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Donuts Demands $22.5 Million for .web Domain Name
August 8, 2016 @ 6:00 PMCompany amends lawsuit against ICANN and demands “its share” of the proceeds. New top level domain company Donuts is continuing its battle with ICANN over .web, filing an amended complaint (pdf) in federal district court in California. Donuts is complaining that the auction for .web, which closed for $135 million, should not have gone forward…
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Two Adult .live Domain Names Sell for $280,000
August 8, 2016 @ 8:32 AMRightside scores big bucks from two .live domain names. Rightside has sold two premium domain names under its .live top level domain name for a solid price. The company disclosed today that it sold Sex.live for $160,000 and Porn.live for $120,000. The buyer is using whois privacy and a white label service offered by Duodecad…
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Tejano Band Intocable Lets Domain Expire, Loses Cybersquatting Claim
August 8, 2016 @ 7:13 AMWhoever dropped the ball on renewing this domain really screwed up. Grammy-nominated Tejano/Norteño musical group Intocable has lost a cybersquatting complaint it filed to recover the domain name Intocable.com. It filed the case after it neglected to renew the domain. The music group filed a UDRP against the previous owner of the domain in 2015…
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Donuts Will Decrease Pricing for New .business and .company Domains
August 6, 2016 @ 7:39 AMEffective at 16:00 UTC on October 1, 2016, Donuts will adjust downward the standard wholesale price for new, non-premium registrations in .BUSINESS and .COMPANY. Donuts says that “This adjustment better aligns registration prices with emerging market pricing for fully generic TLDs and further facilitates their bundling into fixed price web presence and hosting packages.”
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TrumpPence.com for Sale Via Flippa
August 5, 2016 @ 12:46 PMThe owner of TrumpPence.com has listed the domain name for sale via Flippa. If you visit TrumpPence.com, you can see the clean landing page, which replaced the red, white, and blue landing page the domain owner had prior to the auction. Clicking the place bid button takes you to the Flippa auction page. At the time of publication, the high bid for the domain name is $200 with 10 bids place, although it looks like the auction was started very recently. There is a reserve price on the domain name, and I have no idea what that is. The auction concludes…
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One Panelist's Weird Standard for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
August 5, 2016 @ 6:16 AMPanelist Clive Elliot’s standard for RDNH would allow a lot of frivolous cases. A complainant in a UDRP cybersquatting dispute must prove three things: 1. The domain name is identical or confusingly similar to its trademark 2. The domain owner does not have rights or legitimate interests in the domain name 3. The domain owner…
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Patent Application: An Everlasting Domain Name Registration?
August 4, 2016 @ 8:54 AMPatent application describes a way to ensure enough income to renew a domain name long term. You can’t register or renew a gTLD with the registry for more than ten years in advance. Why this policy is in place, I don’t know. But some people would like to secure their domains for much longer than…
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Nestle Retains Iconic Chipwich.com Domain Name
August 4, 2016 @ 8:08 AMCompany that trademarks old names filed cybersquatting complaint against ChipWich.com. It’s not often that you see a big corporation on the receiving end of a UDRP. But that was the case with a just-decided case involving the domain name ChipWich.com, which is owned by Nestle. The history of ChipWich is quite interesting, too. It was…
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GoDaddy Posts 15.6% Revenue Growth
August 3, 2016 @ 12:25 PMCompany’s revenues, including for its domains segment, jump. GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) released earnings this afternoon after the close of the market. Q2 revenue was $456.2 million, up 15.6% year-over-year. The company closed the quarter with 14.3 million customers, up 7.9% year-over-year. Domain revenue was $229.8 million, up 10.2% year-over-year. It’s also a nice bump over Q1’s…
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GoDaddy Posts 15.6% Revenue Growth
August 3, 2016 @ 12:25 PMCompany’s revenues, including for its domains segment, jump. GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) released earnings this afternoon after the close of the market. Q2 revenue was $456.2 million, up 15.6% year-over-year. The company closed the quarter with 14.3 million customers, up 7.9% year-over-year. Domain revenue was $229.8 million, up 10.2% year-over-year. It’s also a nice bump over Q1’s…
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