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Domain Name Wire
Persona.com survives second UDRP from different complainant
Persona.com successfully defended — for the second time. If two completely different complainants file a UDRP against the same domain name, doesn’t that kind of show that it’s a common generic domain? Persona.com was first hit with ...
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Persona.com survives second UDRP from different complainant
Persona.com successfully defended — for the second time. If two completely different complainants file a UDRP against the same domain name, doesn’t that kind of show that it’s a common generic domain? Persona.com was first hit with ...
Discussion
October 9, 2012, 10:55 am
Domain Name Wire
Doh! Melbourne IT accidentally shut down Twitter’s t.co link shortener
Company placed domain status on hold thanks to phishing complaint. Yesterday Twitter’s t.co link shortener, which it wraps all outgoing links in, went down. Was the culprit some self-proclaimed anonymous user? Or a DDoS? Nope. Domain name regis...
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Doh! Melbourne IT accidentally shut down Twitter’s t.co link shortener
Company placed domain status on hold thanks to phishing complaint. Yesterday Twitter’s t.co link shortener, which it wraps all outgoing links in, went down. Was the culprit some self-proclaimed anonymous user? Or a DDoS? Nope. Domain name regis...
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October 9, 2012, 10:35 am
Domain Name Wire
Software company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking against Frank Schilling
WIPO panel rules company filed UDRP “to obtain the disputed domain name at any cost”. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found a software company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP filed against one of Fra...
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Software company guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking against Frank Schilling
WIPO panel rules company filed UDRP “to obtain the disputed domain name at any cost”. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found a software company guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a UDRP filed against one of Fra...
Discussion
October 9, 2012, 9:30 am
Domain Shane
SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 9th
Watched most of the TRAFFIC auction and I’ll keep it short. Went exactly how I thought it would. I phone bid brownnose.com and couldn’t believer the reserve was over $3K. I was out at $2K and was even easy at that price. I thought that wa...
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SHANE’S BIG LIST: Tuesday’s Domains at Auction or Dropping on the 9th
Watched most of the TRAFFIC auction and I’ll keep it short. Went exactly how I thought it would. I phone bid brownnose.com and couldn’t believer the reserve was over $3K. I was out at $2K and was even easy at that price. I thought that wa...
Discussion
October 9, 2012, 6:36 am
The Domains
AlJazeera Covers Donuts & Its New gTLD Applications
Donuts new gTLD applications and its relationship (or lack therefor) to Demand Media, Inc, has made it all the way to the Middle East as the news network AlJazeera just covered the company. The video of the AlJazeera report by Tarek Bazley is on YouT...
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AlJazeera Covers Donuts & Its New gTLD Applications
Donuts new gTLD applications and its relationship (or lack therefor) to Demand Media, Inc, has made it all the way to the Middle East as the news network AlJazeera just covered the company. The video of the AlJazeera report by Tarek Bazley is on YouT...
Discussion
October 9, 2012, 12:21 am
The Domains
Endurance International Group Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Selects Afternic.com as Its Exclusive Partner
Afternic.com today announced an exclusive partnership with Endurance International Group, a top ICANN-accredited registrar and leading provider of domains, web hosting and online services to small and medium-sized business. “Endurance will join...
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Endurance International Group Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Selects Afternic.com as Its Exclusive Partner
Afternic.com today announced an exclusive partnership with Endurance International Group, a top ICANN-accredited registrar and leading provider of domains, web hosting and online services to small and medium-sized business. “Endurance will join...
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October 8, 2012, 4:58 pm
The Domains
Endurance Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Buys Websites From Intuit & Sells A Majority Stake To Private Equity Firms
Two separate press releases are out today from Endurance International Group, which manages 2.9 million unique Web hosting accounts and 10 million domain names owns Dotster.com and Domain.com. In the first announcement, Intuit I...
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Endurance Owner Of Dotster.com & Domain.com Buys Websites From Intuit & Sells A Majority Stake To Private Equity Firms
Two separate press releases are out today from Endurance International Group, which manages 2.9 million unique Web hosting accounts and 10 million domain names owns Dotster.com and Domain.com. In the first announcement, Intuit I...
Discussion
October 8, 2012, 4:23 pm
Domain Name News
TRAFFIC 2012 Live Auction Results
The live domain auction for TRAFFIC is live and going . We’re live blogging. Missed the first few. We’ve got 100 lots or so to go through. Related posts: LIVE: RickLatona TRAFFIC Silicon Valley Auction Results Targeted TRAFFIC...
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TRAFFIC 2012 Live Auction Results
The live domain auction for TRAFFIC is live and going . We’re live blogging. Missed the first few. We’ve got 100 lots or so to go through. Related posts: LIVE: RickLatona TRAFFIC Silicon Valley Auction Results Targeted TRAFFIC...
Discussion
October 8, 2012, 3:22 pm
Domain Shane
Live Streaming of TRAFFIC Auction
The TRAFFIC auction has just started their live stream. You COULD go to their page but I thought I would post a stream here if anyone wanted to watch Free desktop streaming application by Ustream
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Live Streaming of TRAFFIC Auction
The TRAFFIC auction has just started their live stream. You COULD go to their page but I thought I would post a stream here if anyone wanted to watch Free desktop streaming application by Ustream
Discussion
October 8, 2012, 2:55 pm
Elliot's Blog
Doma.com Now Used as Domaining.com “URL Shortener”
It was just announced that Doma.com was recently acquired by Francois Carrillo, and it is being used as a URL shortener of sorts for Domaining.com. Instead of typing in Domaining.com, you can simply visit Doma.com and end up in the same spot. In Russ...
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Doma.com Now Used as Domaining.com “URL Shortener”
It was just announced that Doma.com was recently acquired by Francois Carrillo, and it is being used as a URL shortener of sorts for Domaining.com. Instead of typing in Domaining.com, you can simply visit Doma.com and end up in the same spot. In Russ...
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October 8, 2012, 1:21 pm
