 | D.TV & P.TV: How Did They Get Registered At Dynadot Last Night For Less Than $22
Lost in the .TV talk today are two of the best possible .tv domains, single letter .tv domains that appearently got registered yesterday.
Neither of these domains were on the list of premium .TV domains released by Enom last night.
The domains, D.tv and P.tv are showing as being registered yesterday.
The domains were registered by th...
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| $5.5 Million In .TV Domains Up For Grabs Today, Winners & Losers
As you know by now the .TV registry released over 22,000 previously reserved domains, last night just after midnight.
Here are some early observations:
Of the 16 highest price domains, 7 of them were trademarked terms:
pdf.tv 4630
mac.tv 4500
bbc.tv 4310
ibm.tv 3750
gmc.tv 3560
nfl.tv 3500
dlp.tv 3440
bbc.tv is going to be trouble.
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| Kentucky Supreme Court Reverses Appeals Court On The 141 Seized Domains
The Kentucky Supreme Court today reversed the Kentucky Appeals court’s decision that tossed out the seizure order issued on 141 gambling domain names.
The ruling by the Supreme Court today was really on a technical issue, that none of the parties that brought the suit against the Commonwealth had “standing”.
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| The Domains - Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 17:15 |
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| ScreenSavers.com Sells For $335K
The domain name ScreenSavers.com sold for $335,000 as part of the SnapNames.com March showcase auction although the sale occurred hours after the auction closed with no bidders.
John Mauriello of Moniker, in a comment to our post for the results of this auction, let us know that this domain sold just hours after the auction closed.
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| The Domains - Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 11:10 |
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| CADNA Heading To Congress To Get Laws Changed
From the Fairwinds blog today:
“”CADNA has refocused its efforts on working with members of Congress on these issues and working more diligently toward developing legislation to help resolve the problems. Long term solutions to the Internet’s systemic problems that are within ICANN’s control are unlikely to emerge from wi...
| The Domains - Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 10:29 |
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| No Sex.com Sale: I Hate To Tell You I Told You So, But I Did
As DomainNameWire.com reported tonight the auction of Sex.com has been postponed due to the filing of bankruptcy by the debtor Escom, LLC.
At the root of the issue is going to be the amount owned by the debtor vs. the current value of the asset.
It’s already public knowledge that payments to Domain Capital are at least
| The Domains - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 23:21 |
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| Is Verification Of Identity Going To Become A Requirement To Own A Domain?
A couple of interesting developments on the issue of whether registrars should be required to verify the identity of the registrant of every domain name.
First today the authority charged with running the .Ru ccTLD, the Coordination Center for TLD RU, announced that effective April 1, 2010 all registrants of .RU domain names, must f...
| The Domains - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 12:48 |
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| PlayFree.com Sells For $26K On SnapNames ShowCase Auction
The SnapNames.com showcase auction for March ended yesterday with a total of 30 domains selling for a total of $41,895
The highest sale was on the domain PlayFree.com which sold for a whopping $26,300.
I sure didn’t see that one coming, the domain does have an Alexa ranking of $15M and gets between 100 and 1,000 visitors
| The Domains - Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 10:20 |
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| Google Denied Trademark On “Nexus One”
The United States Trademark office denied Google’s application to trademark the name of their new phone ‘Nexus One“.
Integra, a provider of voice and data services was granted a trademark on the term Nexus in 2008.
The Trademark Office said that if it issued a trademark to Google it would confusion as because both companies
| The Domains - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 23:27 |
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| Quick Poll: Is Canon Going For Its Own gTLD Going To Be The Exception or The Rule?
Now that Canon announced it will seek its own extension, the question becomes is Canon just the first of many Fortune 500 companies that will apply for its own gTLD or just one of the few that will apply?
You can vote on the poll on the right and of course leave any comments below.
| The Domains - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 15:27 |
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| HitWise: Facebook Takes #1 Spot As Most Visited Site On The Net, Passing Google
According to the market research firm Hitwise, Facebook.com has overtaken Google to become the most popular website in the United States for the first time.
For the week ending March 13, Facebook had a 7.07% market share, beating Google’s 7.03% market share.
“The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last...
| The Domains - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 13:1 |
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| Head Of Sales Of Yahoo Quits To Join Demand Media
According to AllThingsDigital, Yahoo’s Senior Vice President of U.S. Revenue and Market Development, is planning on leaving Yahoo for a new gig at Demand Media.
Joanne Bradford will according to report, leave Yahoo just after 18 months on the job and will join Demand Media as Chief Revenue Officer.
In addition to serving as Yah...
| The Domains - Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 1:5 |
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| Geraldo.com Sells On NameJet.com For $15K, What Would You Do With It?
The domain name Geraldo.com sold today on NameJet.com for $14,888.
The domain according to Alexa and Compete.com has traffic
Alexa ranks it between 1.5M & 2M and Compete says its gets around 2K visitors a month.
However a look at Alexa reveals that 48% of the people visiting the site are looking for info on Geraldo Rivera, and
| The Domains - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 21:59 |
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| Is Internet Access a Fundamental Right? BBC: 87% Of Users Say Yes
According to a new poll released by the BBC, 80% of 87% of internet users feel internet access should be the “fundamental right of all people”, like water and air.
The survey was of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries.
According to the BBC, The UN is pushing for universal net access.
“The right to
| The Domains - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 21:29 |
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| Australian Trademark Office: Apple Does Not Own The Letter “i”
In a case decided last week by the Australian trademark office, Apple, Inc objected to the trademark application filed by another company on the term, DOPi (iPod spelled backwards with emphasis on the “i”).
Apple argued that the application of the trademark should be rejected as an infringement on its trademark because th...
| The Domains - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 12:24 |
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| MediaPost.com Covers Root Orange
Mediapost.com just published a story on one of the new companies in our space, Root Orange.
The story give you some back ground on how it got started and its location splitting technology and the roll out of attorney.com.
Basically as we discussed a couple of weeks ago the technology allows for many different, in the case
| The Domains - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 10:46 |
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| Our Picks For The SnapNames Monthly Showcase Auction Closing Tuesday
The Snapnames Monthly Showcase auction for March, closes tomorrow on Tuesday March 16th at 3:15pm EST according to Snapnames.com normally closing rules.
We went through the hundreds of domain in this auction and came up to what we think are the most interest domains in the auction:
ScreenSavers.com
$250,001 – $500,000
Hu...
| The Domains - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 8:45 |
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| Wired.com Covers The 25th Birthday of Domain Names & The Registration of The 1st Symbolics.com
Wired.com just published a story on the 25th Anniversary of the first domain registration, Symbolics.com.
The article highlights the history of the first domain registered including up to its recent acquisition by Aron Meystedt, of XF.com last August and well as some other important dates in domain name registration history
An intere...
| The Domains - Monday, March 15, 2010 - 1:39 |
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