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Elliot’s Blog rebrands as DomainInvesting.com
Popular domain investing blog moves to a new domain name. If you visit Elliot Silver’s popular domaining blog today, don’t be alarmed by the redirect to DomainInvesting.com. Silver has rebranded the site from ElliotsBlog.com to DomainInve...
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Elliot’s Blog rebrands as DomainInvesting.com
Popular domain investing blog moves to a new domain name. If you visit Elliot Silver’s popular domaining blog today, don’t be alarmed by the redirect to DomainInvesting.com. Silver has rebranded the site from ElliotsBlog.com to DomainInve...
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October 15, 2013, 9:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt resigns
Richard Rosenblatt resigns as Chairman & CEO of Demand Media. There’s been a change at the top of one of the domain name industry’s biggest companies. Demand Media announced today that Richard Rosenblatt has stepped down as Chairman a...
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Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt resigns
Richard Rosenblatt resigns as Chairman & CEO of Demand Media. There’s been a change at the top of one of the domain name industry’s biggest companies. Demand Media announced today that Richard Rosenblatt has stepped down as Chairman a...
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October 14, 2013, 4:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
NameBright.com: This is what happens when a domain investor creates a domain registrar
Team at TurnCommerce unveils new domain name registrar with tools for domainers. What would happen if a large domain name investor created a domain registrar from the bottom up? The result would look like NameBright.com. NameBright.com is a new domai...
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NameBright.com: This is what happens when a domain investor creates a domain registrar
Team at TurnCommerce unveils new domain name registrar with tools for domainers. What would happen if a large domain name investor created a domain registrar from the bottom up? The result would look like NameBright.com. NameBright.com is a new domai...
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October 14, 2013, 4:00 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN publishes new TLD applicant videos
All new TLD applicants invited to participate in recorded videos. As part of ICANN’s global awareness campaign for new top level domain names, the group invited all applicants for new top level domain names to participate in a recorded intervie...
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ICANN publishes new TLD applicant videos
All new TLD applicants invited to participate in recorded videos. As part of ICANN’s global awareness campaign for new top level domain names, the group invited all applicants for new top level domain names to participate in a recorded intervie...
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October 14, 2013, 12:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
After acquiring TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name team went to work
Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education comp...
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After acquiring TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name team went to work
Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education comp...
Discussion
October 14, 2013, 10:52 am
Domain Name Wire
What domain names the Jacksonville Jaguars and 30 others bought last week
NFL team was among the end user buyers of domain names last week. When GoDaddy acquired Afternic, one of my unspoken concerns was that Afternic would no longer release sales data. GoDaddy has historically released less information than other large do...
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What domain names the Jacksonville Jaguars and 30 others bought last week
NFL team was among the end user buyers of domain names last week. When GoDaddy acquired Afternic, one of my unspoken concerns was that Afternic would no longer release sales data. GoDaddy has historically released less information than other large do...
Discussion
October 12, 2013, 11:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Oh brother, .Shop applicant has really lost it this time
Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be...
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Oh brother, .Shop applicant has really lost it this time
Commercial Connect thinks applicant guidebook states only one TLD should be allocated for the entire “ecommerce namespace”. Commercial Connect LLC wants the .shop top level domain…badly. It also doesn’t want anyone else to be...
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October 11, 2013, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs
Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company&rs...
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October 11, 2013, 10:18 am
Domain Name Wire
True Religion loses domain dispute, but you need to read the dissent
True Religion can’t get TrueReligion.com domain name through UDRP. In July I wrote about how True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, had filed a UDRP against the owner of TrueReligion.com to try to get the domain name. Pr...
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True Religion loses domain dispute, but you need to read the dissent
True Religion can’t get TrueReligion.com domain name through UDRP. In July I wrote about how True Religion (NASDAQ: TRLG), maker of premium denim products, had filed a UDRP against the owner of TrueReligion.com to try to get the domain name. Pr...
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October 11, 2013, 10:06 am
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.Wed becomes one of the first new TLDs to submit a new registry service request
Company wants to let second level domain registrants transition to third level domain names. The ink is barely dry on Atgron, Inc.’s contract with ICANN to run the .wed top level domain name, and the company has already submitted a Registry Ser...
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.Wed becomes one of the first new TLDs to submit a new registry service request
Company wants to let second level domain registrants transition to third level domain names. The ink is barely dry on Atgron, Inc.’s contract with ICANN to run the .wed top level domain name, and the company has already submitted a Registry Ser...
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October 11, 2013, 9:33 am
