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Searching for Deals and Finding a Stocking Full of Coal

Searching for Deals and Finding a Stocking Full of Coal. Over 90 Million Visitors per Year are Diverted from Top Retail Sites by Typo Domains.

Indie Music Association Comes Out in Favor of Seizing Domain Names of Blogs

Comparing Instant Transfer, Reg Path Domain Sales Services

New sales channels are opening up for domainers thanks to efforts by Afternic, GoDaddy, and Sedo. Over the past week Afternic turned up two new partners in its Afternic DLS Premium program and Sedo extended the beta of its SedoMLS program to large domain holders. Each new partner that gets integrated into these systems means […]

Lots of '[Bofaexec Name] Sucks' Sites Getting Bought Up

Over at Domain Name Wire they noticed that starting on December 17th, someone has been going around buying up all the various permutations of BankofAmericaExecNameHereSucks.com sites. So sorry folks, you won’t be able to start your new BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, or BrianTMoynihanBlows.com blog. You were going to use it host your lookbook of clever Lawrence, KS fashions, right? The company registering the names is Mark Monitor, a company that specializes in protecting companies from online

Bank of America Buys Up Domain Names in Possible Pre-emptive Wikileaks Move

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Top 10 Most Searched Domainers of 2010

10 names in domains that got lots of search action this year. It’s that time of year when you start seeing “top 10 of the year” lists, so let’s get things started. This list is the top 10 people associated with the domain name industry (not necessarily domain investors) in terms of the number of […]

Network Solutions and Register.com Slot .co Second

Big registrars pushing .co as next best thing to .com. Last month Go Daddy created quite a buzz by briefly changed its default domain name search parameter to .co. Although Go Daddy and its competitors continue to offer .com first, two large retail domain registrars are making a significant push to get customers to register […]

Resin.com: Another Udrp That Shouldn’t Have Been Filed

Company files claim for domain name registered 12 years before it started using the “trademark”. Here’s another case of a domain name owner having to respond to an egregious UDRP complaint. Paper Denim & Cloth, LLC filed a complaint against VertMarkets, Inc. to get the generic domain name Resin.com. The complainant admitted that it just […]

Bank of America Buys Up Nasty Domain Names in Defensive Move

Corporate Executives often pursue multiple strategies when it comes to maximizing shareholder value. Sometimes they try to provide the public with products of real worth.

Minnesota Company Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking

3DCafe, Inc. found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. A three person National Arbitration Forum panel has called out 3DCafe, Inc. for attempted reverse domain name hijacking in a case over 3DCafe.com. The complainant argued that it had rights from its “predecessor in interest” for the term 3DCafe dating back to 1991. But the domain […]