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.CO to Offer Asian IDNs Starting April 15
April 1, 2013 @ 10:13 PMMore .co internationalized domain name options available this month. .Co Internet announced that it will begin allowing registrations of Asian language .co IDNs starting April 15. Registrations will be available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. There will be no trademark sunrise period, so brand owners that wish to register their IDN.co domain should place an […]
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Donald Trump is Suing a 'Hacker' Over Opinionated Websites & Domain Names
April 1, 2013 @ 3:25 PMDonald Trump is super upset because he didn’t register domain names before someone else did, and now they won’t give them up for $100 a piece. So he’s SUING them!
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How ICANN is Changing Business Website Domain Names Forever [SmartCompany]
April 1, 2013 @ 8:20 AMSoon, instead of being stuck with .com.au, you could have a range of new website domains to choose from.
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Twitter Co-founder Starting New Company Called Jelly at JellyHQ.com
April 1, 2013 @ 5:16 AMAs with Twitter, Stone isn’t buying the “best” domain yet. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is working on a new company called Jelly. Although it’s very early stage, on March 22 he registered JellyHQ.com. So what about Jelly.com? It’s actually owned by a company in my backyard in Fredericksburg, Texas called Fischer & Wieser. Believe it […]
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It’s Opening Day and MLB is Batting .867 With Domains
March 31, 2013 @ 11:47 PMMajor League Baseball owns 26 of 30 team names in .com. It’s a sure sign of spring as Major League Baseball opens up the 2013 season with 12 games today. MLB made a good acquisition over the summer, buying the domain name Rockies.com for an unspecified amount. With the Rockies.com domain, MLB now owns 26 […]
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Google Says Parked Domains = Spam
March 31, 2013 @ 11:14 PMGoogle’s spam page claims parked domains are web spam. Here’s something interesting to start your week. Google has a page about “Fighting Spam” referring to pages designed to trick search engines such as cloaking and hidden text. Listed right there underneath “Types of Spam” is this: It’s completely understandable that Google doesn’t want to index […]
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Enom Offers Premium .org Domains Exclusively in Auction
March 31, 2013 @ 10:01 PMeNom, the world’s largest ICANN accredited wholesale registrar, today announced the dates of its participation in the Public Interest Registry’s (PIR) Project 94. This historic auction will offer one and two-character .ORG domain names never before released for registration beginning April 7 and continuing through April 19. eNom has partnered with the premier aftermarket domain name service, NameJet, to host the auction of 39 premium .ORG domain names exclusively in partnership with PIR. Registration is open and validation by the Registry is required in advance of the auctions in order to participate.
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“Domainer” and “Domain Parking” Hit Cnn.com Home Page
March 31, 2013 @ 12:03 AMArticle discusses cybersquatter who calls himself a domainer. One of the top stories on CNN.com today is about a self-proclaimed “domainer”. Unfortunately, that domainer is a cybersquatter, so the article doesn’t paint domainers in a positive light. The article is about Taikwok Yung. I’ve written about Yung before, when he registered domains related to Bank […]
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ICC Publishes Initial List of New TLD Community Objections
March 29, 2013 @ 4:26 AMGroup posts first 28 objections. International Chamber of Commerce, which is handling new TLD objections for community objections and limited public interest objections, has published a list of pending cases. The list so far includes 28 objections. All of the published limited public interest pbjections were already known as they were filed by the independent […]
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Introducing RDNH.com: a Database of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Cases
March 28, 2013 @ 10:59 PM129 reverse domain name hijacking cases and counting… Today I’d like to introduce you to RDNH.com, a site that provides a database of reverse domain name hijacking cases under UDRP. The site is a “collaboration” between myself, Nat Cohen, and David Lahoti. I say “collaboration” because Nat has been doing most (all) of the work […]
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