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Domain Name Wire
Company wants to trademark Pets.com, X.com and famous slogans
47 / 72 Inc. is already drawing negative attention from celebrities because of its trademark filings. A California company has filed over 70 trademark applications in an effort to register trademarks similar to famous brands, popular slogans and term...
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Company wants to trademark Pets.com, X.com and famous slogans
47 / 72 Inc. is already drawing negative attention from celebrities because of its trademark filings. A California company has filed over 70 trademark applications in an effort to register trademarks similar to famous brands, popular slogans and term...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 9:16 pm

The Domains
Sedo Weekly Sales led by Vivado.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales with Vivado.com coming in at the top of the list at 10,000 Euros. The domain has been registered since 2002. VRaudio.com will please the VR investors out there as the domain sold for $8,000. Another VR related name so...
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Sedo Weekly Sales led by Vivado.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales with Vivado.com coming in at the top of the list at 10,000 Euros. The domain has been registered since 2002. VRaudio.com will please the VR investors out there as the domain sold for $8,000. Another VR related name so...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 8:22 pm

Domain Name Wire
.Com Winners & Losers
Domain Name Wire’s monthly .Com Winners & Losers based on the latest official data. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from May. Here are the top 5 registrars in May in t...
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.Com Winners & Losers
Domain Name Wire’s monthly .Com Winners & Losers based on the latest official data. ICANN has published the latest .com transactions report from registry Verisign, showing official results from May. Here are the top 5 registrars in May in t...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 5:44 pm

Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on September 5, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than a...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on September 5, 2016. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than a...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 5:13 pm

Domain Name Wire
Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the DNS – DNW Podcast #100
Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the domain name system, visits with DNW in its 100th podcast. This week we’re celebrating 100 episodes of the DNW podcast, and what better way to do it than have Paul Mockapetris as our guest. Paul invented the dom...
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Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the DNS – DNW Podcast #100
Paul Mockapetris, inventor of the domain name system, visits with DNW in its 100th podcast. This week we’re celebrating 100 episodes of the DNW podcast, and what better way to do it than have Paul Mockapetris as our guest. Paul invented the dom...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 3:30 pm

Domain Name Wire
Zac Muscovitch gets reverse domain name hijacking win
Complainant filed UDRP after failing to acquire domain name during rebrand. Domain name and trademark attorney Zak Muscovitch has successfully defended the domain name UnMail.com in a UDRP, getting a finding of reverse domain name hijacking for his c...
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Zac Muscovitch gets reverse domain name hijacking win
Complainant filed UDRP after failing to acquire domain name during rebrand. Domain name and trademark attorney Zak Muscovitch has successfully defended the domain name UnMail.com in a UDRP, getting a finding of reverse domain name hijacking for his c...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 1:14 pm

Domain Shane
DSAD.COM: IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, September 6th
When we talk about domain value and pricing we often lose sight of some of the fundamentals of why a person, business or entity would want to buy a particular name. We assign values to names that are “one” word and call them good domains...
Discussion
DSAD.COM: IKE’S LIST OF DOMAINS AT AUCTION FOR Tuesday, September 6th
When we talk about domain value and pricing we often lose sight of some of the fundamentals of why a person, business or entity would want to buy a particular name. We assign values to names that are “one” word and call them good domains...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 12:21 pm

The Domains
The Daily Roundup for 9/5/16
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for September 5, 2016 I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend not sure I did much buying and no selling. Domain movements spotted by Mike Former Marchex domain names sold by @GoDaddy/ @namefind: Hotfashions.com World...
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The Daily Roundup for 9/5/16
Welcome to the Daily Roundup for September 5, 2016 I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend not sure I did much buying and no selling. Domain movements spotted by Mike Former Marchex domain names sold by @GoDaddy/ @namefind: Hotfashions.com World...
Discussion
September 6, 2016, 2:34 am

Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
GSGH.com Great letters worldwide. Over under $1500 $1,590 KZZM.com Actually doing better than the above. The Chinese love Z $1,537 TrapDoors.com Pretty sure you’re not going to be selling trap doors. 8 bidders. 18 years old $716 TuneSpin...
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AUCTION RECAP OF SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
GSGH.com Great letters worldwide. Over under $1500 $1,590 KZZM.com Actually doing better than the above. The Chinese love Z $1,537 TrapDoors.com Pretty sure you’re not going to be selling trap doors. 8 bidders. 18 years old $716 TuneSpin...
Discussion
September 5, 2016, 7:15 pm

Domain Shane
Flippa – A Look Forward: Las-Vegas.com, Puertas.com, Deductible.com, MOO.net, More
Reserve Met and Will Sell Sell.io – Will be interesting to see how this keyword sells in the .io extension. The .org sold for $20,000 on Flippa last year, and the .it went for $25,000 in 2012 at Sedo. This same Sell.io sold for $3,300 at Sedo l...
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Flippa – A Look Forward: Las-Vegas.com, Puertas.com, Deductible.com, MOO.net, More
Reserve Met and Will Sell Sell.io – Will be interesting to see how this keyword sells in the .io extension. The .org sold for $20,000 on Flippa last year, and the .it went for $25,000 in 2012 at Sedo. This same Sell.io sold for $3,300 at Sedo l...
Discussion
September 5, 2016, 6:41 pm