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The Domain Game - wealth.com auctions

The market value of “wealth” will be measured Thursday when a marketing firm auctions the Internet domain name, “Wealth.com.”
TheInternetCompany Inc. of Princeton, N.J., which has held the domain name as an unused “asset” since 1996, hopes to tap the financial services industry for a quick cash infusion.
The company is mum about what it originally paid [...]

La Roche wins acutane.com

Hoffmann-La Roche,one of the leading manufacturers of pharmaceutical and diagnostic products in the world,has won the domain name acutane.com at arbitration.
The disputed domain name was registered May 2002 by Whois Protection of Georgetown.
Although the complainant is the owner of the trademark “accutane”,on the acutane.com website there are a number of links to several commercial websites [...]

Three of the Year’s Four Biggest ccTLD domain Sales

This Week Domain Sales News
Leading the charge is a new 2009 country code king of the hill, Spel.se (”games” in Swedish), a name that changed hands for a whopping €190,000 ($266,000) at Sedo.com. This is probably the biggest sale ever publicly reported for a  .se domain (Sweden’s country code).
If Sweden had not claimed [...]

Cameron Diaz and Jim Carrey Win Domain Names

As a follow up to Domain Name Wire’s earlier stories, both Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz have won their respective domain names through arbitration proceedings.
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey filed his case in April with World Intellectual Property Organization to get the domain name JimCarrey.com. According to Compete.com, JimCarrey.com gets a few hundred unique visitors [...]


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