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Publication.com deletion stopped by court order
Many domain investors were wondering yesterday why Publication.com was renewed during the deletion process. VeriSign (VRSN) apparently received a court order forbidding them to delete the domain. Here...
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And here is the court order that stopped the deletion of publication.com
In the case of the non-deletion of publication.com last Friday, DNN has now obtained a copy of the court order that prevented the deletion and you can see it here (PDF). Please note that this is the...
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Sedo to broker Internet Real Estate Group’s Chocolate.com Domain & Site
Sedo is brokering Internet Real Estate Group’s Chocolate.com and the web business. The site is a marketplace for fine chocolates that lists 250 vendors and their over 5,000 products. “The Chocolate.com...
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WebFest Global 2013 Domain Auction Results
We are were blogging the auction live today at Webfest Global 2013 in Santa Monica, CA. Please note that DNN does not guarantee the accuracy of these results. Out of 61 domains listed in the live...
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Court dismisses IOD’s .WEB lawsuit against ICANN
As tweeted by George Kirikos, the court granted ICANN’s motion to dismiss Image Online Design’s (IOD) .WEB lawsuit. ICANN posted the “Order Granting ICANN’s Motion to Dismiss Complaint” (PDF) today on...
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Sedo sells Apuestas.com (Bets in Spanish) for 165,000 Euro, $1.57m for the week
Over the past week, 800 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.57m. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales...
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Luxemburg based IRIS buys 25 .XXX Domains from ICM Registry for $180,000
ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) exclusively used for online adult entertainment, announces today that IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg, has secured an additional...
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RIP Igal Lichtman aka Mrs. Jello
According to Larry Fischer at DirectNavigation.com, a well known domain space veteran has passed away. Igal Lichtman was a very successful business man and domain name investor. Many will remember...
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Uniregistry prepares for new gTLDs, sets up new retail registrar: Uniregistrar
Frank Schilling’s new gTLD play Uniregistry becomes ICANN accredited and launches their retail registrar, Uniregistrar. Uniregistrar completed their accreditation earlier this month. The name and site...
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CSC buys Melbourne IT’s DBS for $152MM AUD
As reported by a number of sources, Melbourne IT (ASX:MLB) is selling it’s Digital Brand Management (DBS) to Corporation Services Company (CSC) for $152.5 million AUD. Melbourne IT had originally...
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Mali to give .ML domains away for free
While a large part of the domain industry gathers at the 46th ICANN meeting in Beijing this week, big news are being made in the country of Mali in Africa. As reported by The Guardian, .ML domains will...
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DotWeekly.com is Back
After a brief hiatus, Jamie Zoch at Dotweekly.com has returned to blogging. Jamie lost all of DotWeekly.com in a hosting move and decided to take some time off . Jamie always had good content and...
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Bill Sweetman to Leave Tucows, Starting Domain Name Consulting Firm
As announced on his personal Blog, Bill Sweetman is leaving his job Vice President, Domain Portfolio at Tucows as well as General Manager of YummyNames, on April 26, 2013. He joined Tucows in 2007 and...
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Sedo’s Greatdomains and Snapnames Dotster Auctions Ending today
Today two domain name auctions are ending – first the GreatDomains auction at Sedo then the Dotster Auction at SnapNames. Here are the domains and their current (at the time of this post) bids at Sedo...
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RV company buys RV.com for Undisclosed Sum
As announced in a press release today, Good Sam, a provider of products for the RV and outdoor recreation consumer purchased RV.com for an undisclosed sum. The domain name was owned by Dometic Group,...
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Hackers Break in to Prominent Domain Registrars, Moniker, Melbourne IT,...
A story on Hacker News from earlier Tuesday mentions that a group of hackers , Hack The Planet (HTP), was able to hack in to several domain name registrars late last year . The registrars were not...
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Moniker.com and Name.com Respond to Hack Claims
Wednesday DNN ran an article about a purported hack of several domain name registrars by HTP (Hack the Planet). While HTP claimed that the hosting company Linode.com was the intended target, the group...
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.IO Domains Offline?
As reported on twitter and Hacker News, .IO domains have stopped resolving and apparently new registrations are not going through either. .IO is the ccTLD for the British Indian Ocean territory. The...
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The Internet Architecture Board considers Dotless Domains Harmful
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB), which is a committee of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) issued a statement today that it considers Dotless domains, such as the proposed “SEARCH” by...
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Lean Domain Search acquired by Automattic (WordPress)
As reported by The Next Web, Automattic, the company that runs WordPress has acquired Lean Domain Search. The founder of the site, Matt Mazur, will continue to work for WordPress.com working on domain...
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