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Vertical Axis Loses UDRP on The Typo pheonixcontact.com After Trying To Give It Up
The Ham Brothers, Vertical Axis just lost a UDRP on the typo pheonixcontact.com to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG of German. As a UDRP the case is a slam dunk for the International trademark holder. However the case serves as a cautionary tale for...
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Vertical Axis Loses UDRP on The Typo pheonixcontact.com After Trying To Give It Up
The Ham Brothers, Vertical Axis just lost a UDRP on the typo pheonixcontact.com to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG of German. As a UDRP the case is a slam dunk for the International trademark holder. However the case serves as a cautionary tale for...
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February 5, 2013, 9:27 am
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Inc.com On Value of Killer Domain: Purchased For $12K Turned Into $19 Million Business
Inc.com just published the story of Jesse Stein who bought the domain SportsMemorabilia.com for just $12,500 and turned it into a $19.5 million retail business. Its a domainers dream story. SportsMemorabilia.com was purchased by Mr. Stein in 20...
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Inc.com On Value of Killer Domain: Purchased For $12K Turned Into $19 Million Business
Inc.com just published the story of Jesse Stein who bought the domain SportsMemorabilia.com for just $12,500 and turned it into a $19.5 million retail business. Its a domainers dream story. SportsMemorabilia.com was purchased by Mr. Stein in 20...
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February 4, 2013, 9:01 pm
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SnapNames Become Exclusive Drop House For DomainMonster.com & Host Europe
Host Europe, a top three hosting company in Europe and owner of the largest registrar in the UK is as of now sending all of their expiring domains to SnapNames.com on an exclusive basis. That means all domain names dropping from DomainMonster.c...
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SnapNames Become Exclusive Drop House For DomainMonster.com & Host Europe
Host Europe, a top three hosting company in Europe and owner of the largest registrar in the UK is as of now sending all of their expiring domains to SnapNames.com on an exclusive basis. That means all domain names dropping from DomainMonster.c...
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February 4, 2013, 6:12 pm
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Moniker/SnapNames.com To Auction Off “Premium .Dm” Domains At Webfest
Although the WebFest conference got underway today, there is a late addition to the live and extended auction. Today Moniker.com/SnapNames announced that it will be conducting an auction of premium .dm domains as part of the live auction conducted fr...
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Moniker/SnapNames.com To Auction Off “Premium .Dm” Domains At Webfest
Although the WebFest conference got underway today, there is a late addition to the live and extended auction. Today Moniker.com/SnapNames announced that it will be conducting an auction of premium .dm domains as part of the live auction conducted fr...
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February 4, 2013, 3:30 pm
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ICm Sells Mobile.xxx For $160,000
According to xBiz.com an adult company, SexGoesMobile has acquired the domain name Mobile.xxx for $160,000 from ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX domain name TLD “”SexGoesMobile’s parent company, Bremen, Germany-based SGM Media ...
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ICm Sells Mobile.xxx For $160,000
According to xBiz.com an adult company, SexGoesMobile has acquired the domain name Mobile.xxx for $160,000 from ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX domain name TLD “”SexGoesMobile’s parent company, Bremen, Germany-based SGM Media ...
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February 4, 2013, 2:07 pm
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According to Tivo Godaddy’s Ad Was A Winner
According to TechCrunch.com, citing data from Tivo, Godaddy.com Ad was one of the top 10 most “engaging” ads. The data based on “second-by-second audience measurement data from over 30,000 anonymous households using TiVo, TiVo&rsquo...
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According to Tivo Godaddy’s Ad Was A Winner
According to TechCrunch.com, citing data from Tivo, Godaddy.com Ad was one of the top 10 most “engaging” ads. The data based on “second-by-second audience measurement data from over 30,000 anonymous households using TiVo, TiVo&rsquo...
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February 4, 2013, 11:34 am
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Godaddy.com Commercial Is Last On The USA Today’s Ad Meter, But Might Have Won The Night
USA Today published the results of its Super Bowl Ad Meter which tracks which ads that aired during the Super Bowl voters liked the most and disliked the most. On the bottom of the list sits the Godaddy.com commercial featuring model Bar Refeali make...
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Godaddy.com Commercial Is Last On The USA Today’s Ad Meter, But Might Have Won The Night
USA Today published the results of its Super Bowl Ad Meter which tracks which ads that aired during the Super Bowl voters liked the most and disliked the most. On the bottom of the list sits the Godaddy.com commercial featuring model Bar Refeali make...
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February 4, 2013, 9:37 am
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Now We Know Why Apple Didn’t Apply For .App As They Open AppStore.com For Vanity Domains
When the applicants for new gTLD’s were announced by ICANN in what was called the “big reveal” one of the biggest surprises we noted was the absence of an Apple application for .App. Now it seems we know why Apple passed...
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Now We Know Why Apple Didn’t Apply For .App As They Open AppStore.com For Vanity Domains
When the applicants for new gTLD’s were announced by ICANN in what was called the “big reveal” one of the biggest surprises we noted was the absence of an Apple application for .App. Now it seems we know why Apple passed...
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February 3, 2013, 10:55 pm
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Chicago.com To Auction Off 100-300 Subdomains & 1 Is Outranking Established Site
We have been following the selling of dotChicago(sm) domain names, since Josh Metnick the owner of Chicago.com first started chatting about selling subdomains off of Chicago.com Today Josh let us know that he plans on auctioning off 100-300 Chi...
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Chicago.com To Auction Off 100-300 Subdomains & 1 Is Outranking Established Site
We have been following the selling of dotChicago(sm) domain names, since Josh Metnick the owner of Chicago.com first started chatting about selling subdomains off of Chicago.com Today Josh let us know that he plans on auctioning off 100-300 Chi...
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February 3, 2013, 12:17 pm
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Search.XXX Ad Program Launches March 31, Current Holders Get Credit
The Search.XXX Ad Program is scheduled to launch by March 31, 2013. Search.XXX launched last year as a search engine for .XXX sites but it looks like ICM, company that is the registry of .XXX, is gearing up to sell ads on its network. According to an...
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Search.XXX Ad Program Launches March 31, Current Holders Get Credit
The Search.XXX Ad Program is scheduled to launch by March 31, 2013. Search.XXX launched last year as a search engine for .XXX sites but it looks like ICM, company that is the registry of .XXX, is gearing up to sell ads on its network. According to an...
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February 1, 2013, 6:02 pm
