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The Domains
What is on your Christmas list domaining wise?
With 10 days til Christmas what would you like Domainer Clause to bring you for Christmas? What changes or new tools would you like to receive this year? My list would consist of: GoDaddy reporting sales from Namefind and Afternic All registrars to g...
Discussion
What is on your Christmas list domaining wise?
With 10 days til Christmas what would you like Domainer Clause to bring you for Christmas? What changes or new tools would you like to receive this year? My list would consist of: GoDaddy reporting sales from Namefind and Afternic All registrars to g...
Discussion
December 15, 2019, 3:29 pm
The Domains
Who is in charge of domains at Maxim?
Maxim magazine has been around since 1995, started in the U.K. and then headquartered in New York since 1997. The magazine has gone through some ownership changes but it’s the intellectual property, specifically domain names, that I want to div...
Discussion
Who is in charge of domains at Maxim?
Maxim magazine has been around since 1995, started in the U.K. and then headquartered in New York since 1997. The magazine has gone through some ownership changes but it’s the intellectual property, specifically domain names, that I want to div...
Discussion
December 14, 2019, 10:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Why the Steve Jobs decision was wrong
In this guest post, Attorney Paul Keating writs that the recent UDRP decision for SteveJobs.com was flawed. The SteveJobs.com decision troubles me deeply. In terms of trademark, I see it as attempting to shove a round peg into a square hole and...
Discussion
Why the Steve Jobs decision was wrong
In this guest post, Attorney Paul Keating writs that the recent UDRP decision for SteveJobs.com was flawed. The SteveJobs.com decision troubles me deeply. In terms of trademark, I see it as attempting to shove a round peg into a square hole and...
Discussion
December 13, 2019, 10:13 pm
Domain Name Wire
A look at .Net in China
.Net faces a lot of competition in China. In my series of articles to study the Chinese domain market, I have already covered the big picture, .cn, and .com [LINKS]. Today, let’s look at .net. This analysis is based on data I have collected fro...
Discussion
A look at .Net in China
.Net faces a lot of competition in China. In my series of articles to study the Chinese domain market, I have already covered the big picture, .cn, and .com [LINKS]. Today, let’s look at .net. This analysis is based on data I have collected fro...
Discussion
December 13, 2019, 1:58 pm
Domain Name Wire
Rolf Larsen acquires Desktop.com domain name for his next venture
Desktop will make it easier for companies to manage web apps. If you’re like me, you manage a lot of web apps. A CRM system. Email. Trello. Smartsheet. Zapier. And that’s just for me as a an individual. Imagine running a business in which...
Discussion
Rolf Larsen acquires Desktop.com domain name for his next venture
Desktop will make it easier for companies to manage web apps. If you’re like me, you manage a lot of web apps. A CRM system. Email. Trello. Smartsheet. Zapier. And that’s just for me as a an individual. Imagine running a business in which...
Discussion
December 12, 2019, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
10 more end user sales
Here are some of the end users that bought domain names at Sedo. Sedo’s top public sale of the week was OneHome.com for $70,000. It’s not yet clear who bought it, but a Google search uncovers several candidates. Here’s a look at som...
Discussion
10 more end user sales
Here are some of the end users that bought domain names at Sedo. Sedo’s top public sale of the week was OneHome.com for $70,000. It’s not yet clear who bought it, but a Google search uncovers several candidates. Here’s a look at som...
Discussion
December 12, 2019, 2:25 pm
The Domains
The good, the bad and the ugly – The Domain Industry
We have been running a series for a few years, The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space. In this post give your thoughts on the whol...
Discussion
The good, the bad and the ugly – The Domain Industry
We have been running a series for a few years, The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space. In this post give your thoughts on the whol...
Discussion
December 12, 2019, 4:58 am
Domain Name Wire
Steve Jobs gets his domain name, twenty years later
National Arbitration Forum orders SteveJobs.com to be transferred. The Steve Jobs Archive, LLC, an organization formed by Steve Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs, has obtained the domain name SteveJobs.com through a dispute. The company filed a c...
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Steve Jobs gets his domain name, twenty years later
National Arbitration Forum orders SteveJobs.com to be transferred. The Steve Jobs Archive, LLC, an organization formed by Steve Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs, has obtained the domain name SteveJobs.com through a dispute. The company filed a c...
Discussion
December 11, 2019, 11:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Non-Commercial users ask for three change to .Org contract
Constituency addresses pricing and censorship issues. The Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) has sent a letter to ICANN, asking it to make three changes to the .org registry contract if it is to be sold to Ethos Capital. The group points out th...
Discussion
Non-Commercial users ask for three change to .Org contract
Constituency addresses pricing and censorship issues. The Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) has sent a letter to ICANN, asking it to make three changes to the .org registry contract if it is to be sold to Ethos Capital. The group points out th...
Discussion
December 11, 2019, 8:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Abbott doesn’t want you to say that its new CEO sucks
Company registers deragatory domains about its new CEO. Pharmaceutical company Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has named a new CEO and, with the announcement, snapped up a bunch of defensive domain name registrations. Last month, the company announced that curren...
Discussion
Abbott doesn’t want you to say that its new CEO sucks
Company registers deragatory domains about its new CEO. Pharmaceutical company Abbott (NYSE: ABT) has named a new CEO and, with the announcement, snapped up a bunch of defensive domain name registrations. Last month, the company announced that curren...
Discussion
December 11, 2019, 5:42 pm
