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ICANN Defends Domain Name Process, Proposal
August 10, 2011 @ 5:05 AMThe group that manages the Internet’s domain name system is strongly defending a proposal approved in June that could lead to the introduction of hundreds or even thousands of new Internet domain names.
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Sedo's Jeremiah Johnston Steps Down, Will Open Private Practice
August 9, 2011 @ 6:10 AMLong time domain industry exec steps down. Sedo has just confirmed a rumor that started peculating recently: CEO Jeremiah Johnston is leaving the company. Johnston will remain General Counsel to the company as he opens his own private practice. Honestly, with Johnston’s involvement with all of the company’s legal business I had kind of …
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New Domain Structures Could Mean Change for SEO
August 9, 2011 @ 12:41 AMAccording to PCMag.com, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a plan for new domain name structures, including domain extensions-and it could impact the way people find sites on the web. With the new structure in place, searching would be possible directly in the browser and therefore remove the middleman, which in this case is the search engine.
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Spanish Site Claims Forfeiture of Link Sites is Illegal
August 8, 2011 @ 5:49 AMThe company that owns the seized Rojadirecta.com domain has asked the courts to dismiss the forfeiture on the grounds that the law doesn’t allow forfeitures for operating a linking site.
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Product Expansion? Toys R Us Gets Tattoos R Us Domain Name
August 8, 2011 @ 1:00 AMCompany gets a bunch of unusable domain names in arbitration case. Is it the right strategy? Before long, Toys ‘R’ Us might be able to get into the credit card, insurance, legal, and even tattoos businesses. OK, so it doesn’t really plan to, but it just won a domain name arbitration case for 21 domain names including ‘rus’ that it can …
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Hubpages Switches to Subdomains to Optimize for Google
August 7, 2011 @ 5:08 AMGoogle Panda update forces HubPages to transition user content to subdomains. Web community HubPages is making a drastic change to its URL structure in an effort to recover from Google’s Panda update. The site’s content is created by members who share in advertising revenue. Like many similar sites, it was hit hard by Google’s update targeted …
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Lampoon Loses Domain Complaint
August 7, 2011 @ 1:08 AMThe Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, was denied rights to lampoon.com after accusing the owner of that domain name of piggybacking off of its brand.
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Forget iPhone 5, Apple Pico Domain Name Registered
August 6, 2011 @ 12:33 AMWith iPhone 5 rumors flying in faster than we can keep track of, this little leak has caught us off guard. Earlier today, details surfaced that Apple has registered the domain name ApplePico.com.
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Motorola's Next Tablet Will Be Called The Kore, Domain Names Show
August 5, 2011 @ 1:04 AMMotorola just bought a bunch of domain names hinting at the launch of a new tablet called the Kore, Fusible discovered. The domain names are MotorolaKore.com, KoreMotorola.com, Moto-kore.com, MotoKore.com, and Motorola-Kore.com.
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Judge Says Domain Name Loss is Not a Substantial Hardship
August 5, 2011 @ 12:49 AMA federal judge has refused to return two Rojadirecta domain names to their Spanish owner, ruling that letting the government keep them until trial does not violate the First Amendment.
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