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Orient Express Travel Group engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Australian company didn’t disclose prior purchase attempt and its rights post-dated domain registration. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Australian travel company Orient Express Travel Group to have engag...
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Orient Express Travel Group engaged in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Australian company didn’t disclose prior purchase attempt and its rights post-dated domain registration. A three person World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Australian travel company Orient Express Travel Group to have engag...
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April 24, 2015, 1:59 pm

Domain Name Wire
Expired Domain Report: Breaking down Chinese buyers
Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales on NameJet, including which short domains were picked up by Chinese buyers. Anyone who reads these weekly reports on the expired domain market (or, rather, NameJet’s share of it) will hav...
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Expired Domain Report: Breaking down Chinese buyers
Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales on NameJet, including which short domains were picked up by Chinese buyers. Anyone who reads these weekly reports on the expired domain market (or, rather, NameJet’s share of it) will hav...
Discussion
April 24, 2015, 1:39 pm

Domain Name Wire
Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds
Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and ...
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Verisign reports earnings, 1.51 million net adds
Company reports continued growth in domain name registrations and base. Verisign reported first quarter earnings after the bell today, including some fairly solid numbers for new registrations and net additions in .com/.net. 8.7 million new .com and ...
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April 23, 2015, 8:23 pm

Domain Name Wire
Hockey teams own 9 of 30 NHL team domain names
NHL lags MLB, but teams still own a good number of direct match domain names. In my book, there’s nothing more exciting and intense in sport than NHL playoff hockey. With the playoffs in full swing, I thought it would be interesting to take a l...
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Hockey teams own 9 of 30 NHL team domain names
NHL lags MLB, but teams still own a good number of direct match domain names. In my book, there’s nothing more exciting and intense in sport than NHL playoff hockey. With the playoffs in full swing, I thought it would be interesting to take a l...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 5:50 pm

Domain Name Wire
Another fake TLD sighting: .Calm
Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling arou...
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Another fake TLD sighting: .Calm
Corona displays .calm on a billboard. .Calm isn’t a top level domain. Marketers have long used dots in marketing, making phrases look like domain names. Consider Sony’s make.believe campaign: Patrick McCleery at Hexonet was strolling arou...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 2:13 pm

Domain Name Wire
More Amazon new TLD reg’s and Google’s odd domain names
I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to pa...
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More Amazon new TLD reg’s and Google’s odd domain names
I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to pa...
Discussion
April 23, 2015, 1:40 pm

Domain Name Wire
15 end user domain name buyers including Univision
Univision buys a domain name and a lighting company pays big bucks for a co.uk domain. Sedo handled 568 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. The company turned in some solid sales to end users, including Spanish-la...
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15 end user domain name buyers including Univision
Univision buys a domain name and a lighting company pays big bucks for a co.uk domain. Sedo handled 568 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. The company turned in some solid sales to end users, including Spanish-la...
Discussion
April 22, 2015, 4:31 pm

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Breaking down Minds + Machines’ domain name Portfolio
Registry releases detailed stats on domain name registrations. Top level domain name registry Minds + Machines released an update on its progress today, including a detailed breakdown of how its top level domain names have fared so far. The company h...
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Breaking down Minds + Machines’ domain name Portfolio
Registry releases detailed stats on domain name registrations. Top level domain name registry Minds + Machines released an update on its progress today, including a detailed breakdown of how its top level domain names have fared so far. The company h...
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April 22, 2015, 1:34 pm

Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy acquires Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million
An in-depth look at GoDaddy’s purchase of over 200,000 domain names and what it means for domain name investors. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired about 200,000 domain names from Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) for $28.1 million, plus a potential earnou...
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GoDaddy acquires Marchex’s domain name portfolio for $28 million
An in-depth look at GoDaddy’s purchase of over 200,000 domain names and what it means for domain name investors. GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired about 200,000 domain names from Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) for $28.1 million, plus a potential earnou...
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April 22, 2015, 12:30 pm

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Virtual .US Town Hall meeting takes place Wednesday
.US owners should tune in and ask questions at online event tomorrow. Neustar, the registry that runs the .US country code domain name for the United States, is holding a .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall tomorrow, April 22. The virtual town hall take...
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Virtual .US Town Hall meeting takes place Wednesday
.US owners should tune in and ask questions at online event tomorrow. Neustar, the registry that runs the .US country code domain name for the United States, is holding a .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall tomorrow, April 22. The virtual town hall take...
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April 21, 2015, 5:32 pm