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Domain Name Ninja Celebrates Five-year Anniversary and Explosive Customer Growth
October 13, 2011 @ 1:05 AMDomain Name Ninja, a leading Web Hosting and SEO marketing provider continues to see explosive customer growth as they approach their fifth year in business. The company is known for its highly affordable domain names and Web hosting packages, unparalleled support and cutting-edge technology, constant software and package updates as well as a customized approach to each client’s needs.
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Google Loses Battle for Goggle.com
October 12, 2011 @ 8:30 PMGoogle has lost its cybersquatting fight with typo-snaffle site goggle.com, enabling its owner to carry on enticing clumsy typists into signing up for pricey text messaging services.
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auDA Fields 146 Complaints About Aussie Domain Industry
October 12, 2011 @ 11:43 AMAustralia’s domain regulator auDA has revealed it received 146 complaints about resellers, registrars and other domain industry participants in the past financial year. The regulator reported its first full year of complaint statistics in the 2010-11 annual report released late yesterday.
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FSC Issues Cautionary Guide to Purchasing .XXX Domains
October 12, 2011 @ 2:22 AMFSC, which has opposed .XXX domains for nearly a decade, said that recent discussions with online business owners indicate a need for clarification of the .XXX registration process. The organization said “confusion and mixed messages given by ICM Registry (ICM) and its registrars about pricing and the application process have created a difficult situation for adult online business owners.”
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Ping Golf Considers .ping Top Level Domain Name
October 11, 2011 @ 3:27 AMCompany behind Ping golf brand applies for .ping trademark, but it might be just a defensive play. Companies continue to file trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office despite ICANN saying it will give no weight to .TLD trademarks (and the USPTO not permitting such trademarks). One of the latest may be a .brand play, …
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Launch of Oahu.com Gives Honolulu Businesses New Marketing Opportunity
October 11, 2011 @ 3:20 AMLeft of the Dot Media has announced the launch of Oahu.com; a new authority web site and directory focused exclusively on this Hawaiian island. The site features Left of the Dot’s innovative Marketing Name technology that allows small businesses to lease sub-domains from Oahu.com for use in their own marketing and advertising campaigns.
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Dot VN, Inc. Co-Founder and President, Lee Johnson Receives Award of Merit From the Vietnam Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung
October 10, 2011 @ 10:02 PMDot VN, Inc., (<a href="http://www.dotvn.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.dotvn.com</a>) an Internet and Telecommunications Company and the exclusive online global domain name registrar for the Country of Vietnam, announced today that Dr. Lee Johnson, President and Co-Founder of Dot VN will be recognized at an awards ceremony held in Hanoi, Vietnam where he is to receive an award of merit from the Prime Minister’s Office, decision number 1237/QD-TTg dated July 07, 2011 for his achievements in the development of the Internet in Vietnam, contributing to the cause of socio-economic development of the country.
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Verisign Demands Website Takedown Powers
October 10, 2011 @ 6:45 PMVeriSign, which manages the database of all .com internet addresses, wants powers to shut down non-legitimate domain names when asked to by law enforcement.
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Qwikster Goes Qwikly: a Look Back On a Netflix Mistake
October 10, 2011 @ 4:17 AMIf there is one downside of Netflix’s decision to cancel Qwikster, it is that Jason Castillo, the semi-coherent, weed-curious high-schooler who owned the Twitter handle @Qwikster, never got to extort Reed Hastings and his company for all the money that he could. The single bright side in the monumentally stupid Qwikster fiasco was the existence of @Qwikster; there was an unspoken hope that the totally undeserving, totally unprepared and likely totally blazed owner of that Twitter handle would somehow stumble into a large financial payday from Netflix, which would have represented some kind of victory-by-proxy for all of those customers stupefied by Netflix’s stupefying decision to split the services in the first place.
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After Losing UDRP, Save The Children Federation Sues to Get Domain Name
October 9, 2011 @ 10:27 PMNon-profit sues after losing UDRP. Save the Children Federation is suing the owner of MySaveTheChildren.org after failing to win the same domain name in a UDRP proceeding. The non-profit filed a UDRP case against the domain owner ProServices in April. ProServices forwards the MySaveTheChildren.org domain name to its zulufamily.net web site, …
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