UK-US corporate world slams ‘dot-brand’ domain plans
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Lobby groups representing a majority of US advertisers and online media companies have demanded that domain name overseer ICANN slam the brakes on its controversial new generic top-level domains programme. Claiming the gTLD programme is "likely to cause irreparable harm and ...
Domain Name Registrations Reach 215 Million, 5 Million Added in Q2
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by Verisign reports more than 5 million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2011, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 215 million ...
Legal expert warns SMEs to consider registering XXX domain names to prevent …
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Businesses are being warned to register their trademarks under the new .xxx domain name system so that cyber squatters don't get in first, leading to the possibility of consumers being misled or a brand being tarnished. The warning comes ...
ACA slams proposed changes to internet domain name program
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The Association of Canadian Advertisers (ACA) has joined other advertiser organizations in decrying a decision by the global organization overseeing ...
UK-US corporate world slams ‘dot-brand’ domain plans
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Lobby groups representing a majority of US advertisers and online media companies have demanded that domain name overseer ICANN slam the brakes on its controversial new generic top-level domains programme. Claiming the gTLD programme is "likely to cause irreparable harm and ...
What’s NOT a domain name?
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »What's NOT a domain name?Esther Dyson the Great Dame of Silicon Valley, at times matriarch to Bill Gates and many other lads on the innovative circuit, wrote a harsh column August 26th on GPS CNN on ICANN gTLD. I like ...
Domain Name Basics – What the Different Parts Mean
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A domain name is a textual name that defines a numeric location of a computer on the Internet. Instead of referring to a domain with some cryptic number, you just type in an easy-to-remember domain name instead. Levels of Domains ...
Internet Adds More Than Five Million Domain Names in Second Quarter
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What’s NOT a domain name?
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »What's NOT a domain name?Esther Dyson the Great Dame of Silicon Valley, at times matriarch to Bill Gates and many other lads on the innovative circuit, wrote a harsh column August 26th on GPS CNN on ICANN gTLD. I like ...
What’s NOT in a Domain Name
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Esther Dyson, the Great Dame of Silicon Valley, at times matriarch to Bill Gates and many other lads on the innovation circuit, wrote a harsh column Aug. 26 about ICANN's gTLD system, titled "What's in a Domain Name?" I like and ...
VeriSign: 5.2 Million More Domain Names
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Base of registered domain names continues to grow. VeriSign released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief today, reporting that the total base of domain names increased by 5.2 million last quarter to 215 million. Registrations have grown by ...
What’s NOT in a Domain Name – E
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Esther Dyson, the Great Dame of Silicon Valley, at times matriarch to Bill Gates and many other lads on the innovation circuit, wrote a harsh column Aug. 26 about ICANN's gTLD system, titled "What's in a Domain Name?" I like and ...
More Than 215 Million Domain Names Registered World Wide
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Verisign has released their latest issue of their quarterly Domain Industry Brief (PDF) today. The second quarter of 2011 closed with a base of more than 215 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 5.2 ...
Google, OpenDNS Team Up to Boost Internet Speeds
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Google has teamed up with OpenDNS and several content delivery networks (CDNs) for an effort intended to boost Internet speeds. The Global Internet Speedup initiative will ...
Federal court signs off on domain-name seizures
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A federal court has sanctioned the efforts of U.S. law enforcement to seize domain names belonging to suspected pirate sites. John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has a green light from the courts to continue seizing Web domains. ...
Canada: Domain Name Is Property In Ontario
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of ...
Could Your Trademark End Up as an Adult Website?
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »How would you feel if your valuable trademark (e.g. “STARFLASH”) appeared in the newly created adult entertainment domain, .xxx, as a domain name for an adult website (e.g. starflash.xxx)? Recently, the organization that controls issuance of top level internet domain ...
Now You Can Enhance Your ProofHub Account with Custom Domain Name
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »ProofHub announces its new update that now you can enhance your ProofHub account with custom domain name instead of the default address which you get when you sign up in the ProofHub ...
New adult domain: companies need to act
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Companies have been urged to protect their trademarks online following the decision earlier this year by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to introduce a new top-level Internet domain for the adult entertainment industry. Mike du Toit, director ...
Now You Can Enhance Your ProofHub Account with Custom Domain Name
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »ProofHub announces its new update that now you can enhance your ProofHub account with custom domain name instead of the default address which you get when you sign up in the ProofHub ...
DNSSEC Takes Off in Wake of Root Zone Signing
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a suite of IETF-developed specifications designed to validate information provided by the Domain Name System (DNS). A number of early adopters deployed DNSSEC for the domain they are responsible for. Among these early ...
