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Company that owns Entertainment.com files for bankruptcy
Company enters chapter 7 liquidation. Entertainment Publications LLC, the company that owns Entertainment.com, has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. You probably know the company for its coupon books, which offered buy-one-get-one (BOGO) of...
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Company that owns Entertainment.com files for bankruptcy
Company enters chapter 7 liquidation. Entertainment Publications LLC, the company that owns Entertainment.com, has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation. You probably know the company for its coupon books, which offered buy-one-get-one (BOGO) of...
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March 13, 2013, 4:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chicago man owns PopeFrancis.com
He’s owned it since 2010, but someone else quickly snapped up PopeFrancisI.com today. Last month I suggested several possible names for the next pope and listed who owned the corresponding domain names. One I didn’t have on the list was P...
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Chicago man owns PopeFrancis.com
He’s owned it since 2010, but someone else quickly snapped up PopeFrancisI.com today. Last month I suggested several possible names for the next pope and listed who owned the corresponding domain names. One I didn’t have on the list was P...
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March 13, 2013, 3:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Want to sell your new TLD through Go Daddy? KISS.
A uniform registration process is key to selling your new TLD through Go Daddy. Last week representatives of about 800 of the unique strings applied for as new top level domains gathered in Phoenix for Go Daddy Registry Days. The event was designed t...
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Want to sell your new TLD through Go Daddy? KISS.
A uniform registration process is key to selling your new TLD through Go Daddy. Last week representatives of about 800 of the unique strings applied for as new top level domains gathered in Phoenix for Go Daddy Registry Days. The event was designed t...
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March 13, 2013, 12:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Here’s the biggest issue facing the domain market in 2013
How new TLDs will affect domain market is a top concern. Ask people in the domain industry what the “biggest issue facing the domain name market in 2013″ is, and a lot of them will tell you its new top level domain names. 30% of people wh...
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Here’s the biggest issue facing the domain market in 2013
How new TLDs will affect domain market is a top concern. Ask people in the domain industry what the “biggest issue facing the domain name market in 2013″ is, and a lot of them will tell you its new top level domain names. 30% of people wh...
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March 13, 2013, 11:36 am
Domain Name Wire
CDN.net, purchased for $185k last year, launches
$185,000 domain name goes live as a new service. About a year ago OnApp bought the domain name CDN.net for $185,000. For awhile it just forwarded the domain to its main web site. But now it has launched a new service at the domain. GigaOm reports tha...
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CDN.net, purchased for $185k last year, launches
$185,000 domain name goes live as a new service. About a year ago OnApp bought the domain name CDN.net for $185,000. For awhile it just forwarded the domain to its main web site. But now it has launched a new service at the domain. GigaOm reports tha...
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March 13, 2013, 11:11 am
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Lawsuit filed to halt UrbanHome.com transfer after UDRP decision
Suite claims WIPO panel was wrong in UrbanHome.com decision. Last week Michael Berkens wrote about a UDRP decision for UrbanHome.com. A WIPO panel ruled that the domain name should be transferred to Urban Home of Oxnard, California. Now the responden...
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Lawsuit filed to halt UrbanHome.com transfer after UDRP decision
Suite claims WIPO panel was wrong in UrbanHome.com decision. Last week Michael Berkens wrote about a UDRP decision for UrbanHome.com. A WIPO panel ruled that the domain name should be transferred to Urban Home of Oxnard, California. Now the responden...
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March 12, 2013, 11:59 am
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How is this “confusingly similar”?
I’m not sure how this UDRP case passed the confusingly similar test. The first prong of a UDRP case is whether the domain name at issue is identical or confusingly similar to one of the complainant’s trademarks. It’s usually the sim...
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How is this “confusingly similar”?
I’m not sure how this UDRP case passed the confusingly similar test. The first prong of a UDRP case is whether the domain name at issue is identical or confusingly similar to one of the complainant’s trademarks. It’s usually the sim...
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March 12, 2013, 11:25 am
Domain Name Wire
CSC buys Melbourne IT DBS for A$152.5 million
A shocking price tag for Melbourne IT’s brand protection business. There’s money in online brand management. Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) announced today that it has sold its Digital Brand Services (DBS) division to Corporation Services Compan...
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CSC buys Melbourne IT DBS for A$152.5 million
A shocking price tag for Melbourne IT’s brand protection business. There’s money in online brand management. Melbourne IT (ASX: MLB) announced today that it has sold its Digital Brand Services (DBS) division to Corporation Services Compan...
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March 12, 2013, 10:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Pepsi’s interesting $8,000 domain purchase
Pepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-L...
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Pepsi’s interesting $8,000 domain purchase
Pepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-L...
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March 11, 2013, 3:14 pm
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Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the dom...
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Procter & Gamble guilty of reverse domain name hijacking
Consumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the dom...
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March 11, 2013, 1:29 pm
