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Domain Holdings Grabs $2.9 Million Investment, Releases Improved Domain Builder
July 19, 2011 @ 2:46 AMDomain name company lands outside investment and releases upgraded domain development platform. Domain name development company Domain Holdings has raised $2.9 million in funding. The company was founded by domainer Chad Folkening, who was later joined by Advertising.com co-founder John Ferber. The company also released a complete rewrite…
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.XXX Gold Rush: Debbie Does Domain Names
July 19, 2011 @ 2:04 AMAs branding extends to URL with dot-branding now permitted, sexually explicit content providers are the most obvious purchasers banging at the door of ICM Registry to pay for new domain names, but more conventional brands are also looking ahead to see what’s behind the door.
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New Domain Structure Could Challenge The SEO Industry
July 19, 2011 @ 12:51 AMStarting in 2012, corporations and municipalities will be able to buy specific domains. These changes will present some hurdles for SEO firms, notably on how we adjust to the changes with indexing current and existing webpages. While corporations may see limited benefit from securing their own corporate domain extension, municipalities and specific interest groups could benefit greatly from these scenarios and in turn, it could greatly impact the nature by which people use search engines.
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Google Buys G.Co To Create An Official URL Shortcut For Google Products
July 18, 2011 @ 4:41 PMGoogle joins Internet biggies Twitter (T.Co) , Overstock (O.co) and Amazon (A.Co, Z.Co and K.Co) today in taking over the G.Co domain name, buying the TLD in order to build the official URL shortcut for Google products like GMail, Documents and Photos. While representatives from the .Co registry wouldn’t comment on the pricing of the deal, .Co-founder Juan Diego Calle recently told Reuters that a single letter domain like G.Co costs more than $1.5 million.
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Google Spends at Least $1.5 Million for G.co Domain Name
July 18, 2011 @ 3:01 PMThe search giant plans to turn the top-level domain, which is run out of Colombia, into a URL shortener for its products this afternoon.
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Protecting Your Brand From The XXX Sex Domain
July 18, 2011 @ 6:01 AMXXX is coming as a way for adult-oriented websites to distinguish themselves from .mil, .edu, .gov and other top-level internet domains. This raises a problem for current trademark and domain name holders, who have been wondering whether…
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Microsoft and Sony Joint Domain Names Acquired Defensively
July 18, 2011 @ 3:42 AMRecently, it was noticed that Microsoft had claimed the domain names for microsoft-sony.com and sony-microsoft.com.
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DNS (Domain Name Scarcity) Pushes Verisign to $38
July 18, 2011 @ 3:18 AMVeriSign recently renewed its contract with the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to serve as the exclusive provider for .net domain names (see: ICANN Renewal Bumps VeriSign Shares Higher). It is currently the exclusive registrar for .com and .net domain names worldwide and competes with other domain […]
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Domain Name Superstar to Take The Helm at Top Level
July 17, 2011 @ 9:44 AMThe former chairman of ICANN, the governing body of internet domain names, is to join a small London-listed online company which hopes to profit from the next generation of “dot-brand” names. Top Level Domain Holdings, which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market, will today announce Peter Dengate Thrush as its executive chairman.
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Offer to Protect Trademark From .xxx Domain
July 17, 2011 @ 12:28 AMBusinesses wanting to prevent their trademarks from being used on the new .xxx internet domain will be offered the chance to pay $200 to $300 for a blocking service from September. A new internet domain name, .xxx is set to launch later this year…
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