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Elliot's Blog
Guest Post for Charity
I will be traveling for a couple of weeks at the beginning of July, and I want to extend an offer I made last year. Although I’ve been writing a series of articles with tips and business information that aren’t time sensitive to be posted...
Discussion
Guest Post for Charity
I will be traveling for a couple of weeks at the beginning of July, and I want to extend an offer I made last year. Although I’ve been writing a series of articles with tips and business information that aren’t time sensitive to be posted...
Discussion
June 19, 2012, 9:25 am
Domain Name Wire
MediaSet.com decision reversed, owner can keep domain
MediaSet.com can remain with domain registrant. In April I wrote about how a court had apparently ruled that Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, had rights to the domain name MediaSet.com. MediaSet is controlled by former Italian Prime Minis...
Discussion
MediaSet.com decision reversed, owner can keep domain
MediaSet.com can remain with domain registrant. In April I wrote about how a court had apparently ruled that Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, had rights to the domain name MediaSet.com. MediaSet is controlled by former Italian Prime Minis...
Discussion
June 19, 2012, 9:10 am
The Domains
Right Of The Dot™ Launches Contention Resolution Service For Conflicting gTLD Applicants
According to a press release, going out tomorrow, Right Of The Dot™, LLC is launching a Contention Resolution Service for new gTLD applicants who have applied for the same or confusingly similar domain name extension as other applica...
Discussion
Right Of The Dot™ Launches Contention Resolution Service For Conflicting gTLD Applicants
According to a press release, going out tomorrow, Right Of The Dot™, LLC is launching a Contention Resolution Service for new gTLD applicants who have applied for the same or confusingly similar domain name extension as other applica...
Discussion
June 19, 2012, 8:30 am
Domain Shane
Tuesday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 6-19-12
Light list this morning. I am getting tired of all the tools I use to look through names having problems. You would think that after all the effort put towards building these things they would keep it running. But No. ...
Discussion
Tuesday’s Big List of Domains at Auction or Dropping Around The Internet 6-19-12
Light list this morning. I am getting tired of all the tools I use to look through names having problems. You would think that after all the effort put towards building these things they would keep it running. But No. ...
Discussion
June 19, 2012, 6:12 am
Elliot's Blog
Dot… Worthless?
One fun way to speculate what companies were applying for which gTLD extensions was to look through all of the dotWhatever.com, .net, and .org domain registrations to see who owns the names. Since many applicants have been posturing for qui...
Discussion
Dot… Worthless?
One fun way to speculate what companies were applying for which gTLD extensions was to look through all of the dotWhatever.com, .net, and .org domain registrations to see who owns the names. Since many applicants have been posturing for qui...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 8:03 pm
The Domains
SnapNames.com Featured Auction Closing Tommorow June 19th, Only Has Two Domains With Bids
The SnapNames.com Featured Auction for June is closing Tomorrow June 19th at 3:15pm EST and as time of publication there are only two domain names with bids. MobileHomeInvesting.com has a bid of $1,051, but has not hit the reserve price which is some...
Discussion
SnapNames.com Featured Auction Closing Tommorow June 19th, Only Has Two Domains With Bids
The SnapNames.com Featured Auction for June is closing Tomorrow June 19th at 3:15pm EST and as time of publication there are only two domain names with bids. MobileHomeInvesting.com has a bid of $1,051, but has not hit the reserve price which is some...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 5:52 pm
The Domains
3 Member UDRP Panel Affirms Parking As A Legitimate Use Of A Domain Against TM Holder: ERAM.com
A three member UDRP panel just denied a complaint on the domain name ERAM.com brought by ERAM SA. I’m not going to go into detail facts of the case, that was brought against Vertical Axis and defended by Ari Goldberger You should know that ERAM...
Discussion
3 Member UDRP Panel Affirms Parking As A Legitimate Use Of A Domain Against TM Holder: ERAM.com
A three member UDRP panel just denied a complaint on the domain name ERAM.com brought by ERAM SA. I’m not going to go into detail facts of the case, that was brought against Vertical Axis and defended by Ari Goldberger You should know that ERAM...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 1:37 pm
The Domains
Facebook.com Acquires Face.com
Face.com just announced that it sold Face.com to Facebook.com for an undisclosed price. ” “Facebook has acquired Face.com! ” “Our mission is and has always been to find new and exciting ways to make face recognition a fu...
Discussion
Facebook.com Acquires Face.com
Face.com just announced that it sold Face.com to Facebook.com for an undisclosed price. ” “Facebook has acquired Face.com! ” “Our mission is and has always been to find new and exciting ways to make face recognition a fu...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 1:21 pm
Domain Shane
The Best and Most Valuable Letters For a 3 Letter and Four Letter Acronym Domain
Not all letters are created equally. We often talk of “premium” or “bad” letters when it comes to three and four letter dot coms. But are we correct in thoughts as to which letters are really good or bad? I d...
Discussion
The Best and Most Valuable Letters For a 3 Letter and Four Letter Acronym Domain
Not all letters are created equally. We often talk of “premium” or “bad” letters when it comes to three and four letter dot coms. But are we correct in thoughts as to which letters are really good or bad? I d...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 1:00 pm
The Domains
ePan.com Sells for $15K on NameJet & BigMall.com Goes For Over $8K
A few nice sales this last week at NameJet.com with ePan.com leading the way at over $15K and BigMall.com selling for over $8K. Here are the sales we tracked for the week: epan.com $15,088 bigmall.com $8,200 gomusic.com $5,599 equitymort...
Discussion
ePan.com Sells for $15K on NameJet & BigMall.com Goes For Over $8K
A few nice sales this last week at NameJet.com with ePan.com leading the way at over $15K and BigMall.com selling for over $8K. Here are the sales we tracked for the week: epan.com $15,088 bigmall.com $8,200 gomusic.com $5,599 equitymort...
Discussion
June 18, 2012, 12:59 pm