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Toshiba's Honeycomb Tablet Could Be Named Thrive, Say Trademark and Domain Filings
April 19, 2011 @ 5:08 AMToshiba’s been flaunting this Honeycomb tablet for months now, but they haven’t given us a name for it. (I’m getting tired of saying Toshiba Honeycomb
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Comparing The Toll Free Phone Numbers to Domain Names
April 19, 2011 @ 1:55 AMAP sheds light on using toll free numbers to capture business. The Associated Press published a story this morning about companies that reserve mass quantities of toll free phone numbers, either to capture callers or sell them to businesses that might want to use them. On the surface this is very similar to domain names. You register a …
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Landrush Looms for Thousands of Short .uk Domains
April 19, 2011 @ 12:46 AMMore than two-and-a-half thousand short .uk domain names will become available in May, the UK internet registry Nominet has said. On Tuesday, Nominet said the ‘Landrush phase’ for the 2,640 mostly two-letter .co.uk, .net.uk, .me.uk…
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University Websites Still Redirecting Users to Fake Software Sites
April 18, 2011 @ 5:39 AMFour months after a security researcher identified educational Websites that have been hijacked to redirect users to fake online stores, many of them remain unfixed.
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Facebook Sues Friendfinder's Facebookofsex Adult Site
April 18, 2011 @ 5:33 AMFacebook has filed suit against adult website operator and Penthouse publisher FriendFinder Networks, alleging trademark infringement over the company’s FaceBookOfSex.com website, PaidContent reports.
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NYC Could Get Its Own Domain... Just Like Porn!
April 18, 2011 @ 2:42 AMLast month, internet porn finally hit the big time with its own .XXX domain name. And if porn is that important, why not New York? At least two different campaigns have begun to create the .NYC domain, which would be used specifically for New York-related websites. And there are already t-shirts!
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More Dutch Internet Domain Names
April 18, 2011 @ 2:28 AMThe Netherlands Internet Domain Registration Foundation (SIDN) says it gave out more domain names than ever last year. In its annual report, SIDN says it registered 514,230 new domain names in 2010, bringing the total to 4,192,454. Getting on for 1,500 new domain names are being issued daily.
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XXX Domain Names Go Live
April 17, 2011 @ 3:09 AMThe first .xxx web addresses have gone live on the internet, almost 11 years after the extension was first proposed.
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Poker Domain Seizures Show Futility of Nabbing Domain Names
April 16, 2011 @ 6:34 AMEven without .com domains, sites can continue to operate. You can take away a domain name, but you can’t stop people from visiting a web site. Yesterday’s seizure of five poker company domain names is another case in point. Still want to get your fix of Poker Stars? Just go to PokerStars.eu.
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Controversial .xxx Domains Go Live
April 16, 2011 @ 2:29 AMAs Domain Name News reports, IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, yesterday added the recently-approved TLD to the root nameservers. Indeed, a site dedicated the domains, xxx.xxx is now live, as are placeholder sites at sex.xxx and porn.xxx (all Safe For Work at the time of writing).
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