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April 29, 2011, 6:08 pm
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Gambling.com Domain sold for $2.5M USD
According to a German language press release sent out by Sedo this morning, the company has succesfully brokered the sale of the domain Gambling.com for $2.5 Million USD on behalf of the British Media Corp. The new owner wishes to remain anonymous &n...
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Gambling.com Domain sold for $2.5M USD
According to a German language press release sent out by Sedo this morning, the company has succesfully brokered the sale of the domain Gambling.com for $2.5 Million USD on behalf of the British Media Corp. The new owner wishes to remain anonymous &n...
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April 28, 2011, 8:45 am
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Moniker Whois Privacy Confuses Miami Journalist
Miami journalist Gus Garcia-Roberts wrote a blog post on for the Miami New Times attacking “Moniker Whois Privacy Services” as a company that distributes child pornography, based on a lawsuit that names them as one of the defendants in or...
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Moniker Whois Privacy Confuses Miami Journalist
Miami journalist Gus Garcia-Roberts wrote a blog post on for the Miami New Times attacking “Moniker Whois Privacy Services” as a company that distributes child pornography, based on a lawsuit that names them as one of the defendants in or...
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April 27, 2011, 2:34 pm
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Overstock.com buys Nameing Rights to Oakland Raiders’ Home Stadium
Did the company forget about their O.co brand? Overstock.com, the company that has been rebranding itself as “O” bought the naming rights to the Oakland Raiders home stadium for 6 years for $7.2 million. The stadium is now to be called &l...
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Overstock.com buys Nameing Rights to Oakland Raiders’ Home Stadium
Did the company forget about their O.co brand? Overstock.com, the company that has been rebranding itself as “O” bought the naming rights to the Oakland Raiders home stadium for 6 years for $7.2 million. The stadium is now to be called &l...
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April 27, 2011, 2:18 pm
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Cat5.com Buys RunningShoes.com For $700,000
The announcement of the sale of RunningShoes.com is making it’s way around the domain blogs yesterday and today. Cat5.com owner Chad Weinman emailed all the domain blog yesterday notifying them of his purchase of the domain name for $700,...
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Cat5.com Buys RunningShoes.com For $700,000
The announcement of the sale of RunningShoes.com is making it’s way around the domain blogs yesterday and today. Cat5.com owner Chad Weinman emailed all the domain blog yesterday notifying them of his purchase of the domain name for $700,...
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April 21, 2011, 12:09 pm
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RightHaven.com Taken Down for Invalid Whois
Righthaven LLC, a company that enforces licensing of content created by their clients, has in the past taken possession of domain names owned by alleged infringers. Recently a judge dismissed one of their claims on a defendant’s domain name. No...
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RightHaven.com Taken Down for Invalid Whois
Righthaven LLC, a company that enforces licensing of content created by their clients, has in the past taken possession of domain names owned by alleged infringers. Recently a judge dismissed one of their claims on a defendant’s domain name. No...
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April 21, 2011, 11:45 am
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Phishing GoDaddy WDRP Emails Going Around Once More.
It appears that another phishing scam is making the rounds trying to get users to reveal their GoDaddy username and password to the scammers. According to “silentg” who received the email and posted on DNForum about it, the email links us...
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Phishing GoDaddy WDRP Emails Going Around Once More.
It appears that another phishing scam is making the rounds trying to get users to reveal their GoDaddy username and password to the scammers. According to “silentg” who received the email and posted on DNForum about it, the email links us...
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April 18, 2011, 5:14 pm
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IDN ccTLD Request From Yemen Successfully Passes String Evaluation
ICANN announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Yemen, اليمن (xn--mgb2ddes). With this announcement, a total of 27 countries/territories requests have successfully passed through the String Evaluat...
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IDN ccTLD Request From Yemen Successfully Passes String Evaluation
ICANN announced the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Yemen, اليمن (xn--mgb2ddes). With this announcement, a total of 27 countries/territories requests have successfully passed through the String Evaluat...
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April 18, 2011, 12:12 pm
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ICANN Publishes New Version of New gTLD Applicant Guidebook
ICANN has posted the new April 2011 Discussion Draft for the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook for a public comment period lasting until May 15th. ICANN plans post a final version of the guidebook by 30 May 2011, in time for consideration of the New gTLD ...
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ICANN Publishes New Version of New gTLD Applicant Guidebook
ICANN has posted the new April 2011 Discussion Draft for the New gTLD Applicant Guidebook for a public comment period lasting until May 15th. ICANN plans post a final version of the guidebook by 30 May 2011, in time for consideration of the New gTLD ...
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April 18, 2011, 11:49 am
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.XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers
Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating. While a number of registrars have already been taking...
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.XXX Goes Live in the Root Servers
Earlier today IANA added the .XXX Top Level Domain to the root nameservers. While the registry operator Afilias is still in their setup process for ICM registry, the zone is currently propagating. While a number of registrars have already been taking...
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April 15, 2011, 7:34 pm
