SEO, Buying, Selling and Developing Domains
You probably heard about the sale of Marijuana.com (including both the domain name & the popular forum built on it) last November in a deal reportedly worth $4.2 million.
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Multi-Million $ Marijuana.com Sale Made Possible By Little-Known Service at Escrow.com
After cashing out to Local.com, Octane360 founders return to agency roots. The founders of geo domain monetization platform Octane360 have returned to their agency roots with a new social media agency Next Step Social
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Octane360 founders start social media agency
Virgin Group founder challenges registration of .xxx domain name. When ICM Registry released .xxx domain names to the public last month, Richard Branson must have been busy yachting. Australian Sean Truman beat him to the domain name, registering RichardBranson.xxx on December 10
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Richard Branson wants his .XXX
From this Thursday (midnight UTC) companies can apply to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the domain name suffix of their choosing — from dot brand (.brand) or dot product (.camera, for example) through to generic terms like .food, .hotel or .pugs. They have until April 12 to get their applications, along with the $185,000 fee, to ICANN
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Companies Prepare for Land Grab of New ‘Generic’ Top-Level Domains
eNom founder’s company will apply for ten top level domains. eNom founder Paul Stahura plans to apply for ten new top level domain names through his new company Donuts Inc., Bloomberg reports . Donuts raised $1 million in outside capital beginning in April of 2011
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Paul Stahura’s Donuts Inc to apply for 10 TLDs
Receiver wants ICANN to reverse domain transfers.
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Receiver asks for typo domains to be confiscated from Apple and others
Blackstone group registers “sucks” domains for its name and its chairman. Private equity giant Blackstone Group thinks it sucks. That’s the only plausible explanation for seven recent domain name registrations by the company.
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Blackstone Group says it “sucks”
In the future brand owners may need to change their domain name strategy. With potentially hundreds of new top level domain names heading to the internet as early as 2013, brand owners are crying foul
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Perhaps trademark holders should no longer defensively register domains
Republicans register domains after baloney remark. Yesterday during the 435th (sorry, I’ve lost count) Republican presidential debate New Gingrich told frontrunner Mitt Romney to drop the “pious baloney”
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Republicans register StopRomneyPiousBaloney.com after Gingrich tells Romney to stop “pious baloney”
Kupietzky joins email technology firm ActivePath. Former Oversee.net President and CEO Jeff Kupietzky has been appointed CEO of email technology and marketing company ActivePath. ActivePath’s patent-pending ActiveMail allows companies to use embed rich content and personalized, live offers within email messages to their customers that enable one-click purchases and actions from the inbox, without clicking on a link or opening a new browser
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Jeff Kupietzky appointed CEO of ActivePath
Energy company complains to WIPO about Valero.xxx. San Antonio, TX based energy giant Valero Energy is the third company to ask an arbitration panel to give it a .xxx domain name. The company filed a complaint last week with World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO), seeking control of Valero.xxx
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Valero is third company to belatedly request .xxx domain name
Domain name used by “copyright troll” auctioned off for $3,300.
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Righthaven.com sells for $3,300
Marc Ostrofsky, the domain industry pioneer known for the sale of Business.com in a deal valued at $7.5 million and for writing the book, Get Rich Click!, is in the news again. Publishing giant Simon & Schuster has purchased the rights to his New York Times bestseller and will distribute it globally.
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Domain Pioneer, Author & Evangelist Marc Ostrofsky Goes Global With New Book Deal
ACPA can protect your name even if you aren’t a celebrity.
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Court grants preliminary injuction under ACPA for personal name
Salesforce.com loses dispute over Forces.com domain name at National Arbitration Forum. Salesforce.com has lost an attempt to get the domain name Forces.com, which it said was similar to its Force.com domain name. The registrant’s predecessor had registered the domain name before Salesforce.com started using the Force.com domain name.
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Salesforce.com can’t force owner of Forces.com to hand over domain
THE NUMBER of registered Irish domains rose by 13 per cent to more than 173,000 last year, figures from the IE Domain Registry show.
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Rise in number of firms going online
Video game maker unsuccessful in challenge to SSX.com domain name.
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EA loses domain dispute for SSX.com for upcoming SSX launch
Mystery domain buyer is creator of Lotus Notes.
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Ray Ozzie is $33,000 Cocomo.com buyer
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