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BeNaughty.com, Flirt.com and WildBuddies.com Sites Sell For £45.1 Million
According to Growthcompany.co.uk, publicly traded Cupid (AIM: CUP) sold “off its range of ‘casual dating’ sites including Benaughty.com, Flirt.com and WildBuddies.com to a company set up for the purpose of the transactio...
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BeNaughty.com, Flirt.com and WildBuddies.com Sites Sell For £45.1 Million
According to Growthcompany.co.uk, publicly traded Cupid (AIM: CUP) sold “off its range of ‘casual dating’ sites including Benaughty.com, Flirt.com and WildBuddies.com to a company set up for the purpose of the transactio...
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July 15, 2013, 4:14 pm
The Domains
As ICANN Meets, Two More New gTLD Apps Are Withdrawn One Brand, One Famous Four
As ICANN is holding its meeting in Durban, two more new gTLD applications have been withdrawn. L’Oréal which originally applied for 14 new gTLD has withdrawn its 7th application. .REDKEN which is one of L’Oréal product lines...
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As ICANN Meets, Two More New gTLD Apps Are Withdrawn One Brand, One Famous Four
As ICANN is holding its meeting in Durban, two more new gTLD applications have been withdrawn. L’Oréal which originally applied for 14 new gTLD has withdrawn its 7th application. .REDKEN which is one of L’Oréal product lines...
Discussion
July 15, 2013, 2:13 pm
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BuyDomains Asks: “Is The Most Popular gTLD (.com) Here to Stay?
On its company blog this morning BuyDomains Asks, is the most popular gTLD here to stay? TLD Overview (As of July 11, 2013) All TLDs 145,865,255 .COM 109,598,525 .NET 15,131,258 .ORG 10,343,917 .INFO 6,599,817 ...
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BuyDomains Asks: “Is The Most Popular gTLD (.com) Here to Stay?
On its company blog this morning BuyDomains Asks, is the most popular gTLD here to stay? TLD Overview (As of July 11, 2013) All TLDs 145,865,255 .COM 109,598,525 .NET 15,131,258 .ORG 10,343,917 .INFO 6,599,817 ...
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July 15, 2013, 12:09 pm
The Domains
WIPO Panel Denies Constantine Roussos Objection Amazon’s Application For .Tunes
Dot Tunes Limited which is Constantine Roussos company objected to Amazon’s new gTLD application of .Tunes. Dot Tunes is an applicant for the new gTLD of .Tunes as well. Another one of Mr. Roussos company’s DotMusic Limited&nb...
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WIPO Panel Denies Constantine Roussos Objection Amazon’s Application For .Tunes
Dot Tunes Limited which is Constantine Roussos company objected to Amazon’s new gTLD application of .Tunes. Dot Tunes is an applicant for the new gTLD of .Tunes as well. Another one of Mr. Roussos company’s DotMusic Limited&nb...
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July 15, 2013, 11:27 am
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Sedo Gets StartingDot Sunrise, Landrush & Premium Domains For New gTLD’s .Ski; .Immo; .Bio & .Archi
Sedo announced today that they will run “sunrise” and “landrush” auctions for Starting Dot new gTLD extensions, and assist with sales and brokerage of premium domains for .Bio, .Ski, .Archi and .Immo. Here is how e...
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Sedo Gets StartingDot Sunrise, Landrush & Premium Domains For New gTLD’s .Ski; .Immo; .Bio & .Archi
Sedo announced today that they will run “sunrise” and “landrush” auctions for Starting Dot new gTLD extensions, and assist with sales and brokerage of premium domains for .Bio, .Ski, .Archi and .Immo. Here is how e...
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July 15, 2013, 8:21 am
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DomainIndex.com Checks Up On 100 Oldest Domains: 12 Don’t Resolve; 35 Owned By Fortune 500 Co.
Domainindex.com published some research about the oldest 100 domain names and came up with some pretty interesting stats. From the 100 names registered between January 1, 1985 and November 30, 1987: 58 are now owned by a different entity from the...
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DomainIndex.com Checks Up On 100 Oldest Domains: 12 Don’t Resolve; 35 Owned By Fortune 500 Co.
Domainindex.com published some research about the oldest 100 domain names and came up with some pretty interesting stats. From the 100 names registered between January 1, 1985 and November 30, 1987: 58 are now owned by a different entity from the...
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July 14, 2013, 5:42 pm
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ICANN’s Update Of New gTLD Program Status By The Numbers + 1st 50 Start Contracting Proceess
ICANN’s Christine Willett just gave an update on the New gTLD program from the first session at the ICANN meeting in Durban: “As Yesterday my team has published results for through priority number 1,200 of the application. so ...
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ICANN’s Update Of New gTLD Program Status By The Numbers + 1st 50 Start Contracting Proceess
ICANN’s Christine Willett just gave an update on the New gTLD program from the first session at the ICANN meeting in Durban: “As Yesterday my team has published results for through priority number 1,200 of the application. so ...
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July 13, 2013, 10:07 am
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Six Figure, One Word Domain Name, Action.com Being Forwarded To A Facebook Page
Poking around the net this week I found that the one word .com domain name action.com is being simply forwarded to a Facebook page. The domain which I would estimate as a low six figure domain name doesn’t resolve to a site but is going to a Fa...
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Six Figure, One Word Domain Name, Action.com Being Forwarded To A Facebook Page
Poking around the net this week I found that the one word .com domain name action.com is being simply forwarded to a Facebook page. The domain which I would estimate as a low six figure domain name doesn’t resolve to a site but is going to a Fa...
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July 13, 2013, 8:52 am
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95 New gTLD Pass IE: .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam; .Bible; .Adult; .Landrover; .Amazon; .Dodge; .Jaguar; .Bestbuy
95 new gTLD application passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and 2 applications are headed for the dreaded Extended Evaluation. Leading the way passing IE, today are the Geographical applications for .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam. Beyond that a c...
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95 New gTLD Pass IE: .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam; .Bible; .Adult; .Landrover; .Amazon; .Dodge; .Jaguar; .Bestbuy
95 new gTLD application passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and 2 applications are headed for the dreaded Extended Evaluation. Leading the way passing IE, today are the Geographical applications for .Africa; .Miami; .Amsterdam. Beyond that a c...
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July 12, 2013, 3:43 pm
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Express. LLC Really Screwed Up By Not Spending $185K To File For .Express; Instead Loses Objection To Donuts
Donuts defeated an objection by Express, LLC brought under WIPO to the new gTLD string .Express in a case published yesterday I started to write about the decision and it occurred to me that the real story is why didn’t this company just ...
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Express. LLC Really Screwed Up By Not Spending $185K To File For .Express; Instead Loses Objection To Donuts
Donuts defeated an objection by Express, LLC brought under WIPO to the new gTLD string .Express in a case published yesterday I started to write about the decision and it occurred to me that the real story is why didn’t this company just ...
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July 12, 2013, 10:53 am
