Actress Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Ghostbusters, Working Girl) has filed for arbitration to obtain the domain name SigourneyWeaver.com. The case will be heard by an arbitration panel from the National Arbitration Forum under the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The domain name was registered back in 1999 but then changed hands in 2005. The ‘whois’ record [...]

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Sedo is having another good month. The domain parking and selling company has just sold the domain names Results.com for $500,000 and BabyShop.com for $85,000. Results.com currently resolves to a business coaching company, however that site has been on the domain since last December. The e-mail address is that of Sedo but the DNS and [...]

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Actress Elizabeth Taylor has filed a domain dispute with National Arbitration Forum to get the ElizabethTaylor.com domain name back. Surprisingly, this is not the first time Ms. Taylor has tried to get the domain name. Back in June of ’05 she filed for arbitration to get the domain name.  She lost. The respondent’s argument was [...]

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When Dell decided to launch its brand new Adamo laptop, there was one minor detail the company had over looked.  It didn’t own the Adamo.com domain name. Tucows owned it as part of its Yummy Names collection. Dell has come around now and just bought the name, which now seems to resolve to Dell’s official [...]

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L.A. Insurance has bought the domain LAInsurance.com from NameMedia for $100,000. As it turns out, L.A. Insurance is not based in Los Angeles.  The company has 150 locations and currently uses the domain name LAInsuranceAgency.com. With 150 locations, the actual price equals about $133 per store for the next five years.  The company is actually [...]

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Image via Wikipedia We all have those moments when we just can’t find the right domain name.  Then, you finally think of one – only to find out that it’s already taken. Here are two tools that we love to use to come up with a great domain name: 1) Bust A Name Bust A [...]

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