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Web.com Plans .WEB Top Level Domain
October 24, 2011 @ 1:00 AMCompany plans to apply for .web and says no one else should be allowed to get the TLD. Publicly traded Web.com plans to apply for the .web top level domain name and says no one else should be allowed to apply for the TLD due to its trademarks. The company has a pre-reservation form up on its web site and just filed a trademark application for …
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Lego Loses First UDRP
October 21, 2011 @ 2:30 AMLego finally loses a UDRP case. LEGO Juris A/S, makers of the popular legos toy, has filed nearly 300 UDRP cases to date. It hadn’t lost a single one — until now. In a decision dated October 1 (but for some reason just published this week), a single member panel found against Lego in its case for the domain name legoworkshop.com.
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Association of National Advertisers Urges Opposition to ICANN Domain Name Expansion
October 21, 2011 @ 1:57 AMAssociation of National Advertisers President-CEO Bob Liodice urged marketers Friday to oppose the planned expansion of Internet top-level domain names. In his opening remarks at the ANA’s Masters of Marketing annual conference here, Liodice said the planned expansion by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), slated for January 2012 would cost marketers overall billions of dollars in costs and time.
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WordPress.com Announces Addition of .ME for Domains
October 20, 2011 @ 8:06 PMWordPress.com, the world’s most popular blog-building site, has announced that it has added .ME as its newest domain extension option when customizing a domain name on a WordPress site. The announcement was made by WordPress.com founder, Matt Mullenweg, at the international WebFest.Me conference in Montenegro in late September.
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HostExploit Names Oversee.net #1 Bad Host
October 20, 2011 @ 1:49 AMGroup releases its latest list of bad hosts. HostExploit, which previously put the heat on eNom, now says Oversee.net is the #1 Bad Host. The group compared data from 11 sources on a number of "bad" things that can be hosted, ranging from phishing servers to infected web sites. The group’s report for Q3 …
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Warner Bros Registers Reddit Movie Domains
October 19, 2011 @ 11:19 PMMovie studio registers Reddit related domain names as it works on movie suggested by Reddit commentor. Reddit is certainly a powerful force on the internet. But is Warner Bros working on a movie about it? The company just registered a number of domain names with the term Reddit in them, including RedditFilm.com, …
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Harry Thomas Jr. Gets Domain-jacked By GOP
October 19, 2011 @ 6:57 AMThe D.C. Council member didn’t register his Web name before promoting it on Twitter.
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ICANN and The Coming Flood of Domain Names
October 19, 2011 @ 5:45 AMCompanies will be able to turn any word into the ending of domain names, replacing .com, etc. Will it lead to a new Internet land grab?
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Domain Name Mastery Looms Large for for Political Campaigns in 2012
October 18, 2011 @ 8:06 PMOn Sept. 2, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry surging in the polls, someone purchased the Web addresses stickittorick.com, rickperrynot.com and buryperry.com.That day, Mitt Romney’s campaign spent $2,851 buying the rights to various domain names at GoDaddy.com, the vendor that sold the Perry domains.You might assume it was the Romney campaign that scooped up the anti-Perry Web addresses with hopes.
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.CO Premium Domain Re-auction Coming Up Without Reserves
October 17, 2011 @ 9:17 PMThe .CO Registry has scheduled a re-auction of some of its previous domain names that are holdovers from the 2010 landrush. The auctions will be held on Pool…
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