Sedo.com Posts $650K In Domain Name Sales
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Sedo just reported it sales for the week and like Afternic.com reported just minutes ago, Sedo.com sold just about $650K in domain names led by NBB.com which sold for $95,000. On the non-.com from the domain Pact.de sold for around $25,000 ...
Walgreens Needs Pain Killers After UDRP Decision
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Panelist rules against drugstore. Drug store chain Walgreen might need some Advil after reading a recent decision handed down by National Arbitration Forum. A single member panel ruled that Indian company Walgreens Realty International can keep the domain ...
Websites Now Free for Kansas Businesses
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »KANSAS CITY, Kan., Aug. 30, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Today Google is announcing Kansas Get Your Business Online. Designed with prominent local and national ...
DNS LOC Not Used By Google Web Search
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Colin McDermott asked an interesting on Google + asking "does Google look at DNS LOC in it's geolocation algo for websites/sub-domains?"DNS LOC is is a way of geo-enabling the domain name system. So would Google ...
Yoga.com — The Industry Defining Domain Name is for Sale
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »By Catherine Hollander National Journal President Obama is slated to deliver a major speech on job creation next week. He may propose steps to increase hiring directly, perhaps through tax credits and new work-training programs, and indirectly, by backing measures ...
101domains Comes Up With Exclusive International Domain Name
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »August 30, 2011: A great leverage in internet can be earned only through international domain names; understanding the requirement www.101domains.com has come up with exclusive international domain names. These are known as multilingual domain names for the reason that they ...
Yoga.com — The Industry Defining Domain Name is for Sale
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »More than half of Muslim-Americans in a new poll say that government anti-terrorism policies single them out for increased surveillance and monitoring, and many report increased cases of name-calling, threats and harassment by airport security, law enforcement officers and others.
Infoblox Chosen to Provide Automated IP Address Management for VMworld® 2011 …
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Yoga.com — The Industry Defining Domain Name is for Sale
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Google, OpenDNS add geo speed boost to Net
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch (Credit: OpenDNS) OpenDNS, Google, and a few others have built a new technology into their Internet operations that's designed to speed up the delivery of data around the globe. The technology augments the Domain Name System that provides the numeric ...
Cybersquatters snap up GOP possibilities
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announces his candidacy at Scamman Farm in Stratham, N.H., June 2, 2011. UPI/Matthew Healey WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The domain names of U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls Romney-Perry2012.com and Perry-Romney2012.com are available ...
The Design of the Domain Name System, Part IV
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »In the previous installments, we've been looking at aspects of the design of the DNS (see part I, II and III). Many databases go to great effort to present a globally consistent view of the data they control, since the alternative ...
Multiple Domain Names Boost Traffic
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »LOS ANGELES — A new report by domain broker KetMo.com claims that focusing on a single ‘main brand’ domain name is not the best strategy for website traffic building. While many Internet marketers tend to promote a single website, attempting to ...
Why Domains Are “The Worst Investment I’ve Ever Gotten Into”
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »It depends on if you’re investing or gambling. I was reading a blog post on The Hill this morning about a guy trying to sell Romney-Perry2012.com and Perry-Romney2012.com for $50,000. You read stories about this all the time ...
What’s NOT a domain name?
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »INTERNATIONAL. Esther Dyson the Great Dame of Silicon Valley, at times matriarch to Bill Gates and many other lads on the innovative circuit, wrote a harsh column August 26th on GPS CNN on ICANN gTLD. I like and respect Esther ...
Cybersquatters snap up GOP domain names
Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney announces his candidacy at Scamman Farm in Stratham, N.H., June 2, 2011. UPI/Matthew Healey WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The domain names of U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls Romney-Perry2012.com and Perry-Romney2012.com are available ...
Infoblox Chosen to Provide Automated IP Address Management for VMworld(R) 2011 Show Network
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DomainTools Introduces ReverseMX.com, an MX Record Lookup Tool for Pinpointing Hard-to-Detect Relationships Between Mail Servers and Domains
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Internet Name-Calling
Sunday, August 28th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »ICANN plans to greatly expand the Internet domain namespaceA name is just a sound or sequence of letters. It carries no value or meaning other than as a pointer to something in people's minds—a concept, a person, a brand, a ...
What’s in a Domain Name?
Sunday, August 28th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Rod Beckstrom,President and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) speaks during a historic meeting to decide the future of new ...
What’s in a Domain Name?
Sunday, August 28th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Rod Beckstrom,President and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) speaks during a historic meeting to decide the future of new ...
What’s in a Domain Name?
Sunday, August 28th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Rod Beckstrom,President and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) speaks during a historic meeting to decide the future of new ...
