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JustDropped.com Acquired by Epik.com

Posted on October 19th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Epik have announced on their blog that they have completed the purchase of JustDropped.com – the expired domain search and drop catching service. As DomainNameWire reports, this is the second recent domain services related purchase by Epik, as they recently also acquired DNKO.com – a domain auction platform. About the JustDropped.com purchase, Epik owner Rob [...]

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AEIOU.com Is No More

Posted on October 19th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

Rick Latona has announced his recently launched domain development platform aeiou.com is closing down. He notes on his blog that there is “no money in web design” and there are “bigger fish to fry”. The reality is there is no money in web design. It’s hard. The customers are hard to please. The margins are [...]

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wwwtwitter.com, wwwbing.com, wwwapple.com and Others

Posted on October 18th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

Recent TechCrunch articles have brought attention to some interesting big company domain typos that are being squatted by opportunists. wwwtwitter.com and wwwbing.com in particular were interesting because while wwwtwitter.com strangely points to techcrunch.com (owner is hidden behind a Godaddy privacy), wwwbing.com is currently sporting a website with the picture of a troll and text explaining [...]

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Tisch.de Sells at Sedo for 20,000 Euro

Posted on October 18th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | No Comments »

Sedo.com have listed Tisch.de in their recently sold list for a reported fee of 20,000 Euro. Tisch means “table” in German so perhaps a furniture selling company purchased the domain name?

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Yahoo Wins Yahoo.tel

Posted on October 18th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 3 Comments »

Yahoo Inc have won the domain name Yahoo.tel via a National Arbitration Forum decision. The domain name was previously owned by David Blanco from Oviedo, Kingdom of Spain. Yahoo submitted their complaint on August 20, 2009, and following a non response from Mr Blanco (the respondent), the panel ruled in favour of Yahoo Inc for [...]

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DENIC To Relax .DE Registration Rules Following VW Court Ruling

Posted on October 18th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 1 Comment »

DENIC, the registry behind Germany’s .DE domain names, have announced that they will be relaxing their .DE domain registration rules from 23 October 2009. The news comes after a court in Frankfurt ruled in favour of Volkswagen in 2008 allowing Volkswagen to register the name VW.de. Under previous DENIC rules, customers were not allowed to [...]

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BroadwayShows.com Overpriced – Food for Thought Or Something Else?

Posted on October 16th, 2009 by admin in Buying & Selling | No Comments »

Rick Latona‘s upcoming domain auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York features a list of category killer domain names including BroadwayShows.com – a name that’s stirred up a discussion amongst domainers and non-domainers alike today. Broadway shows’ blog nytix.com brought the whole thing to a head when it reported that the domain name BroadwayShows.com is up for [...]

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WorldDomainCup.com – An Interesting Idea

Posted on October 15th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

Interlink – an ISP hailing from Japan – have launched an interesting website dubbed “the World Domain Cup” to coincide with the upcoming new gTld round that is to launch early 2010. The World Domain Cup pits domainers from across the world in a contest of wits – domainers (or anyone for that matter) are [...]

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Coming Soon DomainAdvertising.com – A New Player On The Domain Monetization Scene

Posted on October 14th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | No Comments »

DomainAdvertising.com – an “advertiser aligned domain monetization program for publishers” – is to be unveiled on October 26, 2009 at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York event. The much awaited and talked about service promises to bring a unique offering to both advertisers and publishers purely utilizing the power of domain names. DomainAdvertising.com is backed by the [...]

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Rick Latona Announces Domain List For TRAFFIC New York Auction

Posted on October 14th, 2009 by admin in Domain News | 2 Comments »

Rick Latona Auctions have announced the list of domain names they are going to auction off at the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York Auction to be held October 26 – 29, 2009. T.R.A.F.F.I.C New York will also host a Moniker live auction at the event. Incidentally, this is the last T.R.A.F.F.I.C event to feature a Moniker [...]

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