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University of Central Florida Sues Liquor Store That Owns UCFLiquorStore.com
March 18, 2013 @ 10:51 PMUniversity of Central Florida takes issue with liquor store’s marketing and domain name. The University of Central Florida has sued a local liquor store that bills itself as “Your Official UCF Liquor Store”. Pat’s Liquor, which is located about a mile from UCF’s Orlando campus, has been using the domain name UCFLiquorStore.com and pitching itself […]
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Is ICANN Cutting Corners With new gTLDs?
March 18, 2013 @ 6:28 PMThe ICANN leadership is in a hurry, so to get things done, it is cutting corners. One such attempt at going straight around a bend, the proposed changes to the new gTLD registry contract giving the ICANN Board unilateral right of amendment, has raised the registries’ ire. ICANN’s other group of contracted parties (i.e. entities […]
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Will SXSW 2014 Be Known As The Year of The Domain?
March 18, 2013 @ 1:54 AMSXSW 2013 attracted a handful of domain companies, and I expect more next year. SXSW 2013 is over, and what an event it was. The Interactive portion drew over 30,000 official attendees. Add in the “shadow” (i.e. unpaid) attendance, and it probably topped 40,000 people. SXSW Interactive attracts developers, tech startups, app companies, graphic designers, […]
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8888.com Gets 400,000 Eur Bid On Sedo
March 17, 2013 @ 11:20 PMIt’s a lucky number, but is it this lucky? The domain name 8888.com has received a 400,000 EUR bid at Sedo. That’s over $500,000 USD. 8 is consider a lucky number in Chinese culture. Lucky enough for a four digit domain to be worth over $500,000? I’m perhaps a little skeptical. But I’ll point out […]
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What Stadium is Levi Strauss Buying Naming Rights To?
March 17, 2013 @ 12:38 AMCompany registers domain names that suggest it’s buying naming rights to a sports stadium. It looks like clothing company Levi Strauss is buying naming rights to a sports stadium. But which one? Last Wednesday the company registered at least twelve domain names related to a stadium: levifield.com levifield.net levisfield.com levisfield.net levistadium.com levistadium.net levistrausspark.com levistrausspark.net levistraussstadium.com […]
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Hurricane Domain Names Being Registered, Sold Online Ahead of 2013 Storm Season
March 16, 2013 @ 1:38 PMIf a future hurricane makes history like Sandy, speculators may be able to resell the Internet domain names for a profit…
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Pope Francis Domain Names Snatched Up, Offered for Sale at Exorbitant Prices
March 15, 2013 @ 4:22 AMLooking to launch an online pope memorabilia business? Need a name? PopeFrancisBergoglio.net could be yours — for a mere $39,999.00. An eBay listing for PopeFrancisBergoglio.net touts the domain as “better than apple.com!!” and prime to be flipped “for HUGE profits today.” Writes the seller, jyttep12345, “I am sure if you buy this domain, and try to sell it you will be a millonaire [sic].”
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Del Monte V Del Monte is The First New gTLD Trademark Objection
March 15, 2013 @ 3:50 AMTwo companies trading under the name Del Monte are involved in the first-to-be-revealed Legal Rights Objection, over the .delmonte gTLD, under the new gTLD program. The World Intellectual Property Organization revealed the LRO — expected to be the first of many — this evening. The applicant for .delmonte is a subsidiary of Fresh Del Monte […]
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Del Monte V Del Monte is The First New gTLD Trademark Objection
March 15, 2013 @ 3:50 AMTwo companies trading under the name Del Monte are involved in the first-to-be-revealed Legal Rights Objection, over the .delmonte gTLD, under the new gTLD program. The World Intellectual Property Organization revealed the LRO — expected to be the first of many — this evening. The applicant for .delmonte is a subsidiary of Fresh Del Monte […]
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New gTLD Registry Hopeful Centralnic Taken Out By “Total Power Failure”
March 15, 2013 @ 3:34 AMEmerging new gTLD back-end player CentralNic today suffered a two-hour blackout of its registry systems, due to a “total power failure” at its data center. Its registry, which handles subdomain services such as uk.com and gb.com and the ccTLD .la, was offline from 0930 to 1130 UTC this morning, the company said. Even though the […]
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