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Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on August 21st, 2013
I saw this van parked in the shopping center I was eating at this week and was impressed. My daughter got excited because she thought I was going to book a day of ziplining. I was impressed because there are thousands of people offering z...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on August 21st, 2013
I saw this van parked in the shopping center I was eating at this week and was impressed. My daughter got excited because she thought I was going to book a day of ziplining. I was impressed because there are thousands of people offering z...
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August 21, 2013, 6:37 am

The Domains
Facebook’s Zuckberberg Wants To Connect The World Using Internet.Org A Domain Owned By Andrew Rosener Until July
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook page, the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm Ericsson, MediaTek and Opera to develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize indus...
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Facebook’s Zuckberberg Wants To Connect The World Using Internet.Org A Domain Owned By Andrew Rosener Until July
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook page, the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm Ericsson, MediaTek and Opera to develop joint projects, share knowledge, and mobilize indus...
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August 21, 2013, 1:45 am

The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $1.425 Million In Domains Including A $500K Sale
Afternic’s published its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 8/12/13 – 8/18/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,425,642. This total included a $500k+ priva...
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Afternic.com Sells $1.425 Million In Domains Including A $500K Sale
Afternic’s published its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 8/12/13 – 8/18/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,425,642. This total included a $500k+ priva...
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August 20, 2013, 9:51 pm

The Domains
Namejet Announces Auction of Top Tier Afternic.com Domain Names
Namejet.com just announced it was holding an domain name auction of some of Afternic.com “top tier” domain names: “Afternic and NameJet have partnered together to offer this exclusive list of generic, brandable domains in auction. &...
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Namejet Announces Auction of Top Tier Afternic.com Domain Names
Namejet.com just announced it was holding an domain name auction of some of Afternic.com “top tier” domain names: “Afternic and NameJet have partnered together to offer this exclusive list of generic, brandable domains in auction. &...
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August 20, 2013, 3:44 pm

The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led By Mkt.com For $35,000
Sedo just published its weekly list of domain name transaction and in all 693 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. “This amounts to $43,2m in year-to-date sales revenue. “Over 43% of total sal...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million Led By Mkt.com For $35,000
Sedo just published its weekly list of domain name transaction and in all 693 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1m. “This amounts to $43,2m in year-to-date sales revenue. “Over 43% of total sal...
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August 20, 2013, 3:22 pm

The Domains
Adidas/Reebok Files Federal Lawsuit Over 372 Domain Names Under ACPA
Sports equipment maker Adidas which owns Reebok filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of 372 domain names including .com’s, .net’s .org’s .info’s .biz and even co.uk and .Eu domain names in the Florida Southern District C...
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Adidas/Reebok Files Federal Lawsuit Over 372 Domain Names Under ACPA
Sports equipment maker Adidas which owns Reebok filed a federal lawsuit against the owners of 372 domain names including .com’s, .net’s .org’s .info’s .biz and even co.uk and .Eu domain names in the Florida Southern District C...
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August 20, 2013, 2:43 pm

The Domains
Tucows.com Shares Hit 52 Week High
Shares of Tucows.com (TCX) hit a 52 week high in trading today. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.31 which is a 52 week high. As of publication Tucows.com is trading at $2.26 up $.10 on the day and has a trading range today of $2.10 to ...
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Tucows.com Shares Hit 52 Week High
Shares of Tucows.com (TCX) hit a 52 week high in trading today. Shares of Tucows.com traded as high as $2.31 which is a 52 week high. As of publication Tucows.com is trading at $2.26 up $.10 on the day and has a trading range today of $2.10 to ...
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August 20, 2013, 2:04 pm

Domain Name Wire
Who owns the domain names ICANN Labs is using?
ICANN Labs is rolling out experimental websites, but it isn’t the registrant of the domain names it’s using. ICANN Labs is ICANN’s attempt to introduce innovation in four areas: discovery, conversation, communication, and education....
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Who owns the domain names ICANN Labs is using?
ICANN Labs is rolling out experimental websites, but it isn’t the registrant of the domain names it’s using. ICANN Labs is ICANN’s attempt to introduce innovation in four areas: discovery, conversation, communication, and education....
Discussion
August 20, 2013, 12:24 pm

The Domains
ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector Against the Same String Into 1 Proceeding
Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings were not similar confusing,...
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ICANN Screwed Up By Not Requiring Joining All Objections By One Objector Against the Same String Into 1 Proceeding
Last nights news that a International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) panelist ruled (pdf) that .cam and .com are too confusingly similar to coexist after two different panels ruled days earlier that the strings were not similar confusing,...
Discussion
August 20, 2013, 11:57 am

Domain Name Wire
ICANN needs to throw TLD applicants a bone on name collisions
If delays are necessary, ICANN should pitch in for monitoring and notification system. A couple weeks ago new top level domain name applicants received some very unwelcome news: many of their TLDs could be significantly delayed due to security concer...
Discussion
ICANN needs to throw TLD applicants a bone on name collisions
If delays are necessary, ICANN should pitch in for monitoring and notification system. A couple weeks ago new top level domain name applicants received some very unwelcome news: many of their TLDs could be significantly delayed due to security concer...
Discussion
August 20, 2013, 11:25 am