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ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah
ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will foc...
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ICANN hires new COO, moves Atallah
ICANN shakes up leadership positions. ICANN has moved chief operating officer Akram Atallah to a new role and hired a replacement from outside the organization. Atallah has been named president of the Generic Domains Division. This new group will foc...
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June 6, 2013, 11:35 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN Board rules on non-safeguard GAC advice
Resolution doesn’t resolve much; uncertainty remains. The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has approved a resolution ruling on a number of items of advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee with regards to new top level domai...
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ICANN Board rules on non-safeguard GAC advice
Resolution doesn’t resolve much; uncertainty remains. The ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee (NGPC) has approved a resolution ruling on a number of items of advice from the Governmental Advisory Committee with regards to new top level domai...
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June 6, 2013, 11:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
27 investors chip $7 million into .Club as it wins private TLD auction
.Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 individual investors and has eliminated its competition for the .club top level domain through a priv...
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27 investors chip $7 million into .Club as it wins private TLD auction
.Club applicant eliminates competition and raises $7 million to launch top level domain. .Club Domains, LLC has raised a combined $7 million from 27 individual investors and has eliminated its competition for the .club top level domain through a priv...
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June 6, 2013, 4:56 pm
Domain Name Wire
10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats
Limit the chances of receiving bogus legal threats with these helpful tips. [Editor's note: Bill Sweetman participated in a legal panel about domain names at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. He gave ten tips to help domain owners protect their domains from bo...
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10 Simple Tips to Protect Your Domain Names from Bogus Legal Threats
Limit the chances of receiving bogus legal threats with these helpful tips. [Editor's note: Bill Sweetman participated in a legal panel about domain names at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. He gave ten tips to help domain owners protect their domains from bo...
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June 6, 2013, 3:45 pm
Domain Name Wire
Heads up, .GMBH applicants: this trademark application is slipping through the cracks
.GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level domain name strings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the USPTO won’t grant...
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Heads up, .GMBH applicants: this trademark application is slipping through the cracks
.GMBH applicant’s trademark application approved for publishing. I’ve written numerous times about companies trying to trademark top level domain name strings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the USPTO won’t grant...
Discussion
June 6, 2013, 3:20 pm
Domain Name Wire
33 end user domain sales
Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week covering the past two weeks. Here are 33 end user domain name sales from the list. Environmental company ...
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33 end user domain sales
Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week covering the past two weeks. Here are 33 end user domain name sales from the list. Environmental company ...
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June 6, 2013, 11:08 am
Domain Name Wire
Top Domain Name Wire stories of May 2013
Ron Paul, GoDaddy, and a video game domain name took top billing last month. May was a busy month at Domain Name Wire thanks in part to a former politician losing a battle to claim his name on the web. Here are the top five stories: 1. Breaking: Ron ...
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Top Domain Name Wire stories of May 2013
Ron Paul, GoDaddy, and a video game domain name took top billing last month. May was a busy month at Domain Name Wire thanks in part to a former politician losing a battle to claim his name on the web. Here are the top five stories: 1. Breaking: Ron ...
Discussion
June 6, 2013, 9:43 am
Domain Name Wire
Microsoft buys ToDoApp.com and 16 other domain name sales
Microsoft and Magazines.com among end user buyers at Sedo last week. Is Microsoft about to release an organization app a la Evernote and Google’s Keep? It bought ToDoApp.com last week on Sedo. Here are details on that sale and many other end us...
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Microsoft buys ToDoApp.com and 16 other domain name sales
Microsoft and Magazines.com among end user buyers at Sedo last week. Is Microsoft about to release an organization app a la Evernote and Google’s Keep? It bought ToDoApp.com last week on Sedo. Here are details on that sale and many other end us...
Discussion
June 5, 2013, 1:41 pm
Domain Name Wire
A subtle (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads
Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad lo...
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A subtle (yet big) change in GoDaddy’s ads
Verisign paying to include .com in GoDaddy ad. I was watching the Cardinals game last night when I noticed ads for GoDaddy.com behind the batter. This is nothing new. GoDaddy frequently advertises on baseball broadcasts. But something about the ad lo...
Discussion
June 5, 2013, 11:29 am
Domain Name Wire
Scammy survey site beats Tumblr in domain dispute
Lawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed...
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Scammy survey site beats Tumblr in domain dispute
Lawyers don’t provide enough evidence to convince panel that domain was registered in bad faith. Tumblr, the company that Yahoo is acquiring for $1.1 billion, has lost a cybersquatting claim for the domain name tublr.com. In its complaint filed...
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June 5, 2013, 10:05 am
