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MarkMonitor.com Registers A Bunch Of Defensive Registrations For Clients: Sucks, Hate And The F Bomb
MarkMonitor.com registered a bunch of defensive domain name registrations for Bell Media yesterday, including the words suck, hate and even the F-Bomb Bell Media owns many TV networks in Canada including the CTV, Much, and RDS Here are the doma...
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MarkMonitor.com Registers A Bunch Of Defensive Registrations For Clients: Sucks, Hate And The F Bomb
MarkMonitor.com registered a bunch of defensive domain name registrations for Bell Media yesterday, including the words suck, hate and even the F-Bomb Bell Media owns many TV networks in Canada including the CTV, Much, and RDS Here are the doma...
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November 28, 2012, 11:38 am

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Everything.Me Gets Another $25 Million In Funding
TechCrunch.com is reporting on another startup .Me site, Everything.Me just got $25 Million in additional funding: “”Everything.me, a slick mobile app that lets users search for specific content across both native and mobile apps. (A full...
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Everything.Me Gets Another $25 Million In Funding
TechCrunch.com is reporting on another startup .Me site, Everything.Me just got $25 Million in additional funding: “”Everything.me, a slick mobile app that lets users search for specific content across both native and mobile apps. (A full...
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November 28, 2012, 10:03 am

The Domains
Sedo Announces First New gTLD Client .HIV
Sedo announced this morning that is partnership with dotHIV, the future nonprofit registry behind the new .hiv generic top-level domain (gTLD) is based in Berlin. As far as we can tell this is the 1st publicly released new gTLD client of Sedo....
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Sedo Announces First New gTLD Client .HIV
Sedo announced this morning that is partnership with dotHIV, the future nonprofit registry behind the new .hiv generic top-level domain (gTLD) is based in Berlin. As far as we can tell this is the 1st publicly released new gTLD client of Sedo....
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November 28, 2012, 7:45 am

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Afternic.com Sells $825,000 In Domain Names Led By Styles.com For $60,000
Afternic.com just released its weekly sales list for the short holiday week (in the US) and sold almost $825,000 in domain names The sales were led by Styles.com for $60,000 .com Sales styles.com $60,000.00 homeware.co...
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Afternic.com Sells $825,000 In Domain Names Led By Styles.com For $60,000
Afternic.com just released its weekly sales list for the short holiday week (in the US) and sold almost $825,000 in domain names The sales were led by Styles.com for $60,000 .com Sales styles.com $60,000.00 homeware.co...
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November 27, 2012, 6:16 pm

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Sedo Transaction Total Just Under $1.6 Million For The Holiday Week
Sedo.com just released its weekly sales report for the shortened holiday week (in the US). In all 951 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.6 million. Over 41% of total sales were the result...
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Sedo Transaction Total Just Under $1.6 Million For The Holiday Week
Sedo.com just released its weekly sales report for the shortened holiday week (in the US). In all 951 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.6 million. Over 41% of total sales were the result...
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November 27, 2012, 4:07 pm

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Marchex Files Federal Lawsuit Over PriceShoes.com UDRP Decision
Marchex (MRCX) just filed a federal lawsuit over the UDRP decision in PriceShoes.com. You might recall a three member panel awarded the domain name to the trademark holder of “Price Shoes” Administradora de Marcas y Franquicias, S.A. de C...
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Marchex Files Federal Lawsuit Over PriceShoes.com UDRP Decision
Marchex (MRCX) just filed a federal lawsuit over the UDRP decision in PriceShoes.com. You might recall a three member panel awarded the domain name to the trademark holder of “Price Shoes” Administradora de Marcas y Franquicias, S.A. de C...
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November 27, 2012, 4:01 pm

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ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 & Limit Increases To CPI
In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice, the ICA urges that the Verisign contract to operate the .com registry not be approved unless...
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ICA Tells Dept Of Commerce To Make Verisign Roll Back .Com Prices By $2 & Limit Increases To CPI
In a 16 page letter sent by Phil Corwin the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice, the ICA urges that the Verisign contract to operate the .com registry not be approved unless...
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November 26, 2012, 10:00 pm

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GED.net Hit With UDRP & Its Not A Parked Page
A UDRP has just been filed on the domain name GED.net, by the American Council on Education GED Testing Service LLC whose official site is Acenet.edu. According to its site, The American Council on Education (ACE) develops and delivers the GED ...
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GED.net Hit With UDRP & Its Not A Parked Page
A UDRP has just been filed on the domain name GED.net, by the American Council on Education GED Testing Service LLC whose official site is Acenet.edu. According to its site, The American Council on Education (ACE) develops and delivers the GED ...
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November 26, 2012, 5:56 pm

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ICE Seizes 132 Domains & This Time Its Global, Not Just .Com & .Net
ICE today announced that 132 domain names were seized for selling counterfeit products. However not only were .com’s and .net’s targeted this time. While 101 of the domain names were with a registry located in the United States, 31 ccTLD&...
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ICE Seizes 132 Domains & This Time Its Global, Not Just .Com & .Net
ICE today announced that 132 domain names were seized for selling counterfeit products. However not only were .com’s and .net’s targeted this time. While 101 of the domain names were with a registry located in the United States, 31 ccTLD&...
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November 26, 2012, 2:36 pm

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DotFood Starts Its Own Pre-Registration Site For .Food: FoodDomainia.com
According to a press release we received, Dot Food, LLC an applicant for the new gTLD .Food, launched “FoodDomainia.com, a pre- registration and awareness solution for the new .FOOD gTLD”. “By pre-registering for a .FOOD domain name...
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DotFood Starts Its Own Pre-Registration Site For .Food: FoodDomainia.com
According to a press release we received, Dot Food, LLC an applicant for the new gTLD .Food, launched “FoodDomainia.com, a pre- registration and awareness solution for the new .FOOD gTLD”. “By pre-registering for a .FOOD domain name...
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November 26, 2012, 1:32 pm