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Demand Media Acquires Name.com
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) , announced the acquisition of Denver-based Name.com. “The acquisition is intended to expand Demand Media’s platform as it prepares for the historic release of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) this year”. &ldquo...
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Demand Media Acquires Name.com
Demand Media, Inc. (DMD) , announced the acquisition of Denver-based Name.com. “The acquisition is intended to expand Demand Media’s platform as it prepares for the historic release of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) this year”. &ldquo...
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January 7, 2013, 8:40 am
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Tucows Spends Over $6.1M Buying Over 4 Million Of its Owns Shares At $1.50
Tucows, Inc., (AMEX: TCX) (TSX:TC), announced today the preliminary results of its modified “Dutch auction” tender offer, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 4, 2013. Tucows expects to purchase up to 4,114,437 shar...
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Tucows Spends Over $6.1M Buying Over 4 Million Of its Owns Shares At $1.50
Tucows, Inc., (AMEX: TCX) (TSX:TC), announced today the preliminary results of its modified “Dutch auction” tender offer, which expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 4, 2013. Tucows expects to purchase up to 4,114,437 shar...
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January 7, 2013, 8:20 am
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After Filing Over 500 UDRP’s & 15 Years, Lego Finally Wins Rights To Lego.net
Anyone who follows UDRP files will tell you that the toy maker Lego is one of the most prolific filers of UDRP’s I count over 500 UDRP’s on domain names filed containing the term “lego” and many cases contain more than one dom...
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After Filing Over 500 UDRP’s & 15 Years, Lego Finally Wins Rights To Lego.net
Anyone who follows UDRP files will tell you that the toy maker Lego is one of the most prolific filers of UDRP’s I count over 500 UDRP’s on domain names filed containing the term “lego” and many cases contain more than one dom...
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January 6, 2013, 10:42 am
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UDRP Filed On Generic kinder-chocolate.com By Owner Of kinderchocolate.com Which Doesn’t Resolve
A UDRP has just been filed by Ferrero S.p.A. on the Generic domain name kinder-chocolate.com If you don’t know “kinder” is German for “children”. Here is the interesting part, the same company owns the domain name kinder...
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UDRP Filed On Generic kinder-chocolate.com By Owner Of kinderchocolate.com Which Doesn’t Resolve
A UDRP has just been filed by Ferrero S.p.A. on the Generic domain name kinder-chocolate.com If you don’t know “kinder” is German for “children”. Here is the interesting part, the same company owns the domain name kinder...
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January 6, 2013, 8:58 am
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Baron’s: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End”
Baron’s, the weekly publication that has changed the fate of public companies and the direction of markets for over 50 years just covered the new gTLD’s in a story entitled: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End” Like many ...
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Baron’s: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End”
Baron’s, the weekly publication that has changed the fate of public companies and the direction of markets for over 50 years just covered the new gTLD’s in a story entitled: “The Dot-Com Era Finally Comes to an End” Like many ...
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January 5, 2013, 9:30 am
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NameJet.com “Pausing” Affiliate Program Effective January 12th
We just received this notice from Essociate.com, the company administrating the NameJet.com affiliate program. According to the notice “”On Friday January 12th the NameJet links will Pause tracking referrals” “Payouts for all ...
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NameJet.com “Pausing” Affiliate Program Effective January 12th
We just received this notice from Essociate.com, the company administrating the NameJet.com affiliate program. According to the notice “”On Friday January 12th the NameJet links will Pause tracking referrals” “Payouts for all ...
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January 4, 2013, 8:39 pm
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ICM & Lawley Makes XBIZ Top 100 List of NewsMakers of 2012
Xbiz.com a publication on the adult industry issued its top 100 list of news makers of 2012 and ICM Registry, the company that operates the .XXX TLD made the list. Regarding ICM, Xbiz said: “ICM REGISTRY “XXX.com operator ICM Regist...
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ICM & Lawley Makes XBIZ Top 100 List of NewsMakers of 2012
Xbiz.com a publication on the adult industry issued its top 100 list of news makers of 2012 and ICM Registry, the company that operates the .XXX TLD made the list. Regarding ICM, Xbiz said: “ICM REGISTRY “XXX.com operator ICM Regist...
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January 4, 2013, 11:20 am
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After Buying IRA.com, Jackness Hits Gold Again With Purchase Of Treadmill.com For 80K
He maybe the best domainer you never heard of Michael Jackness. In May 2011 we reported on how who Mr. Jackness who had just purchased the domain name WebSiteHosting.com in January 2011 for $190,000 had flipped the domain for $415,000 Then in July of...
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After Buying IRA.com, Jackness Hits Gold Again With Purchase Of Treadmill.com For 80K
He maybe the best domainer you never heard of Michael Jackness. In May 2011 we reported on how who Mr. Jackness who had just purchased the domain name WebSiteHosting.com in January 2011 for $190,000 had flipped the domain for $415,000 Then in July of...
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January 4, 2013, 11:02 am
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Bidding Opens On DomainMarket’s Snapnames Auction Including HappyBirthday.com
Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com Showcase auction on SnapNames just opened today for bidding. The auction features some great domain names including HappyBirthday.com;Bailout.com; and Crime.org which Mike has mentioned quite often on this Facebook ...
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Bidding Opens On DomainMarket’s Snapnames Auction Including HappyBirthday.com
Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com Showcase auction on SnapNames just opened today for bidding. The auction features some great domain names including HappyBirthday.com;Bailout.com; and Crime.org which Mike has mentioned quite often on this Facebook ...
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January 4, 2013, 8:32 am
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Afternic Sells Over $1.8 Million In Domains Led By TreadMill.com $81K & WeWatch.com $65K
Afternic.com published a combined weekly report for sales from 12/17/12 – 12/30/12 today reporting total sales of $ 1,815,304, led by Treadmill.com at $81,250 and WeWatch.com at $65,000. The owner of WeWatch.com is uncertain at this point but t...
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Afternic Sells Over $1.8 Million In Domains Led By TreadMill.com $81K & WeWatch.com $65K
Afternic.com published a combined weekly report for sales from 12/17/12 – 12/30/12 today reporting total sales of $ 1,815,304, led by Treadmill.com at $81,250 and WeWatch.com at $65,000. The owner of WeWatch.com is uncertain at this point but t...
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January 3, 2013, 9:45 pm
