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“Weird Al” Yankovic: 20-30% of Traffic is Misspelled
How do people misspell weird? Here’s an interesting tidbit from Spin Magazine’s recent interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic. Spin asked Weird Al how often people misspell his name wierd (with the i and e reversed). He responded:...
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“Weird Al” Yankovic: 20-30% of Traffic is Misspelled
How do people misspell weird? Here’s an interesting tidbit from Spin Magazine’s recent interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic. Spin asked Weird Al how often people misspell his name wierd (with the i and e reversed). He responded:...
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October 24, 2011, 4:14 pm
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ClickVentures Solidifies Cookies.com and PartySupplies.com Brands with Domain Purchases
PartySupply.com and CookieGifts.com forward to category-defining domain names. ClickVentures, the company behind Cookies.com and PartySupplies.com, continues to snap up category killer domain names as it builds out its web empire. The company, led by...
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ClickVentures Solidifies Cookies.com and PartySupplies.com Brands with Domain Purchases
PartySupply.com and CookieGifts.com forward to category-defining domain names. ClickVentures, the company behind Cookies.com and PartySupplies.com, continues to snap up category killer domain names as it builds out its web empire. The company, led by...
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October 24, 2011, 1:53 pm
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Web.com Plans .Web Top Level Domain
Company plans to apply for .web and says no one else should be allowed to get the TLD. Publicly traded Web.com plans to apply for the .web top level domain name and says no one else should be allowed to apply for the TLD due to its trademarks. The co...
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Web.com Plans .Web Top Level Domain
Company plans to apply for .web and says no one else should be allowed to get the TLD. Publicly traded Web.com plans to apply for the .web top level domain name and says no one else should be allowed to apply for the TLD due to its trademarks. The co...
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October 24, 2011, 11:54 am
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Minnesota Lawyer Magazine Claims MinnesotaLawyer.com Violates Its Trademark
The challenges of a descriptive trademark. The Dolan Company, owner of Minnesota Lawyer Magazine, is claiming that MinnesotaLawyer.com is violating its trademark. MinnesotaLawyer.com is maintained by Minnesota lawyer Aaron Hall. His law firm Twin Cit...
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Minnesota Lawyer Magazine Claims MinnesotaLawyer.com Violates Its Trademark
The challenges of a descriptive trademark. The Dolan Company, owner of Minnesota Lawyer Magazine, is claiming that MinnesotaLawyer.com is violating its trademark. MinnesotaLawyer.com is maintained by Minnesota lawyer Aaron Hall. His law firm Twin Cit...
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October 24, 2011, 9:29 am
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How Secure is the .Secure Trademark Application?
Company that filed .secure trademark application is now apparently using it in commerce. People will try to game the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all day long. In August I wrote about how Asif LLC applied for the .secure trademark. It later appli...
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How Secure is the .Secure Trademark Application?
Company that filed .secure trademark application is now apparently using it in commerce. People will try to game the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office all day long. In August I wrote about how Asif LLC applied for the .secure trademark. It later appli...
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October 24, 2011, 9:09 am
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Lego Loses First UDRP
Lego finally loses a UDRP case. LEGO Juris A/S, makers of the popular legos toy, has filed nearly 300 UDRP cases to date. It hadn’t lost a single one — until now. In a decision dated October 1 (but for some reason just published this week...
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Lego Loses First UDRP
Lego finally loses a UDRP case. LEGO Juris A/S, makers of the popular legos toy, has filed nearly 300 UDRP cases to date. It hadn’t lost a single one — until now. In a decision dated October 1 (but for some reason just published this week...
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October 21, 2011, 1:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
Friday Contest: TRAFFIC Picture Quiz
Identify these four pictures to win. It’s Friday so let’s have some fun. The first person to identify all of the items below will win a free copy of David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game Book. Put your answers in the comments. You must g...
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Friday Contest: TRAFFIC Picture Quiz
Identify these four pictures to win. It’s Friday so let’s have some fun. The first person to identify all of the items below will win a free copy of David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game Book. Put your answers in the comments. You must g...
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October 21, 2011, 12:53 pm
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Mitt Romney Buys CareerPolitician.com from Oversee.net
Oversee.net was previous owner of CareerPolitician.com. Mitt Romney’s campaign launched CareerPolitican.com this week to blast rival Rick Perry. The seller? Oversee.net. The domain name was originally registered at GoDaddy in 2007 by Tucson, Ar...
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Mitt Romney Buys CareerPolitician.com from Oversee.net
Oversee.net was previous owner of CareerPolitician.com. Mitt Romney’s campaign launched CareerPolitican.com this week to blast rival Rick Perry. The seller? Oversee.net. The domain name was originally registered at GoDaddy in 2007 by Tucson, Ar...
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October 21, 2011, 8:01 am
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Garry Chernoff Scores Again with 2 More Domain Sales
Two strong five figure domain name sales. Garry Chernoff has just completed two domain name sales in his sweet spot — high five figures. First, Chernoff just completed the sale of Ripley.com for $78,000. The buyer is someone in Santiago, Chile....
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Garry Chernoff Scores Again with 2 More Domain Sales
Two strong five figure domain name sales. Garry Chernoff has just completed two domain name sales in his sweet spot — high five figures. First, Chernoff just completed the sale of Ripley.com for $78,000. The buyer is someone in Santiago, Chile....
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October 20, 2011, 10:10 pm
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VeriSign Releases DomainFinder
Tool searches for available domain names. VeriSign has released a new beta tool called DomainFinder to help people find available domain names. On the surface the tool is just a basic domain name generator: enter a keyword and it shows you available ...
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VeriSign Releases DomainFinder
Tool searches for available domain names. VeriSign has released a new beta tool called DomainFinder to help people find available domain names. On the surface the tool is just a basic domain name generator: enter a keyword and it shows you available ...
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October 20, 2011, 3:29 pm
