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DotAsia to Support Asian New gTLDs
July 11, 2011 @ 6:23 PMFollowing the approval from ICANN for the implementation of the new gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domain) program, DotAsia today announces its plans to support new gTLDs from Asia, including its own IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) TLDs and applications from other Asian new gTLD applicants. Priority Sunrise Registration Period Closes: July 25 2011. Open Landrush Registration Begins: August 2, 2011.
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Google Search Blocks 11 Million .co.cc Websites to Fight Malware
July 11, 2011 @ 3:37 AMGoogle has blocked all .co.cc websites from its search results because the domain has been found to be too spammy. lands, and regular .cc websites are unaffected by Google’s changes, according to The Register.
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News International Grabs SunOnSunday.co.uk Domain
July 10, 2011 @ 6:00 PMNews International bought the sunonsunday.co.uk and thesunonsunday.co.uk domain names late last week, after they had originally been grabbed by unknown individuals as the phone-hacking scandal engulfed the News of the World Sunday tabloid.
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Delhi HC Slams US Domain Firm for Humiliating Arun Jaitley
July 9, 2011 @ 3:19 AMSlamming two US-based networking/profiling companies for humiliating Indian leader of Opposition (Rajya Sabha) Arun Jaitley, the Delhi high court on Tuesday permanently restrained them from advertising, using or auctioning his domain name <a href="http://www.arunjaitley.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.arunjaitley.com</a>.
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ICANN Renews Contract With VeriSign
July 8, 2011 @ 4:40 AMInternet infrastructure services provider VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) recently announced that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has renewed the former’s contract to serve as the authoritative registry operator for the .net registry for another six years till 2017.
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Domain Market / Domain Asset Holdings Changes Landing Pages: No More PPC Links
July 8, 2011 @ 1:33 AMI happened to come across a domain name owned by Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings, and I noticed the company recently changed its landing pages.
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Livingsocial Gets Irish
July 7, 2011 @ 10:50 PMDaily deals site gets LivingSocial.ie domain name. LivingSocial has a new home on the web in Ireland: LivingSocial.ie. .Ie is the country code domain name for Ireland. Last month the daily deals site filed for arbitration to get the domain name. Until now it has been offering deals in Ireland on its main LivingSocial.com web address.
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Will New Top Level Domains End The Rent-Seeking of Domain Name Speculators?
July 7, 2011 @ 6:20 AMThousands of people all over the world have spent the past 15 years making millions by scalping web domains that people who might put them to legitimate would otherwise be able to register for less than $10 at their favorite domain registrar. Now ICANN, the Internet’s ruling body, is going to allow anyone to create a new Top Level Domain, potentially exploding the amount of internet real estate available to us all.
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Namecheap Uses Facebook Likes to Activate $1.99 Domain Deal
July 7, 2011 @ 1:59 AMNamecheap, a leading domain name registrar, recently ran a successful promotion on Facebook that generated over 5,000 new fans to unlock a $1.99 coupon code for a new com/org/net domain name. Domains purchased with $1.99 coupon code include free WhoisGuard, Namecheap’s proprietary domain name privacy option, and a free Comodo PositiveSSL certificate. The total value of this opportunity retails for more than $53.
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Domain Registrar Whois.com.au Offers Social Login to Registrar Account
July 7, 2011 @ 12:44 AMAustralian domain register lets you login with your Facebook account. Domain name registrar Whois.com.au has enabled social login functions to access your registrar account. In other words, instead of logging in with your registrar credentials you can login with Facebook, Twitter, etc. I’m not aware of any other registrars that offer this, …
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