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Another Digital Archery Service Launches. Here’s How You Should Pay for One of These Services.
June 18, 2012 @ 11:58 PMDigital archery services are a no lose proposition — for the service provider. I just got a press release from an outfit called Digital Archery Hotshots, the latest company to offer digital archery solutions for ICANN’s batching process. I don’t recall how many digital archery pitches I’ve received now, but I think I might no…
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Mediaset.com Decision Reversed, Owner Can Keep Domain
June 18, 2012 @ 10:10 PMMediaSet.com can remain with domain registrant. In April I wrote about how a court had apparently ruled that Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, had rights to the domain name MediaSet.com. MediaSet is controlled by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. MediaSet had lost a UDRP for the domain name back in February. That case was defended…
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Study of New Domain Extensions Ranks Highest Potential Value and Chances of Success
June 18, 2012 @ 8:00 AMOn June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) revealed a list of nearly 2,000 applications it had received from organizations seeking to manage new domain extensions that will join .com, .net, .org and 18 other suffixes that currently exist. According to statistical analysis by Sedo, the top 10 most valuable domains being sought are…
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EJEE Becomes First Chinese Registrar to Join SedoMLS
June 18, 2012 @ 6:04 AMSedo announced a new partnership with Chinese registrar EJEE. As the newest SedoMLS partner, EJEE joins more than 60 other registrars offering their customers access to Sedo’s inventory of over 16 million domains.
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A Few Tips to ICANN’s New CEO
June 18, 2012 @ 12:41 AMCheck yourself before you wreck yourself. Congratulations! On Friday, ICANN will announce you as its new Chief Executive Officer. This is a pretty good gig. You’ll earn about a million bucks a year, which isn’t bad for a non-profit CEO. (That’s what the outgoing CEO earned. I assume you negotiated well.) But you have your…
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Domain Horse Trading Event in Prague Next Week
June 18, 2012 @ 12:22 AMYou can have .app if I can have .cloud. I talked to Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush about 15 minutes after ICANN’s “big reveal” news conference ended last week. He told me he had already received an email from another applicant for a TLD that TLDH had applied for, saying basically…
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Paul Keating Somehow Wins Taget.com UDRP
June 18, 2012 @ 12:12 AMShoddy work by Target’s lawyers may have let domain owner off the hook. Domain attorney Paul Keating has successfully defended Quinv S.A. against Target Brands and a UDRP it filed over Taget.com. Now, first things first: Taget.com isn’t necessarily a typo of Target.com. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to own this domain and ways…
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Microsoft’s Generation App: F’ It, It Blows (So Say Domain Names)
June 16, 2012 @ 2:04 AMMicrosoft registers dirty names related to its new Generation App. Microsoft is releasing its Generation App (Or Gen App), which is a suite of tools to help you build an app for Microsoft platforms within 30 days. The web sites for the initiative are 30tolaunch.com and GenerationApp.com. The company isn’t taking any chances, snatching up […]
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Religion-themed Domain Addresses Bid Out By ICANN
June 15, 2012 @ 9:00 PMMashable said .catholic was part of nearly 2,000 new generic TLDs the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers released on Wednesday. Mashable also noted IRI Domain Management, LLC applied for .mormon and .lds referring to the Church of Latter Day Saints.Should they be approved, the new gTLDs can be used at the end of web addresses like the present-day .com, .org, .edu, .gov, and .net.
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Internet Shake-up? Because .com Was Just Too Easy!
June 15, 2012 @ 8:44 PMGood news, JB Nation — .belieber is still available!! ICANN — or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, for the six of you who were wondering — released their new list of…
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