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500.co Makes Over $44 Million In Additional Seed Funding
According to VentureBeat, Accelerator program and investment group 500 Startups which proudly uses the domain name 500.co, just announced $44.1 million in new seed fund today, the second the group has raised since launching. The second fund is...
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500.co Makes Over $44 Million In Additional Seed Funding
According to VentureBeat, Accelerator program and investment group 500 Startups which proudly uses the domain name 500.co, just announced $44.1 million in new seed fund today, the second the group has raised since launching. The second fund is...
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October 2, 2013, 12:21 pm

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Applicant Auction Announces Next Private New gTLD Auctions To Be Held On Oct 21
Applicant Auction announced today that is would be holding its third set of new gTLD private auctions. The Third Applicant Auction is scheduled to be held on October 21. If you would like to particpate in the next round of Applicant Auction you will...
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Applicant Auction Announces Next Private New gTLD Auctions To Be Held On Oct 21
Applicant Auction announced today that is would be holding its third set of new gTLD private auctions. The Third Applicant Auction is scheduled to be held on October 21. If you would like to particpate in the next round of Applicant Auction you will...
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October 2, 2013, 11:31 am

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GovernmentShutdown.com Guy Was Smart Enought To Register It In 2007, Isn’t Smart Enough To Turn It On
Well unless you live in a cave, and even if you do live in a cave its pretty hard to miss the news that the US government has been to some extent shutdown. So while we try to stay politically neutral lets look at the best domain names that would cove...
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GovernmentShutdown.com Guy Was Smart Enought To Register It In 2007, Isn’t Smart Enough To Turn It On
Well unless you live in a cave, and even if you do live in a cave its pretty hard to miss the news that the US government has been to some extent shutdown. So while we try to stay politically neutral lets look at the best domain names that would cove...
Discussion
October 1, 2013, 6:30 pm

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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million; Moneta.com For $150K; LT.org For $26K
Over the past week, 746 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million This amounts to $51.2 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of...
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million; Moneta.com For $150K; LT.org For $26K
Over the past week, 746 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million This amounts to $51.2 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of...
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October 1, 2013, 3:37 pm

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17 Year Old Domain Vendita.com (Sale In Italian) Saved In UDRP & Narrowly Misses RDNH Ruling
Vendita Technology Group, LLC just lost its bid to grab the domain name Vendita.com The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaffer of ESQwire.com Although the complainant had a trademark on the term Vendita the three mem...
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17 Year Old Domain Vendita.com (Sale In Italian) Saved In UDRP & Narrowly Misses RDNH Ruling
Vendita Technology Group, LLC just lost its bid to grab the domain name Vendita.com The domain owner was represented by Ari Goldberger and Jason Schaffer of ESQwire.com Although the complainant had a trademark on the term Vendita the three mem...
Discussion
October 1, 2013, 10:23 am

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UDRP Filed On 14 Year Old Three Letter .Com: QLP.com
Quality Logo Products, Inc. has filed a UDRP against Get On The Web Limited of Great Britain on the 3 letter domain name QLP.com As you can see the domain name goes to a page where the domain is being offered for sale for $125,000 The site on QLP.co...
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UDRP Filed On 14 Year Old Three Letter .Com: QLP.com
Quality Logo Products, Inc. has filed a UDRP against Get On The Web Limited of Great Britain on the 3 letter domain name QLP.com As you can see the domain name goes to a page where the domain is being offered for sale for $125,000 The site on QLP.co...
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October 1, 2013, 10:10 am

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Bang With Friends Settles Suit With Zynga & Rebrands As TheNextBang.com
According to several sources, Bang With Friends, Inc., will Re-brand the company name its website and the name of its app, to settle its trademark suit brought by Zynga. In July Zynga sued Bang With Friends, Inc. for infringing upon its trademark of ...
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Bang With Friends Settles Suit With Zynga & Rebrands As TheNextBang.com
According to several sources, Bang With Friends, Inc., will Re-brand the company name its website and the name of its app, to settle its trademark suit brought by Zynga. In July Zynga sued Bang With Friends, Inc. for infringing upon its trademark of ...
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October 1, 2013, 9:55 am

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ICANN Publishes The Final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements For New gTLD Registries
Today ICANN published the final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements for new gTLD registries, that enables trademark holders to protect their rights during the Domain Name System expansion. A set of trademark protections were d...
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ICANN Publishes The Final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements For New gTLD Registries
Today ICANN published the final Rights Protection Mechanism (RPM) Requirements for new gTLD registries, that enables trademark holders to protect their rights during the Domain Name System expansion. A set of trademark protections were d...
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October 1, 2013, 8:59 am

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How Would you like to earn over $100,000 a year? Domain Holdings Is Hiring
Domain Holdings which is located in Delray Beach Florida, is hiring an Account Executive / Premium Domain Broker / Rock Star According to its listing on Careerbuilder.com “Over the next year the domain name industry will see hundreds of million...
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How Would you like to earn over $100,000 a year? Domain Holdings Is Hiring
Domain Holdings which is located in Delray Beach Florida, is hiring an Account Executive / Premium Domain Broker / Rock Star According to its listing on Careerbuilder.com “Over the next year the domain name industry will see hundreds of million...
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October 1, 2013, 8:48 am

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Pinterest Gets $7.2 Million Dollar Judgement Against Cybersquatter Over 100 Domain Names
According to Allthingsd.com, A San Francisco judge awarded Pinterest $7.2 million in damages and legal fees against a Chinese cybersquatter Qian Jin, over 100 domain names including pinterests.com, pimterest.com and pinterost.com. The judge fou...
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Pinterest Gets $7.2 Million Dollar Judgement Against Cybersquatter Over 100 Domain Names
According to Allthingsd.com, A San Francisco judge awarded Pinterest $7.2 million in damages and legal fees against a Chinese cybersquatter Qian Jin, over 100 domain names including pinterests.com, pimterest.com and pinterost.com. The judge fou...
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September 30, 2013, 7:20 pm