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Ambit.com Purchaed in 2010 Saved in UDRP From Billion Dollar Company
April 12, 2013 @ 12:31 AMAmbit Holdings, L.L.C. who held a trademark on the term Ambit just lost a UDRP on the domain name ambit.com. The domain holder which also formed a corporation named Ambit some how was able to acquire a domain name in 2010, that the trademark holder with a BILLION dollars in sales failed to do.
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Nigeria Lost $23.8M to Purchase of Foreign Domain Names
April 11, 2013 @ 11:25 PMThe poor adoption of Nigeria’s domain name, .ng, and the purchase of foreign domain names such as .com, .org, .net, and .co.uk etc, by Nigeria’s website owners, has resulted in a capital flight of about 3.76 billion naira ($23.8 million) in the last five years.
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CADNA expects the corporate cost for anti-cybersquatting of the new gTLD program to be $2 billion
April 11, 2013 @ 11:15 PMThe Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, Inc. (CADNA), a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation founded in 2007, and it’s President Josh Bourne say that Cybersquatting is a serious issue in the current domain name space, and with the launch of new gTLDs, …
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Nokia & Mark Monitor.com Put Up Plum.com for Sale in Snapnames Auction
April 11, 2013 @ 11:12 PMNokia Corporation has put one of its domain names up for sale on SnapNames.com.
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Domain Names Like .food May Leave Bad Taste
April 11, 2013 @ 10:11 PMSymantec, Go Daddy, Trend Micro and other digital certificate authorities raise security, other concerns with ICANN about the pending release of new top-level domain names.
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ICANN Launches Strategy Public Conversation and is Looking for Feedback
April 11, 2013 @ 5:39 AMAs Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s President & CEO, announced this week, ICANN launched a public conversation about ICANN’s future. ICANN is seeking ideas from the global community to help create a new, overarching vision and five-year strategy for ICANN. What do …
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Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings Loses 21 Facebook Domains in One UDRP
April 11, 2013 @ 4:24 AMMike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings of Potomac, Maryland just lost a UDRP to Facebook, Inc on 21 domain names which it didn’t even respond to.
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Cax.com Starts Offering Seller Financing With Monthly Installments
April 11, 2013 @ 12:55 AMCAX.com, the domain name marketplace owned by Francois Carrillo, that is also the owner of Domaining.com, started offering payment plans to domain names listed there beginning April 9, 2013. A buyer can choose to make an up front payment and …
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The Story Behind .vegas
April 11, 2013 @ 12:55 AMThe story of how Dot Vegas, Inc. won the battle for .vegas and how it plans to bring the TLD to market. I recently met Dustin Trevino, CFO of Dot Vegas, Inc., and learned more about the company’s plans for the .Vegas top level domain. In this interview, the company explains the effort it undertook […]
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Google Acquires Yt.be to Use As Youtube Shorterner
April 11, 2013 @ 12:06 AMAccording to Thenextweb.com, Google has acquired the domain name YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today.
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