Go Daddy Helps Fetch $150,000 for Arizona Pets
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GoDaddy Files Patents for Domain Appraisals and Domain Spinning
Saturday, August 27th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Four patent applications provide method of domain name valuation and domain suggestions. Domain name registrar GoDaddy has filed four patent applications related to domain name appraisals and spinning. The applications list Paul Nicks, who is Director of Product ...
Domain Name Owners Turn To KetMo.com For Help Selling Their Domain Names
Saturday, August 27th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »(2011-08-27) Domain Name Owners Turn To KetMo.com For Help Selling Their Domain Names Domain name resellers like KetMo.com have the sales management tools and expert marketing strategies needed to sell domain names faster and for fair market prices. Domain name owners are ...
Man Who Bought Amy Winehouse Foundation Domain Name Says He’s ‘Not Exploiting Anything’
Saturday, August 27th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images Amy Winehouse‘s father is having a hard time getting the Amy Winehouse Foundation — which would provide support to those suffering from addictions similar to the ones his daughter battled during her life — off the ...
net.wars: Master of your domain
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The IANA is not responsible for deciding what is and what is not a country, wrote Jon Postel in 1994, in the Request for Comments document (RFC 1591) explaining the structure of the domain name system. At the time, ...
The Design of the Domain Name System, Part III
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »In the previous installments, we looked at the overall design of the DNS and the way DNS name matching works. The DNS gains considerable administrative flexibility from its delegation structure. Each zone cut, the place in the DNS name tree where ...
Got Domain Names To Sell We Want Them Says KetMo.com Chief
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »(2011-08-26) Got Domain Names To Sell We Want Them Says KetMo.com Chief Domain name reseller reports increased visitor activity seeks additional domain names for sale listings. Domain name buyer interest as well as the number of qualified visitors continue to increase report ...
Judge Dismisses Many of Monte Cahn’s Claims Against Oversee.net
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Judge sides with Oversee.net’s Motion to Dismiss. Oversee.net got a big win today in a lawsuit filed by former employee Monte Cahn. The judge granted Oversee.net’s Motion to Dismiss (pdf) five claims ranging from Intentional and Negligent Misrepresentation ...
WINEHOUSE WINS BACK AMY’S FOUNDATION NAME
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Trademark holders face an explicit problem with .XXX web domain
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The keepers of corporate trademarks in many a law department are going to need to have an unusual conversation in the next few weeks: "What should we do about the .xxx domain?"As ICANN's expansion of generic top-level internet ...
United States: Trademark Alert:.XXXtra Concerns For Trademark Owners: The New .XXX Domain Name
Friday, August 26th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of ...
African domain name set for 2013
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The .africa domain will allow for the creation of an online African identity not restricted to a single country or country code, says Mike Silber, who sits on the ICANN Board. Africa is making strides to get the .africa domain up ...
Fade to Greed: Capitalizing on Amy Winehouse
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Fade to Greed: Capitalizing on Amy Winehouse ...
Amy Winehouse domain name held for ransom
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »A famous singer dies suddenly. Her family announces plans to set up a charitable foundation in her name. What should you do?A) Make a donation.B) Nothing.C) Buy up the domain name AmyWinehouseFoundation. com and variants and hold the family up ...
Important notice for trademark owners: protecting rights in light of new adult-entertainment domains
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Morrison Foerster LLP Rosemary S. Tarlton and Julia D. Kripke Global August 22 2011 Earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) approved .XXX as a sponsored top-level domain (“sTLD”). ...
Google Adds 100+ Domains, Signals Plans For National Small Biz Push
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Google appears to be readying plans to roll out its “Get Your Business Online” program across the U.S. That’s based on Mike Blumenthal’s discovery that Google has recently added more than 100 domains to its portfolio, with URLs such as coloradogetonline.com, ...
Amy Winehouse Foundation: Owner of the ‘Amy Winehouse’ Domain Name Denies Wrongdoing
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »McCann, who lives in west London, admitted paying £160 to register a company called Amy Winehouse Foundation Ltd with Companies House and buying the domain name AmyWinehouseFoundation.com, consequently preventing the Winehouse family to do the same. "I'm not exploiting anything yet. ...
From Immortality To "E-Mortality"
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »I was always interested in history, along with the pursuit of business ventures. In the late 1990s, I linked the two and registered a domain name: e-mortal.com (and emortal.com), the only names I ever registered. I vividly remember what gave me ...
Slew of domain name registrations hint next Kindle line will be named after elements
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Over the last month or so there have been a slew of domain name registrations by Amazon using a proxy service that hint at the possible names for future products in the Kindle family. The first of the domains to ...
