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TLDH Withdrawing 4 New gTLD Applications: .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu
According to a press release we received this morning, The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) issued an update to its new gTLD application. “We are pleased to announce that the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Ass...
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TLDH Withdrawing 4 New gTLD Applications: .Free; .Sale; .Spa; .Zulu
According to a press release we received this morning, The Board of Directors of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM:TLDH) issued an update to its new gTLD application. “We are pleased to announce that the meeting of the Internet Corporation for Ass...
Discussion
April 24, 2013, 10:17 am

The Domains
Frank Schillings Name Administration Hit With UDRP On WalkTheWalk.com
A UDRP has just been filed against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration on the domain name WalkTheWalk.com. The company filing the complaint is Walk the Walk Worldwide, whose site is at walkthewalk.org The organization operates a charity since...
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Frank Schillings Name Administration Hit With UDRP On WalkTheWalk.com
A UDRP has just been filed against Frank Schilling’s Name Administration on the domain name WalkTheWalk.com. The company filing the complaint is Walk the Walk Worldwide, whose site is at walkthewalk.org The organization operates a charity since...
Discussion
April 24, 2013, 9:59 am

The Domains
eNom Collects More Than 2 Million Expressions Of Interest on New gTLD’s
According to enom.com its “New TLD Watchlist module has collected more than two million expressions of interest for domains to be registered with the new TLDs, in just nine months In the more than two million Watchlist submissions receive...
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eNom Collects More Than 2 Million Expressions Of Interest on New gTLD’s
According to enom.com its “New TLD Watchlist module has collected more than two million expressions of interest for domains to be registered with the new TLDs, in just nine months In the more than two million Watchlist submissions receive...
Discussion
April 24, 2013, 9:10 am

The Domains
ICANN Sends Out Notices Of Breach Due To Non-Payment Of ICANN Fees
ICANN send three registrars Notices Of Breach Of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement The three domain name registrars are: Dotted Ventures, Inc. (IANA# 833) of Atlanta, GA which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $9,289.10 A. Telecom...
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ICANN Sends Out Notices Of Breach Due To Non-Payment Of ICANN Fees
ICANN send three registrars Notices Of Breach Of the Registrar Accreditation Agreement The three domain name registrars are: Dotted Ventures, Inc. (IANA# 833) of Atlanta, GA which owes past due accreditation fees in the amount of $9,289.10 A. Telecom...
Discussion
April 24, 2013, 1:47 am

The Domains
ICANN Opens Comment Period On GAC Advice For New gTLD’s
ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. Comments can be left from now until the period closed on May 14th 2013 at 23:59 UTC. If...
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ICANN Opens Comment Period On GAC Advice For New gTLD’s
ICANN just opened a comment period to get input on the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. Comments can be left from now until the period closed on May 14th 2013 at 23:59 UTC. If...
Discussion
April 24, 2013, 1:12 am

The Domains
Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold f...
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Afternic.com Sells $1MM In Domains Led By TabletScreen.com For $25K
Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/15/13 – 4/21/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,003,088. The highest sale was TabletScreen.com, which sold f...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 6:17 pm

The Domains
Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million
Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·&nb...
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Sedo Transactions Total Over $1.2 Million
Sedo.com just pubished its weekly report in all 756 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.2m. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·&nb...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 4:03 pm

The Domains
Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwo...
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Eytan Elbaz On 10th Anniversary Of Selling Applied Semantics to Google
Eytan Elbaz who was part of the ownership group that sold Applied Semantics (formerly Oingo) to Google gave an interview to AllthingsD.com yesterday on the 10th anniversary of the deal that really gave Google what they needed to put together its Adwo...
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April 23, 2013, 12:12 pm

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Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com
Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registe...
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Tencent Owner Of QQ.com Loses UDRP Grab For TencentGames.com
Tencent Holdings Limited just lost its attempt to grab the domain name tencentgames.com in a UDRP and the domain holder didn’t even respond. Bottom line the panel found the complainant trademark was effective in 2010 and the domain name registe...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 11:34 am

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.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks
According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web&...
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.PW Gets Over 50,000 Registration In Just 3 Weeks
According to a press release we just received the .PW Registry today announced that more than 50,000 .PW domain names were registered in just 3 weeks since the beginning of its General Availability phase. .PW, launched as “the Professional Web&...
Discussion
April 23, 2013, 10:51 am