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Fresh Direct Fiasco: Company Criticized After Domain Name Mess
December 26, 2012 @ 4:18 AMNew Yorkers have long relied on Fresh Direct the way Frodo relied on Samwise Gamgee—when all hope is lost and the overwhelming urge to order Famiglia’s arises, FD will be there to remind us that when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer, and oh yeah, fresh asparagus is on sale. So when the company’s website went down mysteriously for many people over the last 48 hours, things seemed bad.
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Internet Grows to More Than 246 Million Domain Names: Verisign
December 23, 2012 @ 10:03 PM“Worldwide registrations have grown by 26.4 million, or 12 per cent, since the third quarter of 2011”, a VeriSign statement said.
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Vatican takes first spot in Internet domain name draw
December 20, 2012 @ 1:19 PMThe Vatican has come out in first place in a long-awaited draw to expand the Internet address system with new domain names that go beyond the usual .com, .org or .net endings.
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VeriSign (VRSN) Says 5.7M Internet Domain Names Added in Q312
December 20, 2012 @ 12:19 PMMore than five million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names as of Sept. 30, 2012, to more than 246 million worldwide across all Top-Level Domains, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
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UDRP Panel Got Bidpal.com Case Right, But Complainant's Lawyers Did It a ...
December 19, 2012 @ 11:15 PMUltimate decision in case is right, but complainant’s case could have been stronger than it was. …
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.Co Domain Base Up 24% This Year to 1.4 Million
December 19, 2012 @ 10:37 PMRegistered domain base up about 24% in a year. .Co Internet just released stats about its domain …
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Accented French Characters in .ca Domain Names Coming January 2013
December 19, 2012 @ 7:56 PMThe Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has announced that registrants will be able to register .CA domain names comprising accented French characters beginning January 13, 2012. CIRA is introducing support for the full range of French characters, such as é, û, à, ç, ë.
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DomainInvest Partners with Sedo to Park and Promote Portfolio of 70,000 Domains
December 19, 2012 @ 11:46 AMSedo, the world’s largest domain name marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that DomainInvest and its Subsidiary Keyword Domains GmbH has chosen to monetize its portfolio of close to 70,000 domains with Sedo’s end-to-end services. As part of the partnership, DomainInvest will park its entire portfolio with Sedo, placing each of its domains for sale and enabling it to fully leverage Sedo’s services, including account managers to handle bids, brokerage support for premium domains through brokers and dedicated country managers, fast transfers, and pricing evaluation services for all TLDs and languages in DomainInvest’s portfolio.
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'We Buy Ugly Houses' Franchisor Wins Domain Name Dispute
December 19, 2012 @ 4:54 AMHomeVestors alleged URL was ‘confusingly similar’ to trademarked term. The company behind the slogan “We Buy Ugly Houses” has prevailed in an arbitration proceeding against the previous owner of a domain name that allegedly used the company’s trademark to offer links to competing services. Dallas-based HomeVestors of America Inc., which claims to be the “No. 1 buyer of houses in the U.S.,” has been franchising since 1996 and has about 276 franchises in 37 states. The company claims its franchisees, who are authorized to use the “We Buy Ugly Houses” trademark, have spent more than $100 million advertising the brand.
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Icann Reveals Results of Domain Name Auction
December 19, 2012 @ 3:52 AMNew domain names like .food, .energy, .city, and others could be launched next year.
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