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Top Level Domain Holdings Stock Up 25% On .london News, Up 3x Since Last Month
November 15, 2013 @ 9:01 AMTLDH on fire as new top level domain names get closer to reality. Shares in Top Level Domain Holdings skyrocketed 25% today after the company announced ICANN had signed the contract for the .london top level domain name. TLDH is the backend registry for .london. Shares in TLDH were up 3.62 pence to 17.88 pence…
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Ken Hansen Leaves Neustar to Launch Co.com Domain Name Registry
November 15, 2013 @ 7:59 AMHansen will join team offering third level domain registrations under co.com. Three well known people in the domain name industry have teamed up to offer domain name registrations under co.com, e.g. name.co.com. Ken Hansen has resigned his position at Neustar to join the new venture as CEO. Paul Goldstone (who owned the second level domain…
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.London All Over The News Today As Its Signs Contract With ICANN
November 15, 2013 @ 6:20 AMThe new gTLD .London is all over news today as the Board of Top Level Domain Holdings (AIM: TLDH) reported that its client, Dot London Domains Ltd (“Dot London”), has signed the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) allowing the new top level domain, .LONDON, to proceed to the final round of pre-delegation testing before being introduced into the Internet’s root zone in 2014…
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.kiwi Launches Founders Program
November 14, 2013 @ 2:26 PMThe .Kiwi registry has formally launched a Founders Program for the .Kiwi new gTLD and has broken it down between several different levels of involvement…
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JustCloud.com Buys Mega.co for $60,000
November 14, 2013 @ 2:12 PMJustCloud.com a company which allows you to store all you “information in the cloud” just bought the domain name Mega.co for $60,000…
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Verisign Publishes 3rd Part of Four Part Series On Name Collisions
November 14, 2013 @ 10:25 AMVerisign publishes the 3rd part of a new 4 part series on name collisions last night. “Blocking a second level domain (SLD) simply on the basis that it was queried for in a past sample set runs a significant risk of false positives. SLDs that could have been delegated safely may be excluded on quantitative evidence alone, limiting the value of the new gTLD until the status of the SLD can be proven otherwise.”…
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Frank Schilling's First New Top Level Domain Name is Live
November 14, 2013 @ 9:34 AMYou can now visit a .tattoo domain name. Frank Schilling’s .tattoo is alive with nic.tattoo. Yes, that’s a domain name. And it’s now on the internet. It’s the first second level domain of Schilling’s TLD bids that you can actually visit from your browser. Included on the site, which is a pitch “artists, studios, and…
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.sexy and 10 More gTLDs Now in The Root
November 14, 2013 @ 8:26 AMThe third batch of new gTLDs have gone live. Uniregistry’s .sexy and .tattoo are currently in the DNS root zone, the first two of its portfolio to become active. The TLDs .bike, .construction, .contractors, .estate, .gallery, .graphics, .land, .plumbing, and .technology from Donuts have also gone live today. Donuts already had 10 new gTLDs in…
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J.P. Morgan Registers Domain Names for Mortgage Backed Securities Settlement
November 14, 2013 @ 8:20 AMBank registers domain names for a settlement with the U.S. government over mortgage backed securities. It’s no secret that J.P. Morgan is on the verge of a multi-billion dollar settlement with the U.S. government over mortgage backed securities. That probably explains why the bank just registered a handful of domain names related to the settlement:…
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Timbermate Products Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
November 14, 2013 @ 7:37 AMCompany never alleged domain was registered in bad faith…just use in bad faith. Timbermate Products Pty Ltd of Nunawading, Australia, has been found guilty of reverse domain name hijacking by a World Intellectual Property Organization panel. The company, which uses the domain name timbermate.com.au, filed a UDRP against the domain name timbermate.com. The owner of…
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