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NamesCon is donating 100% of Registration Revenue Received on Veteran’s Day To Charity
NamesCon is donating 100% of Registration Revenue received today Veteran’s Day to Veteran’s Village Las Vegas managed by SHARE, a 501(c)3 Registered Charity. Not 10%, not 20%, not even “Net Proceeds”, but a whopping 100%...
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NamesCon is donating 100% of Registration Revenue Received on Veteran’s Day To Charity
NamesCon is donating 100% of Registration Revenue received today Veteran’s Day to Veteran’s Village Las Vegas managed by SHARE, a 501(c)3 Registered Charity. Not 10%, not 20%, not even “Net Proceeds”, but a whopping 100%...
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November 11, 2014, 3:53 pm
The Domains
UDRP Panel Rules That The Word “Club” Is Generic
A one member UDRP panel has found that the word “club” is generic The disputed domain names were clubsail.com; clubyachting.com and clubyachting.org however in the case of clubsail.com the domain holder agreed to transfer the domain leavi...
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UDRP Panel Rules That The Word “Club” Is Generic
A one member UDRP panel has found that the word “club” is generic The disputed domain names were clubsail.com; clubyachting.com and clubyachting.org however in the case of clubsail.com the domain holder agreed to transfer the domain leavi...
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November 11, 2014, 3:19 pm
The Domains
Amazon Not Only Owns The New gTLD .Buy; They Just Acquired .Pay Too
Amazon which won an ICANN last resort new gTLD auction for .Buy for $4.6 Million has now acquired the .Pay. .Pay which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction next week, has been settled. The other applicant for .Pay, DOTPAY SA has ...
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Amazon Not Only Owns The New gTLD .Buy; They Just Acquired .Pay Too
Amazon which won an ICANN last resort new gTLD auction for .Buy for $4.6 Million has now acquired the .Pay. .Pay which was scheduled to go to an ICANN Last Resort auction next week, has been settled. The other applicant for .Pay, DOTPAY SA has ...
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November 11, 2014, 2:02 pm
The Domains
Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book
Amazon now owns the new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others. The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Bowker LLC, withdrew their application last night leaving Amazon the Winner of the Private Auction. Ot...
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Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book
Amazon now owns the new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others. The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Bowker LLC, withdrew their application last night leaving Amazon the Winner of the Private Auction. Ot...
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November 11, 2014, 1:48 pm
The Domains
Bandzoogle Partnering With Rightside to Offer .ROCKS and .BAND Domains and Websites for Musicians and Bands
Rightside and Bandzoogle announced a partnership where Bandzoogle will offer .Rocks and .Band new gtlds to musicians and bands that use their services. From the release: Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level Domains (TLDs) to its custome...
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Bandzoogle Partnering With Rightside to Offer .ROCKS and .BAND Domains and Websites for Musicians and Bands
Rightside and Bandzoogle announced a partnership where Bandzoogle will offer .Rocks and .Band new gtlds to musicians and bands that use their services. From the release: Bandzoogle is offering Rightside’s Top Level Domains (TLDs) to its custome...
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November 11, 2014, 10:18 am
The Domains
ICANN Last Resort New gTLD Auctions Scheduled for November
A bunch of private auctions held in October headed off many of the the ICANN Last Resort Auctions scheduled for November. However as far as we know the following New gTLD auctions that will be held by ICANN in November are: .APARTMENTS DERApartments,...
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ICANN Last Resort New gTLD Auctions Scheduled for November
A bunch of private auctions held in October headed off many of the the ICANN Last Resort Auctions scheduled for November. However as far as we know the following New gTLD auctions that will be held by ICANN in November are: .APARTMENTS DERApartments,...
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November 10, 2014, 5:37 pm
The Domains
ICANN Changes Last Resort Auction Rules To Allow Early Bidding
ICANN and Power Auctions made some changes in the Last Resort Auction rules starting with auction scheduled for November all seeming to quicking up the auction process. Here are the red line changes to the ICANN Last Resort Auction and here are some ...
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ICANN Changes Last Resort Auction Rules To Allow Early Bidding
ICANN and Power Auctions made some changes in the Last Resort Auction rules starting with auction scheduled for November all seeming to quicking up the auction process. Here are the red line changes to the ICANN Last Resort Auction and here are some ...
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November 10, 2014, 3:55 pm
The Domains
PR Is out & Its Official: Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .Online Auction
A Press Release out today confirms what we told you last week that the team of Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the new gTLD auction for .Online: “Domain industry veterans form a “global supply chain supergroup,” secure the first via...
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PR Is out & Its Official: Radix, Tucows and Namecheap Win .Online Auction
A Press Release out today confirms what we told you last week that the team of Radix, Tucows and Namecheap won the new gTLD auction for .Online: “Domain industry veterans form a “global supply chain supergroup,” secure the first via...
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November 10, 2014, 2:04 pm
The Domains
Stuart Lawley Clarifies .XXX Registrant Rights in the Upcoming Adult New gTLDs
Stuart Lawley from ICM Registry (.XXX) left a comment about .XXX registrant rights in the new adult gtlds, this is worthy of being its own post. I know many have been confused with what they get as a .XXX registrant when the new .porn, .adult and .se...
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Stuart Lawley Clarifies .XXX Registrant Rights in the Upcoming Adult New gTLDs
Stuart Lawley from ICM Registry (.XXX) left a comment about .XXX registrant rights in the new adult gtlds, this is worthy of being its own post. I know many have been confused with what they get as a .XXX registrant when the new .porn, .adult and .se...
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November 10, 2014, 1:42 am
The Domains
Court Orders Google To Help Marvel Discover Source of Leak
We continue to see courts getting involved in telling registrars and search engines what they must do to comply with a growing number of complaints that arise with issues of copyright infringement. A couple days ago we wrote about a German court tell...
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Court Orders Google To Help Marvel Discover Source of Leak
We continue to see courts getting involved in telling registrars and search engines what they must do to comply with a growing number of complaints that arise with issues of copyright infringement. A couple days ago we wrote about a German court tell...
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November 9, 2014, 10:29 pm
