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CentralNic buys Mex.com. Yourname.Mex.com coming soon?
Domain name company picks up Mex.com at auction and will likely use it to sell subdomains. Last month I wrote about an auction at Sedo for Mex.com. The auction closed for 29,111 EUR. The domain has changed hands and the buyer is domain name company C...
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CentralNic buys Mex.com. Yourname.Mex.com coming soon?
Domain name company picks up Mex.com at auction and will likely use it to sell subdomains. Last month I wrote about an auction at Sedo for Mex.com. The auction closed for 29,111 EUR. The domain has changed hands and the buyer is domain name company C...
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September 26, 2013, 10:04 am
Domain Name Wire
JetGo guilty of RDNH after filing “seriously misleading” case against Frank Schilling
Australian charter jet company didn’t give the full story to WIPO panel. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended another UDRP filed against one of its domain names. The three person UDRP panel also found the compla...
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JetGo guilty of RDNH after filing “seriously misleading” case against Frank Schilling
Australian charter jet company didn’t give the full story to WIPO panel. Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended another UDRP filed against one of its domain names. The three person UDRP panel also found the compla...
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September 25, 2013, 4:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
Walmart goes after gripe website and guy responds with angry rant
Gripe site creator demands Walmart pay him before he hands over domain name. Walmart has filed a dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to take control of the domain name WalmartDoorGreeter.com. The domain name was reg...
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Walmart goes after gripe website and guy responds with angry rant
Gripe site creator demands Walmart pay him before he hands over domain name. Walmart has filed a dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) to take control of the domain name WalmartDoorGreeter.com. The domain name was reg...
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September 25, 2013, 3:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Coke, Dreamworks, Shell and 40 others bought last week
Big names and small businesses bought domain names through Afternic last week. Afternic’s weekly sales lists usually only include sales of $1,000 or more. This week the company included lower priced domains on its list, and it’s rather ey...
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What domain names Coke, Dreamworks, Shell and 40 others bought last week
Big names and small businesses bought domain names through Afternic last week. Afternic’s weekly sales lists usually only include sales of $1,000 or more. This week the company included lower priced domains on its list, and it’s rather ey...
Discussion
September 25, 2013, 2:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Block your trademark on 200+ top level domains for $600 a year
Donuts’ service is not cheap, but it’s much easier and cheaper than the alternative. Donuts, applicant for over 300 top level domain names, has launched its “Domains Protected Marks List” offering to trademark holders. The ser...
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Block your trademark on 200+ top level domains for $600 a year
Donuts’ service is not cheap, but it’s much easier and cheaper than the alternative. Donuts, applicant for over 300 top level domain names, has launched its “Domains Protected Marks List” offering to trademark holders. The ser...
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September 25, 2013, 12:27 pm
Domain Name Wire
Authentic Web wants to make .brand domains easier for corporations
Company will act as domain name registrar and offer the workflows necessary for a corporate environment. Most large companies have a process in place for registering new domain names. This may get more complex when brands secure their own top level d...
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Authentic Web wants to make .brand domains easier for corporations
Company will act as domain name registrar and offer the workflows necessary for a corporate environment. Most large companies have a process in place for registering new domain names. This may get more complex when brands secure their own top level d...
Discussion
September 25, 2013, 11:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Wow, United Domains is all in with New TLDs
Want to register a .com at United Domains? You’ll need to poke around the site a bit. We know that new top level domains are a growth opportunity for domain name registrars. But should domain name registrars forgo current registrations in favor...
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Wow, United Domains is all in with New TLDs
Want to register a .com at United Domains? You’ll need to poke around the site a bit. We know that new top level domains are a growth opportunity for domain name registrars. But should domain name registrars forgo current registrations in favor...
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September 25, 2013, 10:02 am
Domain Name Wire
Superyacht company rebrands as Y.CO
YCO Yacht rebrands its business to Y.CO. A superyacht brokerage and management company has changed its brand to Y.CO, and announced the change in conjunction with the Monaco Yacht Show going on now. The company’s previous brand was YCO Yacht, s...
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Superyacht company rebrands as Y.CO
YCO Yacht rebrands its business to Y.CO. A superyacht brokerage and management company has changed its brand to Y.CO, and announced the change in conjunction with the Monaco Yacht Show going on now. The company’s previous brand was YCO Yacht, s...
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September 25, 2013, 9:39 am
Domain Name Wire
CentralNic reports results: revenue up 16%
CentralNic profit spikes in first half of year. Domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), which went public last month, has released interim results for the first half of 2013. For the first half of 2013, the company pulled in £1,735 million...
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CentralNic reports results: revenue up 16%
CentralNic profit spikes in first half of year. Domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC), which went public last month, has released interim results for the first half of 2013. For the first half of 2013, the company pulled in £1,735 million...
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September 25, 2013, 9:21 am
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Google beats Donuts in .Games top level domain name dispute
.Games domain names will likely be confused with .game domains, panelist rules. Donuts has lost another string confusion objection for a plural domain name, this time .games. Google, one of five applicants for the .game top level domain, argued that ...
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Google beats Donuts in .Games top level domain name dispute
.Games domain names will likely be confused with .game domains, panelist rules. Donuts has lost another string confusion objection for a plural domain name, this time .games. Google, one of five applicants for the .game top level domain, argued that ...
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September 24, 2013, 4:38 pm
