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Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute
UDRP panel doesn’t understand that page is just an automated parked page. Online classifieds site Craigslist has lost a case against one Craig Solomon for the domain name CraigsLists.com (note the extra ‘s’ at the end). The National...
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Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute
UDRP panel doesn’t understand that page is just an automated parked page. Online classifieds site Craigslist has lost a case against one Craig Solomon for the domain name CraigsLists.com (note the extra ‘s’ at the end). The National...
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August 10, 2012, 8:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Whitserv says it’s coming after domain registrars for sending renewal notices
Company claims it has patents related to sending renewal notices. Whitserv, a company suing Go Daddy for alleged patent infringement related to sending renewal reminder notices, says it has put other domain registrars “on notice” as well....
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Whitserv says it’s coming after domain registrars for sending renewal notices
Company claims it has patents related to sending renewal notices. Whitserv, a company suing Go Daddy for alleged patent infringement related to sending renewal reminder notices, says it has put other domain registrars “on notice” as well....
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August 10, 2012, 9:55 am
Domain Name Wire
X Factor 2 spoiler? Show registers domain names of some contestants
Names of some X Factor 2 contestants are registered. A number of personal names were recently registered by brand protection company DNStinations/Mark Monitor. It took me a while to figure out what they were up to. But it appears all of the names are...
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X Factor 2 spoiler? Show registers domain names of some contestants
Names of some X Factor 2 contestants are registered. A number of personal names were recently registered by brand protection company DNStinations/Mark Monitor. It took me a while to figure out what they were up to. But it appears all of the names are...
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August 10, 2012, 2:21 am
Domain Name Wire
Interview: Kieren McCarthy on .Nxt conference
Kieren McCarthy discusses the upcoming .Nxt conference. The .Nxt conference on new top level domain names is August 29-31 in London. I reached out to show organizer Kieren McCarthy for details. 1. You postponed the London conference to August. Why? Q...
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Interview: Kieren McCarthy on .Nxt conference
Kieren McCarthy discusses the upcoming .Nxt conference. The .Nxt conference on new top level domain names is August 29-31 in London. I reached out to show organizer Kieren McCarthy for details. 1. You postponed the London conference to August. Why? Q...
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August 9, 2012, 11:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Escrow.com: domain and web site transactions up 21%
Escrow.com sees transaction growth yet again. How’s the domain name market doing? Quite well, thank you very much. I reached out to Brandon Abbey, president of Escrow.com, to find out how business is this year. Abbey says that Escrow.com’...
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Escrow.com: domain and web site transactions up 21%
Escrow.com sees transaction growth yet again. How’s the domain name market doing? Quite well, thank you very much. I reached out to Brandon Abbey, president of Escrow.com, to find out how business is this year. Abbey says that Escrow.com’...
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August 9, 2012, 10:14 am
Domain Name Wire
Amazing! If you search for chicken in a search box, you’ll get chicken related results
Lawyer manipulates parked page links in UDRP. Here’s a fun fact: if you search for “chicken” in the search box of a parked page, you’ll get search results related to chicken. And if you are a complainant basing your allegation...
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Amazing! If you search for chicken in a search box, you’ll get chicken related results
Lawyer manipulates parked page links in UDRP. Here’s a fun fact: if you search for “chicken” in the search box of a parked page, you’ll get search results related to chicken. And if you are a complainant basing your allegation...
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August 9, 2012, 5:25 am
Domain Name Wire
What domains Princeton and others bought this week
Princeton and others make end user domain purchases. Before jumping in to the regular report, Jason Davis brought my attention to a sale that recently closed at GoDaddy. Jobing.com, which owns Recruiting.com, bought Onboarding.com for $20,000. The sa...
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What domains Princeton and others bought this week
Princeton and others make end user domain purchases. Before jumping in to the regular report, Jason Davis brought my attention to a sale that recently closed at GoDaddy. Jobing.com, which owns Recruiting.com, bought Onboarding.com for $20,000. The sa...
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August 8, 2012, 9:50 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy sells 32,766 domains led by JustWink.com at $65,000
Go Daddy Auctions sales from July include a big end user sale. Last month Go Daddy sold 32,766 domain names through its Go Daddy Auctions platform. That’s about the same number as it sold in the previous month. The top sale was for JustWink.com...
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Go Daddy sells 32,766 domains led by JustWink.com at $65,000
Go Daddy Auctions sales from July include a big end user sale. Last month Go Daddy sold 32,766 domain names through its Go Daddy Auctions platform. That’s about the same number as it sold in the previous month. The top sale was for JustWink.com...
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August 7, 2012, 7:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Wednesday domain news roundup
I’m on vacation for a couple weeks. I’ve got posts queued up for each day, but WordPress often “misses schedule” on posts. Anyhow, I’ll be a little slow on approving comments that get caught in moderation. I’ll als...
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Wednesday domain news roundup
I’m on vacation for a couple weeks. I’ve got posts queued up for each day, but WordPress often “misses schedule” on posts. Anyhow, I’ll be a little slow on approving comments that get caught in moderation. I’ll als...
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August 7, 2012, 7:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Living Social finally goes after LivingSocal.com, but owner has a good defense
LivingSocal.com — a typo of LivingSocial.com or short for Living SoCal? Last year Living Social started to go after a number of typo domain names through UDRP. I expressed concern about the domain name LivingSocal.com. Unfortunately, I called t...
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Living Social finally goes after LivingSocal.com, but owner has a good defense
LivingSocal.com — a typo of LivingSocial.com or short for Living SoCal? Last year Living Social started to go after a number of typo domain names through UDRP. I expressed concern about the domain name LivingSocal.com. Unfortunately, I called t...
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August 7, 2012, 6:06 pm
