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Registrar Brandon Gray Internet Services Loses License to Sell .CA Domains
February 7, 2011 @ 11:16 AMA Canadian domain registrar affiliated with a reseller that the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (www.cira.org) says has sent out misleading renewal notices to domain owners has lost its license to sell dot-ca domains, according to a report by IT Business. Markham, Ontario-based Brandon Gray Internet Services (<a href="https://namejuice.com" rel="nofollow">https://namejuice.com</a>) lost an injunction request on January 27 to keep its license pending an upcoming trial against CIRA involving a $10 million lawsuit.
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Critics Slam Feds for 'Unprecedented' Domain Seizure
February 7, 2011 @ 10:33 AMA vocal chorus of lawmakers and policy wonks are decrying the US government’s practice of seizing large numbers of internet domain names without first giving the owners a chance to defend themselves in court. The latest installment of Operation in our Sites came last week with the seizure of 10 addresses for websites accused of illegally streaming live pay-per-view sporting events. Under the initiative, feds confiscate the internet addresses with no prior warning to the owners, many of whom are located outside US borders.
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Sen. Mccaskill Pays Cybersquatter $4k for Domain Name
February 7, 2011 @ 10:10 AMSen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) recently paid a cybersquatter $4,000 for the rights to ClaireMcCaskill.com, which now redirects to her campaign website. The St. Louis Dispatch caught the expense listed on McCaskill’s latest campaign finance report. A Missouri-based graphic designer owned the domain name, according to the paper.
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Did GoDaddy Turn Off Premium Listings During The Super Bowl?
February 7, 2011 @ 8:27 AMFor domain investors who list their domain names with Go Daddy’s Premium Listing program, the Super Bowl commercial was possibly expected to bring a big bump to sales. With massive amounts of website traffic, premium listings should have received significant exposure during the game.
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Go Daddy Sees Anticipated Traffic, Sales Spike From Super Bowl Ad
February 7, 2011 @ 8:24 AMGWeb hosting and domain giant Go Daddy (www.godaddy.com) announced on Monday that it had doubled its best-ever Internet traffic spike in the wake of its advertisement in Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, and had successfully converted the traffic into significant sales. The company, which owes much of its rapid rise to prominence to a deft spinning of the controversy surrounding its original Super Bowl ad, says the surge that followed its first appearance in the broadcast pushed its total domains under management past the 46 million mark.
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Homeland Security Begins Seizing Domains Again
February 7, 2011 @ 6:14 AMLate last year the Department Of Homeland Security seized roughly eighty domains, including at least one search engine, under a broad new copyright protection push that is on shaky (at best) legal grounds. DHS continued those domain seizures last week, including a significant portion of domains for streaming websites like ChannelSurfing.net — clearly as part of an effort to crack down on illegal sports streams ahead of the Superbowl. Except as Techdirt points out, at least one of those seizures was of not only a foreign domain (Spanish streaming site Rojadirecta), but for a legitimate company that has found its streaming rights upheld repeatedly in Spanish courts.
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Domain Name Dispute
February 7, 2011 @ 5:59 AMDomain name disputes such as this where one party claims to have rights in a domain name which has been registered by another party are governed by The Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (“the Policy”). The Policy is incorporated by reference into all agreements on registering a domain.
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Super Bowl Celebration: Less is More With Dot-co
February 7, 2011 @ 4:36 AMIt’s the morning after. The blogosphere is abuzz with excitement about Super Bowl Sunday, and EnCirca is tickled to join in and offer special pricing for registering a dot-co domain. EnCirca’s promotional pricing for a dot-co registration is $11.99 for the first year and will be available until Friday, February 11, 2011. Dot-co, an old domain name, has reinvented itself and is now available for unrestricted international use.
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Web's Domain-name System in for Huge Expansion
February 7, 2011 @ 4:09 AMThe pillar of the basic Web address — the trusty .com domain — is about to face vast new competition that will dramatically transform the Web as we know it. New websites, with more subject-specific, sometimes-controversial suffixes, will soon populate the online galaxy, such as .eco, .love, .god, .sport, .gay or .kurd.
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For Countries That Own Shorter Web Site Suffixes, Extra Cash From Abroad
February 6, 2011 @ 10:51 PMCountry codes owned by governments that have two-letter combinations at the end of their sites, like the “.me” for Montenegro, are attracting purchases by foreign companies.
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