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Four domain name sessions pitched for SXSW 2014
Four domain name sessions have been proposed for SXSW Interactive 2014. Voting ends September 6. Voting for which panels will make the cut at next year’s SXSW Interactive conference is underway. I identified four submissions this year that are ...
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Four domain name sessions pitched for SXSW 2014
Four domain name sessions have been proposed for SXSW Interactive 2014. Voting ends September 6. Voting for which panels will make the cut at next year’s SXSW Interactive conference is underway. I identified four submissions this year that are ...
Discussion
August 26, 2013, 11:39 am
Domain Name Wire
Google buys AfricaConnected.com domain name from Mike Mann
Search giant acquires domain name from domain investor. Google has acquired the domain name AfricaConnected.com, likely for its efforts to bring internet access to more people in Africa. It looks like Google acquired the domain name with the help of ...
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Google buys AfricaConnected.com domain name from Mike Mann
Search giant acquires domain name from domain investor. Google has acquired the domain name AfricaConnected.com, likely for its efforts to bring internet access to more people in Africa. It looks like Google acquired the domain name with the help of ...
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August 26, 2013, 9:45 am
Domain Name Wire
Do only 4 new TLDs have a chance of going live this year?
Barring a flurry of activity at ICANN or changes to the name collision mitigation plan, the launch of new TLDs won’t be a 2013 event. ICANN released updated contracting statistics for its new top level domain name program yesterday, and applica...
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Do only 4 new TLDs have a chance of going live this year?
Barring a flurry of activity at ICANN or changes to the name collision mitigation plan, the launch of new TLDs won’t be a 2013 event. ICANN released updated contracting statistics for its new top level domain name program yesterday, and applica...
Discussion
August 24, 2013, 10:17 am
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy CEO named as possible successor to Steve Ballmer at Microsoft
Wall Street Journal says Irving might be a candidate for Microsoft’s top spot. With Steve Ballmer heading to the exit at Microsoft within the next year, speculation about his replacement is rampant. One name that has come up: Blake Irving, who ...
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GoDaddy CEO named as possible successor to Steve Ballmer at Microsoft
Wall Street Journal says Irving might be a candidate for Microsoft’s top spot. With Steve Ballmer heading to the exit at Microsoft within the next year, speculation about his replacement is rampant. One name that has come up: Blake Irving, who ...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 4:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign and PIR get wins for IDN top level domain names
Company that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains. Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that are transliterations of existing top level domain nam...
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Verisign and PIR get wins for IDN top level domain names
Company that offered pseudo-domains loses objections to IDN top level domains. Verisign and Public Interest Registry have successfully defended applications for internationalized domain names that are transliterations of existing top level domain nam...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 1:08 pm
Domain Name Wire
How String Confusion Objections Became a Clusterf@ck
There are a number of reasons for contradictory String Confusion Objections for top level domain names. Of the four types of objections that could be lodged against new top level domain name applications, it would seem that string confusion objection...
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How String Confusion Objections Became a Clusterf@ck
There are a number of reasons for contradictory String Confusion Objections for top level domain names. Of the four types of objections that could be lodged against new top level domain name applications, it would seem that string confusion objection...
Discussion
August 23, 2013, 10:40 am
Domain Name Wire
DomainNameSales.com announces new hybrid domain name brokering approach
You can handle your fresh leads and they’ll take your stale ones. A common complaint about domain name marketplaces is that your parked domain names are generated all of their leads. Why should you pay the marketplace when someone first express...
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DomainNameSales.com announces new hybrid domain name brokering approach
You can handle your fresh leads and they’ll take your stale ones. A common complaint about domain name marketplaces is that your parked domain names are generated all of their leads. Why should you pay the marketplace when someone first express...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 5:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Clicky: Do yourself a favor and buy the right domain name
Analytics company learned its lesson but ended up with the “right” domain name. A Domain Name Wire reader alerted me to a blog post from web analytics service Clicky that it penned when it changed its domain name back in December. (Yes, i...
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Clicky: Do yourself a favor and buy the right domain name
Analytics company learned its lesson but ended up with the “right” domain name. A Domain Name Wire reader alerted me to a blog post from web analytics service Clicky that it penned when it changed its domain name back in December. (Yes, i...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 2:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
String Confusions Gone Wild: Amazon IDN is found similar to different word in English
The contradictions in new top level strings confusion objections just hit a new level. Some string confusions decisions have been baffling. A difference in opinion on .cam vs. .com. Plurals vs. Singulars. But now string confusions have officially gon...
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String Confusions Gone Wild: Amazon IDN is found similar to different word in English
The contradictions in new top level strings confusion objections just hit a new level. Some string confusions decisions have been baffling. A difference in opinion on .cam vs. .com. Plurals vs. Singulars. But now string confusions have officially gon...
Discussion
August 22, 2013, 10:36 am
Domain Name Wire
More trouble: apparently .Sport and .Sports are also confusingly similar
Panelist sides with SportAccord in objection against .sports. International Centre for Dispute Resolution has posted an updated list of string confusion objections, and there’s more trouble. SportAccord, an applicant for the .sport domain, has ...
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More trouble: apparently .Sport and .Sports are also confusingly similar
Panelist sides with SportAccord in objection against .sports. International Centre for Dispute Resolution has posted an updated list of string confusion objections, and there’s more trouble. SportAccord, an applicant for the .sport domain, has ...
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August 22, 2013, 10:26 am
