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New Internet Domain Names Create Web of Confusion
March 11, 2013 @ 12:30 PMMove over “.com,” because over the course of the next year the Internet is expected to be inundated with thousands of new, generic, domain-name extensions. Big businesses, including online retailer Amazon, have applied to purchase exclusive rights to several of these so-called generic top level domains (gTLD), including .read and .book, a move critics said could jeopardize the openness of the Internet.
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Pepsi’s Interesting $8,000 Domain Purchase
March 11, 2013 @ 4:14 AMPepsi buys a hyphenated domain for $8,000 and it won’t be easy to by the unhyphenated version. As I was going through Sedo’s sales report from last week, one domain caught my eye — mostly because of the buyer. PepsiCo bought Green-Label.com for a solid $8,000. I can see a number of uses for this […]
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Authors Want a Rewrite On Amazon's Domain Name Grab
March 11, 2013 @ 3:47 AMBoth the Authors Guild and retailer Barnes & Noble claim that giving Amazon control over generic domain names like .book and .read would give the online company too much market power.
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Procter & Gamble Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
March 11, 2013 @ 2:29 AMConsumer products giant provided false sales numbers to WIPO panel. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has found Procter & Gamble guilty of attempted reverse domain name hijacking over the domain swash.com. Marchex has owned the domain name since 2004. P&G launched a new brand called Swash several years later. In its complaint, P&G originally […]
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So Much Opposition to a Closed .cloud, Yet None of These Companies Bought Cloud.com?
March 11, 2013 @ 1:44 AMCompanies that are worried about competitive advantage should reexamine their own domain name strategies. An awful lot of big brands are speaking out against the prospect of “closed generic” top level domains, such as .cloud and .book. That may be good news for owners of high quality second level domains, if or when these complaining […]
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Domain Name Wire is 8 Years Old
March 11, 2013 @ 12:24 AMDomain Name Wire turned 8 years old this past weekend. On March 8, 2005, I wrote the first post on Domain Name Wire. This post is number 6,250. I’d like to thank both my readers and advertisers for your continued support. Without both of you, this blog wouldn’t exist. Here’s to 8 more. © DomainNameWire.com […]
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Demand Media Hit With First New gTLD Objection
March 10, 2013 @ 10:20 PMWith the deadline for filing objections against new gTLD applications fast approaching, the first such objection has been revealed. Starting Dot, which has applied for .immo and other strings, has filed a String Confusion Objection against Demand Media’s .immobilien bid, according to the International Center for Dispute Resolution.
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Registrars Miffed About New Accreditation Agreement. Will It Delay New Tlds?
March 8, 2013 @ 10:41 PMFighting over new agreement continues and threatens new TLD timeline. The team of registrars negotiating with ICANN for the new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) issued a stern statement today saying ICANN is making some unreasonable requests and is trying to hold new TLDs hostage to a new agreement. Last night ICANN published its proposed 2013 […]
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Google Says It Will Make .app, .blog, .cloud, and .search Tlds “open”
March 8, 2013 @ 10:26 AMCompany plans to change some new TLD applications after pressure over “closed generics”. Google plans to update four of its new top level domain applications to make the domains more open to registration outside of Google. In comments submitted to ICANN regarding the concept of “closed generic” TLDs, the company said it will work to […]
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Chehade Commits to Grow The Number of Domain Registrars in Africa
March 7, 2013 @ 10:00 PMICANN CEO Fadi Chehade has told African policymakers that he wants to make it easier for companies on the continent to become accredited registrars, saying he wants to grow the number five-fold in a year. During a “Multistakeholder Internet Governance” meeting in Addis Ababa earlier this week, Chehade said he wants to see 20 more…
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