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Geo Domain Gstaad.com Saved in UDRP
June 1, 2017 @ 5:48 AMTourism group let the domain name expire ten years ago and is trying to get it back. The geographic domain name Gstaad.com has been successfully defended in one of the most detailed UDRP decisions I’ve ever read. The good news for the domain owner is that he won this case. The bad news is that…
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.XYZ Sets Price for Numeric Domains at $0.65
June 1, 2017 @ 4:00 AMXYZ.com has announced that it will charge just $0.65 wholesale for over a billion numeric domain names in .xyz. The revelation came as part of a confusing launch of what the registry calls its “1.111B Class” domains. That’s because the pricing affects all 1.111 billion numerical domains of six, seven, eight and nine digits in…
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RDNH Finding in Novelist.com UDRP Decision
June 1, 2017 @ 3:32 AMThe Novelist.com UDRP was decided and published on the National Arbitration Forum (NAF) website. The decision went in favor of the owner of the domain name, WebMagic. The panel also concluded that this was a case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking (RDNH). Domain attorney John Berryhill represented the domain owner in this UDRP…
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Updated: Sixteen-year-old Emoji .com Sells for €3,400
June 1, 2017 @ 12:42 AMAn emoji domain name believed to be in the first three such domains ever registered has been sold. The domain ☮.com (xn--v4h.com) seems to to have been sold to an end-user buyer, via Sedo, for €3,400 ($3,816). The sale appears to have been a quick flip by an Austrian investor. ☮ is of course better…
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Uniregisty Sends Confusing .XYZ Promo; Frank Sends a Follow Up
May 31, 2017 @ 2:09 PMSomething about numeric .xyz domains being like bitcoin. And then… I was left scratching my head today when Uniregistry sent out a promo for .XYZ domain names. It starts with: If someone told you in 2010 to buy $100 worth of Bitcoin, would you have done it? Today, I am happy to share one of…
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Why UDRPsearch is Forwarding to a Page About a Lawsuit
May 31, 2017 @ 10:34 AMThe domain name hasn’t been seized or transferred. Sometime today UDRPSearch.com started forwarding to ravi.lahoti.com, a page that includes information about a lawsuit against Ravi Lahoti of California. The lawsuit makes a number of allegations against Ravi Lahoti and domain names in his possession. The suit alleges conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of bailment…
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Afternic Extends Reach in China and Canada
May 31, 2017 @ 10:19 AMCompany signs four more partners for its domain name sales network. GoDaddy’s Afternic has signed deals with four more companies to expand its sales distribution network. Three of the companies — EJEE, eName, and Xiamen Nawang — will give domain names on the Afternic platform more exposure in China. All of these companies will syndicate…
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Comparing Bitcoin With .XYZ Domains! Doesn't Anyone Care About Credibility Anymore?
May 31, 2017 @ 9:10 AMI received one of the most ridiculous emails today from Frank Schilling, Founder and CEO of Uniregistry. The email is informing all Uniregistry customers of this new great “opportunity”. Uniregistry offers 1.111 billion (yes billion!) .xyz domains for $0.99 per year to register, renew, and transfer. These domains, coined the 1.111B Class, include all 6-digit,…
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DNSeattle Attracts Large Crowd in Domain Name Hotbed
May 30, 2017 @ 11:27 AMOver 100 people attended event in downtown Seattle. Last week I traveled to Seattle for the DNSeattle meetup. This year’s event was hosted at Amazon.com’s “Living Room”, which is a great facility for a meetup. Amazon.com is one of the larger players in the new top level domain name business (when it comes to the…
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$5 Billion E-commerce Site to Dump .com for Dot-brand
May 30, 2017 @ 5:08 AMThe online ticketing arm of the French national railway operator SNCF has revealed plans to migrate away from .com to its dot-brand gTLD, .sncf. The web site voyages-sncf.com will become oui.sncf in November, the company has confirmed following press reports at the weekend. The existing site, despite the cumbersome domain, processed €4.3 billion ($4.8 billion)…
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