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We Should Find Out Next Week if UDRP Reform is Coming
January 29, 2011 @ 5:55 AMNext week on February 3 the GNSO (General Names Supporting Organization) of ICANN will take a vote on a motion that will determine whether ICANN will consider UDRP reform.
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Url Shortening Service Makes You The Master of Your Domain
January 29, 2011 @ 2:49 AMNew web service, TrafficShaping.com, enables online marketers to create short URLs using their own domains while retaining total control over the web traffic flowing through them.
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Oversee.net Acquires ShopWiki Shopping Comparison Network
January 28, 2011 @ 7:47 PMOversee.net, the leader in Internet real estate, specializing in monetizing, registering, selling and developing domain names, acquires New York-based multinational shopping search engine to expand its portfolio of websites that help consumers make informed purchase decisions. The acquisition is the first in the consumer retail space for Oversee’s expanding Vertical Markets division, which is further developing the company’s contextual search and comparative results capabilities to create site experiences that help consumers make purchase decisions.
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Google Changes Algorithm to Address Sites With Unoriginal Content
January 28, 2011 @ 10:39 AMAlgorithm change went into effect earlier this week. Google web spam czar Matt Cutts blogged today about a recent algorithm change to Google’s rankings. The algorithm change is a follow up to Cutt’s post a week ago about addressing low level “content farms”. This could affect parked domains which take advantage of re-used content to make a domain look fully populated, which in turn drives up the price of a domain name.
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ICANN Approves Short and Numeric-only .tel Domain Names
January 28, 2011 @ 12:45 AMTelnic Limited (<a href="http://telnic.tel" rel="nofollow">http://telnic.tel</a>), the registry operator for the .tel top level domain (TLD), today announced that, following the ICANN board meeting conducted in January 2011, ICANN has now approved the release of both short (such as jj.tel) and numeric-only (such as 442074676450.tel or 88.tel) .tel domain names for registration.
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India Gets 7 IDN County Code Domain Names
January 27, 2011 @ 6:43 PMIndia gets seven IDN ccTLDS and more good news for IDN domain name supporters. One thing I learned on my trip to India earlier this month is that there are a lot of local languages. This week ICANN approved delegation of seven (yes, seven) internationalized county code domain names to National Internet Exchange of India.
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Verisign Fourth Quarter Profit Edges Ahead of Estimates On Higher Domain Names
January 27, 2011 @ 4:14 PMVeriSign revealed Thursday a fourth-quarter profit of $40.5 million, or 23 cents a share, compared with a profit of $92 million, or 48 cents a share, in the same quarter last year, narrowly below average analyst estimates polled by Thomson Reuters of 30 cents.
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Investing in .co Domain Names: My Current Thoughts and Outlook
January 26, 2011 @ 11:13 AM.CO domain names were introduced in 2010 and have become a hot topic among domain investors. With Google’s consideration that .CO is an international domain extension rather than another ccTLD (despite the fact that it is actually Colombia’s ccTLD), I believe .CO domain names have the ability to perform well as websites in any country. I believe that this will mean businesses will be able to successfully build on .CO domain names.
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Kenya On Verge of Growing .ke Domain Market
January 26, 2011 @ 9:24 AMI had secured several high quality domain names under the .ke space over the years. These domain names were quite clearly “to die for” in any context. However, being in Kenya, and waiting till the last minute to renew them, I was sure I could do so quite easily. This was not to happen. The domain names I had were snapped up within minutes of expiring by other parties. I lost all of them except one. It was a sobering moment.
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Internet Content Provider Demand Media Rises 38% After IPO
January 26, 2011 @ 7:28 AMThe stock of Demand Media Inc. (DMD) rose almost 40% immediately after its initial public offering Wednesday after the Internet content provider increased the size of the offering to accommodate investor demand. The company’s stock opened at $23.50 a share on the New York Stock Exchange, up 38% from its IPO price of $17. A total of 8.9 million shares, 1.4 million more than expected, were sold at a price above its expected $14-to-$16 range.
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