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Wantable.com Purchased For $47K is Being Forwarded To Wantable.Co
The domain name Wantable.com sold this week on Sedo.com for $47,000 certainly a nice price for that domain. The Domain was purchased by Wantable.co, LLC of Milwaukee Wisconsin . You might thing that it was an “upgrade” acquisition by a .C...
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Wantable.com Purchased For $47K is Being Forwarded To Wantable.Co
The domain name Wantable.com sold this week on Sedo.com for $47,000 certainly a nice price for that domain. The Domain was purchased by Wantable.co, LLC of Milwaukee Wisconsin . You might thing that it was an “upgrade” acquisition by a .C...
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April 13, 2013, 10:15 am
The Domains
Microsoft Doesn’t Like Google’s Dotless .Search But Supports The GAC’s Move Against Closed Generics
Microsoft issued the following statement exclusively to TheDomains.com last night regarding events this week in at ICANN: “As the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to ICANN recommended this week, it is contrary to the free and open ideals o...
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Microsoft Doesn’t Like Google’s Dotless .Search But Supports The GAC’s Move Against Closed Generics
Microsoft issued the following statement exclusively to TheDomains.com last night regarding events this week in at ICANN: “As the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) to ICANN recommended this week, it is contrary to the free and open ideals o...
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April 13, 2013, 9:09 am
The Domains
Md.org Sells for $555,655 in an All Time Record For Namejet.com
The two letter domain MD.org name just sold for $555,555 in what we think is an all time record for a sale on Namejet.com Interestingly its one of the only .Org domains to sell in the past two weeks on Godaddy.com or Namejet.com each of which had sin...
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Md.org Sells for $555,655 in an All Time Record For Namejet.com
The two letter domain MD.org name just sold for $555,555 in what we think is an all time record for a sale on Namejet.com Interestingly its one of the only .Org domains to sell in the past two weeks on Godaddy.com or Namejet.com each of which had sin...
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April 12, 2013, 4:53 pm
The Domains
Is National A-1 One of Bidders for Md.org?
The domain name auction for Md.org is still going on now topping $525,000 and it appears one the bidders is National A-1 National A-1 owns the domain name Free.com (now under privacy) and one of the two bidder for the domain name is FreeDotCom As to ...
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Is National A-1 One of Bidders for Md.org?
The domain name auction for Md.org is still going on now topping $525,000 and it appears one the bidders is National A-1 National A-1 owns the domain name Free.com (now under privacy) and one of the two bidder for the domain name is FreeDotCom As to ...
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April 12, 2013, 4:46 pm
The Domains
38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too
39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE is Amazon’s application for .Play. Other applications passing today are for the generic’s ....
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38 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evalutions: 1st Non-IDN’s Passed is .Play: .Church & .Mormon Pass Too
39 more New gTLD applications have passed ICANN’s Initial Evaluation (IE) and for the record the first non-IDN new gTLD extension to pass IE is Amazon’s application for .Play. Other applications passing today are for the generic’s ....
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April 12, 2013, 1:28 pm
The Domains
Ambit.com Purchaed In 2010 Saved in UDRP From Billion Dollar Company
Ambit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com The domain holder which also formed a corporation named Ambit some how was able to acquire a domain name in 2010, that the trademark holder wi...
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Ambit.com Purchaed In 2010 Saved in UDRP From Billion Dollar Company
Ambit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com The domain holder which also formed a corporation named Ambit some how was able to acquire a domain name in 2010, that the trademark holder wi...
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April 12, 2013, 11:31 am
The Domains
Nokia & Mark Monitor.com Put up Plum.com For Sale In SnapNames Auction
Nokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com. The domain name Plum.com is the Moniker Premium Spring Auction that just started a few days ago with a reserve range of $100,000-$250,000. Its been along discussed topic ...
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Nokia & Mark Monitor.com Put up Plum.com For Sale In SnapNames Auction
Nokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com. The domain name Plum.com is the Moniker Premium Spring Auction that just started a few days ago with a reserve range of $100,000-$250,000. Its been along discussed topic ...
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April 12, 2013, 10:12 am
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MiTek USA, Inc Withdraws All 4 Of Its New gTLD Applications Marking 43 Withdrawn Apps
MiTek USA, Inc. has withdrawn all four of its new gTLD applications. The withdrawn is now reflected in ICANN’s website. The four new gTLD’s applications were for .MII, .Connectors, .MITEK and .SAPPHIRE. .Mii faced rejection as being...
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MiTek USA, Inc Withdraws All 4 Of Its New gTLD Applications Marking 43 Withdrawn Apps
MiTek USA, Inc. has withdrawn all four of its new gTLD applications. The withdrawn is now reflected in ICANN’s website. The four new gTLD’s applications were for .MII, .Connectors, .MITEK and .SAPPHIRE. .Mii faced rejection as being...
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April 12, 2013, 12:24 am
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses 21 Facebook Domains In One UDRP
Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings of Potomac, Maryland just lost a UDRP to Facebook, Inc on 21 domain names which it didn’t even respond to The domain at issue were: aboutfacebook.com facebookbabes.com facebookcheats.com facebookclub.com ...
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses 21 Facebook Domains In One UDRP
Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings of Potomac, Maryland just lost a UDRP to Facebook, Inc on 21 domain names which it didn’t even respond to The domain at issue were: aboutfacebook.com facebookbabes.com facebookcheats.com facebookclub.com ...
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April 11, 2013, 3:24 pm
The Domains
Google Acquires YT.Be To Use As YouTube Shorterner
According to Thenextweb.com, Google has acquired the domain name YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today. “Presumably, Google will use the domain name for shortened links to YouTube videos. ” “...
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Google Acquires YT.Be To Use As YouTube Shorterner
According to Thenextweb.com, Google has acquired the domain name YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today. “Presumably, Google will use the domain name for shortened links to YouTube videos. ” “...
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April 11, 2013, 11:06 am
