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Microsoft Buys ToDoApp.com, and 16 Other Domain Name Sales
June 5, 2013 @ 2:41 AMMicrosoft and Magazines.com among end user buyers at Sedo last week. Is Microsoft about to release an organization app a la Evernote and Google’s Keep? It bought ToDoApp.com last week on Sedo. Here are details on that sale and many other end user sales. Financing First Limited in the United Kingdom bought DentalFinance.co.uk for 1,500 […]
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First New gTLDs Could Be Delegated As Soon As Aug 28th W/ Sunrise Ending Oct 27th
June 5, 2013 @ 2:09 AMAs part of its Webinar today ICANN laid out a “best case scenario” for when the first new gTLD’s might roll out. According to a time line laid out by ICANN the first new gTLD could be delegated to the root by as early as August 28, 2013 in which event the Sunrise notice for trademark and other rights holders for the new gTLD could start the following day August 29th…
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ICM Registry Sells Love.xxx for $79,530 to California Filmmaking Team Everynone
June 5, 2013 @ 1:59 AMICM Registry has been offering a list of 1046 .xxx domain names for sale with prices. So far 57 domain names have been removed from this list and have been sold or a sale is pending. This week 2 more …
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ICANN New gTLD Contention Auctions to Start in October
June 5, 2013 @ 1:38 AMDuring a Webinar today, ICANN announced it is intending to hold the first round of the ICANN Last Resort auction starting in October for those Contention sets which DO NOT include community applications. Auctions are also not expected for strings that have outstanding objections in the first group of strings…
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A Subtle (Yet Big) Change in GoDaddy’s Ads
June 5, 2013 @ 12:29 AMVerisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad looked different. Take a look. Can’t see the difference? Here’s a close-up. We already know […]
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Techcrunch Covers Twitch.tv Which Gets 35 Million Viewers a Month
June 4, 2013 @ 11:59 PMTechCrunch.com covered the “E-sports streaming startup Twitch.TV this morning.
The site according to TechCrunch “has already seen massive growth in its audience since launching to the public just about two years ago and gets “more than 35 million unique viewers a month, up from 20 million last September.”… -
Scammy Survey Site Beats Tumblr in Domain Dispute
June 4, 2013 @ 11:05 PMLawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed with World Intellectual Property Organization, Tumblr argued the domain name was registered as a typo of […]
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Gucci Wins UDRP On 165 Domain Names
June 4, 2013 @ 10:45 PMGucci this morning Won a UDRP seeking 165 domain names which all contain the famous trademark. The complaint was filed by the formal name of the company that owns the trademark to the Gucci brand, Guccio Gucci S.p.A…
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Tumblr.com Loses UDRP On Tublr.com
June 4, 2013 @ 10:30 PMIn a decision certain to drive the Trademark Holder groups crazy, Tumblr.com just lost a UDRP on the domain name Tublr.com although the domain name was going to one of those “sweepstakes/survey” sites cited by so many UDRP panels which have ordered domains transferred…
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.nl Domain Name Growth Slows Down in 2012 and The Registry Blames Domainers
June 4, 2013 @ 6:32 PMGrowth in the number of .nl domain names slowed considerably in 2012 and SIDN’s annual report says that this happened because there isn’t as much money to be made from domain name trading now. So was the lack of growth …
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