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Del Monte appeals new top level domain name lawsuit
Battle over .delmonte continues. Del Monte International is taking a dispute over new top level domain names to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Del Monte International (DMI) applied for the .delmonte domain name. Del Monte Corporation (DMC)...
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Del Monte appeals new top level domain name lawsuit
Battle over .delmonte continues. Del Monte International is taking a dispute over new top level domain names to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Del Monte International (DMI) applied for the .delmonte domain name. Del Monte Corporation (DMC)...
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June 5, 2014, 5:34 pm
Domain Name Wire
EDR: A look at 150 expired domain name auctions from the past week
This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson has close to 150 expired domain name auctions from last week. As always, some of the prices paid are head-scratchers. One thing organizations are good at … is dropping the ball....
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EDR: A look at 150 expired domain name auctions from the past week
This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson has close to 150 expired domain name auctions from last week. As always, some of the prices paid are head-scratchers. One thing organizations are good at … is dropping the ball....
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June 5, 2014, 2:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Frank Schilling is the biggest registrant of new TLDs
New registrant report reveals who has the most registrations in new top level domain names. nTLDStats.com published a new “Registrant Breakdown” today. It shows the top registrants of new top level domain names. Coming in at number one on...
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Frank Schilling is the biggest registrant of new TLDs
New registrant report reveals who has the most registrations in new top level domain names. nTLDStats.com published a new “Registrant Breakdown” today. It shows the top registrants of new top level domain names. Coming in at number one on...
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June 5, 2014, 1:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Company pays $600,000 in auction to run .信息 top level domain name
Rights to IDN domain name sell for $600,000. Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. has won the first ICANN “auction of last resort” to resolve a new top level domain name contention set. It paid $600,000 in an auction for .信息, whic...
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Company pays $600,000 in auction to run .信息 top level domain name
Rights to IDN domain name sell for $600,000. Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. has won the first ICANN “auction of last resort” to resolve a new top level domain name contention set. It paid $600,000 in an auction for .信息, whic...
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June 5, 2014, 1:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Try Uniregistry’s slick bulk domain name search
A simple, yet powerful, bulk searching tool. “Bulk search” for domain names is very useful when you’re scavenging for domain names to hand register. I recently used Uniregistry’s search to look up both individual keywords acro...
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Try Uniregistry’s slick bulk domain name search
A simple, yet powerful, bulk searching tool. “Bulk search” for domain names is very useful when you’re scavenging for domain names to hand register. I recently used Uniregistry’s search to look up both individual keywords acro...
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June 4, 2014, 7:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for company called HealthKit
Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offeri...
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Apple’s HealthKit causing problems for company called HealthKit
Apple introduced HealthKit, a sort of framework for health data on iOs devices, earlier this week. As with many other Apple product announcements, the name choice ran smack into an existing one. In this case an Australian firm has already been offeri...
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June 4, 2014, 4:04 pm
Domain Name Wire
New Top Level Domain registration numbers are increasingly misleading
Reporting aggregate numbers for new TLD registrations is misleading. Some day this month one or more companies will proclaim that new top level domain name registrations have topped one million domain names. It will be very misleading when they annou...
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New Top Level Domain registration numbers are increasingly misleading
Reporting aggregate numbers for new TLD registrations is misleading. Some day this month one or more companies will proclaim that new top level domain name registrations have topped one million domain names. It will be very misleading when they annou...
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June 4, 2014, 3:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Fujitsu and 18 others bought last week
19 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy/Afternic. Fujitsu finally got around to buying a domain to match a brand it launched last year. Here are details on that sale and 18 other end user sales that took place at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. (See p...
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What domain names Fujitsu and 18 others bought last week
19 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy/Afternic. Fujitsu finally got around to buying a domain to match a brand it launched last year. Here are details on that sale and 18 other end user sales that took place at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. (See p...
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June 4, 2014, 1:48 pm
Domain Name Wire
Oh, crap: Moniker is down
Moniker has taken its website offline to fix numerous problems with its new system. Domain name registrar Moniker switched its interface to a reseller platform over the weekend. It didn’t go so well, as evidenced by the 100+ comments on my post...
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Oh, crap: Moniker is down
Moniker has taken its website offline to fix numerous problems with its new system. Domain name registrar Moniker switched its interface to a reseller platform over the weekend. It didn’t go so well, as evidenced by the 100+ comments on my post...
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June 3, 2014, 5:21 pm
Domain Name Wire
.XYZ zone file nears 15,000 domain names after launch
Nearly 15,000 domains in zone file and over half of them are at NetworkSolutions. The latest batch of zone files has been published, and .xyz had what looks to be a good first day. The zone file includes nearly 15,000 domain names after the initial h...
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.XYZ zone file nears 15,000 domain names after launch
Nearly 15,000 domains in zone file and over half of them are at NetworkSolutions. The latest batch of zone files has been published, and .xyz had what looks to be a good first day. The zone file includes nearly 15,000 domain names after the initial h...
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June 3, 2014, 1:35 pm
