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Directi to relaunch .pw as “professional web”
Country code domain name .pw to be relaunched as generic domain. Directi (see disclosure) today announced plans to rebrand and relaunch the country code domain name .pw to stand for “professional web”. .Pw is the country code for the isla...
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Directi to relaunch .pw as “professional web”
Country code domain name .pw to be relaunched as generic domain. Directi (see disclosure) today announced plans to rebrand and relaunch the country code domain name .pw to stand for “professional web”. .Pw is the country code for the isla...
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October 8, 2012, 10:42 am
Domain Name Wire
Afternic scores huge domain sales partner with Endurance
Endurance joins Afternic domain sales network. Afternic officially announced today that Endurance International Group has joined the company’s AfternicDLS program. That means customers of Endurance’s various businesses will now see Aftern...
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Afternic scores huge domain sales partner with Endurance
Endurance joins Afternic domain sales network. Afternic officially announced today that Endurance International Group has joined the company’s AfternicDLS program. That means customers of Endurance’s various businesses will now see Aftern...
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October 8, 2012, 9:05 am
Domain Name Wire
Tucows’ Bill Sweetman “uses the force” to return DarthVader.com to LucasFilm
Sweetman facilitates LucasFilm getting DarthVader.com domain name. Last month Fusible noticed that LucasFilm was the new owner of DarthVader.com. This morning the story of how that came to be has been released. Tucows vice president Bill Sweetman res...
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Tucows’ Bill Sweetman “uses the force” to return DarthVader.com to LucasFilm
Sweetman facilitates LucasFilm getting DarthVader.com domain name. Last month Fusible noticed that LucasFilm was the new owner of DarthVader.com. This morning the story of how that came to be has been released. Tucows vice president Bill Sweetman res...
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October 8, 2012, 8:03 am
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New Afternic tries to create a sense of community
Completely revamped Afternic.com brings back the sense of community and marketplace. Remember Afternic back in the day? I mean way back in the day. Like around 2000, when the site served as both a marketplace and a popular chat room for domainers (ev...
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New Afternic tries to create a sense of community
Completely revamped Afternic.com brings back the sense of community and marketplace. Remember Afternic back in the day? I mean way back in the day. Like around 2000, when the site served as both a marketplace and a popular chat room for domainers (ev...
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October 5, 2012, 12:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign files patent application for way of transfering hosting on DNSSEC Domains
Application describes way to change hosting on DNSSEC enabled domains without any downtime. Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) bring all sorts of security benefits, but it can make changing hosting providers more challenging. Verisign ha...
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Verisign files patent application for way of transfering hosting on DNSSEC Domains
Application describes way to change hosting on DNSSEC enabled domains without any downtime. Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) bring all sorts of security benefits, but it can make changing hosting providers more challenging. Verisign ha...
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October 5, 2012, 9:50 am
Domain Name Wire
FacebookIsLikeaChair.com
Facebook registers domain names related to video commemorating 1 billion active user mark. Yesterday Facebook celebrated reaching one billion active monthly users by launching a brand campaign. The first part of the campaign is a video about “t...
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FacebookIsLikeaChair.com
Facebook registers domain names related to video commemorating 1 billion active user mark. Yesterday Facebook celebrated reaching one billion active monthly users by launching a brand campaign. The first part of the campaign is a video about “t...
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October 5, 2012, 9:25 am
Domain Name Wire
L.A. company denied chance to use dot.com bust Kozmo.com’s domain name
Kozmo.com may be defunct but it’s domain registration lives on. In July I wrote about how Los Angeles company Yummy Foods, LLC wanted to relaunch the Kozmo.com delivery brand. Kozmo.com was one of the biggest dot.com busts. It raised around $25...
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L.A. company denied chance to use dot.com bust Kozmo.com’s domain name
Kozmo.com may be defunct but it’s domain registration lives on. In July I wrote about how Los Angeles company Yummy Foods, LLC wanted to relaunch the Kozmo.com delivery brand. Kozmo.com was one of the biggest dot.com busts. It raised around $25...
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October 4, 2012, 1:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
$4M+ GiftCard.com seller is no stranger to big ticket domain sales
Seller also sold CashBack.com to Microsoft. Yesterday Gift Card Lab announced that it had acquired GiftCard.com for over $4 million in cash and equity. The purchase was not just a domain name; it came with a long running business that also included t...
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$4M+ GiftCard.com seller is no stranger to big ticket domain sales
Seller also sold CashBack.com to Microsoft. Yesterday Gift Card Lab announced that it had acquired GiftCard.com for over $4 million in cash and equity. The purchase was not just a domain name; it came with a long running business that also included t...
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October 4, 2012, 1:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign wants patent on non-existent domain analysis tools
Company files patent application related to NXD data analysis. Verisign has made great strides in opening up its treasure trove of data related to traffic to non-existent domain names (NXD). Now it wants to patent some of its methods. The company fil...
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Verisign wants patent on non-existent domain analysis tools
Company files patent application related to NXD data analysis. Verisign has made great strides in opening up its treasure trove of data related to traffic to non-existent domain names (NXD). Now it wants to patent some of its methods. The company fil...
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October 4, 2012, 11:31 am
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Company sues to get Reinvention.com domain name
Marketing company claims domain infringes its re:invention mark. An Illinois marketing company called Reinvention, Inc. has sued data sampling company Reinvention, LLC, which owns the Reinvention.com domain name. The brief, five page complaint (pdf) ...
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Company sues to get Reinvention.com domain name
Marketing company claims domain infringes its re:invention mark. An Illinois marketing company called Reinvention, Inc. has sued data sampling company Reinvention, LLC, which owns the Reinvention.com domain name. The brief, five page complaint (pdf) ...
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October 4, 2012, 10:08 am
