Domain Guardians adds domain sales newsletter as it increases brokerage activity

Domain Guardians sees increased demand for domain brokerage.

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SXSW just a few weeks away

Domain companies among those coming to Austin for big tech event. South By Southwest (SXSW) is coming to Austin March 9-18, and plenty of domain name companies will be in attendance.

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Ashley Madison targets mobile domain

Affairs dating site wants control of AshleyMadison.mobi.

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Amazon buys Prime.xxx domain name

Prime.xxx registered by Amazon.com.

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An outrageous UDRP case

Cases shouldn’t be heard if they’re this bad. So this guy William (Bill) Robert Johnson forms a company called Aahara Enterprises Pty.

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.Halal top level domain in the works

Company applying for .halal with ICANN. Halalan Tayyiban, Corp is planning to apply for the .halal top level domain name. The company operates a web site HalalFinder.com

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ESQwire wins a UDRP that you should read

Decision includes a lot of good defenses if you’re hit by a UDRP. If you’re looking for ways to defend a domain name that is hit with a UDRP, there’s a good laundry list of rebuttals in a recent dispute handled by domain law firm ESQwire.com . The case was brought by Sweden’s Rusta AB over the domain name Rusta.com.

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Tucows on domain name aftermarket, SOPA, and new top level domains

Tucows has a banner year and discusses rising aftermarket domain sale prices. Today Tucows reported record quarterly revenue of $26.4 million for the last quarter.

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16 compelling end user domain purchases

16 companies buy the right domain in the domain aftermarket. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly look at end user domain sales. All of these sales took place on Afternic unless otherwise noted

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.Kyoto top level domain in the works

.Kyoto may join .Tokyo as top level domain. It appears that .kyoto may be one of the location specific top level domains that will hit the web in coming years. The announcement is in Japanese and all translations I’ve seen are rather jumbled, but it appears that GMO Registry is behind the effort.

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Key-Systems CEO discusses Moniker and SnapNames acquisition

No dramatic changes on tap but more ccTLDs and other improvements on the way.

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.Ping trademark in jeopardy, but Ping sailing through

PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping.

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What domains American Airlines and others bought last week

American Airlines, The Nature Conservancy, New York Life, and other end user domain buys.

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Occupy.com domain name sells

Domain has new owner but identity is unknown. Occupy.com, which was pitched for sale to the Occupy Movement last year, has sold. It’s not clear who purchased the domain name since its whois record is protected by whois privacy

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How Twitter was named and bought Twitter.com for $7,500

Biz Stone discusses the naming of his company. Today at DOMAINfest in Santa Monica, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone talked about how they named the company and bought the domain for $7,500. Stone and his co-founders wanted a name that showed “urgency”

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Moniker publishes final DOMAINfest auction list

Two more valuable domain names added to auction. Moniker has published the final list of domains for next week’s live domain auction during DOMAINfest, as well as the online auction to follow. Bargain.com and Democracy.com have been added to the auction

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Amazon.com’s Quidsi about to launch home decor shop Casa.com

Casa.com is next online store from Amazon.com’s Quidsi unit.

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USPTO to Karsten: not so fast with .PING

Trademark office sends office action to PING Golf brand owner. On Wednesday I posted a list of 115 trademark applications that could be related to new top level domains, along with their current status. The USPTO has a policy of not granting trademarks on top level domains, and the number of “speculative” trademark applications has ballooned as ICANN gets ready to expand the TLD universe

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