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The Domains
Company Loses Battle to Get Critical Website Taken Down
There has been a lot of discussion about the coming .sucks new gtld and some of the potential pricing that could potentially come with it. Other extensions coming down the pipeline have gotten less publicity but certainly fall in a similar camp. .Fai...
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Company Loses Battle to Get Critical Website Taken Down
There has been a lot of discussion about the coming .sucks new gtld and some of the potential pricing that could potentially come with it. Other extensions coming down the pipeline have gotten less publicity but certainly fall in a similar camp. .Fai...
Discussion
April 8, 2014, 12:23 am
The Domains
Namejet.com Reports Over $400K in Domain Sales For March
Namejet.com just released over $400,000 in domain names that sold during March on their platform. Only sales of $2k or more are included: Domain Name Payment Amount moki.com $66,100.00 undergraduate.com $22,301.00 fitnesstrainer.com $15,455.00...
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Namejet.com Reports Over $400K in Domain Sales For March
Namejet.com just released over $400,000 in domain names that sold during March on their platform. Only sales of $2k or more are included: Domain Name Payment Amount moki.com $66,100.00 undergraduate.com $22,301.00 fitnesstrainer.com $15,455.00...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 10:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
JustBelieve.com saved in UDRP, no RDNH thanks to “idiot defense”
Arbitrator decides that the case was so weak that the complainant just didn’t know any better. In March I wrote about how Life is Now, Inc., which promotes business coach David Neagle, had filed a UDRP against JustBelieve.com. Domain owner Greg...
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JustBelieve.com saved in UDRP, no RDNH thanks to “idiot defense”
Arbitrator decides that the case was so weak that the complainant just didn’t know any better. In March I wrote about how Life is Now, Inc., which promotes business coach David Neagle, had filed a UDRP against JustBelieve.com. Domain owner Greg...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 8:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google appears to have sold Hello.com domain name
Hello.com domain name transferred. It appears Google has sold the domain name Hello.com. The company used the domain name for a photo sharing service called “Hello” last decade. It later shut down the standalone service and eventually sto...
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Google appears to have sold Hello.com domain name
Hello.com domain name transferred. It appears Google has sold the domain name Hello.com. The company used the domain name for a photo sharing service called “Hello” last decade. It later shut down the standalone service and eventually sto...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 5:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Tesla buys a typo and Lord of the Flies company buys author’s domain name
Tesla pays a lot of money for a domain it could have won in a UDRP. I’m a bit behind on end user sales reports thanks to DomainFest last week. This list is the one Afternic/GoDaddy sent last week. Some notable buyers include Tesla and BMI. You ...
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Tesla buys a typo and Lord of the Flies company buys author’s domain name
Tesla pays a lot of money for a domain it could have won in a UDRP. I’m a bit behind on end user sales reports thanks to DomainFest last week. This list is the one Afternic/GoDaddy sent last week. Some notable buyers include Tesla and BMI. You ...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 4:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
UDRP complainant shoots self in foot with supplemental filing
Company effectively admits its original complaint was destined to fail when it makes supplemental filing. Inbay Limited of the United Kingdom has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for Inbay.com. The three person panel found...
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UDRP complainant shoots self in foot with supplemental filing
Company effectively admits its original complaint was destined to fail when it makes supplemental filing. Inbay Limited of the United Kingdom has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP for Inbay.com. The three person panel found...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 3:51 pm
The Domains
.Co.com Live Registrations Begin April 8th “It’s 1985 Again”™
The .Co.com registry announced that their registrations go live tomorrow on April 8th Here is the press release: “”The very first .com domain name registration (symbolics.com) took place in March of 1985. Back then, of course, every name ...
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.Co.com Live Registrations Begin April 8th “It’s 1985 Again”™
The .Co.com registry announced that their registrations go live tomorrow on April 8th Here is the press release: “”The very first .com domain name registration (symbolics.com) took place in March of 1985. Back then, of course, every name ...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 3:07 pm
The Domains
Inbay Limited of London Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Inbay Limited of London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (“United Kingdom”), represented by Keystone Law, United Kingdom has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) Here is findings by the three memb...
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Inbay Limited of London Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Inbay Limited of London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (“United Kingdom”), represented by Keystone Law, United Kingdom has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH) Here is findings by the three memb...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 1:59 pm
Domain Name Wire
10 Domains I like in this week’s Heritage Auctions domain name auction
Here are ten domains I think are worth the money in this week’s domain auction. Heritage Auctions’ second domain name auction takes place April 9. It’s difficult to place bets on which domains will sell, especially for the higher-en...
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10 Domains I like in this week’s Heritage Auctions domain name auction
Here are ten domains I think are worth the money in this week’s domain auction. Heritage Auctions’ second domain name auction takes place April 9. It’s difficult to place bets on which domains will sell, especially for the higher-en...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 1:54 pm
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 7th, 2014
I watched Silicon Valley and thought it was one of the funnier shows in a while. Absolutely captured the ridiculousness of people in the startup world. Everyone saying “we’re the _____ of ______” Pretending that th...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Monday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on April 7th, 2014
I watched Silicon Valley and thought it was one of the funnier shows in a while. Absolutely captured the ridiculousness of people in the startup world. Everyone saying “we’re the _____ of ______” Pretending that th...
Discussion
April 7, 2014, 11:29 am
