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Under Armour Buys MapMyFitness for $150 Million (+Hand Reg or Low Reg Domains)
November 14, 2013 @ 7:16 AMCompany didn’t spend a lot of money for its domain names. Athletic apparel company Under Armour has acquired Austin, Texas company MapMyFitness for $150 million. So what does this have to do with domain names? Well, it’s kind of interesting when you dig into it. The name MapMyFitness immediately set off alarm bells in my…
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Some New TLDs Will Run Early Access Programs for The Landrush Phase
November 14, 2013 @ 6:47 AMThe TLD launch phase typically known as Landrush might look very different with new top level domain names. Top level domain name launches over the past decade have followed a fairly similar path. First, there’s a sunrise period in which trademark owners can get first claim on domains. Then the domain proceeds to a landrush…
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Architelos Publishes The Second Installment of The Namesentry Namespace Quality Report
November 14, 2013 @ 6:29 AMArchitelos, Inc. announced today the publication of the second installment of the NameSentry Namespace Quality Report…
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1&1 Prices First Four Donuts gTLDs at $50-$80 a Year
November 14, 2013 @ 5:47 AMThe registrar 1&1 Internet has started selling pre-registrations in the first four Donuts new gTLDs for between $50 and $80 a year. Three gTLDs — .singles, .bike and .clothing — carry a $49.99 price tag at the company’s US site. In the UK, they’re priced at £29.99. A fourth gTLD, .holdings, costs $79.99/£49.99. Customers are…
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Will ICANN Be Forced to Reject Islamic gTLDs?
November 14, 2013 @ 4:39 AMThe Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has condemned applications for .islam and .halal gTLDs filed by a Turkish company, despite the applicant recently fighting off an OIC-backed objection. Claiming to represent the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, the OIC expressed in a November 4 letter to ICANN and its Governmental Advisory Committee: official opposition of the Member…
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RightOfTheDot to Manage .club's Premium Strategy
November 14, 2013 @ 3:32 AM.CLUB Domains has selected RightOfTheDot to manage its premium and founders program domains strategy. The company named “a.club, 888.club, chess.club, poker.club, insurance.club, golf.club country.club, car.club” as examples of “category killer” names that RightOfTheDot will try to find homes for. .CLUB signed its Registry Agreement with ICANN late last week and plans to go to Sunrise…
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ICANN urged to rule on .llp “breach”
November 13, 2013 @ 6:26 PMICANN is being urged to clarify whether an applicant for the .llp generic top-level domain (gTLD) would be breaking any rules by restricting the suffix to US customers.
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Tucows Shares Rocket to $3.00 On Earnings, New TLD Deal
November 13, 2013 @ 2:10 PMDeal with Donuts bolsters Q3 earnings. Shares of Tucows (NYSE AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) shot up 15% to $3.00 in after hours trading after the company announced third quarter earnings. The company got a big cash boost from its deal with Donuts to withdraw its applications for the .marketing and .media top level domain name applications. Although…
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1and1.com Tops 4 Million New gTLD Pre-reservations; Adding 1.5 Million in a Month
November 13, 2013 @ 12:34 PMThe domain name registrar, 1and1.com just topped 4 Million pre-reservations for new gTLD domain names. The registrar announced earlier this week that they were accepting pre-registrations for 4 new gTLD’s, .BIKE, .SINGLES, .HOLDINGS and .CLOTHING which are different that pre-reservations…
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ICANN Cautions About New TLD Pre-registrations
November 13, 2013 @ 10:52 AMICANN weighs in on pre-registrations for new top level domain names. With more and more domain name registrars offering some sort of pre-registration or pre-reservation service for new top level domain names, ICANN has published a word of caution. Cyrus Namazi, Vice President of DNS Industry Engagement for ICANN, published a blog post today titled…
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