Slew of domain name registrations hint next Kindle line will be named after …
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Over the last month or so there have been a slew of domain name registrations by Amazon using a proxy service that hint at the possible names for future products in the Kindle family. The first of the domains to ...
What’s in a domain name?
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Editor's Note: Esther Dyson, CEO of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world. Her interests include information technology, health care, private aviation, and space travel. For more from  Esther Dyson, visit Project Syndicate or follow it ...
Man Who Bought Amy Winehouse Foundation Domain Name Accused Of Cybersquatting
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Fade to Greed: Capitalizing on Amy Winehouse ...
Dot VN, Inc. Announces New Vietnamese Domain Names Popular With Rural Internet Users
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EuroDNS Now Accepting Pre-Registration for .XXX Domain Names
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »EuroDNS, a leading Domain name Registrar specialized in International Domain extensions, announces the opening of .XXX pre-registrations for the Sunrise, Landrush and Go Live periods at www.eurodns.com. Luxembourg (PRWEB) August 25, 2011 Whether one is for or against adult content ...
African domain name set for 2013
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The .africa domain will allow for the creation of an online African identity not restricted to a single country or country code, says Mike Silber, who sits on the ICANN Board. Africa is making strides to get the .africa domain up ...
EuroDNS Now Accepting Pre-Registration for .XXX Domain Names
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »EuroDNS, a leading Domain name Registrar specialized in International Domain extensions, announces the opening of .XXX pre-registrations for the Sunrise, Landrush and Go Live periods at http://www.eurodns.com.Luxembourg (PRWEB) August 25, 2011 Whether one is for or ...
AmazingDomains.co.uk Opens Premium UK Domain Name Marketplace
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »UK domain name website, AmazingDomains.co.uk, opens allowing marketers to select from more than 1,000 commercially orientated domain names to enhance branding initiatives.United Kingdom (PRWEB) August 24, 2011 Finding a quality UK domain name to improve marketing ...
The World Bank Buys 2 Domain Names Through Afternic, Plus Telemundo
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Big names buy domain names in the aftermarket. The World Bank is one of the most notable groups to buy domain names on the aftermarket this week. The group bought two domain names through Afternic: GlobalPartnership.com for $4,588 ...
AmazingDomains.co.uk Opens Premium UK Domain Name Marketplace
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Website wins battle to have agency stripped of domain name
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »News Category: Industry News Published: 25-Aug-2011 The owner of a lettings website, Student Property Shop, has won a battle to have a similar-sounding website, The Student Property Shop, stripped of its domain name. Student Property Shop managing director Chris Johnston claimed his business ...
Google puts new g.co URL shortener to work
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Google puts new g.co URL shortener to work Posted on 23 August 2011 by Jon Norris. Tags: .co, domain name, g.co, Google, google maps, links, metrics, security, Social, spam, TLD, tracking, twitter, URL, URL shortener, URL shortening ...
Trademark Holders Face an Explicit Problem With .XXX Web Domain
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The keepers of corporate trademarks in many a law department are going to need to have an unusual conversation in the next few weeks: "What should we do about the .xxx domain?"As ICANN's expansion of generic top-level internet domains (gTLD) ...
Amazon Continues Domain Name Collecting with KindleWave.com
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Just a couple of days ago, the folks at Amazon took it upon themselves to scoop up the domain name KindleScribe.com – this of course fueling speculation that the upcoming Kindle e-reader would at last be named. This and KindleScribes.com ...
Sedo MLS Domains now Offered Through United Domains
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »08|23|2011 3:53 pm EDT Sedo MLS Domains now Offered Through United Domains by Frank Michlick in Categories: Registrars, Up to the Minute - 0 Comments According to an email from Sedo, SedoMLS Premium listed domains are now also promoted through United ...
Man who registered Amy Winehouse charity name strikes back at family
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The man who is standing in the way of Amy Winehouse's posthumous foundation has lashed out at the singer's father. Martin McCann registered a company called Amy Winehouse Foundation Ltd and bought the domain name AmyWinehouseFoundation.com, ...
Amazon Continues Domain Name Collecting with KindleWave.com
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Just a couple of days ago, the folks at Amazon took it upon themselves to scoop up the domain name KindleScribe.com – this of course fueling speculation that the upcoming Kindle e-reader would at last be named. This and KindleScribes.com ...
Internet Overseer Accused of Bias Ahead of Web Suffix Overhaul
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Technology Published August 22, 2011 | NewsCore Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet ...
Amazon domain name hints at imminent Kindle Scribe launch
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Amazon has registered a new domain name, KindleScribe.com, which could provide clues to what the company's next hardware launch will entail. The inclusion of the word 'Scribe' suggests that a Stylus will make an appearance somewhere; ...
