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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+
Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 pe...
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.News Gets At Least 45 Registrations On Day 1 Of EAP At $10K+
Looks like the new gTLD .News is going to be a big winner for Rightside (NAME). The 1st day of the Early Access Program is about to close at 1pm EST today where people could get first shot at registering domain names at a wholesale cost of $10,000 pe...
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July 9, 2015, 4:41 pm
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Verizon Telematics May Be The Buyers Of Hum.com
Verizon Telematics, which acquired Hughes Telematics in 2012, may be readying a new service called "Hum" and may have acquired the matching domain name Hum.com for it with recent trademark filings as well.
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Verizon Telematics May Be The Buyers Of Hum.com
Verizon Telematics, which acquired Hughes Telematics in 2012, may be readying a new service called "Hum" and may have acquired the matching domain name Hum.com for it with recent trademark filings as well.
Discussion
July 9, 2015, 1:28 pm
The Domains
1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Golf 1,778; .Tours 1,693; .Plus 899; .Gold 768
4 new gTLD domain name extensions went into General Availability (GA) yesterday and including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names in the Early Access Program (EAP...
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1st Day New gTLD Totals: .Golf 1,778; .Tours 1,693; .Plus 899; .Gold 768
4 new gTLD domain name extensions went into General Availability (GA) yesterday and including domain names registered by trademark holders in the Sunrise period and those who paid an extra fee to register domain names in the Early Access Program (EAP...
Discussion
July 9, 2015, 1:04 pm
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.Site Now In Early Access: Here Are Some Non-Premium & Low Premium Domain Names
.Site a new gTLD that is being launched by Radix and is in the Early Access Period (EAP) where for any extra fee you can register a .site domain ahead of General Availability (GA) which starts on July 15th at 16:00 UTC. If a domain is still available...
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.Site Now In Early Access: Here Are Some Non-Premium & Low Premium Domain Names
.Site a new gTLD that is being launched by Radix and is in the Early Access Period (EAP) where for any extra fee you can register a .site domain ahead of General Availability (GA) which starts on July 15th at 16:00 UTC. If a domain is still available...
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July 9, 2015, 12:32 pm
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The average pay per staff member at ICANN in 2014 was over $187,000
Ion Mag did an article that broke down the money that ICANN is making and the kind of salaries being paid out. It is a pretty thorough look at what goes on over at ICANN. Average pay per staff over $187,000 stood out to me. From the article: ICANN&rs...
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The average pay per staff member at ICANN in 2014 was over $187,000
Ion Mag did an article that broke down the money that ICANN is making and the kind of salaries being paid out. It is a pretty thorough look at what goes on over at ICANN. Average pay per staff over $187,000 stood out to me. From the article: ICANN&rs...
Discussion
July 9, 2015, 9:46 am
The Domains
Thesis.com Purchased For $100K By Parent Co. Of WordPress Saved In UDRP
In a very interesting UDRP, Chris Pearson who owns the WordPress Theme of Thesis, lost its bid to grab the domain name Thesis.com from the parent company that owns and operates WordPress, Automattic, Inc. According to the UDRP, Respondent and Complai...
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Thesis.com Purchased For $100K By Parent Co. Of WordPress Saved In UDRP
In a very interesting UDRP, Chris Pearson who owns the WordPress Theme of Thesis, lost its bid to grab the domain name Thesis.com from the parent company that owns and operates WordPress, Automattic, Inc. According to the UDRP, Respondent and Complai...
Discussion
July 9, 2015, 4:51 am
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Playa Games, Maker of Online SFGame Played By 40M: Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Playa Games GmbH which is the creator and operator of an online game called “Shakes & Fidget” which it says is known as “SFGAME” was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name SFGame.com The deci...
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Playa Games, Maker of Online SFGame Played By 40M: Found Guilty Of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
Playa Games GmbH which is the creator and operator of an online game called “Shakes & Fidget” which it says is known as “SFGAME” was just found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name SFGame.com The deci...
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July 8, 2015, 8:35 pm
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Qatar Airways Loses 2nd UDRP in a Month On 15 Year Old DiscoverQatar.com
Qatar Airways Q.C.S.C. of Doha, Qatar, just lost a second UDRP in a month, its attempt to grab the domain name DiscoverQatar.com Last month the state owned Airlines lost a UDRP on two other generic domain names, discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org...
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Qatar Airways Loses 2nd UDRP in a Month On 15 Year Old DiscoverQatar.com
Qatar Airways Q.C.S.C. of Doha, Qatar, just lost a second UDRP in a month, its attempt to grab the domain name DiscoverQatar.com Last month the state owned Airlines lost a UDRP on two other generic domain names, discoverqatar.org and qatartourism.org...
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July 8, 2015, 4:34 pm
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14 Year Old GSUS.com (Jesus in Spanish) Saved In UDRP From TM Holder of G-SUS
G-Hold License B.V. just lost its bid to grab the domain name gsus.com which is owned by Vertical Axis, Inc in a UDRP. gsus.com is the spanish word for Jesus. Vertical Axis registered the domain name Respondent registered the disputed domain name on ...
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14 Year Old GSUS.com (Jesus in Spanish) Saved In UDRP From TM Holder of G-SUS
G-Hold License B.V. just lost its bid to grab the domain name gsus.com which is owned by Vertical Axis, Inc in a UDRP. gsus.com is the spanish word for Jesus. Vertical Axis registered the domain name Respondent registered the disputed domain name on ...
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July 8, 2015, 3:31 pm
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Verisign Announces $30K Winner of #InternetOfficial Contest: KidsCookDinner.com
Verisign the registry for the .com registry has announced the Grand Prize Winner of it’s #InternetOfficial contest. It’s KidsCookDinner.com, registered through Network Solutions! “”New York-based Kate K. submitted the most des...
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Verisign Announces $30K Winner of #InternetOfficial Contest: KidsCookDinner.com
Verisign the registry for the .com registry has announced the Grand Prize Winner of it’s #InternetOfficial contest. It’s KidsCookDinner.com, registered through Network Solutions! “”New York-based Kate K. submitted the most des...
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July 8, 2015, 2:27 pm
