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Jason Davis has struck another large domain name deal by merging his RecruitingBlogs.com with Recruiter.com.

Although technically a merger, Recruiter.com’s domain name was its main contribution to the puzzle. Recruiter.com owner Ashley Saddul will join the merged entity as CTO and founder.

I first talked to Davis after he sold CEOjobs.com to Harry Joiner last year. I ran a profile about him the next day, and he talked about some of his domains including WirelessJobs.com and StartupJobs.com.

Davis and Joiner connected again later last year for an interesting domain transaction.

Among Recruiter.com’s plans are:

-Growing RecruitingBlogs.com
-Delivery of HR.net to be a major publication for HR executives (Davis owns HR.net)
-Delivery of RecruitFest, a recruiting conference in partnership with Monster Worldwide

A press release about the deal is here.

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Juniper Networks has lost a domain name arbitration case to get the domain juniper.tv. Despite having a market cap of nearly $15 billion, the arbitrator noted that it’s entirely plausible that the registrant of the domain name hadn’t heard of the company because it’s a business-to-business company.

Also working against Juniper Networks is that juniper is a generic term. The registrant had registered other seemingly generic .tv domain names such as atmosphere.tv, lightbulb.tv, and regions.tv. (Of course the latter one is also the name of a bank, and the parked page at the domain currently shows banking ads.) The arbitration panelist wrote:

Here, the parking website formerly associated with the Domain Name was not focused on the Complainant’s or competing products, although both could be found through the layers of advertising links. The fact that ad server software would logically associate the Complainant (as well as other commercial enterprises) with the word “juniper” does not prove that the Respondent likely had the Complainant’s mark in contemplation when he registered the Domain Name, which is what would be required to establish bad faith in the registration and use of the Domain Name.

It would be easier to infer such an illicit intention if the Complainant’s mark were not comprised of dictionary words

Incidentally, Juniper Networks does not own Juniper.com, and instead uses Juniper.net as its main web address.

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The .Co registry has send me a 4th round of results for the ongoing .Co domain name Land Rush Application auctions.

(you can see previous results here, here and here)

The results are this time around is another record; $514,000 in sales on just 90 domains.

WOW

AutoGlass.co lead the way selling for $53,000.

Closely behind are two great legal domains, DuiAttorney.co and DuiLawyer.co which went for $44, 500 and $43K respectively.

As a holder of a large legal portfolio I couldn’t be happier with the result (I did NOT buy either of these, nor was I in the auction)

Some interesting Geo domains sold.

We had a separate post on Boulder.co which sold for $17,000.  Colorado.co sold for $7,900; a huge ski area telluride.co sold for $5,100 (I like that one better than Colorado.co) and durango.co went for just $2,800.  The auction for Denver.co is just starting today.

Once again these are closed auctions which only include those who made a land rush application for each of the domain in auction.

Since they are in closed auctions, not opened to anyone but the applicants, it could be fair to assume that prices of these domains were in an open auction would be higher.

No doubt that .Co remains the biggest story in the domain industry this year.

Congrats to all buyer.

Here is the full list provided by the registry: