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Domain Name Wire
DotGreen Community is back!
Group that promoted .green domain name for years is back at the table. Remember DotGreen Community, the company that wanted to run the .green top level domain name but gave up in the face of competition? The company never really went away, but it fam...
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DotGreen Community is back!
Group that promoted .green domain name for years is back at the table. Remember DotGreen Community, the company that wanted to run the .green top level domain name but gave up in the face of competition? The company never really went away, but it fam...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 6:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
$25,000 new TLD sale among this week’s end user domain name sales
Travel company is among at least four end users who bought new TLDs at Sedo this past week. There is an aftermarket for new top level domain names. It’s not huge, and few people are getting rich from it. But there is a market. Take this week&rs...
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$25,000 new TLD sale among this week’s end user domain name sales
Travel company is among at least four end users who bought new TLDs at Sedo this past week. There is an aftermarket for new top level domain names. It’s not huge, and few people are getting rich from it. But there is a market. Take this week&rs...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 5:18 pm
The Domains
Handy.com Sells: New Owner Says “it wasn’t Cheap” & Has A Lesson For Domain Owners
TechCrunch.com just covered a company that acquired the domain name Handy.com which quotes the buyer saying “it wasn’t cheap.” The domain name was owned by Neue Medien GmbH of Germany. which may have been formerly known as Med...
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Handy.com Sells: New Owner Says “it wasn’t Cheap” & Has A Lesson For Domain Owners
TechCrunch.com just covered a company that acquired the domain name Handy.com which quotes the buyer saying “it wasn’t cheap.” The domain name was owned by Neue Medien GmbH of Germany. which may have been formerly known as Med...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 3:19 pm
The Domains
.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After 1st Day Of GA
.Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise ...
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.Guide Going Live Wed Has More Registrations Than 4 M + M gTLD’s Have After 1st Day Of GA
.Guide which goes into general availability tomorrow, Wednesday September 17th already has more registrations than four strings of Minds + Machines after their first day of GA yesterday. .Guide is sitting at 403 domain name all registered in Sunrise ...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 1:47 pm
Domain Shane
DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday 9/16
Here are today’s names. GSV.com Don’t see a lot of LLL.coms on Godaddy but this one is flying. Could hit $25K JuiceFly.com 14 years old. No bidders. IMO great brand for under $25 AlmostAlways.com Love this one as ...
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DomainShane’s BIG LIST of Domain Name Auction Picks: Tuesday 9/16
Here are today’s names. GSV.com Don’t see a lot of LLL.coms on Godaddy but this one is flying. Could hit $25K JuiceFly.com 14 years old. No bidders. IMO great brand for under $25 AlmostAlways.com Love this one as ...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 11:45 am
Domain Name Wire
Minds + Machines’ new domain names off to slow start
Demand appears to have been low at launch. Minds + Machines launched its first six owned and operated top level domain names yesterday. The results can only be described as weak, at least based on overnight zone file numbers. Here’s the activit...
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Minds + Machines’ new domain names off to slow start
Demand appears to have been low at launch. Minds + Machines launched its first six owned and operated top level domain names yesterday. The results can only be described as weak, at least based on overnight zone file numbers. Here’s the activit...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 11:19 am
The Domains
FCC Receives Over 3 Million Comments on Net Neutrality
Yesterday was the last day to get comments into the FCC with regards to Net Neutrality. Tech Crunch noted that there were over 3 million comments with a few hours left, this was double the number reported last week. There were several websites that a...
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FCC Receives Over 3 Million Comments on Net Neutrality
Yesterday was the last day to get comments into the FCC with regards to Net Neutrality. Tech Crunch noted that there were over 3 million comments with a few hours left, this was double the number reported last week. There were several websites that a...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 9:12 am
Domain Shane
Flippa Recap: Babes.net and Yabai.com for 5 figures, ClickThis.com, Flipped.net, ReggaeSongs.com
Some nice sales again at Flippa last week. Two 5-figure sales, and over ten 4-figure sales by my count. One notable sale was FreeInstrumentals.com. As a domain listing two weeks ago, it got a high bid of $1,000. As a website listing last week, it so...
Discussion
Flippa Recap: Babes.net and Yabai.com for 5 figures, ClickThis.com, Flipped.net, ReggaeSongs.com
Some nice sales again at Flippa last week. Two 5-figure sales, and over ten 4-figure sales by my count. One notable sale was FreeInstrumentals.com. As a domain listing two weeks ago, it got a high bid of $1,000. As a website listing last week, it so...
Discussion
September 16, 2014, 1:23 am
The Domains
LINDT Loses UDRP Bid To Grab ExcellenceChocolate.com Based On Its EXCELLENCE TM
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (“Complainant”), just lost its attempt to grab the domain name excellencechocolate.com based on a trademark on the term EXCELLENCE. Although the panelist James A. Carmody, Esq. found that &ld...
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LINDT Loses UDRP Bid To Grab ExcellenceChocolate.com Based On Its EXCELLENCE TM
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli AG (“Complainant”), just lost its attempt to grab the domain name excellencechocolate.com based on a trademark on the term EXCELLENCE. Although the panelist James A. Carmody, Esq. found that &ld...
Discussion
September 15, 2014, 10:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Owner of CountryGirlStore.com guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Company abused policy to try to deprive rightful owner of CountryGirl.com domain name. LML Investments, owner of Country Girl branded clothing sold at CountryGirlStore.com, has been admonished by a panel for abusing the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Re...
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Owner of CountryGirlStore.com guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Company abused policy to try to deprive rightful owner of CountryGirl.com domain name. LML Investments, owner of Country Girl branded clothing sold at CountryGirlStore.com, has been admonished by a panel for abusing the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Re...
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September 15, 2014, 9:55 pm
