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James Schramko’s Namecheap Review Now Up on BuyWithBonus.com – Quality Domain Name Service at a Bargain

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:38:12 +0000

James Schramko reviews Namecheap; a domain name and web hosting company from where he gets quality domains for his online business at bargain prices.Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) February 08, 2012 In the internet marketing space, the importance of a brand ownership and reliable web hosting service cannot be stressed enough. As the saying goes, time is money, and each minute a business website is …

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.Ping trademark in jeopardy, but Ping sailing through

DomainNameWire — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:29:29 +0000

PING golf manufacturer still has a TLD trademark going through the system. Last month I wrote about how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had caught on to an trademark application for .Ping.

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Moniker publishes final DOMAINfest auction list

DomainNameWire — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:37:01 +0000

Two more valuable domain names added to auction. Moniker has published the final list of domains for next week’s live domain auction during DOMAINfest, as well as the online auction to follow. Bargain.com and Democracy.com have been added to the auction

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VeriSign plans to apply for about 12 new top level domain names

DomainNameWire — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:57:58 +0000

Company will apply for about a dozen TLDs, mostly transliterations of .com. VeriSign plans to apply for “about 12″ top level domain names this year, Pat Kane, Senior Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Naming Services, said on VeriSign’s investor conference call this evening. Most of these will be transliterations of .com.

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LeadRefs.com helps you find buyers for your domains

DomainNameWire — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:45:08 +0000

Free service finds potential buyers for your domain names. Sure, you can sit on your domain portfolio and wait for the right buyer to come along.

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DomainTools Estimates Verisign Manages Over 100 Million .COM Domains

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:12:32 +0000

A number of organizations track the .com domain registrations by simply reading the Verisign daily zone file, a methodology that underestimates the current count.

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Is Marchex considering selling its domain name portfolio?

DomainNameWire — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:32:06 +0000

Company considering what to do with its domain name portfolio. Marchex is often cited as starting a wave of acquisitions of domain portfolios when it announced the purchase of Ultimate Search from Yun Ye in 2004 for $164 million. Now it is looking at “ strategic alternatives ” for its domain name portfolio

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Best Buy buys PhoneFreedom.com and other end user domain sales

DomainNameWire — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:00:02 +0000

A big retailer makes a small domain purchase.

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Some legal advice: LegalAdvice.org is generic

DomainNameWire — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:21:17 +0000

Panel rules against company claiming rights to LegalAdvice.org. A company called Capitalism, Inc

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ANA on ICANN’s Expansion of Top-Level Domains: “Reckless and Premature”

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:55:32 +0000

On January 12, ICANN began carrying out its controversial new plan. As WebProNews previously reported, the organization made the historical decision last year to expand the number of generic top-level domain (gTLD) names to an unlimited number. What this means is that the 22 domain name endings, including .com, .org, and others that currently exist could turn into .brand going forward.

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UK-based Transpact offers domain escrow services

DomainNameWire — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:14:32 +0000

Another option for domain name escrow services.

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Buy.XXX: a case study of consumer awareness of TLDs

DomainNameWire — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:05:07 +0000

The general public doesn’t know that domains can end something other than .com. On November 22 I wrote an article about ICM Registry’s TV ad campaign

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Windows Phone site forced to give domain to Salesforce.com

DomainNameWire — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:38:07 +0000

Salesforce.com awarded hyphenated version of popular AppExchange.com web site. A service that helps app creators submit their wares to the Windows Phone marketplace must give its domain name to Salesforce.com, an arbitration panel has ruled

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Net naming changes with additional domains

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:58:32 +0000

HUNDREDS OF new website domain name suffixes are to be added to the familiar .com and .org addresses in one of the biggest changes to the internet’s naming system in over two decades.

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Wow: Judge orders UDRP transfers, including Apple typo, to be reversed

DomainNameWire — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:52:25 +0000

We do things differently in Texas. District Judge Royal Furgeson has ordered ( pdf ) that World Intellectual Property Organization cases from as early as 2010 be overturned and ordered a number of domain names now owned by Apple and Public storage be transferred back to the typosquatter that previously owned them. Yes, you read that correctly

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