What Do New Top-Level Web Domains Mean To Your Brand?

Guest post written by Gretchen Olive Gretchen Olive is Director of & Industry Affairs at Corporation Service Company. On January 12, ICANN, the nonprofit organization that oversees the use of Internet domains, will begin accepting applications for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), allowing the creation of Web addresses ending in things like .bank, .brand,??.green??or …

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VeriSign releases DomainCountdown for expired domains

.Com and .net registry released more data on expiring domain names. VeriSign has just released a beta of DomainCountdown , a source of data on expiring domain names. DomainCountdown provides a wealth of information about domain names in pending delete status, and some of them are quite fascinating.

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New software will connect dots between “rogue web sites”

Company says it will help legal efforts against counterfeit goods sales. As congress debates the Stop Online Piracy Act (STOP) and companies file dozens of lawsuits against counterfeiters, a New York company claims to be developing software to aid in the fight. RogueFinder, LLC is a new company, having just registered its domain name RogueFinder.com a week ago and filing a trademark application around the same time. But its software looks interesting if it achieves what its brochureware web site claims.

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Frank Schilling and John Berryhill team up to get RDNH decision

Company files dispute for UDRP in bad faith. Frank Schilling, with the help of attorney John Berryhill, has convinced a UDRP panel that AINS, INC is guilty of reverse domain name hijacking in a dispute over eCase.com. AINS, Inc has a trademark for “ecase” for its software for workflow and case management. It claimed a first use in commerce date of 2009 on its trademark application. Schilling acquired the domain name eCase.com in 2002, so the case had no chance of succeeding.

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Web .xxx domains debut amid debate

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) — The debut of .xxx Internet domains for adult material is raising debate among those opposed to adult entertainment and those who produce it, experts say.

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Two Debuts Today: Gates Open for .XXX and DomainTools Launches Screenshots.com

General availability of the new .XXX extension began today, Names are available on a first come, first served basis at standard registration fees. In another debut, Screenshots.com launched a free site that allows users to view screenshots of what a website has looked like throughout its history.

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Dot-XXX Domains Go Live, Escalating Battle for Smutty URLs

The .XXX domain is meant to safely filter adult content on the Web under one domain name that also gives users an advanced heads-up over what they will find once a site has loaded.

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Internet to get more porn today as 100,000 .XXX domains go live

The Internet is about to get a whole lot more porn. As of 11am ET today, more than 100,000 new websites will go online as the .XXX top-level domain, which was approved by ICANN in March, officially goes live. But just because there will be more pornography online doesn’t mean Web users will necessarily be bombarded by even more salacious content than they already are.

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Purdue buys .xxx domains

If you wanted to set up the website www.boilermakers.xxx, you are out of luck.

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Oklahoma Universities Purchase Porn Domains To Protect Reputation

More than 100,000 adult porn sites will go online Tuesday under a new .xxx domain name. Boomersooner.xxx and OSU.xxx will be among the sites, but who’s behind them may surprise you.

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Porn Fight: Manwin says it won’t do business with .xxx domain names

Porn site operator follows up anti-trust suit with competitive threat. Porn purveyor Manwin has taken its battle against the .xxx domain name a step further following its antitrust lawsuit: it’s not going to have anything to do with sites that use the new top level domain.

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Google Safe Browsing Alerts Network Admins About Malware Distribution Domains

Google has extended its Safe Browsing alerts for network administrators to include domains that host malware or exploits in addition to compromised websites and…

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Google: Parked Domains, Scraper Sites Targeted Among New Search Changes

In what’s now to be a monthly update on search changes, a new Google “Inside Search” blog post today tells us that life is getting tougher for those with parked domains, life may get better for those plagued by scraper sites and those hoping to “push down” negative listings may have a tougher challenge.

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Arbitration panel gives Noah Cyrus domain name

Youngest Cyrus gets domain name. Noah Cyrus, the eleven year old sister of Miley Cyrus and son of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, has won rights to the domain name NoahCyrus.com. The domain name was registered in 2006 just as Cyrus became a household name thanks to the Disney channel’s Hannah Montana TV show. But she got her start in acting with a role in the TV show Doc when she was just three years old.

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Penn State buys .xxx domains to block use

Penn State has purchased some Internet domains to block their usage by the porn industry.

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Ndamukong Suh may not be on the field but he’s still winning

Suspended football player wins rights to domain name. Detroit Lions star defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh may have to sit out a couple games because of his stomping incident last week, but he’s still winning off the field. A World Intellectual Property Organization panel has awarded him his namesake — NdamukongSuh.com. The domain name was registered to Tim Evans of Athlete Web Design. He registered the domain name in 2009.

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ANA to ICANN: Your industry consensus claim is a lie

Group cites widespread opposition as proof of lack of consensus. I’m going to rip off the title of this post from a video released yesterday by Association of National Advertisers (ANA)

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www.Buy.xxx – One week until launch

www.Buy.xxx making a big splash as registry gears up for general availability. With just a week to go until general availability of the .xxx domain name, ICM Registry’s commercials are making quite a splash

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