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Amazon.com Company Quidsi Launches YoYo.com
Quidsi follows up Wag.com with YoYo.com. Today Quidsi, which is owned by Amazon.com, launched its latest store: online toy store YoYo.com. The choice of domain name follows Quidsi’s pattern of launching vertical stores on great domain names. It...
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Amazon.com Company Quidsi Launches YoYo.com
Quidsi follows up Wag.com with YoYo.com. Today Quidsi, which is owned by Amazon.com, launched its latest store: online toy store YoYo.com. The choice of domain name follows Quidsi’s pattern of launching vertical stores on great domain names. It...
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September 20, 2011, 9:30 am
Domain Name Wire
Vertive Buys CouponCodes.com Domain Name
Austin company buys another killer domain name. Austin, Texas online savings company Vertive has acquired the domain name CouponCodes.com for an undisclosed sum. Vertive is now stranger to the power of domain names. It operates Offers.com (it also ow...
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Vertive Buys CouponCodes.com Domain Name
Austin company buys another killer domain name. Austin, Texas online savings company Vertive has acquired the domain name CouponCodes.com for an undisclosed sum. Vertive is now stranger to the power of domain names. It operates Offers.com (it also ow...
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September 20, 2011, 6:55 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN Releases New TLD Guidebook
ICANN releases yet another — but not necessarily final — applicant guidebook for new gTLDs. As I promised in a post yesterday, ICANN has released another version of the new top level domain name guidebook today. Although many will look at...
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ICANN Releases New TLD Guidebook
ICANN releases yet another — but not necessarily final — applicant guidebook for new gTLDs. As I promised in a post yesterday, ICANN has released another version of the new top level domain name guidebook today. Although many will look at...
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September 19, 2011, 4:16 pm
Domain Name Wire
Breaking: NBC Transfers Women.com to Done! Ventures in Lawsuit Settlement
Busted seven figure domain name deal comes to resolution. It looks like the end result of a legal battle over Women.com has ended with the transfer of the domain name to Done! Ventures. Done! Ventures thought it had a deal to purchase Women.com and W...
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Breaking: NBC Transfers Women.com to Done! Ventures in Lawsuit Settlement
Busted seven figure domain name deal comes to resolution. It looks like the end result of a legal battle over Women.com has ended with the transfer of the domain name to Done! Ventures. Done! Ventures thought it had a deal to purchase Women.com and W...
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September 19, 2011, 1:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Drives 78% of FreeConferenceCall.com Signups
Descriptive domain name drives 78% of business for FreeConferenceCall.com. Most Domain Name Wire readers understand the power of a descriptive domain name. Here’s more proof: the founder of FreeConferenceCall.com says his domain name drives 78%...
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Domain Name Drives 78% of FreeConferenceCall.com Signups
Descriptive domain name drives 78% of business for FreeConferenceCall.com. Most Domain Name Wire readers understand the power of a descriptive domain name. Here’s more proof: the founder of FreeConferenceCall.com says his domain name drives 78%...
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September 19, 2011, 1:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lots of Bids With One Day to Go in Moniker Auction
Moniker auction attracting lots of bids with one more day left. 28 domain names in Moniker’s DOMAINfest Meet-Up NYC auction have received bids with still one day to go, although only 14 domain names have met their reserves. The auction is takin...
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Lots of Bids With One Day to Go in Moniker Auction
Moniker auction attracting lots of bids with one more day left. 28 domain names in Moniker’s DOMAINfest Meet-Up NYC auction have received bids with still one day to go, although only 14 domain names have met their reserves. The auction is takin...
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September 19, 2011, 1:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Oversee.net Discusses Layoffs and Its Future
Company co-president explains Oversee.net’s business shift. News of Oversee.net’s layoffs didn’t come as a huge surprise last week. This sort of shuffling the deck is common when there’s turnover at the top. I caught up with S...
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Oversee.net Discusses Layoffs and Its Future
Company co-president explains Oversee.net’s business shift. News of Oversee.net’s layoffs didn’t come as a huge surprise last week. This sort of shuffling the deck is common when there’s turnover at the top. I caught up with S...
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September 19, 2011, 11:53 am
Domain Name Wire
Panelist Calls Clause in Name.com Registration Agreement “Extraordinary”
Panelist finds it odd that Name.com makes domain registrant responsible for its own “coming soon” pages. UDRP panelist Warwick A. Rothnie has called a clause in Name.com’s registration agreement related to parked pages an “ext...
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Panelist Calls Clause in Name.com Registration Agreement “Extraordinary”
Panelist finds it odd that Name.com makes domain registrant responsible for its own “coming soon” pages. UDRP panelist Warwick A. Rothnie has called a clause in Name.com’s registration agreement related to parked pages an “ext...
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September 19, 2011, 11:09 am
Domain Name Wire
ICANN To Release New TLD Applicant Guidebook and Site on Monday
Monday is a big day for new top level domain names as latest applicant guidebook is released. ICANN will release the next (final?) applicant guidebook for new top level domain names as well as a new micro site dedicated to the new top level domain na...
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ICANN To Release New TLD Applicant Guidebook and Site on Monday
Monday is a big day for new top level domain names as latest applicant guidebook is released. ICANN will release the next (final?) applicant guidebook for new top level domain names as well as a new micro site dedicated to the new top level domain na...
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September 18, 2011, 11:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Soci.al Domain Hack Sells for $50,000
Soci.al sells to Mark Monitor client. The domain name hack Soci.al has sold for $50,000 according to host.al, which provided a screenshot of the Escrow.com transaction to Domain Name Wire as proof. The Albania country code domain name now sits on bra...
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Soci.al Domain Hack Sells for $50,000
Soci.al sells to Mark Monitor client. The domain name hack Soci.al has sold for $50,000 according to host.al, which provided a screenshot of the Escrow.com transaction to Domain Name Wire as proof. The Albania country code domain name now sits on bra...
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September 17, 2011, 12:18 pm
