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The Domains
Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends”
According to Techcrunch, Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble With Friends®, Hanging With Friends™, Matching With Friends™, Gem...
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Zynga Claims Trademark Rights To “With Friends”
According to Techcrunch, Zynga who recently launched runningwithfriends.com, and also owns and operates Words With Friends®, Chess With Friends®, Scramble With Friends®, Hanging With Friends™, Matching With Friends™, Gem...
Discussion
May 18, 2013, 9:42 am
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 18th
Long story short. Godaddy sucks today and Namejet is pretty solid. Aaron made it by the nursery yesterday and got a glimpse of my day. He said I didn’t look comfortable just sitting and talking with him with all the activity a...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Saturday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 18th
Long story short. Godaddy sucks today and Namejet is pretty solid. Aaron made it by the nursery yesterday and got a glimpse of my day. He said I didn’t look comfortable just sitting and talking with him with all the activity a...
Discussion
May 18, 2013, 6:56 am
The Domains
ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLD’s”
On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s “”ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in late April announced th...
Discussion
ANA: “ICANN Fails to Address Key Concerns About New gTLD’s”
On a post on its blog, The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) rips ICANN for failing to “address Key COncerns About New gTLD’s “”ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in late April announced th...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 3:41 pm
The Domains
40 New gTLD’s Apps Pass IE: .Chrome; .BBC; .AmericanExpress; .BMW; .Ads
ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. 190 UNO Dot Latin LLC 211 SENER Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. 351 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation 352 LOTTE Lotte Holdings Co., L...
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40 New gTLD’s Apps Pass IE: .Chrome; .BBC; .AmericanExpress; .BMW; .Ads
ICANN just released 40 more new gTLD’s that passed Initial Evaluation today. 190 UNO Dot Latin LLC 211 SENER Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. 351 BBC British Broadcasting Corporation 352 LOTTE Lotte Holdings Co., L...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 1:27 pm
Elliot's Blog
Domain Due Diligence: Previous Marketing
Before buying a domain name, it’s a given that you need to do your due diligence for a variety of reasons. The primary issue I want to discuss today is previous marketing attempts for the domain name. In my opinion, there are two reasons you wi...
Discussion
Domain Due Diligence: Previous Marketing
Before buying a domain name, it’s a given that you need to do your due diligence for a variety of reasons. The primary issue I want to discuss today is previous marketing attempts for the domain name. In my opinion, there are two reasons you wi...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 11:42 am
The Domains
ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions
If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to g...
Discussion
ICANN Still Has Virtually No Revenue Coming In From Last Resort Auctions
If two or more applicants applied for the same new gTLD unless the parties can resolve their contention between themselves the parties go to an ICANN last resort auction. We have chatted before that we expect some of the new gTLD string auctions to g...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 11:36 am
The Domains
Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of IE
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings wi...
Discussion
Now At 66 ICANN Expects 105 New gTLD Applications To Be Withdrawn Before End of IE
In its 2014 budget ICANN expects a total of 646 new gTLD applications will be withdrawn up from its estimate of 545. We know that there were 1931 applications submitted for 1,409 strings. So we know that all the non-winning applications in strings wi...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 11:03 am
The Domains
ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014
According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD’s&...
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ICANN Is Planning On New gTLD To Generating Less Than 10% Of Existing TLD in 2014
According to ICANN 2014 budget it is expecting revenue coming in from New gTLD’ to be less than 10% of existing TLD”s. The 2014 revised budget has $81,115,000 in revenue coming in from registries and registrars from incumbent TLD’s&...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 10:50 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN headcount exploding 50% this fiscal year
Non-profit plans to continue hiring in all departments. ICANN expects to end FY 2013 this June with nearly 50% more employees than it began the year with. That’s according to the non-profit’s FY 2014 draft operating plan, which shows an e...
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ICANN headcount exploding 50% this fiscal year
Non-profit plans to continue hiring in all departments. ICANN expects to end FY 2013 this June with nearly 50% more employees than it began the year with. That’s according to the non-profit’s FY 2014 draft operating plan, which shows an e...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 10:22 am
The Domains
Donuts Agrees To Private Auctions For 63 New gTLD’s: Will Anyone Come To Play?
According to a Press Release just out Donuts Inc., has committed to participate in the first online applicant auction for 63 of the 307 total gTLDs for which it has applied. The announcement is made in advance of next week’s commitment date for...
Discussion
Donuts Agrees To Private Auctions For 63 New gTLD’s: Will Anyone Come To Play?
According to a Press Release just out Donuts Inc., has committed to participate in the first online applicant auction for 63 of the 307 total gTLDs for which it has applied. The announcement is made in advance of next week’s commitment date for...
Discussion
May 17, 2013, 9:57 am
