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Class Action Suit Filed Against Microsoft For Overcharging For Pay Per Click Ads On Parked Domains
MediaPost.com is reporting that Microsoft has “been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly overcharging marketers for pay-per-click ads”. The suit was filed Wednesday in a federal court in Seattle by Lane’s Gifts an...
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Class Action Suit Filed Against Microsoft For Overcharging For Pay Per Click Ads On Parked Domains
MediaPost.com is reporting that Microsoft has “been hit with a potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly overcharging marketers for pay-per-click ads”. The suit was filed Wednesday in a federal court in Seattle by Lane’s Gifts an...
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July 13, 2012, 7:54 am
The Domains
Digg.com Sold For “Something In The “Single-Digit Millions” & Buyer Betaworks Is Folding It Into News.Me
According to a blog post on its site, Digg.com was just sold to Betaworks who will be folding Digg.com into News.Me which is also owned by Betaworks and developed in collaboration with The New York Times Company. “We couldn’t be hap...
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Digg.com Sold For “Something In The “Single-Digit Millions” & Buyer Betaworks Is Folding It Into News.Me
According to a blog post on its site, Digg.com was just sold to Betaworks who will be folding Digg.com into News.Me which is also owned by Betaworks and developed in collaboration with The New York Times Company. “We couldn’t be hap...
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July 13, 2012, 7:06 am
The Domains
ICE Seizes 70 More Domains
According to an announcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) today they “seized 70 websites that were illegally selling counterfeit merchandise”. “The 70 websites seized are part of Project Copy Cat, an ite...
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ICE Seizes 70 More Domains
According to an announcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) today they “seized 70 websites that were illegally selling counterfeit merchandise”. “The 70 websites seized are part of Project Copy Cat, an ite...
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July 12, 2012, 6:46 pm
The Domains
With The Domain Space Only Growing By 17 Million A Year, Where Will All The Registrations For New gTLD’s Come From?
We know that .com/.net registrations as of the last report sits at 116 million registrations is growing at the rate 8 million new registrations a year. We also know including the 116 million .com/.net registrations, there are 225 million domains nam...
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With The Domain Space Only Growing By 17 Million A Year, Where Will All The Registrations For New gTLD’s Come From?
We know that .com/.net registrations as of the last report sits at 116 million registrations is growing at the rate 8 million new registrations a year. We also know including the 116 million .com/.net registrations, there are 225 million domains nam...
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July 12, 2012, 8:18 am
The Domains
Apple Gets iTunes.net in UDRP
Apple Was awarded the domain name iTunes.net today in a UDRP decision. The decision will be handed down later today. Last week Apple gained control of the domain iPad3.com after it filed a UDRP and the domain holder relinquished the domain. In ...
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Apple Gets iTunes.net in UDRP
Apple Was awarded the domain name iTunes.net today in a UDRP decision. The decision will be handed down later today. Last week Apple gained control of the domain iPad3.com after it filed a UDRP and the domain holder relinquished the domain. In ...
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July 12, 2012, 12:27 am
The Domains
.Org Passes 10 Million Domain Names Milestone
According to a press release tonight the .Org registry has passed the 10 Million domain name mark. PIR “the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain announced tonight that it has reached a major milestone with the registration of its 10 milli...
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.Org Passes 10 Million Domain Names Milestone
According to a press release tonight the .Org registry has passed the 10 Million domain name mark. PIR “the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain announced tonight that it has reached a major milestone with the registration of its 10 milli...
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July 11, 2012, 5:23 pm
The Domains
The Sedo Generic .Me Domain Name Auction Ends Tomorrow & 53 Domains Have A Bid
The Sedo generic .Me domain name auction ends tomorrow Thursday July 12 starting at Noon EST. As of publication with just about 24 hours to go out of the 190 domain names in the auction 53 have at least 1 bid on them but only 2 domains have reached r...
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The Sedo Generic .Me Domain Name Auction Ends Tomorrow & 53 Domains Have A Bid
The Sedo generic .Me domain name auction ends tomorrow Thursday July 12 starting at Noon EST. As of publication with just about 24 hours to go out of the 190 domain names in the auction 53 have at least 1 bid on them but only 2 domains have reached r...
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July 11, 2012, 11:19 am
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Apple Store Changes Search Algorithm in the App Store
According to TechCrunch.com Apple has changed the search algorithm in the App Store, which is now weighting app names and keywords less heavily in its search results “Previously, if you were searching for something like “san francisco par...
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Apple Store Changes Search Algorithm in the App Store
According to TechCrunch.com Apple has changed the search algorithm in the App Store, which is now weighting app names and keywords less heavily in its search results “Previously, if you were searching for something like “san francisco par...
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July 11, 2012, 10:40 am
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Afternic.com Sells $2.5 Million In Domain Names
In a double report for two weeks and including a Snapnames Afternic.com domain name action, Afternic.com reported just over $2.5 Million in sales “Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to: &...
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Afternic.com Sells $2.5 Million In Domain Names
In a double report for two weeks and including a Snapnames Afternic.com domain name action, Afternic.com reported just over $2.5 Million in sales “Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to: &...
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July 10, 2012, 6:47 pm
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Sedo.com Sells $1.1MM In Domains Led By tackboard.com for $25K
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending July 9th, 2012. In all over $1.1MM of domains were sold. The top seller was tackboard.com at $25,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were gamblingaffiliateprograms for $15,520 follo...
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Sedo.com Sells $1.1MM In Domains Led By tackboard.com for $25K
Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending July 9th, 2012. In all over $1.1MM of domains were sold. The top seller was tackboard.com at $25,000. Other domains topping the list of public sales were gamblingaffiliateprograms for $15,520 follo...
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July 10, 2012, 3:25 pm
