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The Domains
“Creator Of Bitcoin Protocol” Domain Name Satoshi.com Sells On Sedo.com For $75,000
According to wikipedia.org, Satoshi Nakamoto is a person or group of people who created the Bitcoin protocol and reference software, Bitcoin Core. In 2008, Nakamoto published a paper on The Cryptography Mailing list at metzdowd.com describing the Bit...
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“Creator Of Bitcoin Protocol” Domain Name Satoshi.com Sells On Sedo.com For $75,000
According to wikipedia.org, Satoshi Nakamoto is a person or group of people who created the Bitcoin protocol and reference software, Bitcoin Core. In 2008, Nakamoto published a paper on The Cryptography Mailing list at metzdowd.com describing the Bit...
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July 2, 2014, 4:34 pm

Domain Name Wire
How English speakers can invest in Chinese IDNs
TLD Registry releases tool for discovering Chinese terms available for registration. Last week in London I sat down with TLD Registry, the company behind the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) domain names. These IDNs h...
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How English speakers can invest in Chinese IDNs
TLD Registry releases tool for discovering Chinese terms available for registration. Last week in London I sat down with TLD Registry, the company behind the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) domain names. These IDNs h...
Discussion
July 2, 2014, 4:05 pm

Domain Name Wire
.Club domain tops last week’s end user domain name sales
Catering company goes clubbing. Sedo’s top sale last week was MM.com at $1.2 million. But it’s not an end user sale. It appears to have been purchased by the owners of Chinese domain marketplace 4.cn. Instead, this week’s top end us...
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.Club domain tops last week’s end user domain name sales
Catering company goes clubbing. Sedo’s top sale last week was MM.com at $1.2 million. But it’s not an end user sale. It appears to have been purchased by the owners of Chinese domain marketplace 4.cn. Instead, this week’s top end us...
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July 2, 2014, 1:47 pm

The Domains
USPTO Grants Two Patents On DNS including “Systems & Methods for Providing DNS Services”
Two Patents were granted yesterday by the USPTO on DNS Nominum, Inc received a patent on Systems and methods for providing DNS services A system for providing a Domain Name System (DNS) service may include providing an agent for installation on a sub...
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USPTO Grants Two Patents On DNS including “Systems & Methods for Providing DNS Services”
Two Patents were granted yesterday by the USPTO on DNS Nominum, Inc received a patent on Systems and methods for providing DNS services A system for providing a Domain Name System (DNS) service may include providing an agent for installation on a sub...
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July 2, 2014, 1:39 pm

The Domains
UGN.com Under Same Ownership For 10+ Years Hit With UDRP
The three letter domain name UGN.com which appears to have been owned or under the control of Boca Database Services, Inc since at least 2004, has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name is not resolving. The last entry that Screenshots.com has f...
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UGN.com Under Same Ownership For 10+ Years Hit With UDRP
The three letter domain name UGN.com which appears to have been owned or under the control of Boca Database Services, Inc since at least 2004, has been hit with a UDRP. The domain name is not resolving. The last entry that Screenshots.com has f...
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July 2, 2014, 1:17 pm

The Domains
TechCrunch.com Wins Rights To The The Hack Domain TechCrun.ch in UDRP
A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name hack of Techcrun.ch to the publisher of Techcrunch.com which also owns the domain name TechCrunch.ch For those that don’t know a domain hack is where a registrant uses a domain extension, typ...
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TechCrunch.com Wins Rights To The The Hack Domain TechCrun.ch in UDRP
A one member UDRP panel just awarded the domain name hack of Techcrun.ch to the publisher of Techcrunch.com which also owns the domain name TechCrunch.ch For those that don’t know a domain hack is where a registrant uses a domain extension, typ...
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July 2, 2014, 12:50 pm

The Domains
WSJ.com Covers New gTLD Domain Extensions Highlighting .Global: “We Spent $10M”
WSJ.com Live Covered the new gTLD domain name program today on WSJ Live and the star of the 3 minute segment was .Global The segment was entitled Bye ‘Dot Com,’ 1300 New Domains Blowing You Away. “You know &lsqu...
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WSJ.com Covers New gTLD Domain Extensions Highlighting .Global: “We Spent $10M”
WSJ.com Live Covered the new gTLD domain name program today on WSJ Live and the star of the 3 minute segment was .Global The segment was entitled Bye ‘Dot Com,’ 1300 New Domains Blowing You Away. “You know &lsqu...
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July 2, 2014, 12:25 pm

Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on July 2nd, 2014
I don’t know if any of you watched the Movies.info auction yesterday but it was fun to watch. Lasted forever and the bids kept going up and up. I love watching auctions, even when I’m not a part. I dream of being t...
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THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Wednesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on July 2nd, 2014
I don’t know if any of you watched the Movies.info auction yesterday but it was fun to watch. Lasted forever and the bids kept going up and up. I love watching auctions, even when I’m not a part. I dream of being t...
Discussion
July 2, 2014, 10:52 am

The Domains
Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $2.3MM For The Week
Over the past week, 614 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.3MM. 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: mm.com at 1.2MM USD · Top...
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $2.3MM For The Week
Over the past week, 614 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.3MM. 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: mm.com at 1.2MM USD · Top...
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July 1, 2014, 8:21 pm

The Domains
Warning: Expired Domains Are Easy Pickings for Hackers
GroovyPost.com did a piece written by Jack Busch about his experience with an expired domain and hackers. From the article: I learned a hard lesson this week. Long story short, a spammer from Vietnam has hijacked my Google Apps for Domains (now calle...
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Warning: Expired Domains Are Easy Pickings for Hackers
GroovyPost.com did a piece written by Jack Busch about his experience with an expired domain and hackers. From the article: I learned a hard lesson this week. Long story short, a spammer from Vietnam has hijacked my Google Apps for Domains (now calle...
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July 1, 2014, 8:06 pm