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Speedo Wins Fight to Shut Down Porn Websites
November 2, 2011 @ 10:16 PMThe Federal Court of Australia has ordered a central coast blogger to shut down a number of salacious and pornographic websites because they featured Speedo swimming costumes and domain names using the company’s trademark.
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Domain Start-up Winged Media Gets $3 Million Carnegie Innovation Fund Backing
November 2, 2011 @ 4:19 PMWinged Media, a domain name trading start-up, has pulled off a $3 million investment deal with the Carnegie Innovation Fund, for a minority stake in the business, said to be \”less than 10%.\”
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CADNA Goes From Opposing New gTLD Program to Demanding a Time Frame for ...
November 2, 2011 @ 4:51 AMThe Collation Against Domain Abuse (CADNA) has appearently gone from being a vocal opponent of the new gTLD program to demanding a timeline for opening of the second round.
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CADNA Hosts 'What's at Stake' Conference to Discuss New gTLDs with Brands, will Submit Proposal to ICANN
November 2, 2011 @ 4:33 AMOver 85 representatives from global brands joined The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) for its “What’s at Stake: The Reality of ICANN’s New gTLD Program for Brands” conference at the Institute of International Education’s Edgar J. Kaufman Conference Center in New York City yesterday. Presented in coordination with engageSimply and HUM: Human Unlimited Media, “What’s at Stake” provided brand representatives with a forum to discuss their concerns about new gTLDs, and to gain insight into the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from veterans of the ICANN community, including ICANN’s founding Chairman Esther Dyson.
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TravelShark Acquires 80 Premium Travel Websites in Asia, Europe
November 2, 2011 @ 4:23 AMLeading online global travel network TravelShark continues to enhance its position in popular destinations across Asia Pacific and Europe with the acquisition of 80 new major-market, destination-specific websites. TravelShark’s newest domain acquisitions – all now live sites with new and enhanced TravelShark content – include heavily trafficked sites in premium travel locales, including BeijingHotels.com, SingaporeHotels.com, BangkokHotels.com and KualaLumpurHotels.com.
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New Google Webmaster Tools Notification for Cross-domain URL Decisions
November 2, 2011 @ 1:59 AMA post on Google’s Webmaster Central Blog offers information on preventing cross-domain URL issues and announces a new notifications feature for webmasters.
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Occupy Wall Street Won't Be Spending $150000 On Occupy.com
November 2, 2011 @ 1:38 AMThe organizers at Occupy Wall Street are struggling with a pretty ironic money problem: they have too much of it and there are plenty of people looking to cash in, including cybersquatters.
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Sedo Distributes Q3 2011 Domain Market Study
November 1, 2011 @ 11:56 PMAmong all these changes, Q3 2011 saw a total of 9,778 sales globally, amounting to more than $19,000,000 in sales volume, and an average price of $1,974. Globally, Sedo’s biggest public sale was aktien.de for €500,000, but 80% of sales revenue for the quarter consisted of confidential sales. The highest .com sales were grid.com for $275,000, and republic.com at $200,000. Given the Q2 2011 sale of gambling.com for $2,500,000—Sedo’s third-highest sale ever—sales volume remained relatively consistent with the previous quarter. Take a closer look at the performance of the domain market and Sedo’s Domain Marketplace by reviewing our Q3 2011 Domain Market Study
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Winged Media, Makers of Protrada, Secures $3 Million Investment from the Carnegie Innovation Fund
November 1, 2011 @ 9:38 PMWinged Media, a market leader in domain technology and monetisation, today confirmed it has secured $3 million in additional investment from Carnegie Innovation Fund, LP (Carnegie Fund). The Winged Media portfolio spans a number of internet products and services focused on digital media, online advertising, domain assets and online publishing. However at its core, Winged Media is a professional domain trading organisation – buying domain names, building websites and selling them for a profit in the emerging asset class of Domaining.
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Four Promises ICANN Must Meet With New Top-level Domains
November 1, 2011 @ 1:06 AMJust back from a week of ICANN meetings in Dakar. Is it just me, or is the new top-level domain program starting to feel like a TLD triathlon, where everyone’s now jockeying for position in the final stage — a grueling marathon? When ICANN’s board approved the new gTLD plan in Singapore, it came with the promise of small but substantive changes to improve the program. I hope that wasn’t empty rhetoric…
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