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NCC Group and Ari Registry Services Announce Strategic Alliance for New TLD Applicants

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:03:00 +0000

SAN FRANCISCO and MELBOURNE, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Following the opening of applications for new Top-Level Domains on 12 January, NCC Group (LSE: NCC.L), the world's largest IT assurance/software …

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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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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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Doh! AARP lawyer forgets to attach screenshot, loses case

DomainNameWire — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:37:39 +0000

AARP wins two cases for similar domain names but loses third. The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) just received determinations in three cases it filed for aarpdiscounts.info, aarpdiscounts.net, aarpdiscount.org, and AARPdiscounts.org.

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How to import your Parked account into DomainApps

DomainNameWire — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:59:06 +0000

Manage your old Parked.com and WhyPark accounts in one interface. Earlier this month WhyPark announced it was changing its name to DomainApps .

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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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My favorite Mexican restaurant just bought Tex-Mex.com

DomainNameWire — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:52:36 +0000

Lupe Tortilla buys Tex-Mex.com and other end user domain purchases. So I was putting together this week’s summary of end user domain purchases when I noticed a familiar name: Lupe Tortilla . This Mexican restaurant serves the world’s best beef fajitas.

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Receiver asks for typo domains to be confiscated from Apple and others

DomainNameWire — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:46:26 +0000

Receiver wants ICANN to reverse domain transfers.

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ANA proposes “Do Not Sell” list to ICANN

DomainNameWire — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:02:17 +0000

ANA asks for top level block list or it may proceed with legal action. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) has proposed that ICANN adopt a “Do Not Sell” list for the new top level domain name application period that opens up later this week.

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Perhaps trademark holders should no longer defensively register domains

DomainNameWire — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:01:25 +0000

In the future brand owners may need to change their domain name strategy. With potentially hundreds of new top level domain names heading to the internet as early as 2013, brand owners are crying foul

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Valero is third company to belatedly request .xxx domain name

DomainNameWire — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:53:48 +0000

Energy company complains to WIPO about Valero.xxx. San Antonio, TX based energy giant Valero Energy is the third company to ask an arbitration panel to give it a .xxx domain name. The company filed a complaint last week with World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO), seeking control of Valero.xxx

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Court grants preliminary injuction under ACPA for personal name

DomainNameWire — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:22:03 +0000

ACPA can protect your name even if you aren’t a celebrity.

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United Domains gets Punk’d

DomainNameWire — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:33:57 +0000

Members of ICANN community and competing domain registrars find themselves as new United Domains account holders. Someone is having a laugh at United Domains’ expense. Over the past few days an unknown perpetrator has set up roughly 500 empty accounts at domain name registrar United Domains using email addresses of people active in ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee and at various competing domain name registrars.

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Braden Pollock: Could He Be the Domain Monetization Messiah People Have Been Looking For?

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 05:34:50 +0000

DNJournal.com rings in the New Year with a new Cover Story. Ever since domain parking revenue went into a tailspin a few years ago, people have been looking for an alternate means of monetization that would restore the returns their domains used to produce. Some think lead gen whiz Braden Pollock may have a solution.

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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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