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DENIC and Netnod Team Up for Further Name Service Enhancement of .de
The operator for the German .DE ccTLD announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Swedish based Netnod, adding Netnods 35+ worldwide DNS locations to their own network. “We have chosen Netnod for their outstanding technical ...
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DENIC and Netnod Team Up for Further Name Service Enhancement of .de
The operator for the German .DE ccTLD announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Swedish based Netnod, adding Netnods 35+ worldwide DNS locations to their own network. “We have chosen Netnod for their outstanding technical ...
Discussion
April 19, 2012, 5:20 am
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EnCirca Provides List of .Travel and .PRO Domains that are Expiring/New or in Auction
A few days ago the registrar EnCirca released new feeds (available via RSS and HTML) on their site that list new, expiring and auctioned domains in the .Travel and .PRO TLDs. According to EnCirca, News.pro recently sold for $3,600.00; credit.pro sold...
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EnCirca Provides List of .Travel and .PRO Domains that are Expiring/New or in Auction
A few days ago the registrar EnCirca released new feeds (available via RSS and HTML) on their site that list new, expiring and auctioned domains in the .Travel and .PRO TLDs. According to EnCirca, News.pro recently sold for $3,600.00; credit.pro sold...
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April 18, 2012, 4:25 pm
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15 Million .DE Domain Names Registered
As per a press release sent out by DENIC, the German .DE registry operator, the 15th million .DE domain was registered today at 12:56pm central European time. The domain was “floristennetzwerk.de” (which translates to FloristNetwork.de). ...
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15 Million .DE Domain Names Registered
As per a press release sent out by DENIC, the German .DE registry operator, the 15th million .DE domain was registered today at 12:56pm central European time. The domain was “floristennetzwerk.de” (which translates to FloristNetwork.de). ...
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April 18, 2012, 11:54 am
Domain Name News
IANA contract opened again for re-bid by the US government
After the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) had canceled the first RFP for a new IANA contractor because they “received no proposals that met the requirements“, the RFP was opened again for bids two days...
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IANA contract opened again for re-bid by the US government
After the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) had canceled the first RFP for a new IANA contractor because they “received no proposals that met the requirements“, the RFP was opened again for bids two days...
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April 18, 2012, 10:20 am
Domain Name News
ICANN Says new TLD Application System (TAS) Bug is fixed, QA in progress
ICANN emailed another announcement regarding the security issue in the TLD Application System (TAS) has been fixed, but the fix is currently undergoing Quality Assurance testing and ICANN is still gathering the information required to contact the app...
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ICANN Says new TLD Application System (TAS) Bug is fixed, QA in progress
ICANN emailed another announcement regarding the security issue in the TLD Application System (TAS) has been fixed, but the fix is currently undergoing Quality Assurance testing and ICANN is still gathering the information required to contact the app...
Discussion
April 17, 2012, 9:21 am
Domain Name News
LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool
As just announced in blog post, LeadRefs has just released their latest version of their lead generation tool. The new version of the tool now mashes up the data of the list of dropping and expired domains with the amount of leads available to sell t...
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LeadRefs Announcing New Version of Domain Sales Lead Generation Tool
As just announced in blog post, LeadRefs has just released their latest version of their lead generation tool. The new version of the tool now mashes up the data of the list of dropping and expired domains with the amount of leads available to sell t...
Discussion
April 16, 2012, 2:27 pm
Domain Name News
Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years
8 years after the introduction of Google’s Gmail email offering, it appears it has settled a dispute over the use of the brand in Germany as shown by a transfer filing with the German patent office. When Google introduced the service worl...
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Google settles Dispute over gmail.de after 8 years
8 years after the introduction of Google’s Gmail email offering, it appears it has settled a dispute over the use of the brand in Germany as shown by a transfer filing with the German patent office. When Google introduced the service worl...
Discussion
April 16, 2012, 11:15 am
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ICANN Issues additional statement regarding new TLD Application System Bug
ICANN’s COO, Akram Atallah, has emailed a new statement today regarding the sercurity issue in the TLD Application System (TAS), which allowed at least some users of the system to view file names from submissions of other applicants. Appar...
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ICANN Issues additional statement regarding new TLD Application System Bug
ICANN’s COO, Akram Atallah, has emailed a new statement today regarding the sercurity issue in the TLD Application System (TAS), which allowed at least some users of the system to view file names from submissions of other applicants. Appar...
Discussion
April 14, 2012, 4:40 pm
Domain Name News
ICANN new TLD Application System may have shown data from other applicants
According to a statement by ICANN the shutdown of the new TLD Application System (TAS) on what was to be the last day of the application window has been caused by a potential bug that “allowed a limited number of users to view some other users&...
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ICANN new TLD Application System may have shown data from other applicants
According to a statement by ICANN the shutdown of the new TLD Application System (TAS) on what was to be the last day of the application window has been caused by a potential bug that “allowed a limited number of users to view some other users&...
Discussion
April 13, 2012, 6:12 pm
Domain Name News
A domain with history IRCnet.com sells at Go Daddy for $2,312
After helping to recover IRCnet.net for the community a few years ago (the domain had ended up in a Tucows’ private portfolio after the original registrant let it expire and Tucows was kind enough to help return it to the community for a reason...
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A domain with history IRCnet.com sells at Go Daddy for $2,312
After helping to recover IRCnet.net for the community a few years ago (the domain had ended up in a Tucows’ private portfolio after the original registrant let it expire and Tucows was kind enough to help return it to the community for a reason...
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April 13, 2012, 1:48 pm
