Language campaigners make the case for .cymru domains

A CYMRU versus Wales battle has ensued over which version of the nation’s name should gain the distinction of ending future website titles.

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Texas court claims jurisdiction over ICANN and says ICANN can stay a UDRP proceeding

An interesting case from a Texas court.

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FTC warns ICANN about more top level domains

Open to abuse, warns regulator

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Sales of .xxx domains heat up

Sales of .xxx domains heat up express-news Copyright 2011 express-news.

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Google doesn’t think YouTube.ae is a tube trading marketplace

Company files complaint against site that says it’s for “tube trading”. Google has filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Organization in an attempt to get the domain name YouTube.ae. .Ae is the country code for United Arab Emirates. YouTube.ae is either a legitimate business or a clever scheme to hide the true intentions of the domain’s owner. The site says YouTube (they capitalize it YOUTUBe) is the “leading portal of tube trading”

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Major League Baseball and Current TV buy domain names

A look at end user domain name sales from the past week. My list of end user domain purchases for the week is a little bit shorter than usual, but contains big names including Major League Baseball. All sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted.

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The two biggest misconceptions about .xxx domain names

News stories propagate fear over .xxx. I’ve watched with amusement over the past week as the press has written story after story about defensive .xxx domain name registrations. Almost every article I’ve read suggests two things about .xxx that I think are flat out wrong

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WVU Buys XXX Online Domains

West Virginia University has ventured into the Internet world of adult-themed domains to protect its trademarks.

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Report: Universities Snap Up .XXX Domains

Several Universities have begun buying .xxx domain names associated with their name in order to protect them from being used to host pornographic content.

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Universities buy .xxx domains

The new top-level domain has colleges worried about their brand

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Get 12 months of hosting for 1$ only.

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XXX Domains: An Obvious Failure

Is it just me or is the ICANN plan to corral online porn going terribly wrong? We already have reports that universities are snapping up XXX domains in an effort to get ahead of porn pranksters who want to besmirch a few good online names with smut.

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XXX domains for sale, especially for the wary

Tuesday triple X domain names went up for sale. These are domains with .xxx extensions behind the names.  Big name businesses are afraid of having their name attached to one of these triple xxx sites and possibly coming up as a porn site. So now businesses are buying up their names and variations with the xxx domain. “The idea behind it originally was to create a portion of the internet where …

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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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U.S. officials urge ICANN to slow down on its web-domain program

The plan calls for new domains that reflect brands, but which will be costly.

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New TLD program has two hearings on Capitol Hill within one week

Get ready for representatives to pretend like they know about domain names. ICANN and its new top level domain name program will be put under the microscope in Washington, D.C. twice over the next 7 days.

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55,367 .xxx domain names registered in first 24 hours

Big numbers in latest top level domain release. I just got an email from ICM Registry about .xxx registration results in the first 24 hours.

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.XXX domains available for general sale

ICANN started the process of approving the new .xxx domain name back in March of this year. After months of waiting people that wanted to buy the new domains can now officially get them. The addresses ending in .xxx are specifically for porn sites and was intended to allow people to identify and avoid porn

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