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Guy Buys iSound.com For $31K Asks $4M; Lets Its Drop & Loses UDRP, To Get It Back
In one of the more interesting UDRP cases I’ve not because of the law or the decision but because of the fact pattern. Jeremy Same (The Complainant) just lost his bid to get iSound.com back, a domain he bought in 2012 for $31,000 and let...
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Guy Buys iSound.com For $31K Asks $4M; Lets Its Drop & Loses UDRP, To Get It Back
In one of the more interesting UDRP cases I’ve not because of the law or the decision but because of the fact pattern. Jeremy Same (The Complainant) just lost his bid to get iSound.com back, a domain he bought in 2012 for $31,000 and let...
Discussion
January 22, 2014, 12:51 pm
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Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ?
Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft notice...
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Did Expedia Get Caught Trying to Buy Its Way To The Top of Google ?
Search Engine Land wrote a piece yesterday on the travel website Expedia losing 25 % of their search visibility in Google. The possible reason is for unnatural links. From the article: Expedia.com’s Google Traffic Decline: Patrick Altoft notice...
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January 22, 2014, 5:53 am
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million
Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million
Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · &nb...
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January 21, 2014, 9:02 pm
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Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains
Forget about new gtlds we have Star domains W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using J...
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Look out New Gtlds, Here Come Star Domains
Forget about new gtlds we have Star domains W.Kenneth Ryan has a dream and it is for a multiplexed naming system. Ryan has created the Asterisk browser to make for the possibility of his naming system, he shows an example of how it would work using J...
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January 21, 2014, 8:05 pm
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.86 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/13/14 – 1/19/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,866,118. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Heg.net for $5,000. Below is the ...
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.86 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/13/14 – 1/19/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,866,118. The top .com sale was lead by Crafting.com for $51,500, with the top non-com sale lead by Heg.net for $5,000. Below is the ...
Discussion
January 21, 2014, 6:19 pm
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Booking.com Which Applied For .Booking Rolls Out Campaign Using Booking.Yeah
Booking.com which applied for the new gTLD .Booking announced today a new advertising campaign wrapped around Booking.Yeah Its the “first-ever brand campaign” for Booking.com. Booking.com applied for the .booking new gTLD. No one a...
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Booking.com Which Applied For .Booking Rolls Out Campaign Using Booking.Yeah
Booking.com which applied for the new gTLD .Booking announced today a new advertising campaign wrapped around Booking.Yeah Its the “first-ever brand campaign” for Booking.com. Booking.com applied for the .booking new gTLD. No one a...
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January 21, 2014, 3:29 pm
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NameSilo.com Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Accept Bitcoin
NameSilo, announced that it was offering Bitcoin as a new method of payment on its website. The move makes NameSilo the latest established business to accept payment via the digital currency, and one of the first major domain registrars to do so. &l...
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NameSilo.com Becomes 1st Domain Registrar To Accept Bitcoin
NameSilo, announced that it was offering Bitcoin as a new method of payment on its website. The move makes NameSilo the latest established business to accept payment via the digital currency, and one of the first major domain registrars to do so. &l...
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January 21, 2014, 2:01 pm
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Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet
Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet 27 bids from $20,000 between two bidders. Domain Timeline: The domain was registered 12/13/2000 by DomaiName – A Division of Internet Yakin Aman out of Indonesia 2003 The name look...
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Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet
Authorization.com sold for $35,100 on NameJet 27 bids from $20,000 between two bidders. Domain Timeline: The domain was registered 12/13/2000 by DomaiName – A Division of Internet Yakin Aman out of Indonesia 2003 The name look...
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January 21, 2014, 7:47 am
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Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging, You Should Probably Stop
Guest Blogging Is Pretty Much Done Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google made a post today on his personal blog concerning guest blogging. Matt basically said that if you are guest blogging for links, just stop it. From the article: Okay, I’m ...
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Matt Cutts on Guest Blogging, You Should Probably Stop
Guest Blogging Is Pretty Much Done Matt Cutts, head of web spam at Google made a post today on his personal blog concerning guest blogging. Matt basically said that if you are guest blogging for links, just stop it. From the article: Okay, I’m ...
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January 21, 2014, 12:42 am
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Candy Crush Maker Now Looks To Crush The Competition With Trademark
King.com the company behind the popular Candy Crush Saga was awarded a registered trademark for the word Candy as it relates to video games and clothing. Yes clothing. Here is a link to the TM at the USPTO One important thing to note is there still c...
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Candy Crush Maker Now Looks To Crush The Competition With Trademark
King.com the company behind the popular Candy Crush Saga was awarded a registered trademark for the word Candy as it relates to video games and clothing. Yes clothing. Here is a link to the TM at the USPTO One important thing to note is there still c...
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January 20, 2014, 7:44 pm
