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Domain Shane
Alex Rampell States It Best: If You Want to Compete Online You Better Do the Following
Alex Rampell wrote a story yesterday on TechCrunch that said exactly what I’ve always thought in the article “Say Goodbye to the Long Tail Of Product Sellers: At Least on the Internet” If you want to be a reseller you’re in fo...
Discussion
Alex Rampell States It Best: If You Want to Compete Online You Better Do the Following
Alex Rampell wrote a story yesterday on TechCrunch that said exactly what I’ve always thought in the article “Say Goodbye to the Long Tail Of Product Sellers: At Least on the Internet” If you want to be a reseller you’re in fo...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 1:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Scores a Win in Antitrust Lawsuit
Court rules plaintiffs don’t have standing to bring suit. A California court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) against VeriSign for its .com and .net domain name contracts. The court ruling was first rep...
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VeriSign Scores a Win in Antitrust Lawsuit
Court rules plaintiffs don’t have standing to bring suit. A California court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Coalition for ICANN Transparency (CFIT) against VeriSign for its .com and .net domain name contracts. The court ruling was first rep...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 1:07 pm
The Domains
CinemaCity.com Gets A Reverse Hijacking UDRP Ruling
Prime Pictures LLC of Dubai, bought a UDRP against DigiMedia.com who was represented by John Berryhill on the domain name cinemacity.com The three member panel not only denied the complaint but held that the Complaint amounted to a Revers...
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CinemaCity.com Gets A Reverse Hijacking UDRP Ruling
Prime Pictures LLC of Dubai, bought a UDRP against DigiMedia.com who was represented by John Berryhill on the domain name cinemacity.com The three member panel not only denied the complaint but held that the Complaint amounted to a Revers...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 1:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Scott Day’s DigiMedia Wins Reverse Domain Hijacking Charge
WIPO panel finds complaint against DigiMedia.com was brought in bad faith. Legendary domain name investor Scott Day’s company DigiMedia.com has won a charge of reverse domain name hijacking against a Dubai company. Prime Pictures LLC filed the ...
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Scott Day’s DigiMedia Wins Reverse Domain Hijacking Charge
WIPO panel finds complaint against DigiMedia.com was brought in bad faith. Legendary domain name investor Scott Day’s company DigiMedia.com has won a charge of reverse domain name hijacking against a Dubai company. Prime Pictures LLC filed the ...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 12:26 pm
The Domains
.Co Three Letter Domains 95% Sold Out, 3 Character .Co Domains 46% Sold Out
Over this week there were repeated comments on this blog to the effect that all 3 letter (LLL.co) .Co domain names were registered or reserved, leaving none available. We reached out to the .Co registry to confirm this and got the following inf...
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.Co Three Letter Domains 95% Sold Out, 3 Character .Co Domains 46% Sold Out
Over this week there were repeated comments on this blog to the effect that all 3 letter (LLL.co) .Co domain names were registered or reserved, leaving none available. We reached out to the .Co registry to confirm this and got the following inf...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 12:05 pm
The Domains
.Org Grows Over 10% To Over 8.8 Million Registrations
.ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the growth of the world’s third largest generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD). According to the report, th...
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.Org Grows Over 10% To Over 8.8 Million Registrations
.ORG, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) today released the results of its bi-annual domain name report, “The Dashboard,” detailing the growth of the world’s third largest generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD). According to the report, th...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 10:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Bankrate Acquires and Launches CreditCards.ca
Company launches credit card information site for Canada. Financial media company Bankrate recently acquired and has now launched CreditCards.ca, a credit card information site, Domain Name Wire has discovered. Bankrate recently purchased the company...
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Bankrate Acquires and Launches CreditCards.ca
Company launches credit card information site for Canada. Financial media company Bankrate recently acquired and has now launched CreditCards.ca, a credit card information site, Domain Name Wire has discovered. Bankrate recently purchased the company...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
.nxt – Like an ICANN Meeting With a Pulse
by Kevin Murphy The inaugural .nxt conference on new top-level domains wound up in San Francisco Thursday, with most participants seeming to agree that it was a success. The two-day meeting attracted 196 sign-ups (about 20 of whom apparently paid but...
Discussion
.nxt – Like an ICANN Meeting With a Pulse
by Kevin Murphy The inaugural .nxt conference on new top-level domains wound up in San Francisco Thursday, with most participants seeming to agree that it was a success. The two-day meeting attracted 196 sign-ups (about 20 of whom apparently paid but...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 9:50 am
Elliot's Blog
Mark Haseltine Hired as NameMedia CTO
NameMedia, the company that operates Buy Domains, Afternic, and SmartName, just announced that Mark Haseltine has been hired as Chief Technical Officer for the company. Haseltine has experience working at large tech companies like Oracle and Alta Vis...
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Mark Haseltine Hired as NameMedia CTO
NameMedia, the company that operates Buy Domains, Afternic, and SmartName, just announced that Mark Haseltine has been hired as Chief Technical Officer for the company. Haseltine has experience working at large tech companies like Oracle and Alta Vis...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 9:38 am
Domain Shane
Monday’s Domain Auction and Drop Picks: Some Good Names Today
Today is one of those days you’ll need to head over and scan the list as there’s a lot of good names today. Godaddy is light and so is snapnames but some strong names coming through NameJet. Sorry about not getting up the list...
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Monday’s Domain Auction and Drop Picks: Some Good Names Today
Today is one of those days you’ll need to head over and scan the list as there’s a lot of good names today. Godaddy is light and so is snapnames but some strong names coming through NameJet. Sorry about not getting up the list...
Discussion
February 14, 2011, 8:40 am
