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Lending Club Buys Lending.club Domain Name
April 14, 2016 @ 6:26 AMBig company in marketplace/peer-to-peer lending business buys .club domain name. Marketplace lending company Lending Club, which has a market cap of nearly $3.0 billion, bought the domain name Lending.club for $25,000 from the registry last month. The domain name now forwards to Lending.club. The domain name was one of two the .Club registry sold for…
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Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Found On 23 Year Old Domain Mastercall.com
April 14, 2016 @ 6:00 AMMaster Call Connections, LLC (represented by Mikhail Lezhnev, New York, USA has been found guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking on the domain name Mastercall.com. The one member UDRP panel of David J. Steele found the domain name that was registered 23 years ago back on April 24th, 1995 which was 13 years before the…
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Tinder Files UDRP to Get The Domain TinderBuster.com; But is The Target Swipebuster.com?
April 14, 2016 @ 5:45 AMAn interesting UDRP was filed by the dating app Tinder against the domain name TinderBuster.com which is being forwarded to SwipeBuster.com SwiperBuster.com is not a parked page but a service which allows people to see whether someone is active on the app. People might want to search for their significant, boss, friend, family or even…
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Did The DotConnectAfrica Judge Make a Big Dumb Mistake?
April 13, 2016 @ 11:10 PMThe court ruling that granted DotConnectAfrica a preliminary injunction preventing ICANN delegating .africa seems to be based to a large extent on a huge error by the judge. In explaining why he was allowing DCA v ICANN to proceed, despite DCA’s signing away its right to sue when it filed its new gTLD application, California…
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Afilias Goes It Alone With .green As Dotgreen Bows Out
April 13, 2016 @ 9:54 AMDotGreen Community has withdrawn from its partnership with Afilias, leaving the registry operating the .green gTLD solo. The new management means that renewal prices for sunrise names will be slashed, and the size of the premium names list will be reduced. DotGreen was originally a .green gTLD applicant, but it withdrew its application before the…
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Namejet and Snapnames ComBINe Forces On Pending Delete Domain Names
April 11, 2016 @ 8:39 AMCompanies will collaborate to catch dropping domain names. Two expired domain name services are teaming up to compete better in the market for pending delete domain names. NameJet and SnapNames will pool their resources for capturing domain names which go through the complete expiration cycle. Backorders placed on either platform for pending delete names will…
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GoDaddy Refreshes With "Go You. GoDaddy"
April 11, 2016 @ 7:00 AMCats with Hats commercial helps launch marketing campaign and brand refresh. GoDaddy launched a new branding and marketing campaign in North America today, using the slogan “Go You. GoDaddy”. The campaign is marketed squarely at entrepreneurs (often times solepreneurs) and very small businesses of five or fewer employees. GoDaddy is running a new TV ad…
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Domain Name Meetup in Houston This Month
April 11, 2016 @ 6:18 AMBrand.bar is organizing a meetup April 28 outside of Houston. Angela St. Julien of Brand.bar is organizing DNHouston.com, a domain name meetup just outside of Houston. It will take place from 7-9:30 pm on April 28 at Crush Wine Lounge in The Woodlands, a community north of Houston. The primary sponsor is DomainAgents, with support…
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Masters Winner Uses .golf Domain Name
April 11, 2016 @ 5:31 AMIf you’re a fan of golf, you probably spent at least some time the last few days watching the 2016 Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia. If you watched the last few holes during the final round on Sunday, you saw Danny Willett win the Masters. Interestingly, Danny Willett uses a .Golf domain name for his professional website: DannyWillett.golf…
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Rightside Rejects Negari's $5M New gTLD Offer
April 8, 2016 @ 11:32 AMRightside has turned down Daniel Negari’s $5 million offer to acquire four of its new gTLDs, according to Negari. The XYZ.com CEO told DI via email tonight: I was looking forward to operating .Army, .Dance, .Dentist, and .Vet under the XYZ umbrella. I’m disappointed that Rightside didn’t entertain my offer, especially since I believe $5MM…
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