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Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
December 23, 2011 @ 11:00 PMSurprise! GoDaddy has just recanted their support of SOPA, issuing a press release and blasting out a massive mountain of tweets on the matter. This comes just hours after they were seemingly cementing their position, shrugging off the boycotts as something that had yet to cause “any impact to [their] business”.
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Vatican.xxx Domain Mystery Buyer Revealed: Site Not Porn After All
December 23, 2011 @ 2:53 AMThe domain Vatican.xxx has not been registered by pornographers as the Vatican feared but was in fact removed from the registry of available names before the public launch of the dot-triple-X domain earlier this month, a representative for ICM Registry has revealed. “Vatican.xxx is a name that is on the permanent reserve list, so it was pulled out of the registry before the launch.
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Expanding Domain Names Poses Risks for Consumers, Says Klobuchar
December 23, 2011 @ 1:16 AMU.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today (Friday, Dec. 23) said that a plan to expand the number of available Internet domain names could potentially create new opportunities for bad actors to prey on consumers and create unnecessary burdens for businesses.
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The Circuit: New Domain Names, Microsoft's Final CES, Facebook Privacy
December 22, 2011 @ 5:31 AMThe House commerce committee has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to delay its plan to expand the number of top-level domains on the Internet. In a letter to ICANN, a bipartisan group of six committee members said that they share the concerns of some businesses that the expansion does not have adequate protections in place for copyright holders.
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Internet Close to 220 Million Domain Names
December 22, 2011 @ 5:25 AMWith nearly five million domain names added to the Internet in the third quarter, the total neared 220 million.
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Two Firefox Add-ons Already Bypass SOPA's Domain Censorship
December 22, 2011 @ 5:11 AMAs resistance grows against the Stop Online Piracy Act, some activists are getting creative. If passed, the legislation would allow US Internet service providers to block access to offending domain names at the behest of Hollywood — that's the gist of it, anyway…
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Dismantling of Righthaven Appears Under Way With Loss of Website
December 22, 2011 @ 1:41 AMThe court-authorized dismantling of Las Vegas copyright company Righthaven LLC appeared to be under way Thursday, with the company losing control of its website to a receiver.
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Brothel Owner Snaps Up University's .xxx Domain Name
December 22, 2011 @ 1:00 AMColorado.xxx has been purchased. Not by the university, but by a Las Vegas brothel owner. Can cyber-squatting pay off?
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Institutions Buy .xxx Domain Names
December 21, 2011 @ 2:42 AMSaskatoon city hall, the University of Saskatchewan and others are buying newly created X-rated Internet.
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Liberal PAC Needles Gingrich On NewtGingrich.com
December 21, 2011 @ 2:26 AMNewt Gingrich has a website problem. Web surfers who visit the domain name Newtgingrich.com are redirected to any one of several unflattering reminders of the GOP candidate’s controversies.
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