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News Aggregator Domaining.com Organizes Domain Sale to Pay Back Bloggers

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:28:51 +0000

A few top domain blogs and news sites do well financially through advertiser support, but it is a labor or love for the majority who don’t make a lot of money from their efforts.

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News Aggregator Domaining.com Organizes Domain Sale to Pay Back Bloggers

U Of I Threatens Legal Action For Those Who Buy .xxx Domains

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:47:25 +0000

The University of Illinois won’t be buying .xxx domains, is threatening legal action against anyone who might be inclined to start a porn site that besmirches its good name.

We Have White Christmases Too: Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah From Florida!

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:11:37 +0000

We had a wonderful Christmas in Florida Sunday. It was 82 degrees & sunny so snow was a little scarce but we still have White Christmases – it’s just that the white stuff here is sand instead of snow! Our Christmas wish is that you & your families are having an equally joyous holiday season and that 2012 will be your best year ever.

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Two Sales That Rank Among the Year’s 20 Biggest Top This Week’s Domain Sales Chart

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:26:01 +0000

Two high end domain sales, one that soared all the way into the top ten for 2011 and another that reached the year’s top 20, lead DN Journal’s latest weekly domain sales chart. There is an interesting back story to the previously unreported $280,0000 sale of the domain in the #2 slot that we will tell you about.

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Two Sales That Rank Among the Year’s 20 Biggest Top This Week’s Domain Sales Chart

ICANN’s plan for needy new gTLD applicants is really, really bad

DomainNameWire — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:29:06 +0000

Want to watch another aspect of the new TLD process explode? I just finished reviewing ICANN’s draft plan to assist “needy” applicants wishing to apply for a new top level domain name. I know the title to this post is lame, but I really can’t come up with anything better to describe this new program. It’s really, really bad.

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CU grabs .xxx domains, but not before brothel owner buys Colorado.xxx

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:46:20 +0000

The Colorado.xxx web address, purchased by a Las Vegas brothel owner before CU could grab it, redirects to this nudist website. (PAUL AIKEN)

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CU grabs .xxx domains, but not before brothel owner buys Colorado.xxx

United Domains Announces Temporary Price Cut For .XXX Domains

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:49:00 +0000

With the price of .XXX domains running into the hundreds of dollars for some registrars, United Domains is offering its customers a reduced price for a one-year registration.

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800-Pound Gorilla Go Daddy Gains Even More Weight as Huge Private Equity Investment Closes

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:48:06 +0000

Last summer #1 registrar Go Daddy announced that the company had entered into an agreement with 3 private equity firms to make a strategic investment n the company.

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800-Pound Gorilla Go Daddy Gains Even More Weight as Huge Private Equity Investment Closes

.FR Registrations Heading Up as France Opens Its ccTLD to Most Europeans & the UK

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:13:03 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of ccTLDs that represent the world’s major economies, including France’s .fr. I’ve reported a lot of good .fr sales through the years but due to strict Nexus rules could never register .fr domains.

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Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:12:13 +0000

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Hot New Nashville Singer/Songwriter Bree Brings David Castello Back to the Future

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:25:33 +0000

The Castello Brothers, who have both been professional musicians, have become rock stars in the domain business. Now, thanks to Bree, an exciting new singer/songwriter that David Castello is managing and playing drums behind, David could be on the verge of becoming a rock star in the music business too.

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Macy’s sues company trying to restore its legacy brands

DomainNameWire — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:27:21 +0000

Company tries to revive old brands such as Bullock’s and The Broadway. File this one under “did you think to ask a lawyer about this first?” Department store company Macy’s has filed a federal lawsuit ( pdf ) against a company that’s trying to bring back Macy’s legacy brands. The company, Strategic Marks, LLC, has filed trademark applications for some of Macy’s brands such as May Company and Robinson’s, and set up shop on the web at RetroDepartmentStores.com . According to the web site, the company plan to “bring back nine of the great department stores of the 20th century: Joseph Magnin, Bullock’s, May, Robinson’s May, Jordan Marsh, Filene’s, The Broadway, The Bon Marche, and Abraham & Strauss, and re-build and restore these well-loved brands.” It’s starting with an online store — complete with the actual logos these stores used in the past — and hopes to open physical stores as well.

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Top 20 web sites now safe in .xxx

DomainNameWire — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:11:57 +0000

Top 20 web sites won’t be “sexsquatted”.

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Better Business Bureau thinks it should have first dibs on BBB.xxx

DomainNameWire — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:39:41 +0000

Group’s IP attorney miffed that it couldn’t get bbb.xxx under ICM Registry sunrise process. In planned testimony for today’s hearing about new TLDs in the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on new TLDs, Council of Better Business Bureaus IP attorney Anjali Hansen said her group should have had first dibs on the domain name BBB: Even more astounding was the fact that ICM Registry refused to accept CBBB’s registration of its most famous trademark “BBB” because ICM was allowed to reserve bbb.xxx as a premium name that it can later auction off to the highest bidder. We could not even defensively purchase our own trademark. Hmm. I’m sure the American Automobile Association would love first dibs on aaa.xxx as well.

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Walden messes up Apple domain example in ICANN hearing

DomainNameWire — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:19:45 +0000

Chairman of committee calls out iPad.com as an example of someone buying a domain just to sell it to a big brand. Want to know how to lose credibility in a hurry?

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