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Meet the woman who bought a domain name instead of a house
Business founder spent house deposit on a domain name. I got a kick out of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today. The story features Posse.com founder Rebekah Campbell. Campbell bought the Posse.com domain name with $28,000 of her savings. &l...
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Meet the woman who bought a domain name instead of a house
Business founder spent house deposit on a domain name. I got a kick out of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today. The story features Posse.com founder Rebekah Campbell. Campbell bought the Posse.com domain name with $28,000 of her savings. &l...
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August 2, 2012, 12:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 5 Domain Name Wire posts of July 2012
CEO shuffle, G.me, and oogle.com among the most read stories on DNW last month. July’s big news came in at the end of the month: Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman stepping down from the CEO post he took in December. Here’s a quick run down of t...
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire posts of July 2012
CEO shuffle, G.me, and oogle.com among the most read stories on DNW last month. July’s big news came in at the end of the month: Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman stepping down from the CEO post he took in December. Here’s a quick run down of t...
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August 2, 2012, 11:18 am
Domain Name Wire
Ari Goldberger gets another UDRP win for Kevin Ham
Vertical Axis can keep Detur.com domain name. Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis has won a UDRP over the domain name Detur.com with the help of domain name attorney Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com. The complaint was brought by Detur International B.V., a ...
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Ari Goldberger gets another UDRP win for Kevin Ham
Vertical Axis can keep Detur.com domain name. Kevin Ham’s Vertical Axis has won a UDRP over the domain name Detur.com with the help of domain name attorney Ari Goldberger of ESQwire.com. The complaint was brought by Detur International B.V., a ...
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August 2, 2012, 10:24 am
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media and Donuts respond to lawyer’s accusations about TLD eligibility
Companies respond to allegations about their eligibility to run top level domain names. This morning I (and a handful of other bloggers) received a copy of a letter written by McCarter & English partner Jeffrey Stoler calling into question Demand...
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Demand Media and Donuts respond to lawyer’s accusations about TLD eligibility
Companies respond to allegations about their eligibility to run top level domain names. This morning I (and a handful of other bloggers) received a copy of a letter written by McCarter & English partner Jeffrey Stoler calling into question Demand...
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August 1, 2012, 4:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
One person submits 467 comments on new top level domain applications
That’s a whole lot of work. If you visit the new top level domain comments site today, you’re going to be doing quite a big of pagination before you see any unique comments. That’s because one person — a trademark manager at S...
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One person submits 467 comments on new top level domain applications
That’s a whole lot of work. If you visit the new top level domain comments site today, you’re going to be doing quite a big of pagination before you see any unique comments. That’s because one person — a trademark manager at S...
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August 1, 2012, 3:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
End user sales report and a warning to TED
End user domain purchases from the past week. Before we jump in with this week’s end user sales report, I have a warning for the famous TED conferences: be careful with your new domain. TED bought xNetwork.org for $1,788. I’m not sure wha...
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End user sales report and a warning to TED
End user domain purchases from the past week. Before we jump in with this week’s end user sales report, I have a warning for the famous TED conferences: be careful with your new domain. TED bought xNetwork.org for $1,788. I’m not sure wha...
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August 1, 2012, 11:42 am
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Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff loses domain name fight with Democrats
Jack Abramoff fails in arbitration over domain name. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) can keep the domain name JackAbramoff.com, a National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled. Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff filed the complaint arg...
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Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff loses domain name fight with Democrats
Jack Abramoff fails in arbitration over domain name. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) can keep the domain name JackAbramoff.com, a National Arbitration Forum panel has ruled. Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff filed the complaint arg...
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July 31, 2012, 5:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
GmbH applicant files U.S. trademark application
Company wants to trademark GMBH. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the top level domain .GmbH, has filed an intent-to-use trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the mark “GMBH”. Seriously. GmbH is basically the eq...
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GmbH applicant files U.S. trademark application
Company wants to trademark GMBH. TLDDOT GmbH, an applicant for the top level domain .GmbH, has filed an intent-to-use trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the mark “GMBH”. Seriously. GmbH is basically the eq...
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July 31, 2012, 10:07 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman steps down
The world’s largest domain name registrar is seeking a new CEO. Warren Adelman is stepping down as CEO of Go Daddy, the company announced today. He will remain with the company as Special Advisor for Strategy and Global Policy. Adelman was prom...
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Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman steps down
The world’s largest domain name registrar is seeking a new CEO. Warren Adelman is stepping down as CEO of Go Daddy, the company announced today. He will remain with the company as Special Advisor for Strategy and Global Policy. Adelman was prom...
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July 30, 2012, 1:13 pm
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Salesforce.com buys Work.com domain name
Another confirmation that Salesforce.com bought Work.com domain name. In March I put together a fairly convincing argument that Salesforce.com had purchased Work.com. Now we have another good confirmation: the nameservers on Work.com have changed to ...
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Salesforce.com buys Work.com domain name
Another confirmation that Salesforce.com bought Work.com domain name. In March I put together a fairly convincing argument that Salesforce.com had purchased Work.com. Now we have another good confirmation: the nameservers on Work.com have changed to ...
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July 30, 2012, 10:27 am
