Longtime domain industry vet Tim Schumacher is moving on.
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Tim Schumacher announces departure from Sedo
Tim Schumacher announces departure from Sedo
December 5, 2011 By
International Domains: The Brave New World Map Of URL Shorteners
November 8, 2011 By
When the revolution in Libya began, many Americans, savvy to the ways of international diplomacy, raised an important point: what would happen to bit.ly ? The .ly in bit.ly, after all, is the top-level domain (TLD) reflecting the country code for Libya. The country controls the TLD (though not all access to the domain); any .ly domain that’s purchased is money going to Libya.
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International Domains: The Brave New World Map Of URL Shorteners
Matt Cutts: .Co Not Just for Colombia
October 6, 2011 By
Matt Cutts reconfirms that .co doesn’t have to be targeted to Colombia. Despite Google clearly stating that you can opt to have your .co domain treated not just as a Colombia targeted domain, people have still spread the false notion that this isn’t the case. Matt Cutts has posted a video in his popular video series stating that, indeed, you can target your .co web site to a different location from inside your Google Webmaster account
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Group Wants to Commercialize .NA But Is Getting Ahead of Itself
September 26, 2011 By
Premature press release discusses re-launch of .na. Could the African country of Namibia be the next to capitalize on a commercialized TLD, a la .tv or .co? A consortium within the country would like to, but it may be getting ahead of itself.
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Group Wants to Commercialize .NA But Is Getting Ahead of Itself
WTF? Acorn.tv lost in UDRP.
September 13, 2011 By
Hold on tight to your generic .tv domains! Sometimes I read UDRP decisions and just start shaking my head. That’s the case with Acorn.tv. Keep in mind that UDRP was created for clear cut cases of cybersquatting
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WTF? Acorn.tv lost in UDRP.
The Year’s 2nd Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops This Week’s DN Journal Domain Sales Chart
August 31, 2011 By
After having just one name on last week’s all extension Top 20 Sales Chart the country codes were back with a vengeance this week, taking the top spot on the elite list and five places over all. The non .com gTLDs also did well with four charted domains while the always dominant .coms took 11 places.
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The Year’s 2nd Biggest ccTLD Sale Tops This Week’s DN Journal Domain Sales Chart
DirecTV Wins First Ever .So Domain Arbitration
July 1, 2011 By
DirecTV wins Directv.so.
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DirecTV Wins First Ever .So Domain Arbitration
HootSuite Adds .Li Shorteners But Defends Use of .Ly
May 11, 2011 By
Service adds back up URLs but says people need not worry about .ly. That’s wrong. Social networking platform HootSuite has added alternatives to shorteners that use Libya’s country code domain name .ly after users expressed concerns about relying on the Libyan .ly domain name. In addition to Ow.ly and Ht.ly, users can now use Owl.li and Htl.li. .Li is the country code domain name for Liechtenstein
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[Updated] ICANN Sends Breach Notice to EuroDNS Over Facebook UDRP
April 21, 2011 By
ICANN threatens EuroDNS if it fails to transfer domain name to Facebook. ICANN has sent a Notice of Breach ( pdf ) to popular European domain name registrar EuroDNS for its failure to transfer a client domain name after an adverse UDRP decision. In September 2010 a EuroDNS client lost a UDRP for Facebok.com (with one ‘o’), which is certainly a common typo for the popular social network. As of today the domain name is still in the client’s hands.
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Hey Bit.ly, What Do you Have to Say About .ly Domains Now?
April 4, 2011 By
Another example of the dangers of .ly domain names. Ever since unrest broke out in Libya Bit.ly has been saying they have no worries about their domain name
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Hey Bit.ly, What Do you Have to Say About .ly Domains Now?
Look Up in the Sky! It’s a Contest! It’s a Conference! It’s A Live Auction! No! It’s Domain Madness!
March 24, 2011 By
With the country fixated on college basketball’s March Madness at this time each year, our friends at DomainConsultant.com came up with a great idea for a domain event that could ride on the basketball tournament’s coattails. Domain Madness returns for a third go round March 29-April 5.
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Look Up in the Sky! It’s a Contest! It’s a Conference! It’s A Live Auction! No! It’s Domain Madness!
India May Try to Block .XXX
March 24, 2011 By
Government may block access to .xxx. India’s government will block access to the .xxx top level domain name, according to an article in The Economic Times. A senior official at the ministry of IT said that the domain goes against the country’s IT Act and Indian laws
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.Ca Tops 1.5 Million Domains and Gets EPP
October 13, 2010 By
CIRA transitions registry system and hits a milestone. Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) has had a big week
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Libya’s domain "morality" crackdown worries URL shorteners
October 7, 2010 By
Watch out, Web 2.0-ified short URL services: the Libyan government is beginning to crack down on certain uses of its national top-level domain. The Libyan governing authority for .ly domains, NIC.ly, explained this week that domains that run afoul of the country’s “morality” laws are being taken offline, waking users up to the fact that registering domains regulated by other countries can be a …
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MinBizCon 2010 hit for focus on ‘anti-rights’ investments
September 17, 2010 By
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY ( MindaNews /16 Sept) — The biggest alliance of environmentalists in the country has chided the Mindanao Business Conference (MinBizCon), which gathers some 500 business leaders of the island starting Friday, for its expressed plan to focus on luring investment in the sectors of agribusiness, mining and energy.
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