Tag: markmonitor

Okay, bear with me and I want to make something very clear from the top…. this is my opinion. I did not speak directly with MarkMonitor or eBay/Paypal . The following is based on factual information that I can see on the public web and my opinion.

So, Paypal® announced “Passport” in June 2014 and yesterday 8/1/2014, registered two domains… PaypalPassport.co and Paypal-Passport.co with brand protection service MarkMonitor? So I was like “ok, brand protection registrations but I will dig … Read the rest

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I was following the “Amazon Phone” story for likely different reasons than most… you learn things by watching and researching! I was watching how they played the domain strategy for the new Fire Phone! Could the “name of the phone” been discovered earlier? Features? How are they “hiding” what they are doing? Services used?

The simple answer is yes, from leaks of information internally, manufactures etc. the news did come out early but many features were revealed when Amazon announced … Read the rest

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The following is a story of a domain name sale and the anatomy of how an $800 offer turned into a $20,000 sale. I assisted the seller in a couple ways, which will be explained below but there are several lessons to be learned here. Here we go with a Q&A style article and I will also add in some tid bits at the end as well. Enjoy, as this story has been in the works for sometime now and … Read the rest

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