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Are you going to TRAFFIC?
The next TRAFFIC domain conference takes place in Fort Lauderdale starting October 20. This year’s fall TRAFFIC conference is just ten days away. The conference returns to The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale October 20-23. As usual, there...
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Are you going to TRAFFIC?
The next TRAFFIC domain conference takes place in Fort Lauderdale starting October 20. This year’s fall TRAFFIC conference is just ten days away. The conference returns to The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Fort Lauderdale October 20-23. As usual, there...
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October 10, 2013, 2:47 pm
Domain Name Wire
Signed new TLD registry contracts have a wide range of priority numbers
Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a pri...
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Signed new TLD registry contracts have a wide range of priority numbers
Priority numbers helped companies at the beginning of the process but do not correlate closely with signed registry contracts. Yesterday ICANN executed its contract with dotCareer, LLC for the .career top level domain names. The application had a pri...
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October 10, 2013, 10:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Google and Amazon.com backpeddle on closed top level domain names
Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies h...
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Google and Amazon.com backpeddle on closed top level domain names
Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies h...
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October 10, 2013, 10:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after conflicting .cars decisions
A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor ...
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Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after conflicting .cars decisions
A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor ...
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October 9, 2013, 5:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Got Milk? or Milk Life: Sedo end user domain sales
End user domain name sales at Sedo last week. This week’s end user domain sales at Sedo include a purchase by ad firm Deutsch. Deutsch, which counts California Milk Processor Board (Got Milk?) as a client, bought MilkLife.com for $7,000. Deutsc...
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Got Milk? or Milk Life: Sedo end user domain sales
End user domain name sales at Sedo last week. This week’s end user domain sales at Sedo include a purchase by ad firm Deutsch. Deutsch, which counts California Milk Processor Board (Got Milk?) as a client, bought MilkLife.com for $7,000. Deutsc...
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October 9, 2013, 1:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top level domain considered in Tes.co domain name dispute
TES.CO is confusingly similar to TESCO, and soon the top level domain will play a bigger role in domain disputes. In July I wrote about grocery chain TESCO filing a dispute against the domain name tes.co. A decision has now been rendered. UDRP panels...
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Top level domain considered in Tes.co domain name dispute
TES.CO is confusingly similar to TESCO, and soon the top level domain will play a bigger role in domain disputes. In July I wrote about grocery chain TESCO filing a dispute against the domain name tes.co. A decision has now been rendered. UDRP panels...
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October 9, 2013, 1:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
The Inaugural DomainNameSales.com end user sales list
NBC Universal and Harry & David among companies that bought domain names via DomainNameSales.com last month. DomainNameSales.com sent out a monthly sales list for September yesterday. This marks the first time DNW is putting together an end user ...
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The Inaugural DomainNameSales.com end user sales list
NBC Universal and Harry & David among companies that bought domain names via DomainNameSales.com last month. DomainNameSales.com sent out a monthly sales list for September yesterday. This marks the first time DNW is putting together an end user ...
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October 9, 2013, 10:46 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN gives new TLD applicants a faster path to market
Top level domain applicants could start registering domains sooner, but there’s a catch. ICANN has changed its plan for mitigating the risk of so-called “name collisions” at the second level of new top level domain names, potentiall...
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ICANN gives new TLD applicants a faster path to market
Top level domain applicants could start registering domains sooner, but there’s a catch. ICANN has changed its plan for mitigating the risk of so-called “name collisions” at the second level of new top level domain names, potentiall...
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October 9, 2013, 10:08 am
Domain Name Wire
56 new TLD contracts signed, Donuts has more than half
New top level domain contracts are slowly (but surely) being executed. ICANN’s latest new top level domain name contracting stats show that 56 registry agreements have been signed. 55 of those have been published to ICANN’s registry page....
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56 new TLD contracts signed, Donuts has more than half
New top level domain contracts are slowly (but surely) being executed. ICANN’s latest new top level domain name contracting stats show that 56 registry agreements have been signed. 55 of those have been published to ICANN’s registry page....
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October 8, 2013, 12:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
NBA, MLB, NHL and colleges team up to take down websites selling counterfeits
Sports leagues team up to take down counterfeiters. A number of professional sports leagues and colleges have filed a lawsuit in an effort to seize domain names and shut down websites used to sell counterfeit goods. The suit (pdf) was filed yesterday...
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NBA, MLB, NHL and colleges team up to take down websites selling counterfeits
Sports leagues team up to take down counterfeiters. A number of professional sports leagues and colleges have filed a lawsuit in an effort to seize domain names and shut down websites used to sell counterfeit goods. The suit (pdf) was filed yesterday...
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October 8, 2013, 10:52 am
