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Top 5 domain name wire news stories of November 2011
Four porn posts and a saviour. 4 posts about porn and one about religion grabbed the most attention at Domain Name Wire this month. I think I need to change the focus of this blog. 1. Apple gets control over porn domain names – Owner of domains...
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Top 5 domain name wire news stories of November 2011
Four porn posts and a saviour. 4 posts about porn and one about religion grabbed the most attention at Domain Name Wire this month. I think I need to change the focus of this blog. 1. Apple gets control over porn domain names – Owner of domains...
Discussion
November 30, 2011, 11:54 am

Domain Name Wire
Panelist: UDRP is not a sword
A well reasoned opinion on registration in bad faith. A recent UDRP decision for scrubology.com includes an excellent analysis of the registration in bad faith element of UDRP. Here are the facts: - Respondent registered scrubology.com in 2005 - Comp...
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Panelist: UDRP is not a sword
A well reasoned opinion on registration in bad faith. A recent UDRP decision for scrubology.com includes an excellent analysis of the registration in bad faith element of UDRP. Here are the facts: - Respondent registered scrubology.com in 2005 - Comp...
Discussion
November 30, 2011, 11:05 am

Domain Name Wire
8 interesting end user domain sales
Eight domain names that sold to end users last week. Here are eight end user domain name purchases completed over the past week. All sales were at Afternic except for GameTraining.com, which sold at Sedo. Anytime Fitness president David Mortensen.com...
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8 interesting end user domain sales
Eight domain names that sold to end users last week. Here are eight end user domain name purchases completed over the past week. All sales were at Afternic except for GameTraining.com, which sold at Sedo. Anytime Fitness president David Mortensen.com...
Discussion
November 30, 2011, 10:01 am

Domain Name Wire
www.Buy.xxx – One week until launch
www.Buy.xxx making a big splash as registry gears up for general availability. With just a week to go until general availability of the .xxx domain name, ICM Registry’s commercials are making quite a splash. The company’s site www.buy.xxx...
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www.Buy.xxx – One week until launch
www.Buy.xxx making a big splash as registry gears up for general availability. With just a week to go until general availability of the .xxx domain name, ICM Registry’s commercials are making quite a splash. The company’s site www.buy.xxx...
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November 30, 2011, 8:55 am

Domain Name Wire
Bands.com to launch Wednesday
Domain investor unveils new site for bands. A new service for music bands formally launches in beta tomorrow at a killer web address. Bands.com is billed as a one stop shop for a bands’ web presence. Bands.com offers web sites, music and mercha...
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Bands.com to launch Wednesday
Domain investor unveils new site for bands. A new service for music bands formally launches in beta tomorrow at a killer web address. Bands.com is billed as a one stop shop for a bands’ web presence. Bands.com offers web sites, music and mercha...
Discussion
November 29, 2011, 2:23 pm

Domain Name Wire
Oversee.net says Moniker projections “horribly wrong”
Moniker acquisition fell short of expectations. Yesterday Oversee.net filed a heavily redacted document in support of its motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit with former employee Monte Cahn. The motion is to dismiss a claim that Oversee.net ow...
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Oversee.net says Moniker projections “horribly wrong”
Moniker acquisition fell short of expectations. Yesterday Oversee.net filed a heavily redacted document in support of its motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit with former employee Monte Cahn. The motion is to dismiss a claim that Oversee.net ow...
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November 29, 2011, 1:46 pm

Domain Name Wire
Republican register ObamaVsObama.com to counter Mitt vs. Mitt commercials
Domain names could be used to call into question President Barack Obama’s record. The democrats just launched an attack ad on republican front runner Mitt Romney called Mitt vs. Mitt. It calls him a flip flopper. But the republicans have a simi...
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Republican register ObamaVsObama.com to counter Mitt vs. Mitt commercials
Domain names could be used to call into question President Barack Obama’s record. The democrats just launched an attack ad on republican front runner Mitt Romney called Mitt vs. Mitt. It calls him a flip flopper. But the republicans have a simi...
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November 29, 2011, 11:07 am

Domain Name Wire
Video spokesperson companies to face off in court
Company files lawsuit against competitor over trademark and domain name. You know those annoying pop up video spokespeople that walk across your screen on certain web sites? Apparently competition to sell web site publishers a video spokesperson is r...
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Video spokesperson companies to face off in court
Company files lawsuit against competitor over trademark and domain name. You know those annoying pop up video spokespeople that walk across your screen on certain web sites? Apparently competition to sell web site publishers a video spokesperson is r...
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November 29, 2011, 9:42 am

Domain Name Wire
Apple starts forwarding iPhone4s.com to its web site
Company forwards domain name after recovering it from cybersquatter. Apple has started forwarding iPhone4s.com — a domain name it recovered from a cybersquatter that showed porn — to the iPhone page on Apple.com. The domain name started f...
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Apple starts forwarding iPhone4s.com to its web site
Company forwards domain name after recovering it from cybersquatter. Apple has started forwarding iPhone4s.com — a domain name it recovered from a cybersquatter that showed porn — to the iPhone page on Apple.com. The domain name started f...
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November 29, 2011, 8:53 am

Domain Name Wire
Proactiv wants to be quiet about its product recall
Company does its best to keep recall out of the press and out of the search engines. Last month I wrote about how the company behind Proactiv, the skin care product pitched by Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, had registered multiple domain names hinting...
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Proactiv wants to be quiet about its product recall
Company does its best to keep recall out of the press and out of the search engines. Last month I wrote about how the company behind Proactiv, the skin care product pitched by Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, had registered multiple domain names hinting...
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November 28, 2011, 1:36 pm