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Domain Name Wire
Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
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Today: Two firsts in spam
A text message domain sales pitch and email spam message that links to a .club domain name. Just when I thought I’d seen it all when it comes to spam, today I experienced two firsts. The first was that I received an SMS message offering three d...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 5:33 pm

Domain Name Wire
Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, but it should have been reverse domain name hijacking
Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularl...
Discussion
Egton loses Patient.com UDRP, but it should have been reverse domain name hijacking
Egton Medical loses big time, but panel doesn’t admonish it for frivolous filing. Egton Medical Information Systems Limited has lost a UDRP it filed against Health Axis Group LLC in March over the domain name Patient.com. This was a particularl...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 4:48 pm

The Domains
Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
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Patent.co.uk UDRP Bid To Grab Patent.com Denied; $2 Million Asking Price May Have Doomed RDNH
Egton Medical Information Systems Limited of the United Kingdom which owns and operates Patent.co.uk, lost its attempt to grab the domain name Patient.com in a UDRP The domain owner is Health Axis Group of Tampa, Florida. Despite the three member pan...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 3:59 pm

The Domains
1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
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1st Day New gTLD; .Events 3.9K, .Futbol 1.6K; .Dating 1K; .Partner 880, .Productions 771
Five new gTLD’s went into their first day of general availability yesterday and including Sunrise registrations, they wound up with just over 8,000 registrations total. (The totals are combined from ntldstats.com and RegistrarStats.com and we u...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:57 pm

The Domains
UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
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UDRP Panel Finds Reverse Domain Name Hijacking On BigBang.com
Javier Zetter Casillas of Guadalajara, Mexico, represented by AN-KI, Mexico, has found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RNDH) on the domain name BigBang.com which is owned by Vertical Axis Inc. and represented as usual...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:26 pm

Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy End User domain name sales
A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple wee...
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GoDaddy End User domain name sales
A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple wee...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 2:11 pm

The Domains
Domain Guardians To Broker BTC.com
Domain Guardians put out a press release on the domain BTC.com going up for sale. In the currency markets USD of course stands for the U.S. Dollar, JPY, Japanese Yen, AUD Australian Dollar, etc… In cryptocurrency markets the symbol for Bitcoin...
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Domain Guardians To Broker BTC.com
Domain Guardians put out a press release on the domain BTC.com going up for sale. In the currency markets USD of course stands for the U.S. Dollar, JPY, Japanese Yen, AUD Australian Dollar, etc… In cryptocurrency markets the symbol for Bitcoin...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 11:32 am

Domain Shane
THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Thursday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 12th, 2014
A lot of people in the domain industry think you have to hit a home run on every sale. Buying a name for $69 and then refusing to sell it for less than $1000. I prefer the profit method. Make a profit and keep moving. Reminds me of a joke...
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THE BIG AFTERMARKET LIST: Thursday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on June 12th, 2014
A lot of people in the domain industry think you have to hit a home run on every sale. Buying a name for $69 and then refusing to sell it for less than $1000. I prefer the profit method. Make a profit and keep moving. Reminds me of a joke...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 10:55 am

DomainSherpa
DomainSherpa Discussion: .XYZ Haters Gonna Hate; Real Stats; Famous Four Fail?…
This is the show where we discuss domain name industry news with a panel of veterans and thought leaders.In this DomainSherpa Discussion:* What About Network Solutions in All This .XYZ Hate?* Namestat.org's Beautiful Interface and Filtered "...
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DomainSherpa Discussion: .XYZ Haters Gonna Hate; Real Stats; Famous Four Fail?…
This is the show where we discuss domain name industry news with a panel of veterans and thought leaders.In this DomainSherpa Discussion:* What About Network Solutions in All This .XYZ Hate?* Namestat.org's Beautiful Interface and Filtered "...
Discussion
June 12, 2014, 7:03 am

The Domains
Portfolio of 240 .LY domains Goes Unsold with High bid of $100,500 on Flippa
There one letter and two letter .ly domains, along with some top keywords but in the end there was no sale Description: View full WHOIS data as collected at listing time Description The winner of this auction and new owner of the following 240 premiu...
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Portfolio of 240 .LY domains Goes Unsold with High bid of $100,500 on Flippa
There one letter and two letter .ly domains, along with some top keywords but in the end there was no sale Description: View full WHOIS data as collected at listing time Description The winner of this auction and new owner of the following 240 premiu...
Discussion
June 11, 2014, 10:23 pm