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Domain registrar powers Kim Dotcom’s new Mega
Instra has partnered with Kim Dotcom to power the new Mega. Last February I stumbled into the lobby of the Fairmont Santa Monica after a DomainFest party. It was about 3 in the morning and it had been a long night. I ran into Tony Lentino, founder of...
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Domain registrar powers Kim Dotcom’s new Mega
Instra has partnered with Kim Dotcom to power the new Mega. Last February I stumbled into the lobby of the Fairmont Santa Monica after a DomainFest party. It was about 3 in the morning and it had been a long night. I ran into Tony Lentino, founder of...
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January 17, 2013, 4:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sign.com owner threatens Signs.com
Company sends cease & desist letter, claiming Signs.com violates Sign.com service mark. This one is so crazy it’s almost funny — although I’m sure it’s not funny for the owner of Signs.com. SA International, the owner of S...
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Sign.com owner threatens Signs.com
Company sends cease & desist letter, claiming Signs.com violates Sign.com service mark. This one is so crazy it’s almost funny — although I’m sure it’s not funny for the owner of Signs.com. SA International, the owner of S...
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January 17, 2013, 10:22 am
Domain Name Wire
Trailers.net gets $15k bid and Great Domain Auction starts
Plenty of action at Sedo this month and a wide range of TLDs in Great Domains auction. Sedo’s monthly Great Domains auction has started and will run through January 24. The auction includes 199 domain names and all but 8 have reserves under $/E...
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Trailers.net gets $15k bid and Great Domain Auction starts
Plenty of action at Sedo this month and a wide range of TLDs in Great Domains auction. Sedo’s monthly Great Domains auction has started and will run through January 24. The auction includes 199 domain names and all but 8 have reserves under $/E...
Discussion
January 17, 2013, 10:00 am
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: the first true laches UDRP victory
National Arbitration Forum panel finds case should be barred based on laches. The doctrine of laches bars bringing a claim after an unreasonable delay in a way that unduly hurts the opposing party. Laches started creeping into UDRP cases over the pas...
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Breaking: the first true laches UDRP victory
National Arbitration Forum panel finds case should be barred based on laches. The doctrine of laches bars bringing a claim after an unreasonable delay in a way that unduly hurts the opposing party. Laches started creeping into UDRP cases over the pas...
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January 16, 2013, 5:22 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rachael Ray buys her husband’s name and 28 more interesting domain purchases
29 end user domain sales including some big names. Memo to Rachael Ray’s husband: she owns you. This week’s end user domain sales report includes Rachael Ray buying her husband’s (domain) name, Hubspot, Taser, and more. Afternic Bet...
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Rachael Ray buys her husband’s name and 28 more interesting domain purchases
29 end user domain sales including some big names. Memo to Rachael Ray’s husband: she owns you. This week’s end user domain sales report includes Rachael Ray buying her husband’s (domain) name, Hubspot, Taser, and more. Afternic Bet...
Discussion
January 16, 2013, 11:45 am
Domain Name Wire
3 questions and 3 things I’m looking forward to at Webfest
Will Webfest deliver under its new name? After so many years of calling it DOMAINfest, it’s kind of strange to type Webfest. But that’s the new name of DomainSponsor’s annual conference. I don’t mind, especially since there&rs...
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3 questions and 3 things I’m looking forward to at Webfest
Will Webfest deliver under its new name? After so many years of calling it DOMAINfest, it’s kind of strange to type Webfest. But that’s the new name of DomainSponsor’s annual conference. I don’t mind, especially since there&rs...
Discussion
January 16, 2013, 10:52 am
Domain Name Wire
Rick Santorum lets his political future (of domain names) expire
Santorum lets a number of domain names expire. Is one time presidential hopeful Rick Santorum letting his political ambitions expire? Santorum is letting a number of future-oriented political domain names expire. The domains appear to have been manag...
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Rick Santorum lets his political future (of domain names) expire
Santorum lets a number of domain names expire. Is one time presidential hopeful Rick Santorum letting his political ambitions expire? Santorum is letting a number of future-oriented political domain names expire. The domains appear to have been manag...
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January 16, 2013, 9:32 am
Domain Name Wire
Facebook registers some Graph Search domains, but the exact domain doesn’t matter
Company gets FacebookGraphSearch.com; GraphSearch.com is for sale. Yesterday Facebook registered domain names for its new Graph Search. Specifically, it picked up FacebookGraphSearch.com and other extensions of the same domain. It did not, however, b...
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Facebook registers some Graph Search domains, but the exact domain doesn’t matter
Company gets FacebookGraphSearch.com; GraphSearch.com is for sale. Yesterday Facebook registered domain names for its new Graph Search. Specifically, it picked up FacebookGraphSearch.com and other extensions of the same domain. It did not, however, b...
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January 16, 2013, 9:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Frito-Lay forwards Doritos.com to its Facebook page
Is forwarding your brand’s .com domain to Facebook a good idea? A reader just notified me that Doritos.com is no longer a standalone web site. Frito-Lay has simply forwarded it to its Facebook page. This appears to have happened a few months ag...
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Frito-Lay forwards Doritos.com to its Facebook page
Is forwarding your brand’s .com domain to Facebook a good idea? A reader just notified me that Doritos.com is no longer a standalone web site. Frito-Lay has simply forwarded it to its Facebook page. This appears to have happened a few months ag...
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January 15, 2013, 1:24 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign gets another patent for ccTLD registration
Patent covers bulk checking and registration of country code top level domains. Verisign has been granted U.S. patent number 8,356,081 for “Automated Domain Name Registration”. This patent, applied for in 2005, is a divisional patent of 7...
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Verisign gets another patent for ccTLD registration
Patent covers bulk checking and registration of country code top level domains. Verisign has been granted U.S. patent number 8,356,081 for “Automated Domain Name Registration”. This patent, applied for in 2005, is a divisional patent of 7...
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January 15, 2013, 11:40 am
