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Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount Sells For $10,000
The new gTLD’s Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount just sold in an auction on the site FreeMarket.com The pair of new gTLD domain names were sold together in one lot for $10,005. Here is how the description on the auction listing read: “...
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Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount Sells For $10,000
The new gTLD’s Cruise.Discount and Cruises.Discount just sold in an auction on the site FreeMarket.com The pair of new gTLD domain names were sold together in one lot for $10,005. Here is how the description on the auction listing read: “...
Discussion
October 12, 2014, 5:38 pm
The Domains
Name.Space is looking for your help to take on ICANN
Name.Space starts fund raising campaign to take on ICANN There is a campaign running on Rally.org to help Name.space take on ICANN. On the home page of their campaign it explains what the battle is all about, it seems like Name.space has been running...
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Name.Space is looking for your help to take on ICANN
Name.Space starts fund raising campaign to take on ICANN There is a campaign running on Rally.org to help Name.space take on ICANN. On the home page of their campaign it explains what the battle is all about, it seems like Name.space has been running...
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October 12, 2014, 12:00 am
The Domains
Bob Olea: “Any Domain Seized, Not Owned By Defendant Will Be Returned”
Good news for anyone who had domain names seized by Verisign as part of an ongoing case who are not related to the defendant in that case. The court appointed receiver Bob Olea sent me an email yesterday to the effect that domain that were not owned ...
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Bob Olea: “Any Domain Seized, Not Owned By Defendant Will Be Returned”
Good news for anyone who had domain names seized by Verisign as part of an ongoing case who are not related to the defendant in that case. The court appointed receiver Bob Olea sent me an email yesterday to the effect that domain that were not owned ...
Discussion
October 11, 2014, 12:21 pm
The Domains
FC Barcelona Loses Attempt To Grab The Domain Name: FCB.email
FC Barcelona just lost its attempt to score the domain name FCB.email away from Joerg Lindemer of Neuenburg, Germany in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding (URS). The Examiner was Piotr Nowaczyk Here are the highlights: The Complainant is a Spanish...
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FC Barcelona Loses Attempt To Grab The Domain Name: FCB.email
FC Barcelona just lost its attempt to score the domain name FCB.email away from Joerg Lindemer of Neuenburg, Germany in a Uniform Rapid Suspension proceeding (URS). The Examiner was Piotr Nowaczyk Here are the highlights: The Complainant is a Spanish...
Discussion
October 10, 2014, 10:25 pm
The Domains
CENTR – Myth & Fact: New gTLDs, Registries & Registrars
The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) commissioned a study to look at the impact of new gtlds in the sales and the registar- registry relationships. Introduction: In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to cond...
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CENTR – Myth & Fact: New gTLDs, Registries & Registrars
The Council of European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR) commissioned a study to look at the impact of new gtlds in the sales and the registar- registry relationships. Introduction: In August of 2014, CENTR commissioned Architelos to cond...
Discussion
October 10, 2014, 5:17 pm
The Domains
1st Official New gTLD Registry Purchase As Radix Acquires .Tech
Radix a new gTLD registry announce today that is has acquire the new gTLD .Tech The ICANN auction for .Tech was held last month with the winning bid of $6,760,000 being placed by dot Tech LLC, which is owned by the same principals of the compan...
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1st Official New gTLD Registry Purchase As Radix Acquires .Tech
Radix a new gTLD registry announce today that is has acquire the new gTLD .Tech The ICANN auction for .Tech was held last month with the winning bid of $6,760,000 being placed by dot Tech LLC, which is owned by the same principals of the compan...
Discussion
October 9, 2014, 4:25 pm
The Domains
.Lawyer: Lots Of End Users Including National Law Firms: Here’s Our Picks For The Best
We looked into the zone file for the .Lawyer new gTLD and saw a good number of end users registering domain names including a lot of national law firms. Of course for the domainer community we are looking for Generic that were registered and a good n...
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.Lawyer: Lots Of End Users Including National Law Firms: Here’s Our Picks For The Best
We looked into the zone file for the .Lawyer new gTLD and saw a good number of end users registering domain names including a lot of national law firms. Of course for the domainer community we are looking for Generic that were registered and a good n...
Discussion
October 9, 2014, 3:22 pm
The Domains
CentralNic Joins SedoMLS “to Distribute New and Premium Internet Domain Names”
In a press release out this morning, described as a “First-of-its-Kind Partnership Enables Premium Registry Reserve Domain Names to be Quickly Listed and Sold through Hundreds of Partners, Including Top Registrars, Sedo announced that , a leadi...
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CentralNic Joins SedoMLS “to Distribute New and Premium Internet Domain Names”
In a press release out this morning, described as a “First-of-its-Kind Partnership Enables Premium Registry Reserve Domain Names to be Quickly Listed and Sold through Hundreds of Partners, Including Top Registrars, Sedo announced that , a leadi...
Discussion
October 9, 2014, 1:41 pm
The Domains
1st New gTLD Totals .NYC 26,858; .Lawyer 3,240; .Attorney 2,156
Yesterday we saw the launch of three new gTLD’s Once of the most anticipated new gTLD, .NYC for New York City finished its first day of general availability (GA) with .NYC domain registrations with a total of 28,858 registrations. .NYC had some...
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1st New gTLD Totals .NYC 26,858; .Lawyer 3,240; .Attorney 2,156
Yesterday we saw the launch of three new gTLD’s Once of the most anticipated new gTLD, .NYC for New York City finished its first day of general availability (GA) with .NYC domain registrations with a total of 28,858 registrations. .NYC had some...
Discussion
October 9, 2014, 1:03 pm
The Domains
China.info Sells in Hexonet Drop Auction For $12K
A few days ago noted that the domain name China.info dropped. The domain name was owned by Chinese nic the registry for the China .cn ccTLD. We wrote that the domain name was not caught by any of the big drop catchers but by the domain name registrar...
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China.info Sells in Hexonet Drop Auction For $12K
A few days ago noted that the domain name China.info dropped. The domain name was owned by Chinese nic the registry for the China .cn ccTLD. We wrote that the domain name was not caught by any of the big drop catchers but by the domain name registrar...
Discussion
October 9, 2014, 5:31 am
