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TechCrunch Gets to the Heart of New Top Level Domain Failure
.eu has 3.4 million registrations. TechCrunch calls it a failure. Is .eu a success or failure? The country code domain name representing a whole bunch of countries has 3.4 million registrations after five years. That’s pretty darn good compared...
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TechCrunch Gets to the Heart of New Top Level Domain Failure
.eu has 3.4 million registrations. TechCrunch calls it a failure. Is .eu a success or failure? The country code domain name representing a whole bunch of countries has 3.4 million registrations after five years. That’s pretty darn good compared...
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April 6, 2011, 10:10 am
Domain Name Wire
Domain Madness Postponed Until Next Week
Online bidding fails and auction is postponed until next week. Running domain name auctions is hard. Promoting an auction and handling the technical back end is even harder. Just ask Rick Latona. Today Domain Madness was supposed to hold its third an...
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Domain Madness Postponed Until Next Week
Online bidding fails and auction is postponed until next week. Running domain name auctions is hard. Promoting an auction and handling the technical back end is even harder. Just ask Rick Latona. Today Domain Madness was supposed to hold its third an...
Discussion
April 5, 2011, 9:43 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo Sells Mind.com for $120,000
Domain broker turns in a good six figure sale. Sedo completed the sale of Mind.com over the past week for $120,000 to an unknown buyer. The last listed owner of the domain name was Chandler, Arizona-based LeapLab Group. Here are other notable sales f...
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Sedo Sells Mind.com for $120,000
Domain broker turns in a good six figure sale. Sedo completed the sale of Mind.com over the past week for $120,000 to an unknown buyer. The last listed owner of the domain name was Chandler, Arizona-based LeapLab Group. Here are other notable sales f...
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April 5, 2011, 5:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Nominet Releases Reverse Whois System
Nominet releases full version of reverse whois system. Nominet just released a full production version of what essentially amounts to a reverse whois tool for .uk domain names. Public Register Search Service lets users search for domain names registe...
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Nominet Releases Reverse Whois System
Nominet releases full version of reverse whois system. Nominet just released a full production version of what essentially amounts to a reverse whois tool for .uk domain names. Public Register Search Service lets users search for domain names registe...
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April 5, 2011, 3:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
Top 10 .Mobi Registrars and What It Says About New TLDs
Half of all .mobi registrations are at one domain registrar. I was just looking through tallies of total domain names per registrar by TLD as of the end of 2010. This graph of .mobi registrations at the end of December is telling: There’s only ...
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Top 10 .Mobi Registrars and What It Says About New TLDs
Half of all .mobi registrations are at one domain registrar. I was just looking through tallies of total domain names per registrar by TLD as of the end of 2010. This graph of .mobi registrations at the end of December is telling: There’s only ...
Discussion
April 5, 2011, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
ClickZ Loses Dispute for United Kingdom Domain Name
Web site’s attempt to get Clickz.co.uk rebuffed. Popular online marketing web site ClickZ.com has lost an arbitration case to get the domain name ClickZ.co.uk. Party Domain Limited registered Clickz.co.uk back in 1999. The domain points to a la...
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ClickZ Loses Dispute for United Kingdom Domain Name
Web site’s attempt to get Clickz.co.uk rebuffed. Popular online marketing web site ClickZ.com has lost an arbitration case to get the domain name ClickZ.co.uk. Party Domain Limited registered Clickz.co.uk back in 1999. The domain points to a la...
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April 5, 2011, 11:47 am
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Company Hit with UDRP for Typo of Its Own Domain Name
ShoeBuy.com registered typo of its own domain name, only to have to defends itself for cybersquatting. Imagine you’re an online shoe retailer. To protect against cybersquatting you register over 100 common typos of your domain name. Then one da...
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Company Hit with UDRP for Typo of Its Own Domain Name
ShoeBuy.com registered typo of its own domain name, only to have to defends itself for cybersquatting. Imagine you’re an online shoe retailer. To protect against cybersquatting you register over 100 common typos of your domain name. Then one da...
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April 5, 2011, 7:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Bob Parsons Updates Elephant Shooting Video
Edits shine more positive light on Bob Parsons hunting trip. Bob Parsons has defended himself in several interviews since he posted a video of him shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe. But he made a tacit admission that his video could have been less off...
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Bob Parsons Updates Elephant Shooting Video
Edits shine more positive light on Bob Parsons hunting trip. Bob Parsons has defended himself in several interviews since he posted a video of him shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe. But he made a tacit admission that his video could have been less off...
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April 4, 2011, 6:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Hey Bit.ly, What Do you Have to Say About .ly Domains Now?
Another example of the dangers of .ly domain names. Ever since unrest broke out in Libya Bit.ly has been saying they have no worries about their domain name. They point to the .ly caches outside of Libya. (.ly is the country code domain for Libya.) B...
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Hey Bit.ly, What Do you Have to Say About .ly Domains Now?
Another example of the dangers of .ly domain names. Ever since unrest broke out in Libya Bit.ly has been saying they have no worries about their domain name. They point to the .ly caches outside of Libya. (.ly is the country code domain for Libya.) B...
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April 4, 2011, 1:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chicago Food Critic Finally Gets Stolen ChicagoRestaurant.com Domain Name Back
Long domain name battle has a happy ending. Chicago restaurant guru David M. Lissner of Dining Chicago used ChicagoRestaurant.com for ten years. Then one day in 2009 – poof! – it was gone. It was suddenly registered to someone in Turkey. ...
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Chicago Food Critic Finally Gets Stolen ChicagoRestaurant.com Domain Name Back
Long domain name battle has a happy ending. Chicago restaurant guru David M. Lissner of Dining Chicago used ChicagoRestaurant.com for ten years. Then one day in 2009 – poof! – it was gone. It was suddenly registered to someone in Turkey. ...
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April 4, 2011, 11:07 am
