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.Co domain tops 1.5 million domains
.Co now has over 1.5 million domains registered. The .co domain namespace has hit a new milestone: 1.5 million domain names. The .co domain name ticker rolled over a big digit overnight: This is a pretty huge number of domain names within 3 years of ...
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.Co domain tops 1.5 million domains
.Co now has over 1.5 million domains registered. The .co domain namespace has hit a new milestone: 1.5 million domain names. The .co domain name ticker rolled over a big digit overnight: This is a pretty huge number of domain names within 3 years of ...
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March 26, 2013, 10:16 am
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Company objects to Chinese IDNs over contractual and patent rights
Group that partnered with Chinese government for IDNs claims that new TLDs will infringe contractual and intellectual property rights. A legal rights objection is supposed to be filed based on trademarks, but a Singapore company has filed two objecti...
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Company objects to Chinese IDNs over contractual and patent rights
Group that partnered with Chinese government for IDNs claims that new TLDs will infringe contractual and intellectual property rights. A legal rights objection is supposed to be filed based on trademarks, but a Singapore company has filed two objecti...
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March 25, 2013, 4:49 pm
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Pinterest objects to Amazon’s plans for .Pin domain name
Pinterest sticks a pin in Amazon’s .pin top level domain application. Pinterest has filed a legal rights objection against Amazon.com over its application to run the .pin top level domain. As with Amazon’s other top level domain applicati...
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Pinterest objects to Amazon’s plans for .Pin domain name
Pinterest sticks a pin in Amazon’s .pin top level domain application. Pinterest has filed a legal rights objection against Amazon.com over its application to run the .pin top level domain. As with Amazon’s other top level domain applicati...
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March 25, 2013, 4:21 pm
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Candy.com hurt by Google penalty
Company hit with penalty last year; Google continues to deny requests to lift penalty. Candy.com has a sweet (and expensive) domain name, one that helped it get instant credibility in the candy industry. But apparently the site is lacking good search...
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Candy.com hurt by Google penalty
Company hit with penalty last year; Google continues to deny requests to lift penalty. Candy.com has a sweet (and expensive) domain name, one that helped it get instant credibility in the candy industry. But apparently the site is lacking good search...
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March 25, 2013, 4:07 pm
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With 3 days to go, TS.org leads 1-2 character .org auction at $2,475
Go Daddy’s auction of one and two character .org domain names ends on Thursday, and plenty of the lower priced domains are seeing action. As of the time of posting, TS.org has the highest bid at $2,475 with 5 bidders and 16 bids. Other two char...
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With 3 days to go, TS.org leads 1-2 character .org auction at $2,475
Go Daddy’s auction of one and two character .org domain names ends on Thursday, and plenty of the lower priced domains are seeing action. As of the time of posting, TS.org has the highest bid at $2,475 with 5 bidders and 16 bids. Other two char...
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March 25, 2013, 11:57 am
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Pinterest files its first UDRP
Company targets Pinterest.info, and I bet it will be filing a lot more domain disputes soon. Image-based social networking service Pinterest has filed its first domain name dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The c...
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Pinterest files its first UDRP
Company targets Pinterest.info, and I bet it will be filing a lot more domain disputes soon. Image-based social networking service Pinterest has filed its first domain name dispute under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The c...
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March 25, 2013, 10:35 am
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Is Google getting ready to make an Open Patent Pledge?
Google registered domain names yesterday for an “Open Patent Pledge”. When Google acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, it was clear that a big reason for its purchase was Motorola’s patent portfolio. Now it looks like the c...
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Is Google getting ready to make an Open Patent Pledge?
Google registered domain names yesterday for an “Open Patent Pledge”. When Google acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, it was clear that a big reason for its purchase was Motorola’s patent portfolio. Now it looks like the c...
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March 23, 2013, 1:02 pm
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First signs of Google’s new domain parking client identification program…
Internet Traffic asks customers to identify themselves as part of new Google initiative. One of the topics discussed extensively in the hallways at Webfest this year was changes Google is making to its parking program. Although I don’t have all...
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First signs of Google’s new domain parking client identification program…
Internet Traffic asks customers to identify themselves as part of new Google initiative. One of the topics discussed extensively in the hallways at Webfest this year was changes Google is making to its parking program. Although I don’t have all...
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March 22, 2013, 5:11 pm
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Objections filed against .com and .org IDN top level domains
Russian IDNs face legal rights objections. VeriSign and Public Interest Registry have hit a speedbump in their plans to role out versions of .com and .org for the Russian market. VeriSign’s .com transliteration .ком and Public Interest Regis...
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Objections filed against .com and .org IDN top level domains
Russian IDNs face legal rights objections. VeriSign and Public Interest Registry have hit a speedbump in their plans to role out versions of .com and .org for the Russian market. VeriSign’s .com transliteration .ком and Public Interest Regis...
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March 22, 2013, 4:32 pm
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27 new TLDs have passed their initial evaluation
First batch of new TLDs have passed initial evaluation. Today was a big milestone in the new top level domain name process. ICANN’s new top level domain application status page is now showing the first top level domain names to pass Initial Eva...
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27 new TLDs have passed their initial evaluation
First batch of new TLDs have passed initial evaluation. Today was a big milestone in the new top level domain name process. ICANN’s new top level domain application status page is now showing the first top level domain names to pass Initial Eva...
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March 22, 2013, 2:45 pm
