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What domains DropBox and 15 other companies bought last week
Dropbox buys an India ccTLD and other end user domain sales. Sedo sold 704 domains for over $1.25 million last week. I’ve identified 16 of the publicly reported sales as end user sale. There are certainly more, but these are the ones that stood...
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What domains DropBox and 15 other companies bought last week
Dropbox buys an India ccTLD and other end user domain sales. Sedo sold 704 domains for over $1.25 million last week. I’ve identified 16 of the publicly reported sales as end user sale. There are certainly more, but these are the ones that stood...
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April 3, 2013, 10:21 am
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Tracy Morgan wins domain name dispute
Comedian Tracy Morgan can now tell jokes at TracyMorgan.com. Comedian Tracy Morgan laughs about a lot of stuff, but not about how he didn’t own the domain TracyMorgan.com. In January I wrote about how the 30 Rock star had filed a UDRP against t...
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Tracy Morgan wins domain name dispute
Comedian Tracy Morgan can now tell jokes at TracyMorgan.com. Comedian Tracy Morgan laughs about a lot of stuff, but not about how he didn’t own the domain TracyMorgan.com. In January I wrote about how the 30 Rock star had filed a UDRP against t...
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April 2, 2013, 2:04 pm
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Network Solutions gets a continuation patent on URL forwarding
Patent issued today covers forwarding one domain name to another. Domain forwarding, a.k.a. URL forwarding. Every domain registrar offers it, and most give it away for free to their customers. Type in DNW.com and get forwarded to DomainNameWire.com. ...
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Network Solutions gets a continuation patent on URL forwarding
Patent issued today covers forwarding one domain name to another. Domain forwarding, a.k.a. URL forwarding. Every domain registrar offers it, and most give it away for free to their customers. Type in DNW.com and get forwarded to DomainNameWire.com. ...
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April 2, 2013, 11:30 am
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TechCrunch fights to take down copycat blog
TechCrunch demands NewTechCrunch.com domain; site owner tries to rebrand. TechCrunch’s parent company AOL has filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum to take down the copycat blog NewTechCrunch.com. As of right now, NewTechCrunch.com ...
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TechCrunch fights to take down copycat blog
TechCrunch demands NewTechCrunch.com domain; site owner tries to rebrand. TechCrunch’s parent company AOL has filed a complaint with National Arbitration Forum to take down the copycat blog NewTechCrunch.com. As of right now, NewTechCrunch.com ...
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April 2, 2013, 10:53 am
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.Co to offer Asian IDNs starting April 15
More .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Ther...
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.Co to offer Asian IDNs starting April 15
More .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Ther...
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April 2, 2013, 9:13 am
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Twitter co-founder starting new company called Jelly at JellyHQ.com
As with Twitter, Stone isn’t buying the “best” domain yet. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is working on a new company called Jelly. Although it’s very early stage, on March 22 he registered JellyHQ.com. So what about Jelly.com? ...
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Twitter co-founder starting new company called Jelly at JellyHQ.com
As with Twitter, Stone isn’t buying the “best” domain yet. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is working on a new company called Jelly. Although it’s very early stage, on March 22 he registered JellyHQ.com. So what about Jelly.com? ...
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April 1, 2013, 4:16 pm
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Outrageous and stupid numbers about new top level domains
Michael spotted an article about new TLDs over at AdWeek today. The article is about how much it will cost brands to protect their brands when new TLDs come online. It liberally quotes Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Adv...
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Outrageous and stupid numbers about new top level domains
Michael spotted an article about new TLDs over at AdWeek today. The article is about how much it will cost brands to protect their brands when new TLDs come online. It liberally quotes Bob Liodice, president and CEO of the Association of National Adv...
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April 1, 2013, 4:01 pm
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Lawsuit: cybersquatters tried to dupe suppliers out of $60,000+ of merchandise
W. W. Williams says fraudsters uses domain name to try to trick suppliers to send merchandise. Usually when a cybersquatter grabs a domain similar to a company’s name, the cybersquatter just hopes to make a few bucks from a parked page. But som...
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Lawsuit: cybersquatters tried to dupe suppliers out of $60,000+ of merchandise
W. W. Williams says fraudsters uses domain name to try to trick suppliers to send merchandise. Usually when a cybersquatter grabs a domain similar to a company’s name, the cybersquatter just hopes to make a few bucks from a parked page. But som...
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April 1, 2013, 2:18 pm
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Video: How to submit an invalid WHOIS complaint
The whois complaint form is now part of ICANN’s web site. Long time readers know that I’m not a fan of videos when you can explain something with text. Yet I realize that how one person prefers to consume media isn’t necessarily the...
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Video: How to submit an invalid WHOIS complaint
The whois complaint form is now part of ICANN’s web site. Long time readers know that I’m not a fan of videos when you can explain something with text. Yet I realize that how one person prefers to consume media isn’t necessarily the...
Discussion
April 1, 2013, 12:07 pm
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It’s opening day and MLB is batting .867 with domains
Major League Baseball owns 26 of 30 team names in .com. It’s a sure sign of spring as Major League Baseball opens up the 2013 season with 12 games today. MLB made a good acquisition over the summer, buying the domain name Rockies.com for an uns...
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It’s opening day and MLB is batting .867 with domains
Major League Baseball owns 26 of 30 team names in .com. It’s a sure sign of spring as Major League Baseball opens up the 2013 season with 12 games today. MLB made a good acquisition over the summer, buying the domain name Rockies.com for an uns...
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April 1, 2013, 10:47 am
