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What domain names Colgate, AOL and others bought
Colgate buys a domain for its teeth whitening products. Sedo sold about $1 million worth of domains the week before last, including some to big brands. Here’s a look at some of the end user sales. You can view previous end user sales lists here...
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What domain names Colgate, AOL and others bought
Colgate buys a domain for its teeth whitening products. Sedo sold about $1 million worth of domains the week before last, including some to big brands. Here’s a look at some of the end user sales. You can view previous end user sales lists here...
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June 23, 2014, 5:15 pm
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Rightside to switch to EAP in lieu of traditional landush
Domain name registry to switch up the phase between sunrise and general availability. Rightside, applicant for dozens of top level domain names, is replacing its traditional landrush phase with an Early Access Program (EAP). The switch will occur lat...
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Rightside to switch to EAP in lieu of traditional landush
Domain name registry to switch up the phase between sunrise and general availability. Rightside, applicant for dozens of top level domain names, is replacing its traditional landrush phase with an Early Access Program (EAP). The switch will occur lat...
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June 23, 2014, 1:17 pm
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Cleveland Clinic’s .Med domain name application is back on the table
Medistry’s application for .Med is alive and well following a decision Friday by ICANN. ICANN ruled that the Independent Objector should not have been able to file a community objection against Medistry’s application because there were no...
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Cleveland Clinic’s .Med domain name application is back on the table
Medistry’s application for .Med is alive and well following a decision Friday by ICANN. ICANN ruled that the Independent Objector should not have been able to file a community objection against Medistry’s application because there were no...
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June 23, 2014, 11:17 am
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Michael Berkens wins UDRP case involving two colorful lawyers
Randazza and Berryhill square off over X-Videos.com. Two of the most colorful lawyers in the trademark/UDRP business squared off in a UDRP over one of Michael Berkens’ domain names. Marc Randazza’s law firm represented WGCZ S.R.O., which ...
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Michael Berkens wins UDRP case involving two colorful lawyers
Randazza and Berryhill square off over X-Videos.com. Two of the most colorful lawyers in the trademark/UDRP business squared off in a UDRP over one of Michael Berkens’ domain names. Marc Randazza’s law firm represented WGCZ S.R.O., which ...
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June 20, 2014, 4:35 pm
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Vistaprint may have just delayed .Web by filing an Independent Review
Vistaprint challenges (again) string similarity between .web and .webs. What does this man for the .web timeline? Vistaprint is the latest new top level domain name applicant to invoke the Independent Review process regarding an application. The comp...
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Vistaprint may have just delayed .Web by filing an Independent Review
Vistaprint challenges (again) string similarity between .web and .webs. What does this man for the .web timeline? Vistaprint is the latest new top level domain name applicant to invoke the Independent Review process regarding an application. The comp...
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June 20, 2014, 3:56 pm
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UDRPsearch owner sues after being threatened with UDRP
Virtual Point sues after person threatens UDRP if it doesn’t sell a domain for $1,000. The owner of UDRP database site UDRPSearch.com has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) after being threatened with a UDRP. Virtual Point Inc filed the lawsuit afte...
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UDRPsearch owner sues after being threatened with UDRP
Virtual Point sues after person threatens UDRP if it doesn’t sell a domain for $1,000. The owner of UDRP database site UDRPSearch.com has filed a federal lawsuit (pdf) after being threatened with a UDRP. Virtual Point Inc filed the lawsuit afte...
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June 20, 2014, 12:41 pm
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Retweet.com Resold and other expired domain sales
People inject new words into language constantly. “Tweet” has taken on new meaning thanks to Twitter, while “Retweet” would have meant nothing a decade ago. Yet in that short space of time, this formerly unkno...
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Retweet.com Resold and other expired domain sales
People inject new words into language constantly. “Tweet” has taken on new meaning thanks to Twitter, while “Retweet” would have meant nothing a decade ago. Yet in that short space of time, this formerly unkno...
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June 19, 2014, 7:50 pm
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I got my first free .XYZ domain name offer today
Network Solutions finally got around to offering me a free .xyz domain name. The .XYZ top level domain name continues to grow by thousands of registrations each day due to a Network Solutions giveaway. I got my first such free domain offer today. It&...
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I got my first free .XYZ domain name offer today
Network Solutions finally got around to offering me a free .xyz domain name. The .XYZ top level domain name continues to grow by thousands of registrations each day due to a Network Solutions giveaway. I got my first such free domain offer today. It&...
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June 19, 2014, 3:52 pm
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Amazon fires up defensive domain registrations for Fire Phone
Amazon registers 200 or more domain names related to new phone. Amazon.com unveiled its Amazon Fire Phone yesterday. At the same time, it went on a defensive registration binge for names related to the new product. I count 200 domain name registratio...
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Amazon fires up defensive domain registrations for Fire Phone
Amazon registers 200 or more domain names related to new phone. Amazon.com unveiled its Amazon Fire Phone yesterday. At the same time, it went on a defensive registration binge for names related to the new product. I count 200 domain name registratio...
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June 19, 2014, 2:32 pm
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Several generic domains hit with UDRPs recently
A handful of generics are hit with UDRPs, and one previous complainant called me… I’ve noticed a handful of seemingly generic domain names get his with UDRPs over the past few days. Here are some that have hit my radar: southpaw.com qiq....
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Several generic domains hit with UDRPs recently
A handful of generics are hit with UDRPs, and one previous complainant called me… I’ve noticed a handful of seemingly generic domain names get his with UDRPs over the past few days. Here are some that have hit my radar: southpaw.com qiq....
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June 19, 2014, 2:16 pm