Domain name suggests new Kindle will have stylus
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Readers who like to follow the bread crumb trails that gadget makers leave prior to the announcement of a new product might want to digest this morsel uncovered today in the whois registry: kindlescribe.com. This domain name, registered by Amazon.com ...
Dot-Anything Domains are Coming: 4 Things You Need to Know
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Ramon Ray the Smallbiztechnology.com Team ...
Rebel hackers seize Libyan domain name registry
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »As fighting rages around Colonel Gaddafi's compound in Tripoli, hackers have taken the fight online to the country's domain name registry nic.ly. The site's homepage now hosts an image of the rebel flag and the message "bye bye Gaddafi", as well ...
SEC Filing reveals BankRate.com’s Domain Acquisitions
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »BankRate.com’s Premium Domain Acquisitions in 2010 and 2011 have been revealed in a recent SEC filing totaling over $80 million USD. Albeit the purchases also included companies, content and software, the filing breaks the value of the domain names out ...
Amy Winehouse Foundation Domain Owner: ‘I’m Not Ashamed’
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »SHAUN CURRY/AFP/Getty Images It seems another sad chapter has been added to the lengthy volume that is the Amy Winehouse saga. According to the Sun, West London resident and alleged Internet "squatter" Martin McCann purchased the domain name Amywinehousefoundation.com just hours ...
ICANN chief hails recent domain name achievements
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »ICANN chief hails recent domain name achievements Wednesday 24th August 2011 Global domain name issues have been brought to the fore very successfully during the last two years, it has been claimed.Rod Beckstrom, the outgoing chief executive of the Internet Corporation for ...
Melbourne IT computes a lower full year
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Melbourne IT expects a drop in full year earnings after blaming the strong Australian dollar for a 29 per cent fall in first half ...
Trademark alert: .xxxtra concerns for trademark owners: the new .xxx domain name
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Fenwick West LLP Sally M Abel, KATIE MCKNIGHT and STEPHEN R. GARCIA Global August 22 2011 The newest domain extension—.xxx—is about to make its debut, much to the chagrin of trademark owners who wince at the prospect of use of their trademark ...
Internet opportunist defends buying Winehouse charity web address
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »By Vicky Allison Aug 23, 2011, 10:12 GMT A man who allegedly poached a domain name for a rehab centre in memory of the late Amy Winehouse has defended his actions as a 'business' decision.Amy Winehouse takes ...
Domain name changes will help global users, ICANN chief says
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Domain name changes will help global users, says ICANN chief says
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Rod Beckstrom plans to step down next July as head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).In an interview after the announcement, Beckstrom talked about ICANN's accomplishments since he was named president and CEO two years ago ...
The Design of the Domain Name System, Part I
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Over the past 30 years the Domain Name System has become an integral part of the operation of the Internet. Due to its ubiquity and good performance, many new applications over the years have used the DNS to publish information. ...
Hover’s Implementation of Afternic Domains is Well Done
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Simple and effective integration of domains for sale. A lot of large domain name registrars offer Afternic‘s “Premium” inventory to customers. Each registrar integrates it differently and some do it better than others. I just checked out Hover.com’s ...
Amy Winehouse Foundation Domain Owner: ‘I’m Not the D—head’
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »SHAUN CURRY/AFP/Getty Images It seems another sad chapter has been added to the lengthy volume that is the Amy Winehouse saga. According to the Sun, West London resident and alleged Internet "squatter" Martin McCann purchased the domain name Amywinehousefoundation.com just hours ...
Dot-Anything Domains are Coming: 4 Things You Need to Know
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Ramon Ray the Smallbiztechnology.com Team ...
Cloud and dollar deliver Melbourne IT dour first half results
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The strong Aussie dollar was a major culprit in Melbourne IT’s (ASX:MLB) disappointing results for its first half 2011 financial year with net profit after tax tumbling 29 per cent and revenue down 11 per cent.The Web hosting and domain ...
United States: What the .XXX "Sunrise B Period" Means for Trademark Registration Owners
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »Terms Conditions and Privacy Statement Mondaq.com (the Website) is owned and managed by Mondaq Ltd and as a user you are granted a non-exclusive, revocable license to access the Website under its terms and conditions of use. Your use of ...
Amy Winehouse Foundation Domain Name Holder ‘Refuses To Give It Up’ – Sound
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 Posted in domain names | No Comments »The man who bought the domain named that Amy Winehouse's family hoped to use to set up a foundation in her name has refused to give it up, according to reports. Martin McCann bought the domain amywinehousefoundation.com and also ...