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Mintues After Explosion Domains Registered: Bostonexplosion.com, Bostonbombing.com
April 15, 2013 @ 5:04 AMJust minutes after the first report of 2 explosions at the Boston Marathon today, several domain names were already registered and some are already parked. While many of the domains were registered under privacy some of the registrants were brave enough (orstupid enough) to put their name as the registrant of these domains.
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Regions Bank Fails to Renew Regions.com Taking It Offline
April 15, 2013 @ 1:08 AMRegions Bank (RF) failed to timely renew its domain name Regions.com which expired on April 13th sending scustomers of the bank to a Network Solutions landing page.
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses UDRP On UniversalAssistance.com
April 15, 2013 @ 12:06 AMUniversal Assistance S.A. of Buenos Aires, Argentina, just won a UDRP against Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings, LLC on the domain name UniversalAssistance.com
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Final New TLD Objection Tally: Donuts 55, Amazon 24, Google 22
April 14, 2013 @ 11:50 PMThree of the largest applicants for new TLDs are facing a mountain of objections. Donuts, Amazon, and Google have the dubious honor of having the most objected-to applications for new top level domains. There were 263 formal objections to new top level domains, and that doesn’t include GAC advice. Donuts received 55 objections covering 45 […]
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Harvard.xxx: Universities, Other Brands Buy Domain Name Suffixes to Block Porn ...
April 14, 2013 @ 11:12 PMHarvard University paid as much as $299 to register the last time the World Wide Web’s global overseer added a domain name to familiar ones including .com and .net. Rather than seeking a new opportunity…
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Google Beats Google in UDRP
April 14, 2013 @ 10:27 PMCompany wins case against spoofer. It’s pretty easy to spoof someone else in a whois record, and a recent UDRP is a case in point. Officially, Google Inc. prevailed over Google Inc. in a UDRP for the domain GoogleDNSService.com. When you first look at the whois record for this domain you might assume it’s owned […]
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Wipo 2012 Review: 2,884 UDRPs Filed (Up 4.5%) for 5,084 Domain Names (74.8% of Which Were .com)
April 14, 2013 @ 9:07 PMThe WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center published its 2012 review on UDRP called “Internet Domain Name Dispute Resolution”. In 2012, trademark holders filed a record 2,884 cybersquatting cases covering 5,084 Internet domain names with the WIPO Center under procedures based …
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GAC Advice On New gTLDs “Not The End of The Story”
April 14, 2013 @ 5:20 PMGovernments may want new gTLD registries to become the internet’s police force, but ICANN doesn’t have to take it lying down. ICANN is set to open up the shock Beijing communique to public comments, CEO Fadi Chehade said Friday, while chair Steve Crocker has already raised the possibility of not following the GAC’s advice.
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.co Registry Announces The Global Launch of Asian Internationalized Domain...
April 14, 2013 @ 4:02 PMToday, .CO Internet, the company behind one of today’s most successful global domain extensions has announced the launch of Asian Internationali
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Direct .ng Domains Now More Affordable From Web4africa
April 14, 2013 @ 2:19 PMDirect .ng domain names had always been open to anyone in the world, but at a very high premium price. This made them exclusive to only a few big companies but that is about to change.
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