By DataCenter.com For $190K, Waitress.com $168K
In the first of what appears will be a monthly report DomainNameSales.com reported over $1.5 Million in domain name sales for the month of September led by DataCenters.com at $190,000 and Waitress.com at $168K Here are all the sale we received and I ...
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DomainNameSales Sells $1.5 Million In Domain In Sept Led By DataCenter.com For $190K, Waitress.com $168K
In the first of what appears will be a monthly report DomainNameSales.com reported over $1.5 Million in domain name sales for the month of September led by DataCenters.com at $190,000 and Waitress.com at $168K Here are all the sale we received and I ...
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October 8, 2013, 4:35 pm

The Domains
SilkApp.com Changes To Silk.co Gets Another $1.6 Million In Funding & TechCrunch Covers It
TechCrunch.com has just covered the company previously known as Silkapp.com which has just rebranded to Silk.Co and that it raised an additional $1.6 Million in funding to bring it up to a total of $3.7 million in funding According to TC: &ldqu...
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SilkApp.com Changes To Silk.co Gets Another $1.6 Million In Funding & TechCrunch Covers It
TechCrunch.com has just covered the company previously known as Silkapp.com which has just rebranded to Silk.Co and that it raised an additional $1.6 Million in funding to bring it up to a total of $3.7 million in funding According to TC: &ldqu...
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October 8, 2013, 3:01 pm

The Domains
Fairwinds Partners Rolls Out BeyondTheDot.com To Cover New gTLD’s
FairwindsPartners.com which is a brand consultancy firm and also represented many Brand new gTLD applications, rolled out today a site to “let consumers know what to expect” from the launch of the new gTLD’s “Beyondthedo...
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Fairwinds Partners Rolls Out BeyondTheDot.com To Cover New gTLD’s
FairwindsPartners.com which is a brand consultancy firm and also represented many Brand new gTLD applications, rolled out today a site to “let consumers know what to expect” from the launch of the new gTLD’s “Beyondthedo...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 2:47 pm

Elliot's Blog
Good Time to Contact End User Buyer
The other day, I read a report about a large deal that had recently been transacted (outside the domain space). The medium sized company made hundreds of thousands of dollars on a deal, and it had been reported in a trade magazine. I own a domain nam...
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Good Time to Contact End User Buyer
The other day, I read a report about a large deal that had recently been transacted (outside the domain space). The medium sized company made hundreds of thousands of dollars on a deal, and it had been reported in a trade magazine. I own a domain nam...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 2:35 pm

The Domains
La Salle U Allows The Direct Match Domain To Be CyberSquatted On for Over 13 Years & It Sells Email Addresses Too
La Salle University won control of it’s direct match .com domain name today LasalleUniversity.com in a one member UDRP ruling. The fact that La Salle, won control of this domain isn’t the story. The story is it took La Salle over 13 years...
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La Salle U Allows The Direct Match Domain To Be CyberSquatted On for Over 13 Years & It Sells Email Addresses Too
La Salle University won control of it’s direct match .com domain name today LasalleUniversity.com in a one member UDRP ruling. The fact that La Salle, won control of this domain isn’t the story. The story is it took La Salle over 13 years...
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October 8, 2013, 1:19 pm

Domain Name Wire
56 new TLD contracts signed, Donuts has more than half
New top level domain contracts are slowly (but surely) being executed. ICANN’s latest new top level domain name contracting stats show that 56 registry agreements have been signed. 55 of those have been published to ICANN’s registry page....
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56 new TLD contracts signed, Donuts has more than half
New top level domain contracts are slowly (but surely) being executed. ICANN’s latest new top level domain name contracting stats show that 56 registry agreements have been signed. 55 of those have been published to ICANN’s registry page....
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 12:46 pm

Elliot's Blog
2 Factor Authentication to Protect Domains
For quite some time, Name.com has been a leader in giving additional security to its clients without much hassle. The company’s offerings, called NameSafe, allow clients to have enhanced account security with a phone app or a security key fob. ...
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2 Factor Authentication to Protect Domains
For quite some time, Name.com has been a leader in giving additional security to its clients without much hassle. The company’s offerings, called NameSafe, allow clients to have enhanced account security with a phone app or a security key fob. ...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 11:04 am

Domain Name Wire
NBA, MLB, NHL and colleges team up to take down websites selling counterfeits
Sports leagues team up to take down counterfeiters. A number of professional sports leagues and colleges have filed a lawsuit in an effort to seize domain names and shut down websites used to sell counterfeit goods. The suit (pdf) was filed yesterday...
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NBA, MLB, NHL and colleges team up to take down websites selling counterfeits
Sports leagues team up to take down counterfeiters. A number of professional sports leagues and colleges have filed a lawsuit in an effort to seize domain names and shut down websites used to sell counterfeit goods. The suit (pdf) was filed yesterday...
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October 8, 2013, 10:52 am

Domain Name Wire
Web development company squares off with real estate firm over “Ascent” name
Two California companies will head to court of business name. Electronic Creations Company (ECC), a web development company, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) seeking declaratory relief to fend of an attack from a California real estate firm. ECC owns a numb...
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Web development company squares off with real estate firm over “Ascent” name
Two California companies will head to court of business name. Electronic Creations Company (ECC), a web development company, has filed a lawsuit (pdf) seeking declaratory relief to fend of an attack from a California real estate firm. ECC owns a numb...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 10:22 am

The Domains
Microsoft Wins Control Of 13 Bing Domain Names In UDRP: BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com; BingFace.com
Microsoft just won control over 13 domain names infringing on its Bing Trademark. Some of the domains like BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com and BingBrazil.com are easy to see why the company would want the domains. Some others like Bing119.com and BingF...
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Microsoft Wins Control Of 13 Bing Domain Names In UDRP: BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com; BingFace.com
Microsoft just won control over 13 domain names infringing on its Bing Trademark. Some of the domains like BingFrance.com, BingSpain.com and BingBrazil.com are easy to see why the company would want the domains. Some others like Bing119.com and BingF...
Discussion
October 8, 2013, 10:08 am