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Demand Media touts new TLDs in latest earnings, domains increase to 14 million

Tuesday, May 7th, 2013

Demand Media puts new TLDs front and center in earnings release. Demand Media just released its first quarter earnings. It reported a slight profit of $0.7M before adjustments. But more interesting to the domain world is the focus the company’s earnings release places on new TLDs. The first paragraph proudly announces that the company has [...]

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The new TLD Trademark Clearinghouse is about to get a lot of attention

Monday, April 22nd, 2013

The TMCH phase of new TLDs is here. Which companies should participate, and how should they approach online brand protection in the coming years? Remember when .xxx came out and law firms across the country advised their clients to defensively register domains? Law firms are now sending notices to their clients about signing up for [...]

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With 3 days to go, TS.org leads 1-2 character .org auction at $2,475

Monday, March 25th, 2013

Go Daddy’s auction of one and two character .org domain names ends on Thursday, and plenty of the lower priced domains are seeing action. [Update: the auction has been extended until April 4.] As of the time of posting, TS.org has the highest bid at $2,475 with 5 bidders and 16 bids. Other two character [...]

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eHow-less on domain names

Tuesday, March 5th, 2013

Check out eHow for some hilariously bad articles about domain names. Last month I wrote about eHow’s bizarre how-to article about “How to Become a Domain Broker“. It turns out eHow has a “wealth” of information on domain names. Unfortunately, it wasn’t written by eNom, which is owned by the same company as eHow. Which [...]

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.Org Project 94 kicks off next month

Thursday, February 21st, 2013

Short .org domains go on auction block beginning next month. Next month .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) will begin auctioning off domain names as part of Project 94. Project 94 is the marketing name for releasing 94 one and two character .org domain names that have been reserved since the top level domain was [...]

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