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Cybersquatting Hits Record Level, WIPO Center Rolls out New Services
March 31, 2011 @ 4:10 AMIn 2010, trademark holders filed 2,696 cybersquatting cases covering 4,370 domain names with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (WIPO Center) under procedures based on the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), an increase of 28% over the 2009 level and of 16% over the previous record year, 2008.
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Verisign Achieves Critical DNSSEC Milestone By Deploying Security Extensions
March 31, 2011 @ 2:06 AMVeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, announced today that .com — the Internet’s largest domain with more than 90 million domain name registrations worldwide — now supports DNS Security.
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PETA Plays Into Bob Parson's Hands Over Elephant Hunting
March 30, 2011 @ 10:59 PMPETA is closing its Go Daddy account over elephant hunting incident. Poor Bob Parsons. The Go Daddy founder is about to lose a few hundred domain name registrations from its client People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). I’m sure he’s just shaking in his boots. The group is enraged about an elephant hunting video he took in …
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Top10.co Explains Its Choice of .co for New Web Site
March 30, 2011 @ 2:21 AMCompany that made a big .com domain purchase in 2010 launches a new product on .co in 2011. Top10.com Media Ltd is no stranger to domain names. Last year the company forked over $1 million in cash and equity for the domain name Top10.com, which it uses for his communications service comparison engine. When the company decided to launch…
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Court to Auction John Zuccarini Domain Names April 8
March 29, 2011 @ 11:47 AMCourt-appointed receiver finally set to auction off domain names. The long saga of John Zuccarini’s domain names might be winding to a close. On April 8, 2011, court-appointed receiver Michael Blacksburg will auction off dozens of domain names to satisfy a cybersquatting judgment against Zuccarini. Zuccarini also owes the IRS significant …
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Court Awards Digimedia $100,000 for Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
March 29, 2011 @ 10:54 AMDomain investor and developer scores penalty against company that attempted reverse domain name hijacking. A judge has awarded Scott Day’s DigiMedia.com LP $103,717.66 stemming from a finding of reverse domain name hijacking against GoForIt Entertainment (pdf). GoForIt made an interesting claim against DigiMedia back in 2006.
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Will The .xxx Domain Name Kill The Online Porn Industry?
March 29, 2011 @ 2:02 AMCreating a virtual ghetto for pornography will make it significantly easier for parents and legislators to police unwanted content. When a company buys a new .xxx domain and alerts the ICM Registry, the new site will be lumped with any .com, .net, .in or any other sites that they own and operate, according to a Forbes story that was published after ICANN’s decision. Legislators could target each of those lumps. X marks the spot.
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.xxx Does Not Mark The Spot
March 28, 2011 @ 3:05 AMICANN’s latest top level domain decision raises a few eyebrows.
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New Method Finds Botnets That Hide Behind Changing Domains
March 28, 2011 @ 2:33 AMResearchers at Texas A&M University believe they have a new way of fighting domain-fluxing botnets.
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12 Ways to Get Rich in The New TLD Gold Rush (Part 1)
March 28, 2011 @ 12:15 AMGet your creative juices going. A lot of people in the domain name industry are opposed to new top level domain names. But their eventual approval is inevitable. Rather than focusing on what’s wrong with a massive introduction of new top level domain names, it’s time to switch gears and figure out how you can profit from it…
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