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Dot-music, Dot-sport and (Security Experts Hope) Dot-secure
May 14, 2012 @ 11:26 PMThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, is about to throw open the floodgates to new top-level domain names. While most security experts have criticized the change, one group sees an opportunity by creating what it says will be a secure top-level domain. Read more…
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Olympics Wastes More Money on ICANN Nonsense
May 14, 2012 @ 7:07 PMInternational Olympic Committee lawyers have lodged an official appeal of ICANN’s latest decision to not grant it extra-extra special new gTLD protection.
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.CA Turns 25 Years Old Today, Nearing 2,000,000 Registrations
May 14, 2012 @ 3:42 AMThe domain name registry that operates the .CA ccTLD, Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), announced today that the .CA domain is turning 25 years
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Now This is a Creative UDRP Argument
May 14, 2012 @ 2:58 AMYou violated someone’s rights when you registered the domain, even if it wasn’t our rights. Think you’ve seen them all? Here’s a very creative argument from Stabilus GmbH, maker of electronic tailgate openers, on why a UDRP panel should give it the domain powerise.com. Stabilus started using the “Powerise” term in commerce back in 2008. […]
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Google Shoves Cybersquatter Off 763 Googletastic Domains
May 14, 2012 @ 2:01 AMGoogle has seized over 750 domain names from a cybersquatter who used them to drive traffic to a series of “gay interest” websites and now wants Google’s trademark cancelled.
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Artemis Seeks .secure Domain Name
May 14, 2012 @ 1:02 AMWebsites who register with the name will have to go above and beyond when it comes to protecting their users.
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10,000 Most Popular Topics in Domains
May 14, 2012 @ 12:09 AMCloud, tech, and tv are popular topics in domain names. LeanDomainSearch has just published a list of the 10,000 most popular topics found in .com domain names. The site used research from its list of top prefixes and suffixes for domain names to figure out which topics show up most often in domain names. Here’s […]
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Verisign Releases More Traffic Data About Unregistered Domains
May 11, 2012 @ 12:10 AM.com and .net registry provides added detail about NXD traffic. VeriSign has enhanced its DomainScore tool to provide more insight into the traffic unregistered domains receive. DomainScore provides a relative score for the amount of traffic an unregistered domain name receives. But this so-called “NXD” traffic doesn’t qualify the type of traffic very well. That’s […]
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Marchex Successfully Defends Geo Domain Name in UDRP
May 10, 2012 @ 11:48 PMPanel rules company can keep Norcross.com domain name. Marchex has successfully defended the domain name Norcross.com in a UDRP with the help of domain name attorney John Berryhill. Marchex acquired the domain when it bought Yun Ye’s Ultimate Search portfolio. Norcross is a suburb of Atlanta and the parked page at Norcross.com has shown links […]
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Overstock.com: We’d Still Really Like O.com
May 10, 2012 @ 11:34 PMOverstock.com pleads for single letter .com domains in VeriSign contract renewal. For many years Overstock.com has had an obsession. An obsession with getting the domain name O.com. As you may know, there are only three one letter .com domains ever registered: q.com, x.com, and z.com. These were registered (and grandfathered) prior to a restriction on […]
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