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See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
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See all 152 trademark apps filed by the Trademark King (at a cost of $50k!)
Guy spends nearly $50,000 on application fees to try to trademark terms such as Google.com, NCAA Final Four and Elvis.com. I’ve written a couple times about Trademark King Inc, an Indiana business that filed a lot of trademark applications matc...
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December 16, 2014, 3:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name
Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CE...
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CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name
Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CE...
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December 16, 2014, 2:44 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how you might think
Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search e...
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New TLDs give no SEO advantage and .Geo domains don’t work how you might think
Google reiterates its guidance on TLDs and search results, and also says it isn’t geotargeted .geo domains on their own. A month or two ago a couple reports came out suggesting that new top level domain names give some sort of inherent search e...
Discussion
December 16, 2014, 1:39 am
Domain Name Wire
Best fake name used in a domain name scam. Ever.
I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to b...
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Best fake name used in a domain name scam. Ever.
I don’t think think this scammer meant to be so funny. By now, pretty much everyone has seen the Fake Trademark Protection domain name scam, sometimes called the Asian Domain Scam. Here’s how it works: A scammer, typically pretending to b...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 7:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling discusses new TLDs and .Com – DNW Podcast #11
Legendary domain investor Frank Schilling explains where new TLDs fit into the domain market. Last week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast was the most popular yet. With this week’s guest, we might make that happen two weeks in a row. Frank Schil...
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Frank Schilling discusses new TLDs and .Com – DNW Podcast #11
Legendary domain investor Frank Schilling explains where new TLDs fit into the domain market. Last week’s Domain Name Wire Podcast was the most popular yet. With this week’s guest, we might make that happen two weeks in a row. Frank Schil...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 4:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lies, damned lies and new TLD statistics
Dig into statistics to understand how valuable they are. New top level domain name options have been out for less than a year, and everyone is clambering for data to make sense of the rollout. That includes me. I look at registration data from a numb...
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Lies, damned lies and new TLD statistics
Dig into statistics to understand how valuable they are. New top level domain name options have been out for less than a year, and everyone is clambering for data to make sense of the rollout. That includes me. I look at registration data from a numb...
Discussion
December 15, 2014, 2:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Some people are successfully flipping new TLD registrations
Here are some cases where new TLD registrants flipped new domains for a nice return. It’s easy to come out and say new TLDs are a waste of time for domain name investors and that you won’t make any money with them. You can point to high i...
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Some people are successfully flipping new TLD registrations
Here are some cases where new TLD registrants flipped new domains for a nice return. It’s easy to come out and say new TLDs are a waste of time for domain name investors and that you won’t make any money with them. You can point to high i...
Discussion
December 12, 2014, 4:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
13 end user domain name sales from last week
RestaurantUniforms.com leads the list. Sedo handled 458 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. The biggest public sale was RestaurantUniforms.com, purchased by New York uniform company Paragon Uniform & App...
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13 end user domain name sales from last week
RestaurantUniforms.com leads the list. Sedo handled 458 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. The biggest public sale was RestaurantUniforms.com, purchased by New York uniform company Paragon Uniform & App...
Discussion
December 12, 2014, 2:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
6 new top level domain names launched yesterday, and the most popular is…
Six new domain options launched, and you might be surprised by which one had the best first day. Donuts and Rightside combined to launch six top level domain names yesterday. Rightside launched .auction and .software. Donuts launched .business, .immo...
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6 new top level domain names launched yesterday, and the most popular is…
Six new domain options launched, and you might be surprised by which one had the best first day. Donuts and Rightside combined to launch six top level domain names yesterday. Rightside launched .auction and .software. Donuts launched .business, .immo...
Discussion
December 11, 2014, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Blast from the past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it’s very different)
Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent d...
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Blast from the past: Tucows relaunches RealNames (and it’s very different)
Tucows uses name of dot.com bubble era company to launch new service. Remember RealNames? Tucows has brought back the name of the the dot.com bubble darling, but for a very different purpose. RealNames was a system designed to replace or circumvent d...
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December 11, 2014, 2:49 pm
