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Mt.Gox looking to sell Bitcoin Trademark, Can anyone actually use it ?
The parent company of bankrupt Mt.Gox is looking to sell the trademark and bitcoins.com to raise some funds to repay creditors of Mt. Gox. Several publications covered the story, we looked at three. The interesting part that Coin Desk covered was whe...
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Mt.Gox looking to sell Bitcoin Trademark, Can anyone actually use it ?
The parent company of bankrupt Mt.Gox is looking to sell the trademark and bitcoins.com to raise some funds to repay creditors of Mt. Gox. Several publications covered the story, we looked at three. The interesting part that Coin Desk covered was whe...
Discussion
May 29, 2014, 8:04 am

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ExoClick Hits 4 Billion Daily Ad Impressions
ExoClick is now the fifth largest ad network in the world, today they put out a release claiming to have reached a record 4 billion daily ad impressions. ExoClick has seen rapid growth due to its access to the world’s top 1 million websites and...
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ExoClick Hits 4 Billion Daily Ad Impressions
ExoClick is now the fifth largest ad network in the world, today they put out a release claiming to have reached a record 4 billion daily ad impressions. ExoClick has seen rapid growth due to its access to the world’s top 1 million websites and...
Discussion
May 28, 2014, 8:22 pm

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Donuts Pulled Back & Reserved Luxury.Villas During EAP After Orders Were Placed
Yesterday we wrote about how Godaddy.com didn’t award us the domain name Luxury.Villas which we ordered last week for registration on the 5th day of the Early Access Program (EAP) OnlineDomain.com wrote about this domain as being priced ...
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Donuts Pulled Back & Reserved Luxury.Villas During EAP After Orders Were Placed
Yesterday we wrote about how Godaddy.com didn’t award us the domain name Luxury.Villas which we ordered last week for registration on the 5th day of the Early Access Program (EAP) OnlineDomain.com wrote about this domain as being priced ...
Discussion
May 28, 2014, 4:48 pm

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.XYZ Is Out of Sunrise and into Landrush “With The Most Domainer-Friendly Policies of any TLD”
.XYZ just exited it Sunrise period and is today in Land Rush “with the most domainer-friendly policies of any TLD” “”.xyz’s domainer-friendly policies include: - virtually every domain is available – less than 3,00...
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.XYZ Is Out of Sunrise and into Landrush “With The Most Domainer-Friendly Policies of any TLD”
.XYZ just exited it Sunrise period and is today in Land Rush “with the most domainer-friendly policies of any TLD” “”.xyz’s domainer-friendly policies include: - virtually every domain is available – less than 3,00...
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May 28, 2014, 12:34 pm

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.Wiki Tops 3,000 Domain Registrations After Its 1st Day Of GA; .Club Tops 60K
.Wiki which went into general availability yesterday Tuesday May 27th, is has a total of 3,169 domain registered. .Wiki after its first day is number 67 on the list of new gTLD’s with the most domain registrations. .Club become the first ...
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.Wiki Tops 3,000 Domain Registrations After Its 1st Day Of GA; .Club Tops 60K
.Wiki which went into general availability yesterday Tuesday May 27th, is has a total of 3,169 domain registered. .Wiki after its first day is number 67 on the list of new gTLD’s with the most domain registrations. .Club become the first ...
Discussion
May 28, 2014, 12:24 pm

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After Not Spending $20 To Register His Domains, Attorney Sues WordPress, Google and Web.com
Jeffrey Wilens D/B/A Lakeshore Law Center filed a federal lawsuit today against Google, the parent company of Word Press Automatic, Inc, and the registrar TLDS L.L.C. which appears to be owned by Web.com for trademark infringement on his common law m...
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After Not Spending $20 To Register His Domains, Attorney Sues WordPress, Google and Web.com
Jeffrey Wilens D/B/A Lakeshore Law Center filed a federal lawsuit today against Google, the parent company of Word Press Automatic, Inc, and the registrar TLDS L.L.C. which appears to be owned by Web.com for trademark infringement on his common law m...
Discussion
May 28, 2014, 1:28 am

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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week
Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million dollars. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: zapping.com at 28,...
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.1MM For The Week
Over the past week, 591 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million dollars. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: zapping.com at 28,...
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May 27, 2014, 7:23 pm

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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.61 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 5/19/14 – 5/25/14. All sales for the week totalled $1,618,097. The top .com sale was lead by StandardInsurance.com for $25,000 followed by AppDay.com for $20,000. The top non-com sale l...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.61 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 5/19/14 – 5/25/14. All sales for the week totalled $1,618,097. The top .com sale was lead by StandardInsurance.com for $25,000 followed by AppDay.com for $20,000. The top non-com sale l...
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May 27, 2014, 5:49 pm

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Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After Taking My Money
Last week ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this doma...
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Godaddy Didn’t Wind Up Selling The $13.5K Luxury.Villas To Me For $169.99 After Taking My Money
Last week ago I put a pre-order for the domain name Luxury.Villas for the 5th day of the Early Access program for a total of $220, $150 for EAP 5 and a registration fee of $70.17. I know that other registrars at the time where showing this doma...
Discussion
May 27, 2014, 1:35 pm

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.CLub Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD
.Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growin...
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.CLub Overtake .Guru To Become The Most Registered New gTLD
.Club has passed .Guru to become the new gTLD with the most registrations. According to ntldstats.com, .CLub now has 59,400 domain names registered beating .Guru by just 120 registrations which is sitting at 59,240. .Club also the fastest growin...
Discussion
May 27, 2014, 12:58 pm