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100 MEEELLION .com domains now registered

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:47:14 +0000

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

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Octane360 founders start social media agency

DomainNameWire — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:20:22 +0000

After cashing out to Local.com, Octane360 founders return to agency roots. The founders of geo domain monetization platform Octane360 have returned to their agency roots with a new social media agency Next Step Social

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Richard Branson wants his .XXX

DomainNameWire — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:06:57 +0000

Virgin Group founder challenges registration of .xxx domain name. When ICM Registry released .xxx domain names to the public last month, Richard Branson must have been busy yachting. Australian Sean Truman beat him to the domain name, registering RichardBranson.xxx on December 10

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Web domains face major overhaul

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:36:52 +0000

Applications are due to open for custom top-level domain names in what is the biggest change to the web address system in over two decades.

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Paul Stahura’s Donuts Inc to apply for 10 TLDs

DomainNameWire — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:00:47 +0000

eNom founder’s company will apply for ten top level domains. eNom founder Paul Stahura plans to apply for ten new top level domain names through his new company Donuts Inc., Bloomberg reports . Donuts raised $1 million in outside capital beginning in April of 2011

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ICANN Has Started Taking Applications For New Top-Level Domains

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:01:47 +0000

Beginning January 12, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will be accepting applications for newly available top-level domain names beyond the typical .com and .net variety. Some of the new domain offerings you might see are .book and …

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Google Chrome may have been demoted, but still has the first ad

DomainNameWire — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:59:02 +0000

Chrome still a top ad and Google.com itself hasn’t been demoted. So Google demoted Google.com/chrome in its web rankings after the pay-to-post fiasco. Or did it?

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Apple “wins”, but plays whac-a-mole with counterfeiters

DomainNameWire — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:12:34 +0000

Company wins domain name dispute, but it won’t do the company much good. Apple has won a domain name dispute against what it alleges to be an outfit selling counterfeit Apple products. But it might have to continue chasing the perpetrators.

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Google bats .740 against YouTube typosquatter

DomainNameWire — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:51:15 +0000

Google wins 37 of 50 typo domain names. Google has won rights to 37 typo domain names of its YouTube brand, but it won’t be happy with the results. That’s because the National Arbitration Forum panelist who decided the case also determined that the typosquatter could keep 13 infringing domain names, including youtubr.com and youtbue.com

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How Lamar Smith will respond to your SOPA complaint

DomainNameWire — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:13:26 +0000

The form response Lamar Smith sends to opponents of SOPA. As I mentioned in a previous post, I live in Lamar Smith’s district in Texas. His office is literally a couple miles from mine. Smith is the sponsor of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). I wrote to him a week ago via his web site expressing how I didn’t like the SOPA bill because it reinforces the idea that America owns the internet.

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We Have White Christmases Too: Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah From Florida!

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:11:37 +0000

We had a wonderful Christmas in Florida Sunday. It was 82 degrees & sunny so snow was a little scarce but we still have White Christmases – it’s just that the white stuff here is sand instead of snow! Our Christmas wish is that you & your families are having an equally joyous holiday season and that 2012 will be your best year ever.

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