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Domain Name Wire
Rare bird .jobs domain spotted in the wild
A fashion brand actually uses the rare .jobs domain name. I went to the mall with my daughter this past weekend when something suddenly stopped me in my tracks. I pulled out my smartphone and snapped a picture. My six-year-old daughter looked at me w...
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Rare bird .jobs domain spotted in the wild
A fashion brand actually uses the rare .jobs domain name. I went to the mall with my daughter this past weekend when something suddenly stopped me in my tracks. I pulled out my smartphone and snapped a picture. My six-year-old daughter looked at me w...
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September 25, 2012, 10:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Sedo GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. Here’s a look.
17 domains have already met their reserves with a couple days to go. Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. So far 17 of the 217 domain names have met their reserves. The highest domain name to have met its reserve is PTZ.com at $5,...
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Sedo GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. Here’s a look.
17 domains have already met their reserves with a couple days to go. Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. So far 17 of the 217 domain names have met their reserves. The highest domain name to have met its reserve is PTZ.com at $5,...
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September 25, 2012, 10:29 am
The Domains
Washington Post Blast Donuts & Its Bid For 307 New gTLD’s: “Raises Fears of Fraud”
The WasingtonPost.com, published a story this morning about Donuts, Inc and its application to operate 307 new gTLD’s entitled: Donuts Inc.’s major play for new Web domain names raises fears of fraud The story throws around some serious a...
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Washington Post Blast Donuts & Its Bid For 307 New gTLD’s: “Raises Fears of Fraud”
The WasingtonPost.com, published a story this morning about Donuts, Inc and its application to operate 307 new gTLD’s entitled: Donuts Inc.’s major play for new Web domain names raises fears of fraud The story throws around some serious a...
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September 25, 2012, 10:12 am
The Domains
Exclusive: Registrars Price Certain Dropping Domains At Namejet.com As High As $12,688 Instead Of $69
A reader first alerted us to certain dropping domain names having a “reserve price” well above the general minimum back order over at Namejet.com which is generally $69 for Pre-release domains. Certain registrars have for year been releas...
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Exclusive: Registrars Price Certain Dropping Domains At Namejet.com As High As $12,688 Instead Of $69
A reader first alerted us to certain dropping domain names having a “reserve price” well above the general minimum back order over at Namejet.com which is generally $69 for Pre-release domains. Certain registrars have for year been releas...
Discussion
September 25, 2012, 8:35 am
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 25th
Had a great day trading. Bought a bunch of Facebook puts on the close Friday and made more yesterday than I did all summer. And I am still holding. I see more run downward. I have a stop but I see this falling back to 18.50 or so. &...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 25th
Had a great day trading. Bought a bunch of Facebook puts on the close Friday and made more yesterday than I did all summer. And I am still holding. I see more run downward. I have a stop but I see this falling back to 18.50 or so. &...
Discussion
September 25, 2012, 6:35 am
Domain Name Wire
CrossFit Blows (and CrossFit isn’t happy about that)
Florida training center upsets CrossFit. CrossFit may be good at kicking peoples’ butts into shape at the gym, but now it’s doing burpees in front of an arbitration panel. A UDRP case was just filed at National Arbitration Froum for the d...
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CrossFit Blows (and CrossFit isn’t happy about that)
Florida training center upsets CrossFit. CrossFit may be good at kicking peoples’ butts into shape at the gym, but now it’s doing burpees in front of an arbitration panel. A UDRP case was just filed at National Arbitration Froum for the d...
Discussion
September 24, 2012, 10:13 pm
The Domains
The Free Speach Collation Weights In On New gTLD’s For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult
Diane Duke, Executive Director of the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) submitted comments to ICANN on the new gTLD’s applications for .Sex., .Porn and .Adult As the FSC was one of the leaders on the fight against ICM application for .XXX, its worth ...
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The Free Speach Collation Weights In On New gTLD’s For .Sex, .Porn & .Adult
Diane Duke, Executive Director of the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) submitted comments to ICANN on the new gTLD’s applications for .Sex., .Porn and .Adult As the FSC was one of the leaders on the fight against ICM application for .XXX, its worth ...
Discussion
September 24, 2012, 4:42 pm
The Domains
Amazon Files Patent On “Method & System For Leasing & Purchasing Of Domains”
Our esteemed colleague John Berryhill, Esq. just spotted this patent Amazon Filed on a ‘Method & Sytem For leasing & Purchasing of Domains Method and system for leasing or purchasing domain names Abstract“Methods and systems...
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Amazon Files Patent On “Method & System For Leasing & Purchasing Of Domains”
Our esteemed colleague John Berryhill, Esq. just spotted this patent Amazon Filed on a ‘Method & Sytem For leasing & Purchasing of Domains Method and system for leasing or purchasing domain names Abstract“Methods and systems...
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September 24, 2012, 3:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
The Atlantic buys QZ.com for new publication
Company forks out cash for two letter domain — which is a truncation of a six letter word. The Atlantic today launched Quartz, a publication targeted to upscale readers. What does this have to do with domain names, other than the decidedly upsc...
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The Atlantic buys QZ.com for new publication
Company forks out cash for two letter domain — which is a truncation of a six letter word. The Atlantic today launched Quartz, a publication targeted to upscale readers. What does this have to do with domain names, other than the decidedly upsc...
Discussion
September 24, 2012, 3:32 pm
The Domains
Shares of Google Hits All Time High
Shares of Google (Goog) traded as high as $748.99 today passing the previous all time high of $747 back in 2007. It was just a couple of weeks ago we posted that Google shares had hit $700 an amount not seen since 2007. So Google is on a tear up over...
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Shares of Google Hits All Time High
Shares of Google (Goog) traded as high as $748.99 today passing the previous all time high of $747 back in 2007. It was just a couple of weeks ago we posted that Google shares had hit $700 an amount not seen since 2007. So Google is on a tear up over...
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September 24, 2012, 1:52 pm
