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Domain Name Wire
Fortune 500 Company Goes After Three Letter .Com But Loses
Company with $5 billion in annual sales decides to try to nab domain through arbitration rather than buy it. The price just went up. The owner of TDS.com has successfully defended his domain name from Telephone and Data Systems, Inc in a UDRP case. T...
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Fortune 500 Company Goes After Three Letter .Com But Loses
Company with $5 billion in annual sales decides to try to nab domain through arbitration rather than buy it. The price just went up. The owner of TDS.com has successfully defended his domain name from Telephone and Data Systems, Inc in a UDRP case. T...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 9:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
Mike Mann Ordered to Transfer 21 Domains to Facebook
Facebook awarded 21 trademark-infringing domain names. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ordered BuyDomains founder Mike Mann and his company Domain Asset Holdings to transfer 21 domain names to social networking site Facebook. The...
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Mike Mann Ordered to Transfer 21 Domains to Facebook
Facebook awarded 21 trademark-infringing domain names. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has ordered BuyDomains founder Mike Mann and his company Domain Asset Holdings to transfer 21 domain names to social networking site Facebook. The...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 9:11 pm
The Domains
OrangeJuice.com Sells For $44,800
The much hyped no reserve auction just ended at NameJet.com for the domain name OrangeJuice.com with a winning bid of $44,800. Although there were 517 people in the auction only 7 were willing to bid $20K or more for the domain. The domain was advert...
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OrangeJuice.com Sells For $44,800
The much hyped no reserve auction just ended at NameJet.com for the domain name OrangeJuice.com with a winning bid of $44,800. Although there were 517 people in the auction only 7 were willing to bid $20K or more for the domain. The domain was advert...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 6:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
209.8 Million Domain Names As of April
Web adds more domain names in Q1. April started with approximately 209.8 million domain names registered according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf). That means the base of registered domain names grew by 4.5 million in the ...
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209.8 Million Domain Names As of April
Web adds more domain names in Q1. April started with approximately 209.8 million domain names registered according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf). That means the base of registered domain names grew by 4.5 million in the ...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 5:03 pm
Elliot's Blog
Guest Post: How .com Changed Three Words For The Better
The following is a guest post written by Bobby Fitzgerald discussing how RestaurantsAgainstCancer.com was developed to raise money for the children of Camp Sunrise. Recently at a American Cancer Society meeting I was told about CEO’s Again...
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Guest Post: How .com Changed Three Words For The Better
The following is a guest post written by Bobby Fitzgerald discussing how RestaurantsAgainstCancer.com was developed to raise money for the children of Camp Sunrise. Recently at a American Cancer Society meeting I was told about CEO’s Again...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 3:35 pm
The Domains
Google’s Matt Cutts On Why Porn Sites Have Such A Low Page Rank
Recently an adult webmaster asked Matt Cutt’s of Google why porn site do not enjoy high Page Ranks. “What are the technical reasons porn sites have such low PageRank? “None go over PR6. “A lack of links from trusted sites? Ram...
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Google’s Matt Cutts On Why Porn Sites Have Such A Low Page Rank
Recently an adult webmaster asked Matt Cutt’s of Google why porn site do not enjoy high Page Ranks. “What are the technical reasons porn sites have such low PageRank? “None go over PR6. “A lack of links from trusted sites? Ram...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 3:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign and Go Daddy Increase Government Lobbying
Two domain name industry heavyweights spend more on government lobbying in 2010. Both VeriSign and Go Daddy substantially increased their spending on U.S. government lobbying over the past year, data collected by Domain Name Wire show. The numbers ar...
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VeriSign and Go Daddy Increase Government Lobbying
Two domain name industry heavyweights spend more on government lobbying in 2010. Both VeriSign and Go Daddy substantially increased their spending on U.S. government lobbying over the past year, data collected by Domain Name Wire show. The numbers ar...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 12:45 pm
Domain Shane
Great. Frank Schilling and the “Big Boys” Are Making More Money But Nothing’s Changed for the Rest of Us
It’s not jealousy, it’s just a fact. Congratulations to Frank Schilling, Rich Schwartz and Michael Berkens. Glad to hear they are getting the cut of the revenue they deserved all along. I just wonder what took them so long.&nb...
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Great. Frank Schilling and the “Big Boys” Are Making More Money But Nothing’s Changed for the Rest of Us
It’s not jealousy, it’s just a fact. Congratulations to Frank Schilling, Rich Schwartz and Michael Berkens. Glad to hear they are getting the cut of the revenue they deserved all along. I just wonder what took them so long.&nb...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 12:44 pm
The Domains
Cupid.com Buys The Domain Name Cupidon.com For $280,000
According to an article in business7.co.uk, Cupid.com a company located in Scotland just acquired the domain name Cupidon.com for £175,000 which coverts into $280,000 Dollars. Cupidon is the French equivalent word for cupid. In Feburary of this...
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Cupid.com Buys The Domain Name Cupidon.com For $280,000
According to an article in business7.co.uk, Cupid.com a company located in Scotland just acquired the domain name Cupidon.com for £175,000 which coverts into $280,000 Dollars. Cupidon is the French equivalent word for cupid. In Feburary of this...
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 10:20 am
Domain Name Wire
The Most Expensive Second Level Domain Names in the World?
Which country charges the most for second level domain names? Which country code do you suppose charges the most money to register a second level domain name? Perhaps established countries like Germany’s .de? Another rich Western country? Nope....
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The Most Expensive Second Level Domain Names in the World?
Which country charges the most for second level domain names? Which country code do you suppose charges the most money to register a second level domain name? Perhaps established countries like Germany’s .de? Another rich Western country? Nope....
Discussion
May 25, 2011, 10:05 am
