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Google Ordered To Disclose 'Parked Domain' Metrics
April 7, 2011 @ 8:11 PMjudge presiding over a potential class-action lawsuit by search marketers against Google has ordered the company to divulge financial metrics associated with its “parked domain” and “errors” program, which place ads on sites with no editorial content.
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Live Domain Auction - Domain Madness 3 - Crushed By User Requests
April 7, 2011 @ 12:10 PMEverything was set perfectly. The video crew was lit and ready, the domain names lined up, the announcers seated and prepped, the auction start time only minutes away. Several attendees were mingling about, eating and getting chair massages in the lavish Crib Suite at The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas. It was all as planned… except for one thing. The online auction failed. The replacement auction is set for Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
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UK Cops Have “Suspended” More Than 3000 Infringing Sites
April 7, 2011 @ 6:23 AMMost were apparently accused of selling counterfeit products, but critics warn they could pressure Nominet, the .uk domain name registry, into expanding wh
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ICANN Revenues Grow
April 7, 2011 @ 4:45 AMNon-profit Internet governance group expands its revenue during 2010 as new TLDs set to debut.
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ICE Vows to Continue Domain Name Seizures
April 7, 2011 @ 3:22 AMICE Director John Morton says the DHS will continue to seize domain names suspected of engaging in copyright infringement. Morton – who recently testified before the U.S. House of Representatives – also insisted the seizures were perfectly congruent with “respecting free speech” and “providing due process.”
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Top 10 .mobi Registrars and What It Says About New Tlds
April 5, 2011 @ 4:26 AMHalf of all .mobi registrations are at one domain registrar. I was just looking through tallies of total domain names per registrar by TLD as of the end of 2010. This graph of .mobi registrations at the end of December is telling: There’s only one thing to notice on this graph: Go Daddy. The domain registrar manages 49% of the total …
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Are You Ready for The Net's Biggest Security Upgrade?
April 5, 2011 @ 2:42 AMOn March 31, DNSSEC was activated for the .com top-level domain. Websites and businesses should upgrade to make use of it.
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Company Hit With UDRP for Typo of Its Own Domain Name
April 4, 2011 @ 8:21 PMShoeBuy.com registered typo of its own domain name, only to have to defends itself for cybersquatting. Imagine you’re an online shoe retailer. To protect against cybersquatting you register over 100 common typos of your domain name. Then one day someone comes along and says that one of the typos of your domain name infringes on its …
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Google Canada Giving Out Websites and Domain Names
April 4, 2011 @ 6:23 AMGoogle Canada has announced its Canada Get Your Business Online initiative to help small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs) that have yet to establish a web presence. The plan will see Google give out websites and domain names to at least 100,000 Canadian SMBs. The initiative can be found at gybo.ca.
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Crisis Communications: How GoDaddy.com's Bob Parsons Can Recover from Bad Publicity
April 4, 2011 @ 5:07 AMName one CEO whose shoes you wouldn’t want to be in right now. I’m going to go out on a limb and say Bob Parsons, CEO and founder of GoDaddy.com. The world’s largest Web hosting provider and domain name registrar is under attack again. No, it’s not because of his edgy, provocative commercials. Parsons is now taking some hefty hits because of a video he posted on his blog during a recent trip to Zimbabwe.
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