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Google Announces Hire; Not Using .google TLD
July 18, 2017 @ 6:15 AMGoogle recently launched Hire, which is, according to TechCrunch, “a new service that helps businesses more effectively manage their internal recruiting process.” After reading the headline on TechMeMe and clicking through to the TechCrunch article, I was very curious about the domain name that Google chose to use for this new service. As I read through the article to learn about Hire, I wondered if Google had acquired the Hire.com domain name…
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Amazon.com Gets Big Win in Domain Battle, May Yet Get .amazon Domain
July 18, 2017 @ 6:01 AMIndependent review process recommends ICANN reconsider .amazon top level domain name application. One of the biggest controversies in ICANN’s new top level domain name program has been the denial of Amazon.com’s applications for the .Amazon top level domain as well as the Chinese and Japanese equivalents. Amazon.com was one of the largest applicants for new…
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Donuts and Rightside Announce ICANN Consent for The Merger
July 17, 2017 @ 3:03 PMRightside Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:NAME) and Donuts Inc. today announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gave Rightside and Donuts notice on July 15, 2017 of ICANN’s express consent to the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement (the “Transactions”) among Donuts, DTS Sub Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Donuts, and Rightside, which Transactions include the previously announced tender offer by DTS Sub…
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ICANN Gives The Nod to Donuts-rightside Merger
July 17, 2017 @ 1:54 PMICANN has given its consent to the acquisition of Rightside by rival new gTLD registry Donuts, according to the companies. The nod means that one barrier to the $213 million deal has been lifted. Rightside, which is listed on Nasdaq, still needs the majority of its shareholders to agree to the deal and to satisfy…
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Junk Drop Cuts .XYZ in Half, .top Claims Volume Crown
July 17, 2017 @ 1:39 PMThe .xyz gTLD has seen its zone file halve in size, as millions of free and cheap domains were not renewed. The former volume leader among new gTLDs started this month with a tad over 5.2 million domains in its zone. But its July 17 zone contained 2.5 million, much less than half as many,…
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HugeDomains Gets Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Win
July 17, 2017 @ 8:59 AMComplainants first tried to buy domain before filing UDRP. FPT Industrie S.p.a. and REM Industrie S.r.l. have been found to have engaged in reverse domain name hijacking in a domain dispute they brought against domain investor HugeDomains. The companies, which use the domain fptfastmill.com, filed a UDRP with World Intellectual Property Organization for the domain…
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Google Moves The Domain Name at The Top of Search Results
July 17, 2017 @ 8:30 AMGoogle has moved the domain name at the top of search results. I think the change was made in the past 2-3 weeks. If the webpage in the results is not the homepage of the website then the breadcrumbs are also displayed. The website title is now below the domain name. At least that is…
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Apple Owned Lala.com Subject of UDRP
July 14, 2017 @ 12:40 PMIt’s not every day that a domain name owned by a major corporation becomes the subject of a UDRP filing. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, a UDRP was filed against LALA.com (Lala.com or LaLa.com). The UDRP is WIPO Case D2017-1351. When I did a Whois search on this seemingly generic (and certainly valuable) domain name, I did a doubletake…
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Is Houzz Going After Houz.com?
July 14, 2017 @ 10:22 AMA UDRP was filed against the HOUZ.com domain name at the National Arbitration Forum (NAF). The UDRP case # is 1739475, and it can be tracked via UDRPSearch.com. Because the UDRP was filed at NAF, the name of the complainant is not known at this time and will not be made public until the UDRP is decided. My guess is that the UDRP may have been filed by Houzz, the home improvement and home fashions website…
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Aron Meystedt Launches Napkin.com
July 14, 2017 @ 8:52 AMDomain investor switches brand from XF.com to Napkin.com. Aron Meystedt is a familiar name in the domain name business. He owns the oldest-registered .com domain name Symbolics.com and works with domain names at Heritage Auctions. Meystedt revealed today that he’s rebranding his investment business from XF.com to Napkin.com. Earlier this month I wrote about Napkin.com…
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