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Afternic/Godaddy Sells $1.1 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/Godaddy released its sales report right before the New Years Break for the the week of 12/23/13 – 12/29/13. Sales totaled $1,120,500 All sales were lead by Folia.com Looks like one New York based Real Estate Investment Trust picked up ...
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Afternic/Godaddy Sells $1.1 Million In Domain Names
Afternic/Godaddy released its sales report right before the New Years Break for the the week of 12/23/13 – 12/29/13. Sales totaled $1,120,500 All sales were lead by Folia.com Looks like one New York based Real Estate Investment Trust picked up ...
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January 2, 2014, 3:14 pm

The Domains
Aio Quitely Acquires AIO.com But Bucks The Trend & Uses The Longer AioWireless.com
Aio Wireless, a prepaid cell phone company headquartered in Washington DC, has been running television commercial in heavy rotation on several cable channels including CNN. The company’s domain name is AioWireless.com which they reg...
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Aio Quitely Acquires AIO.com But Bucks The Trend & Uses The Longer AioWireless.com
Aio Wireless, a prepaid cell phone company headquartered in Washington DC, has been running television commercial in heavy rotation on several cable channels including CNN. The company’s domain name is AioWireless.com which they reg...
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January 2, 2014, 2:32 pm

The Domains
Uber.org Leads The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Report for December 2013
Go Daddy finished the year selling 38,841 domains vs 39,715 in November. Uber.org was the top sale for the month at $36,000. The domain registered in 2001 looks to have been sold by the folk up north Original.com. The whois shows Go Daddy and the nam...
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Uber.org Leads The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Report for December 2013
Go Daddy finished the year selling 38,841 domains vs 39,715 in November. Uber.org was the top sale for the month at $36,000. The domain registered in 2001 looks to have been sold by the folk up north Original.com. The whois shows Go Daddy and the nam...
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January 1, 2014, 8:20 am

The Domains
Lets Set The Record Straight; My 5+ Year Journey Through New gTLD’s
As the year closes I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at thedomains.com and what we have had to say about it since we started writing about it over 5 years ago. For many, you first heard of the new gTLD program on theDomains.com. S...
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Lets Set The Record Straight; My 5+ Year Journey Through New gTLD’s
As the year closes I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at thedomains.com and what we have had to say about it since we started writing about it over 5 years ago. For many, you first heard of the new gTLD program on theDomains.com. S...
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December 31, 2013, 6:55 pm

The Domains
New York Times Interview Vin Cerf On ICANN/ITU & Where The Internet Is Going
The New York Times just published an interview with Dr. Vin Cerf in a story entitled “Viewing Where the Internet Goes”. The backdrop is due to the ” Snowden affair”, ” the new year is likely to see renewed calls to chan...
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New York Times Interview Vin Cerf On ICANN/ITU & Where The Internet Is Going
The New York Times just published an interview with Dr. Vin Cerf in a story entitled “Viewing Where the Internet Goes”. The backdrop is due to the ” Snowden affair”, ” the new year is likely to see renewed calls to chan...
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December 31, 2013, 3:48 pm

The Domains
Tucows Joins Sedo MLS Network
Sedo, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global provider of domain names and other Internet services, has joined its SedoMLS network. The partnership will enable Tucows to automatically distribute more than 17 million actual ex...
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Tucows Joins Sedo MLS Network
Sedo, today announced that Tucows, one of the leading global provider of domain names and other Internet services, has joined its SedoMLS network. The partnership will enable Tucows to automatically distribute more than 17 million actual ex...
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December 31, 2013, 2:55 pm

The Domains
10 Year Old Domain Klickerz.com Saved In UDRP
Rita A. Girondi just lost its attempt to grab the domain Klickerz.com from LIGHT CHURCH, LCH which was registered on on May 25, 2003. The complainant thought that her trademark filed on December 25, 2007 entitled her to the domain but th...
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10 Year Old Domain Klickerz.com Saved In UDRP
Rita A. Girondi just lost its attempt to grab the domain Klickerz.com from LIGHT CHURCH, LCH which was registered on on May 25, 2003. The complainant thought that her trademark filed on December 25, 2007 entitled her to the domain but th...
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December 30, 2013, 9:44 pm

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7578.com Hit With UDRP
The domain name 7578.com just got hit with a UDRP I’m have never seen a UDRP filed on a NNNN.com domain name so it could be the first but it also could be an attempt to get back a stolen domain. The domain was owned by a Jocelyn Michel of Montr...
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7578.com Hit With UDRP
The domain name 7578.com just got hit with a UDRP I’m have never seen a UDRP filed on a NNNN.com domain name so it could be the first but it also could be an attempt to get back a stolen domain. The domain was owned by a Jocelyn Michel of Montr...
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December 30, 2013, 9:33 pm

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Domain Investor Rob Grant Opens Up LittleRobsters.com
Domain investor Rob Grant has opened up the first fan site devoted to a tropical shirt under the domain name LittleRobsters.com All that appears on the site is a tropical shirt Welcome to the official fan page for Rob Grant’s tropical sh...
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Domain Investor Rob Grant Opens Up LittleRobsters.com
Domain investor Rob Grant has opened up the first fan site devoted to a tropical shirt under the domain name LittleRobsters.com All that appears on the site is a tropical shirt Welcome to the official fan page for Rob Grant’s tropical sh...
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December 30, 2013, 7:08 pm

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Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program
ICANN released its 1st quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com, pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds).” “As of Se...
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Shocking; ICANN May Make Money Off The New gTLD Program
ICANN released its 1st quarterly financial statement, as Domainincite.com, pointed out, ICANN has spent $119.2 million of its original $344.9 million program budget (which comprises application fees net of refunds).” “As of Se...
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December 29, 2013, 1:57 pm