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What domains BASF and 13 other end users bought this week
BASF among the big companies buying domain names last week. This week’s end user sales report is shorter than usual. That doesn’t mean fewer domains were purchased by end users. It’s likely a combination of two factors. First, more ...
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What domains BASF and 13 other end users bought this week
BASF among the big companies buying domain names last week. This week’s end user sales report is shorter than usual. That doesn’t mean fewer domains were purchased by end users. It’s likely a combination of two factors. First, more ...
Discussion
December 19, 2012, 12:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
Funny: UDRP complainant says registration in bad faith is “not applicable”
Software company files UDRP and says registration in bad faith was “not applicable” to the case. Just when you thought you’d seen it all… Swiss digital publishing software company BlankPage AG has lost a UDRP decision for the...
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Funny: UDRP complainant says registration in bad faith is “not applicable”
Software company files UDRP and says registration in bad faith was “not applicable” to the case. Just when you thought you’d seen it all… Swiss digital publishing software company BlankPage AG has lost a UDRP decision for the...
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December 19, 2012, 9:31 am
Domain Name Wire
.Co returns to Super Bowl in Go Daddy commercial
Danica Patrick to start in GoDaddy.co commercial in Super Bowl XLVII. .Co will be featured in a Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial for the third year in a row this coming February, Go Daddy and .Co Internet announced today. The .co commercial will featur...
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.Co returns to Super Bowl in Go Daddy commercial
Danica Patrick to start in GoDaddy.co commercial in Super Bowl XLVII. .Co will be featured in a Go Daddy Super Bowl commercial for the third year in a row this coming February, Go Daddy and .Co Internet announced today. The .co commercial will featur...
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December 19, 2012, 9:18 am
Domain Name Wire
2012 Impact Stories: changing of the guard at Go Daddy
Major changes at the top of the world’s largest domain name registrar. In late 2011 Go Daddy closed on an investment from KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. We all knew changes would result, but how they manifested themselves ...
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2012 Impact Stories: changing of the guard at Go Daddy
Major changes at the top of the world’s largest domain name registrar. In late 2011 Go Daddy closed on an investment from KKR, Silver Lake, and Technology Crossover Ventures. We all knew changes would result, but how they manifested themselves ...
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December 18, 2012, 12:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lowlife losers try to profit from Sandy Hook domain names
How do you describe someone who tries to profit off the massacre of twenty children? It’s a fact. People register domains related to big news stories. They sometimes park them and sometimes try to sell them. For example, Clint Eastwood’s ...
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Lowlife losers try to profit from Sandy Hook domain names
How do you describe someone who tries to profit off the massacre of twenty children? It’s a fact. People register domains related to big news stories. They sometimes park them and sometimes try to sell them. For example, Clint Eastwood’s ...
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December 18, 2012, 11:41 am
Domain Name Wire
Why Swiss International Airlines withdrew its .swiss application
Faced with government approval, airline gives up fight for .swiss. While it should come as no surprise, here’s an official response to Domain Name Wire’s inquiry to why Swiss International Airlines withdrew its top level domain applicatio...
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Why Swiss International Airlines withdrew its .swiss application
Faced with government approval, airline gives up fight for .swiss. While it should come as no surprise, here’s an official response to Domain Name Wire’s inquiry to why Swiss International Airlines withdrew its top level domain applicatio...
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December 18, 2012, 9:58 am
Domain Name Wire
.Green gets edge on .eco in new TLD priority draw
.Green draws are better overall, but that doesn’t mean it will come to market first. When ICANN planned “digital archery” to determine the order in which it would review top level domain applications, there was a benefit to applying...
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.Green gets edge on .eco in new TLD priority draw
.Green draws are better overall, but that doesn’t mean it will come to market first. When ICANN planned “digital archery” to determine the order in which it would review top level domain applications, there was a benefit to applying...
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December 18, 2012, 9:40 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy hirings show acquisitions, product development taking priority
New CEO and executives point to a company growing by acquisition and new products. Last week Go Daddy announced that Blake Irving, former Chief Product Officer at Yahoo, will take over as its CEO next year. Now the company has made two more hires, an...
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Go Daddy hirings show acquisitions, product development taking priority
New CEO and executives point to a company growing by acquisition and new products. Last week Go Daddy announced that Blake Irving, former Chief Product Officer at Yahoo, will take over as its CEO next year. Now the company has made two more hires, an...
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December 17, 2012, 10:44 am
Domain Name Wire
Stirring up a beehive: the most egregious UDRP of 2012?
Perhaps the worst UDRP filing of 2012. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization UDRP panel has handed down a ruling in favor of the current owner of Beehive.com. In doing so, panelist Richard W. Page got the decision right. But he als...
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Stirring up a beehive: the most egregious UDRP of 2012?
Perhaps the worst UDRP filing of 2012. A single member World Intellectual Property Organization UDRP panel has handed down a ruling in favor of the current owner of Beehive.com. In doing so, panelist Richard W. Page got the decision right. But he als...
Discussion
December 17, 2012, 9:54 am
Domain Name Wire
LiveOne Group loses second UDRP claim in as many months
Company goes after domain name registered before its brand even existed. Let’s hope that LiveOne Group, a streaming media company, merely got some bad legal advice on this one. It just lost a UDRP for LiveOne.com. The current registrant picked ...
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LiveOne Group loses second UDRP claim in as many months
Company goes after domain name registered before its brand even existed. Let’s hope that LiveOne Group, a streaming media company, merely got some bad legal advice on this one. It just lost a UDRP for LiveOne.com. The current registrant picked ...
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December 14, 2012, 5:01 pm
