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NameMedia Expands With London Office
NameMedia is expanding its European footprint with a new office in London. The company will announce the expansion today. The domain seller, which operates Afternic and BuyDomains, has hired Nadya Morozova as its European Business Development Manager...
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NameMedia Expands With London Office
NameMedia is expanding its European footprint with a new office in London. The company will announce the expansion today. The domain seller, which operates Afternic and BuyDomains, has hired Nadya Morozova as its European Business Development Manager...
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July 11, 2011, 9:00 am
Domain Name Wire
Disc Golf Associations Buys DiscGolf.com Domain Name
Company that “founded” disc golf buys DiscGolf.com. Go to any major park in Austin during the day and you’ll see people “throwing plastic”, a.k.a. playing disc golf. If not trademark attorneys are around you might also c...
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Disc Golf Associations Buys DiscGolf.com Domain Name
Company that “founded” disc golf buys DiscGolf.com. Go to any major park in Austin during the day and you’ll see people “throwing plastic”, a.k.a. playing disc golf. If not trademark attorneys are around you might also c...
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July 9, 2011, 11:21 am
Domain Name Wire
LivingSocial Gets Irish
Daily deals site gets LivingSocial.ie domain name. LivingSocial has a new home on the web in Ireland: LivingSocial.ie. .Ie is the country code domain name for Ireland. Last month the daily deals site filed for arbitration to get the domain name. Unti...
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LivingSocial Gets Irish
Daily deals site gets LivingSocial.ie domain name. LivingSocial has a new home on the web in Ireland: LivingSocial.ie. .Ie is the country code domain name for Ireland. Last month the daily deals site filed for arbitration to get the domain name. Unti...
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July 8, 2011, 9:43 am
Domain Name Wire
Technology Review Asks if New TLDs Will “End the Rent-Seeking of Domain Name Speculators”
Unsound analysis of what new TLDs will do to the value of .com. Christopher Mims has just penned a new article for MIT’s Technology Review asking “Will New Top Level Domains End the Rent-Seeking of Domain Name Speculators?” Let&rsqu...
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Technology Review Asks if New TLDs Will “End the Rent-Seeking of Domain Name Speculators”
Unsound analysis of what new TLDs will do to the value of .com. Christopher Mims has just penned a new article for MIT’s Technology Review asking “Will New Top Level Domains End the Rent-Seeking of Domain Name Speculators?” Let&rsqu...
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July 7, 2011, 9:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign’s Pat Kane Discusses New TLDs and IDNs
With new TLDs approved, VeriSign gets ready to move forward. Domain name registries are getting down to business now that ICANN has finally approved the new top level domain name program. I recently caught up with Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and ...
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VeriSign’s Pat Kane Discusses New TLDs and IDNs
With new TLDs approved, VeriSign gets ready to move forward. Domain name registries are getting down to business now that ICANN has finally approved the new top level domain name program. I recently caught up with Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and ...
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July 7, 2011, 12:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Registrar Offers Social Login to Registrar Account
Australian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you ca...
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Domain Registrar Offers Social Login to Registrar Account
Australian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you ca...
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July 7, 2011, 11:42 am
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
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VeriSign Improves Domain Tag Cloud with DomainView
Tool lets you monitor real time domain registration trends. After writing about VeriSign’s new beta NXD data tool yesterday, I also learned that the company has upgraded its Domain Tag Cloud into a neat tool to monitor real time domain registra...
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July 7, 2011, 9:52 am
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
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VeriSign Releases Domain Traffic Treasure Trove to the Public
VeriSign has released VERISIGN® DomainScore™ to the public. The beta tool allows anyone to enter an unregistered domain name and get an idea of how much traffic the domain gets. DomainScore uses NDX data — basically visit requests to ...
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July 6, 2011, 5:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition
Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market...
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For Oversee.net, ShopWiki Is Another Ill-Timed Acquisition
Latest big acquisition hit hard by Google algorithm updates. Oversee.net has made a few big acquisitions over the years, and something always seems to go wrong. There was Moniker, which the company bought at the peak of the domain name auction market...
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July 6, 2011, 2:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
French Company Wants to Cancel Adwords Trademark, Hit with UDRP
French company files to cancel one of Google’s trademarks, gets hit with UDRP over .mobi domain name. Google has filed a UDRP against the owner of a French trademark for “adwords” over his domain name ad-words.mobi. The domain owner...
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French Company Wants to Cancel Adwords Trademark, Hit with UDRP
French company files to cancel one of Google’s trademarks, gets hit with UDRP over .mobi domain name. Google has filed a UDRP against the owner of a French trademark for “adwords” over his domain name ad-words.mobi. The domain owner...
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July 6, 2011, 11:55 am
