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Do automated appraisals work?
Sometimes, but there are notable limits. It’s one of the great debates in the domain name industry: do automated domain name appraisals work? Are any domain appraisals (even from humans) accurate? I thought about this again today as I put toget...
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Do automated appraisals work?
Sometimes, but there are notable limits. It’s one of the great debates in the domain name industry: do automated domain name appraisals work? Are any domain appraisals (even from humans) accurate? I thought about this again today as I put toget...
Discussion
August 29, 2012, 1:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
19 smart end user domain buys from the past week
From governments to app developers, here are 19 end users that bought domain names over the past week. I’ve nineteen end user sales on the list this week. Enjoy. Afternic Direct response marketing company Ontel Products Corporation bought Sound...
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19 smart end user domain buys from the past week
From governments to app developers, here are 19 end users that bought domain names over the past week. I’ve nineteen end user sales on the list this week. Enjoy. Afternic Direct response marketing company Ontel Products Corporation bought Sound...
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August 29, 2012, 11:05 am
Domain Name Wire
Rising Star AG forgets to renew RisingStar.com, files UDRP 2 years later (and loses)
Rising star or a falling star? Here’s an interesting UDRP over a great generic domain name, RisingStar.com. Investment company Rising Star AG, which owns RisingStar.ch, bought the domain name RisingStar.com for $5,000 in 2006. It forgot to rene...
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Rising Star AG forgets to renew RisingStar.com, files UDRP 2 years later (and loses)
Rising star or a falling star? Here’s an interesting UDRP over a great generic domain name, RisingStar.com. Investment company Rising Star AG, which owns RisingStar.ch, bought the domain name RisingStar.com for $5,000 in 2006. It forgot to rene...
Discussion
August 29, 2012, 9:36 am
Domain Name Wire
Dear Alexander, the macros on your domain spam aren’t working!
Dear Alexander, I feel like I know you so much even though we’ve never met in person. You’ve been such a helpful friend all these years. You email me whenever a domain name similar to one I own is expiring and going up for auction. Sure, ...
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Dear Alexander, the macros on your domain spam aren’t working!
Dear Alexander, I feel like I know you so much even though we’ve never met in person. You’ve been such a helpful friend all these years. You email me whenever a domain name similar to one I own is expiring and going up for auction. Sure, ...
Discussion
August 28, 2012, 12:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Royal Bank of Scotland files 34 UDRPs
Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services goes into overdrive with large client. Royal Bank of Scotland and its National Westminster Bank Plc have decided to go bulk in cracking down on cybersquatters. The company just filed 34 UDRP cases covering 35 domai...
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Royal Bank of Scotland files 34 UDRPs
Melbourne IT Digital Brand Services goes into overdrive with large client. Royal Bank of Scotland and its National Westminster Bank Plc have decided to go bulk in cracking down on cybersquatters. The company just filed 34 UDRP cases covering 35 domai...
Discussion
August 28, 2012, 11:17 am
Domain Name Wire
Learning the hard way: RNC speaker slammed in parody web site
Speaker’s company name registered for parody web site. Tonight at the Republican National Convention, small business owner and Delaware Lt. Governor candidate Sher Valenzuela will address the crowd. The theme of the day is “We Built It&rd...
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Learning the hard way: RNC speaker slammed in parody web site
Speaker’s company name registered for parody web site. Tonight at the Republican National Convention, small business owner and Delaware Lt. Governor candidate Sher Valenzuela will address the crowd. The theme of the day is “We Built It&rd...
Discussion
August 28, 2012, 10:47 am
Domain Name Wire
National Arbitration Forum continues to hand majority of cases to select panelists
Seven panelists hear nearly half of all NAF UDRP cases. Zak Muscovitch has updated his National Arbitration Forum (NAF) panelist study originally released in 2010. The results published on DNAttorney.com have basically the same conclusion as his orig...
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National Arbitration Forum continues to hand majority of cases to select panelists
Seven panelists hear nearly half of all NAF UDRP cases. Zak Muscovitch has updated his National Arbitration Forum (NAF) panelist study originally released in 2010. The results published on DNAttorney.com have basically the same conclusion as his orig...
Discussion
August 28, 2012, 9:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Holdings continues to hire the entire domain name industry
Michael Feeley latest to join Domain Holdings. If you’ve been in the domain name industry for a long time and are thinking about making a move, I suggest you give Domain Holdings a call. The company’s latest addition is Michael Feeley as ...
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Domain Holdings continues to hire the entire domain name industry
Michael Feeley latest to join Domain Holdings. If you’ve been in the domain name industry for a long time and are thinking about making a move, I suggest you give Domain Holdings a call. The company’s latest addition is Michael Feeley as ...
Discussion
August 28, 2012, 9:09 am
Domain Name Wire
Oops, I entrusted my domain name to a tiny island nation!
Company using .st domain name learns a hard lesson. The world takes .com’s uptime, along with that of many other TLDs run by large registries, for granted. Consider the story of registration site Voost!, which uses the “clever” doma...
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Oops, I entrusted my domain name to a tiny island nation!
Company using .st domain name learns a hard lesson. The world takes .com’s uptime, along with that of many other TLDs run by large registries, for granted. Consider the story of registration site Voost!, which uses the “clever” doma...
Discussion
August 27, 2012, 12:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
Your domain names are worth less than you think
You probably want more money for your domain names than they’re worth. This weekend I was at the mall waiting “about an hour” for my new eyeglasses. With time to kill, I turned to Twitter and saw this tweet from Elliot Silver: Ellio...
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Your domain names are worth less than you think
You probably want more money for your domain names than they’re worth. This weekend I was at the mall waiting “about an hour” for my new eyeglasses. With time to kill, I turned to Twitter and saw this tweet from Elliot Silver: Ellio...
Discussion
August 27, 2012, 11:42 am
