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Battle for .ECO is Not Over
October 17, 2011 @ 4:59 PMThe battle to run a new web domain – .eco – is not over yet. Recently I wrote about how Al Gore had dropped his bid to win control of the proposed new top level domain (TLD), leaving the door open for a rival Mikhail Gorbachev-backed consortium. But it’s since emerged that the company that Gore’s Climate Reality group was working with is still in the running. Despite losing the vice-president’s backing and switching off its campaigning website, Dot Eco LLC tells me it’s hopeful of winning a tussle with its main public rival, the Canadian company Big Room, which is supported by Gorbachev’s Green Cross.
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In Campaign 2012, Web Sites are The New Real Estate
October 17, 2011 @ 10:35 AMWeb addresses with pointed messages open a window onto the world of presidential politics. Along with knocking on doors and airing TV spots, campaigns try to blanket their messages in new ways — though it’s not always clear who’s buying the sites.
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Web.com to Cut More Network Solutions Employees
October 17, 2011 @ 3:47 AMCompany plans more pink slips at iconic domain registrar. Web.com plans to fire more Network Solutions employees after it acquires the company than it previously thought. The company, which also owns domain name registrar Register.com, originally thought it would save $30 million through efficiencies. Now it expects to save much more by …
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Sedo and Moniker Partnership Makes it Easier to Find the Right Domain Name for Your Business
October 16, 2011 @ 9:12 PMFinding the right domain name is extremely important for any marketer, entrepreneur, small business or individual, and is an exercise that has traditionally required searching for domains that are not “taken,” or finding a way to purchase the perfect name from its current owner. To address these challenges, Sedo, the online domain marketplace, and Moniker(R), a leading domain name registrar, auction house and brokerage, today announced an expansion of their partnership that will enable users to search for both new and previously registered domains in one convenient location.
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Afternic Domains to Be Listed On Go Daddy Registration Path
October 16, 2011 @ 5:34 AMFixed price Afternic listings to be featured on Go Daddy registration path. Customers who sell domain names through Afternic are about to get a lot more exposure. Afternic has struck a deal with Go Daddy to start showing its fixed price listings in the Go Daddy registration path. The listings will show up whenever someone searches for the…
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Domain Holdings Hires Ryan Colby As Svp of Product Management
October 15, 2011 @ 4:02 AMIn the past year or so, Ryan Colby sold a number of high value domain names as a domain broker at Sedo, including Jerusalem.com ($510k), GamesForGirls.com…
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Film on Apple’s Co-founder Will Be Titled Steve Jobs, According to Registrations
October 13, 2011 @ 11:41 PMSony Pictures recently acquired the rights to the biography on Apple’s late co-founder and chairman simply titled “Steve Jobs”, by Walter Isaacson. Originally called iSteve: the Book Of Jobs, Isaacson eventually persuaded his publisher Simon & Schuster to change the book title. It now appears the film will keep the same title of the non-fiction book when it’s released in theaters, according to eight recent domain name registrations by Sony Pictures made on October 11, 2011, that include domains like SteveJobs-film.com and SteveJobs-thefilm.com.
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Verisign Withdraws Request to Shut Down Sites
October 13, 2011 @ 7:38 AMVerisign has withdrawn its request seeking the power to shut down non-legitimate websites, two days after submitting it to ICANN.
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Rod Beckstrom: "More Domain Names Should Lower Prices, Increase Innovation"
October 13, 2011 @ 5:58 AMRod Beckstrom in an interview in India said this will lead to innovations that can’t even be imagined today. Advertisers and marketers are critical of the move as they say it could lead to a spurt in litigation over cyber squatting.
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.HIV Domain Name Initiative Turns to Crowd Funding
October 13, 2011 @ 4:32 AMA charity top level domain wants you to be charitable to get it off the ground. A group hoping to launch the .HIV top level domain name is turning to crowdfunding to raise the six figures required to apply for the domain. The idea is that companies can use a .hiv domain in addition to .com to generate money for HIV/AIDS research. The group’s …
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