Domain Guardians sees increased demand for domain brokerage.
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SXSW just a few weeks away
February 20, 2012 By
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
February 19, 2012 By
Affairs dating site wants control of AshleyMadison.mobi.
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An outrageous UDRP case
February 17, 2012 By
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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.Kyoto top level domain in the works
February 7, 2012 By
.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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Occupy.com domain name sells
February 3, 2012 By
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
February 2, 2012 By
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
January 27, 2012 By
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
January 27, 2012 By
Casa.com is next online store from Amazon.com’s Quidsi unit.
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VeriSign plans to apply for about 12 new top level domain names
January 27, 2012 By
Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com. VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Naming Services, said on VeriSign’s investor conference call this evening. Most of these will be transliterations of .com.
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2011 was record breaking year for .com and .net domain registrations
January 27, 2012 By
Over 32 million new domain registrations in .com and .net last year. 2011 set a record for new .com/.net domain registrations with over 32 million registration, VeriSign announced on its investor conference call this afternoon: In the fourth quarter, we added 1.9 million net names to the domain name base, and we processed 7.9 million new registrations, which is about a 4% increase over the same period a year ago.
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VeriSign likely to announce 100M .com milestone today
January 26, 2012 By
DomainTools claims milestone reached; VeriSign earnings call on tap for today. At the end of October VeriSign was very, very close to hitting the 100 million .com domain name milestone. Now, according to DomainTools , there are officially 100 million .com domain names registered, not including those going through the redemption process or pending delete
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WIPO gives Twitter popular typo Twittr.com
January 26, 2012 By
Twitter gets typo of its Twitter.com domain name. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded Twitter the domain name Twittr.com in a uniform domain name dispute resolution policy (UDRP) proceeding. Twittr.com was originally registered before Twitter’s “first use in commerce” date on its trademark for “Twitter”.
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QE.com hits reserve and other Moniker auction insights
January 24, 2012 By
Three domains have already hit reserve ahead of auction, and CA lists five domains for sale.
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UK-based Transpact offers domain escrow services
January 24, 2012 By
Another option for domain name escrow services.
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HostExploit says Oversee.net is improving, making a case study
January 24, 2012 By
HostExploit applauds Oversee.net for fixing problems that landed it at top spot at recent “Bad Hosts” list.
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Windows Phone site forced to give domain to Salesforce.com
January 13, 2012 By
Salesforce.com awarded hyphenated version of popular AppExchange.com web site. A service that helps app creators submit their wares to the Windows Phone marketplace must give its domain name to Salesforce.com, an arbitration panel has ruled
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