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Minds + Machines files patent for “Domain Name Registration and Resale”
Patent describes system similar to AfternicDLS and SedoMLS but at the registry level. Minds + Machines Chairman Fred Krueger has filed a patent application (pdf) for the resale of domain names, titled “Domain Name Registration and Resale”...
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Minds + Machines files patent for “Domain Name Registration and Resale”
Patent describes system similar to AfternicDLS and SedoMLS but at the registry level. Minds + Machines Chairman Fred Krueger has filed a patent application (pdf) for the resale of domain names, titled “Domain Name Registration and Resale”...
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July 3, 2014, 4:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy wants to patent way of onboarding new TLDs
GoDaddy files four patents related to adding new TLD options to a registrar. GoDaddy has filed four patent applications describing methods for adding new top level domain names to a registrar’s offerings. Each top level domain name a registrar ...
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GoDaddy wants to patent way of onboarding new TLDs
GoDaddy files four patents related to adding new TLD options to a registrar. GoDaddy has filed four patent applications describing methods for adding new top level domain names to a registrar’s offerings. Each top level domain name a registrar ...
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July 3, 2014, 4:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
ShoeBuy.com’s UDRP record drops to 3-4
Company loses a UDRP for the fourth time in just 7 tries. Online shoe retailer ShoeBuy.com might need to re-read the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy. It just lost its fourth UDRP. It’s only won three times. This latest loss comes courtesy of...
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ShoeBuy.com’s UDRP record drops to 3-4
Company loses a UDRP for the fourth time in just 7 tries. Online shoe retailer ShoeBuy.com might need to re-read the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Policy. It just lost its fourth UDRP. It’s only won three times. This latest loss comes courtesy of...
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July 3, 2014, 3:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
This week’s Expired Domain Name Roundup
Joseph Peterson reports on the past week in expired domain name sales. What’s an UNCH? And how many of them would Dr. Seuss need to sell in order to recoup the $11.6k spent on UNCHS.org? Well, actually, some 36 years ago, ...
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This week’s Expired Domain Name Roundup
Joseph Peterson reports on the past week in expired domain name sales. What’s an UNCH? And how many of them would Dr. Seuss need to sell in order to recoup the $11.6k spent on UNCHS.org? Well, actually, some 36 years ago, ...
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July 3, 2014, 2:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
2nd level .UK domain name registrations top 100,000
A strong sales month for .UK. Over 100,000 second level domain names under .uk have been registered since they became available for registration last month, .uk registry Nominet announced today. About two-thirds have been registered by people who hav...
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2nd level .UK domain name registrations top 100,000
A strong sales month for .UK. Over 100,000 second level domain names under .uk have been registered since they became available for registration last month, .uk registry Nominet announced today. About two-thirds have been registered by people who hav...
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July 3, 2014, 1:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
New TLD Luxury.Estate sells for $50k
A new high water mark for a domain sale in a new TLD? Hot of the heels of news that eat.club sold for $20,000, DomainHoldings announced today that it brokered the sale of Luxury.Estate for a whopping $50,000. The Luxury.Estate sale is different from ...
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New TLD Luxury.Estate sells for $50k
A new high water mark for a domain sale in a new TLD? Hot of the heels of news that eat.club sold for $20,000, DomainHoldings announced today that it brokered the sale of Luxury.Estate for a whopping $50,000. The Luxury.Estate sale is different from ...
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July 2, 2014, 11:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories from June
Moniker “wins” three spots on June’s top stories list. Is there no such thing as bad press? That phrase probably went out the window last month for Moniker. It took three of the month’s top five spots on Domain Name Wire for h...
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories from June
Moniker “wins” three spots on June’s top stories list. Is there no such thing as bad press? That phrase probably went out the window last month for Moniker. It took three of the month’s top five spots on Domain Name Wire for h...
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July 2, 2014, 5:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
How English speakers can invest in Chinese IDNs
TLD Registry releases tool for discovering Chinese terms available for registration. Last week in London I sat down with TLD Registry, the company behind the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) domain names. These IDNs h...
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How English speakers can invest in Chinese IDNs
TLD Registry releases tool for discovering Chinese terms available for registration. Last week in London I sat down with TLD Registry, the company behind the Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) domain names. These IDNs h...
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July 2, 2014, 4:05 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club domain tops last week’s end user domain name sales
Catering company goes clubbing. Sedo’s top sale last week was MM.com at $1.2 million. But it’s not an end user sale. It appears to have been purchased by the owners of Chinese domain marketplace 4.cn. Instead, this week’s top end us...
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.Club domain tops last week’s end user domain name sales
Catering company goes clubbing. Sedo’s top sale last week was MM.com at $1.2 million. But it’s not an end user sale. It appears to have been purchased by the owners of Chinese domain marketplace 4.cn. Instead, this week’s top end us...
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July 2, 2014, 1:47 pm
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North Carolina company guilty of Reverse domain name hijacking
Company claims rights dating to 2010 and domain name was registered in 2002. But… Personal Communication Systems, Inc of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP against th...
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North Carolina company guilty of Reverse domain name hijacking
Company claims rights dating to 2010 and domain name was registered in 2002. But… Personal Communication Systems, Inc of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The company filed a UDRP against th...
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July 1, 2014, 4:44 pm
