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Vietnam's Domain Registration Grows 172% Annually
December 9, 2012 @ 9:02 PMA new white paper reveals statistics on new web domains being registered in Vietnam. By 2012, they’ve already exceeded 800,000.
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India Against Allocation of Certain Domain Names
December 9, 2012 @ 5:45 AMIndia has made it clear that it does not favour the allocation of certain terms like ‘Indians,’ ‘Islam’ and ‘Ram’ as new generic Top Level Domain names (gTLDs), the concluding part of the web address that follows the dot, as the global web address system prepares itself for a phase of massive expansion in the coming months.
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Pirate Bay Proxy Loses Domain Name to Anti-piracy Boss
December 6, 2012 @ 11:00 PMTim Kuik, head of the Hollywood-backed anti-piracy outfit BREIN, has won a WIPO domain name dispute against a Pirate Bay proxy service. The domain timkuik.org was operating its proxy from the address fuck.timkuik.org which according to the decision infringed on a trademark held by the anti-piracy boss. The operator of the Pirate Bay proxy argued that BREIN stalked him and that the site was meant to critique the group, but WIPO says this doesn’t trump the trademark infringement.
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First Industry-Wide Report on Impact of New gTLDs on Internet Usage
December 6, 2012 @ 6:33 PMFairWinds Partners, the leading domain name strategy consulting firm, has released new research revealing that Internet users are likely to quickly accept and trust new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) – as long as new gTLD owner…
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SSL.com: Lock in A Secure Investment On The Edge Of The Fiscal Cliff
December 6, 2012 @ 11:57 AMAn exclusive opportunity to enter online security certificate market, Steadily growing SSL industry averages significant profit margins, Announces Domain Broker and online Media Strategy firm Media Options, S.A.
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.eu Domain Name Registrations Rise 7% in Q3
December 6, 2012 @ 11:00 AMThird-quarter .eu domain name registrations grew by over 7 percent year-on-year for the second consecutive quarter, according to a report from the .eu registry, EURid.
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1,800+ Premium Insurance Related Domain Names and 380 Web Sites Now for Sale at InsuranceNames.org
December 6, 2012 @ 10:59 AMOver the last decade, Sean Denny has provided businesses with leads and sales from a vast network of premium websites and domain names specifically related to the insurance industry. InsuranceNames.org is now making the entire network available to entrepreneurs who know how to harness the power of over 1,800 highly valued keyword rich premium domain names and websites.
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Bobby Jindal Domain Names On The Auctioning Block
December 6, 2012 @ 5:55 AMLouisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal looks like a thousand bucks — or $10,000 or $50,000 — at least to those with a stake in his digital future. As the governor throws his hat into the presidential ring for 2016, domain name owners are already offering up their choicest URLs for sale on Internet domain registrar site GoDaddy.com. Nearly every iteration of “Bobby Jindal’ and “2016” has already been purchased on the site, including bobbyjindal2016.com, jindal2016.com and many others which include possible running mate names. But two domain name owners — Paul Lemaire of Lafayette, La. and Michael Paparella of Sacramento — are offering their Jindal domain names for sale on GoDaddy auctions. Both men bought the domain names at least a year ago. Shardule Shah of Atlanta, on the other hand, is not yet putting his 2011 domain name purchase up for sale, but hopes the purchase will help him be more involved politically. Buying bobbyjindal2016.com was “just an interesting way for regular Joes people like me to stay involved,” Shah, 27, a PhD student at Emory, told NOLA.com|The Times Picayune. “I knew that Gov. Jindal has made a name for himself in Louisiana and was a potential rising star in…
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The 2016 Presidential Domain-name Race Heats Up
December 5, 2012 @ 10:01 PMThe 2016 presidential race is heating up online, but no one is looking for delegates. It’s domain names people are after.
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Threat to 189 gTLD applications rumbles on
December 5, 2012 @ 9:30 PMLast month Name.Space filed an antitrust and unfair competition lawsuit against ICANN, seeking an injunction preventing the approval and issuance of 189 new gTLDs. ICANN has filed a motion to dismiss the suit but – with the hearing set for February 11 2013 – applicants for the effected strings face a wait before learning whether the challenge to their applications will be allowed.
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