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Why Your Brand Should Invest in a Category Defining Domain Name
September 20, 2011 @ 12:48 AMCategory-defining domain names can be great digital assets to marketers and brand owners, whether they use them to augment their existing brands or to launch new brands. The downside (or the upside if you are one of the lucky ones to own one) is that there is a limit to the number of valuable category-defining domains that exist in the current domain name space.
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TRA Opens Special Arabic Domain Name Registrations
September 19, 2011 @ 8:44 PMThe Telecommunication Regulatory Authority has opened registrations for special Arabic domain names and registration is open until 3rd October, and can be done through accredited registrars.
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Austin-based Deal Company Vertive Continues Expansion With Domain Name Purchase - Austin American
September 19, 2011 @ 2:11 PMAfter pursuing the Internet domain name CouponCodes.com for the past three years, Austin-based Vertive LLC, which runs online coupon websites, has purchased it. Vertive acquired CouponCodes.com, which wasn’t an active website, for an undisclosed price. Today , Vertive will launch the site with coupon codes and other discounts from 2,500 merchants. Users type in the name of a store, such Kohl’s or Home Depot, and up pops a list of online coupon codes, such as free shipping or 15 percent off a purchase.
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PETA to Launch Porn Site With .xxx Domain
September 19, 2011 @ 10:24 AMThe animal-rights activist group continues to push the envelope in spreading its message, again runs afoul of women’s rights advocates and other critics.
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Domain Name Drives 78% of FreeConferenceCall.com Signups
September 19, 2011 @ 2:35 AMDescriptive domain name drives 78% of business for FreeConferenceCall.com. Most Domain Name Wire readers understand the power of a descriptive domain name. Here’s more proof: the founder of FreeConferenceCall.com says his domain name drives 78% of his signups. David Erickson explained this to the L.A. times: With not much cash to start …
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Firms Race to Block Misuse of Name On .xxx Domain
September 17, 2011 @ 1:43 AMIn the normal course, when a new Internet domain opens up, companies rush to register. In this case, the race is to stay out. Net4India says 38 companies have approached it over the last ten days seeking to “block” their trademark on the newly-opened .XXX domain, to prevent any misuse of their brand-name by others.
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Soci.al Domain Hack Sells for $50,000
September 17, 2011 @ 1:20 AMSoci.al sells to Mark Monitor client. The domain name hack Soci.al has sold for $50,000 according to host.al, which provided a screenshot of the Escrow.com transaction to Domain Name Wire as proof. The Albania country code domain name now sits on brand protection company Mark Monitor’s name servers, although it does not resolve. Moniker …
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Barnes & Noble Acquires Borders Domain Names, Other Intellectual Property
September 16, 2011 @ 1:18 PMThe Web address <a href="http://www.borders.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.borders.com</a> soon may take Web browsers to <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.barnesandnoble.com</a>. New York City-based Barnes & Noble Inc. has acquired the customer information, Internet addresses and a range of other unidentified intellectual property assets in a…
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Smut Domain Scores Big Bucks for Not Handling Smut
September 15, 2011 @ 10:39 PMThousands of companies, far more than expected, are handing over hundreds of dollars each to block their brands in the new .xxx internet domain. According to ICM Registry, the company behind the adults-only extension, porn-shy firms have applied to defensively block more than 10,000 trademarks in just the first week of its “Sunrise” period, which runs until 28 October.
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Chancer Stripped of Domain Name Rights to Fedex.ee
September 15, 2011 @ 9:31 PMThe Estonian Internet Foundation’s domain disputes committee has settled another case in favor of a well-known trademark owner, ruling that a dot-ee domain name be given over to Federal Express Corporation.
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