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Amazon registers over 100 domains for new product launches
Amazon registers domains for Eye Gaze, Right Pet Tags, and more. Amazon held a product launch event earlier this week. And as it always does when it launches products, it undertook a seemingly futile effort to protect the product names in second leve...
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Amazon registers over 100 domains for new product launches
Amazon registers domains for Eye Gaze, Right Pet Tags, and more. Amazon held a product launch event earlier this week. And as it always does when it launches products, it undertook a seemingly futile effort to protect the product names in second leve...
Discussion
September 22, 2023, 4:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN sends breach notice to Freenom’s accredited domain registrar
ICANN has sent a breach notice to the registrar for the third time. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to OpenTLD B.V., an accredited registrar that’s part of the Freenom group of companies. Freenom is best known for giving away free domain r...
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ICANN sends breach notice to Freenom’s accredited domain registrar
ICANN has sent a breach notice to the registrar for the third time. ICANN has sent a breach notice (pdf) to OpenTLD B.V., an accredited registrar that’s part of the Freenom group of companies. Freenom is best known for giving away free domain r...
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September 21, 2023, 3:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain auction bidder agrees to $842k settlement for not completing purchases
Settlement comes after sales of fish.com and bird.com in 2021 auction fell through. A recent lawsuit settlement should be a warning to domain auction bidders: don’t bid on something you can’t pay for. In February 2021, Right of the Dot he...
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Domain auction bidder agrees to $842k settlement for not completing purchases
Settlement comes after sales of fish.com and bird.com in 2021 auction fell through. A recent lawsuit settlement should be a warning to domain auction bidders: don’t bid on something you can’t pay for. In February 2021, Right of the Dot he...
Discussion
September 21, 2023, 3:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Abbott Laboratories tries to use UDRP to settle a trademark dispute
UDRP isn’t meant to settle broad trademark usage disputes. Abbott Laboratories has tried — and failed — to settle a trademark usage dispute using UDRP. The company, which makes Ensure nutritional beverages, filed a UDRP against the ...
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Abbott Laboratories tries to use UDRP to settle a trademark dispute
UDRP isn’t meant to settle broad trademark usage disputes. Abbott Laboratories has tried — and failed — to settle a trademark usage dispute using UDRP. The company, which makes Ensure nutritional beverages, filed a UDRP against the ...
Discussion
September 20, 2023, 3:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Who had the better rebrand, Donuts to Identity Digital or CentralNic to Team Internet
Donuts and CentralNic changed their names. Who made the better rebrand? CentralNic (AIM: TIG) recently changed its brand to Team Internet Group, marking a big change for the large domain name and online advertising firm. It follows another major rebr...
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Who had the better rebrand, Donuts to Identity Digital or CentralNic to Team Internet
Donuts and CentralNic changed their names. Who made the better rebrand? CentralNic (AIM: TIG) recently changed its brand to Team Internet Group, marking a big change for the large domain name and online advertising firm. It follows another major rebr...
Discussion
September 20, 2023, 2:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Latest end user domains sales (and some unknown buyers)
An online billing platform, a fitness gym, and a chatbot company bought domains. Today is one of those days when I curse the name of GDRP. Only a handful of Sedo’s sales this past week resolved to an active website, and only a couple have publi...
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Latest end user domains sales (and some unknown buyers)
An online billing platform, a fitness gym, and a chatbot company bought domains. Today is one of those days when I curse the name of GDRP. Only a handful of Sedo’s sales this past week resolved to an active website, and only a couple have publi...
Discussion
September 19, 2023, 5:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
How to sell more domains – DNW Podcast #453
Listen to this show to sell more domains. On today’s show, Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal shares data and ideas for how to sell more domains. One of the datapoints was so impactful that I changed the prices on about 50 of my domains after reco...
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How to sell more domains – DNW Podcast #453
Listen to this show to sell more domains. On today’s show, Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal shares data and ideas for how to sell more domains. One of the datapoints was so impactful that I changed the prices on about 50 of my domains after reco...
Discussion
September 18, 2023, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Unstoppable Domains drops lawsuit against Handshake .wallet owner
Web3 naming company dismisses its lawsuit, but the issue will still be litigated in the courts. Blockchain naming company Unstoppable Domains has dismissed without prejudice a lawsuit it filed against Scott Florsck and Wallet Inc., which offered seco...
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Unstoppable Domains drops lawsuit against Handshake .wallet owner
Web3 naming company dismisses its lawsuit, but the issue will still be litigated in the courts. Blockchain naming company Unstoppable Domains has dismissed without prejudice a lawsuit it filed against Scott Florsck and Wallet Inc., which offered seco...
Discussion
September 15, 2023, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
I changed my domain prices after talking with Squadhelp’s founder
My discussion for Monday’s podcast prompted me to make a pricing change. My guest on next week’s podcast is Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal. Darpan shares a lot of data on the show that will be helpful to domain owners. One of these data ...
Discussion
I changed my domain prices after talking with Squadhelp’s founder
My discussion for Monday’s podcast prompted me to make a pricing change. My guest on next week’s podcast is Squadhelp founder Darpan Munjal. Darpan shares a lot of data on the show that will be helpful to domain owners. One of these data ...
Discussion
September 14, 2023, 4:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
20 end user domain sales up to €51,000
A magnet manufacturer, a legal recruiter and a furniture company bought domain names. Sedo had an excellent week for end user domain name sales, including several five figure sales. Here’s a list of end user sales that just completed at Sedo. Y...
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20 end user domain sales up to €51,000
A magnet manufacturer, a legal recruiter and a furniture company bought domain names. Sedo had an excellent week for end user domain name sales, including several five figure sales. Here’s a list of end user sales that just completed at Sedo. Y...
Discussion
September 13, 2023, 1:05 pm
