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Donuts willing to sent 68 strings to auction in August
New top level domain applicant commits more strings to private auction model. Donuts, the largest applicant for new top level domains, has committed up to 68 strings to the next new TLD “private” auction held by Applicant Auction next mon...
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Donuts willing to sent 68 strings to auction in August
New top level domain applicant commits more strings to private auction model. Donuts, the largest applicant for new top level domains, has committed up to 68 strings to the next new TLD “private” auction held by Applicant Auction next mon...
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July 30, 2013, 5:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Name Association creates new TLD primer at WhatDomain.org
Domain Name Association publishes educational site to promote new TLDs. Domain Name Association (DNA), a non-profit advocacy group representing domain name registries, registrars, resellers, and registry service providers, has launched an updated sit...
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Domain Name Association creates new TLD primer at WhatDomain.org
Domain Name Association publishes educational site to promote new TLDs. Domain Name Association (DNA), a non-profit advocacy group representing domain name registries, registrars, resellers, and registry service providers, has launched an updated sit...
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July 30, 2013, 3:30 pm
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com, HP, Ford among those lobbying Washington about domain names
Big companies join domain heavyweights in lobbying U.S. government about domain name issues. It’s been a couple years since I’ve done a round up of how much domain name companies are spending on lobbying in Washington. I just ran an updat...
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Amazon.com, HP, Ford among those lobbying Washington about domain names
Big companies join domain heavyweights in lobbying U.S. government about domain name issues. It’s been a couple years since I’ve done a round up of how much domain name companies are spending on lobbying in Washington. I just ran an updat...
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July 30, 2013, 2:42 pm
Domain Name Wire
Food Network loses food fight for .food top level domain name
Scripps wanted to claim universal rights to the term “food” on the web. The company behind the Food Network and Food.com, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., has lost an objection against a rival applicant for the top level domain name .f...
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Food Network loses food fight for .food top level domain name
Scripps wanted to claim universal rights to the term “food” on the web. The company behind the Food Network and Food.com, Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., has lost an objection against a rival applicant for the top level domain name .f...
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July 30, 2013, 1:32 pm
Domain Name Wire
Yahoo gets patent for prioritizing cybersquatting cases
Patent covers discovering and prioritizing cybersquatting issues. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,499,032 (pdf) to Yahoo for a “System and method for compiling a set of domain names to recover”. The invent...
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Yahoo gets patent for prioritizing cybersquatting cases
Patent covers discovering and prioritizing cybersquatting issues. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 8,499,032 (pdf) to Yahoo for a “System and method for compiling a set of domain names to recover”. The invent...
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July 30, 2013, 11:52 am
Domain Name Wire
3 ways to track new TLD applications
Three resources for tracking and reviewing new top level domain applications. As of right now there are 1,824 active new top level domain name applications covering 1,353 different strings. If tracking and reviewing them is important to your business...
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3 ways to track new TLD applications
Three resources for tracking and reviewing new top level domain applications. As of right now there are 1,824 active new top level domain name applications covering 1,353 different strings. If tracking and reviewing them is important to your business...
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July 30, 2013, 10:28 am
Domain Name Wire
Oversee.net launches TrafficMatch to pitch domain traffic to advertisers
TrafficMatch promotes domain name traffic to advertisers. Oversee.net, the parent company of DomainSponsor, somewhat quietly launched TrafficMatch last month. TrafficMatch pitches the company’s 300 million monthly visitors direct to advertisers...
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Oversee.net launches TrafficMatch to pitch domain traffic to advertisers
TrafficMatch promotes domain name traffic to advertisers. Oversee.net, the parent company of DomainSponsor, somewhat quietly launched TrafficMatch last month. TrafficMatch pitches the company’s 300 million monthly visitors direct to advertisers...
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July 29, 2013, 3:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Matt Cutts releases new video about using ccTLDs for generic purposes
Cutts explains when Google decides to make a ccTLD global. Google’s SEO/Webspam leader Matt Cutts has released a new video about using a country code top level domain name for a website not targeted to that country. His message is the same that...
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Matt Cutts releases new video about using ccTLDs for generic purposes
Cutts explains when Google decides to make a ccTLD global. Google’s SEO/Webspam leader Matt Cutts has released a new video about using a country code top level domain name for a website not targeted to that country. His message is the same that...
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July 29, 2013, 2:28 pm
Domain Name Wire
Gmail vs. Snail Mail: Google wins challenge by USPS
USPS’ challenge to Google over .mail top level domain is denied. Last week, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist delivered some bad news to the The United States Postal Service: its challenge to Amazon.com’s application to ...
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Gmail vs. Snail Mail: Google wins challenge by USPS
USPS’ challenge to Google over .mail top level domain is denied. Last week, a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist delivered some bad news to the The United States Postal Service: its challenge to Amazon.com’s application to ...
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July 29, 2013, 2:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
How right-to-left domain names work in practice
Depending on your language, new TLDs might be about new opportunities to the left of the dot. When ICANN unveiled the list of top level domain name applications at a media event in London last summer, some in the community were upset that Arabic IDNs...
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How right-to-left domain names work in practice
Depending on your language, new TLDs might be about new opportunities to the left of the dot. When ICANN unveiled the list of top level domain name applications at a media event in London last summer, some in the community were upset that Arabic IDNs...
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July 29, 2013, 1:23 pm
