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New TLD application deadline extended to April 20
Technical problems lead to deadline extension. ICANN has extended the deadline for apply for a new top level domain until April 20. The deadline was supposed to be today. The extension was made due to technical problems with the TLD Application Syste...
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New TLD application deadline extended to April 20
Technical problems lead to deadline extension. ICANN has extended the deadline for apply for a new top level domain until April 20. The deadline was supposed to be today. The extension was made due to technical problems with the TLD Application Syste...
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April 12, 2012, 11:44 am
Domain Name Wire
MediaSet has no one to blame but itself for domain name woes
Italian broadcaster’s comedy of errors for MediaSet.com. Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, recently lost a UDRP case for the domain name MediaSet.com. But the company apparently got a court in Rome to overrule the UDRP decision. The ...
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MediaSet has no one to blame but itself for domain name woes
Italian broadcaster’s comedy of errors for MediaSet.com. Italy’s largest broadcaster, MediaSet, recently lost a UDRP case for the domain name MediaSet.com. But the company apparently got a court in Rome to overrule the UDRP decision. The ...
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April 12, 2012, 10:09 am
Domain Name Wire
ICM Registry applies for .Sex, .Porn and .Adult
Company applies for three adult top level domains. ICM Registry, the same company that launched the .xxx top level domain last year, announced today that it has applied for three adult related top level domains with ICANN: .SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. Tod...
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ICM Registry applies for .Sex, .Porn and .Adult
Company applies for three adult top level domains. ICM Registry, the same company that launched the .xxx top level domain last year, announced today that it has applied for three adult related top level domains with ICANN: .SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. Tod...
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April 12, 2012, 9:49 am
Domain Name Wire
Jim Grace jumps from DomainSponsor to Domain Holdings
Long time DomainSponsor account manager moves to Domain Holdings. A well known face (and mustache) in the domain industry is changing jobs. Jim Grace has left Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, after over seven years. He will be joining Do...
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Jim Grace jumps from DomainSponsor to Domain Holdings
Long time DomainSponsor account manager moves to Domain Holdings. A well known face (and mustache) in the domain industry is changing jobs. Jim Grace has left Oversee.net, parent company of DomainSponsor, after over seven years. He will be joining Do...
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April 11, 2012, 5:25 pm
Domain Name Wire
14 end user domain buys from the past week
Wyndham Hotels among end users to buy domains last week. Here are 14 end user domain purchases from the past week. All sales are at Afternic unless otherwise noted. A California company, iBots LLC, bought iBots.com for $5,000. The soon-to-launch comp...
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14 end user domain buys from the past week
Wyndham Hotels among end users to buy domains last week. Here are 14 end user domain purchases from the past week. All sales are at Afternic unless otherwise noted. A California company, iBots LLC, bought iBots.com for $5,000. The soon-to-launch comp...
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April 11, 2012, 11:59 am
Domain Name Wire
Spotify demands Spotify ripping site be traken down
Spotify files complaint over SpotifyRip.com. Online music phenomenon Spotify has filed a complaint in an effort to take down a web site that explains how to rip music from its service. The company filed the complaint against SpotifyRip.com with World...
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Spotify demands Spotify ripping site be traken down
Spotify files complaint over SpotifyRip.com. Online music phenomenon Spotify has filed a complaint in an effort to take down a web site that explains how to rip music from its service. The company filed the complaint against SpotifyRip.com with World...
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April 11, 2012, 10:14 am
Domain Name Wire
Facebook not holding on to all recovered typo domains
Company lets domain expire that was recovered in lawsuit. Facebook has been on the hunt over the past year to capture typos of its domain names. But it’s not holding on to all of them. For example, last year the company filed a massive cybersqu...
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Facebook not holding on to all recovered typo domains
Company lets domain expire that was recovered in lawsuit. Facebook has been on the hunt over the past year to capture typos of its domain names. But it’s not holding on to all of them. For example, last year the company filed a massive cybersqu...
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April 11, 2012, 9:46 am
Domain Name Wire
GoDaddy sold 42,321 aftermarket domains last month
Company continues to churn out aftermarket sales including a couple for six figures. I’m a bit behind checking in on GoDaddy’s auction sales report for last month. But it was a great month for the service. In total it sold 42,321 domains,...
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GoDaddy sold 42,321 aftermarket domains last month
Company continues to churn out aftermarket sales including a couple for six figures. I’m a bit behind checking in on GoDaddy’s auction sales report for last month. But it was a great month for the service. In total it sold 42,321 domains,...
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April 10, 2012, 9:37 pm
Domain Name Wire
Event planner sues ICANN over San Francisco gala
Company says it had a contract with ICANN to plan gala. San Francisco event planning company Corporate Concepts (warning: music on home page) has sued ICANN (pdf), saying the non-profit breached a contract to run the gala at its San Francisco meeting...
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Event planner sues ICANN over San Francisco gala
Company says it had a contract with ICANN to plan gala. San Francisco event planning company Corporate Concepts (warning: music on home page) has sued ICANN (pdf), saying the non-profit breached a contract to run the gala at its San Francisco meeting...
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April 10, 2012, 2:57 pm
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy gets patent for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”
Go Daddy gets another patent. Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC has been granted U.S. patent number 8,156,180 for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”. I wrote about this patent application when it was published last year. It describes...
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Go Daddy gets patent for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”
Go Daddy gets another patent. Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC has been granted U.S. patent number 8,156,180 for “Tools for redirecting to a book website”. I wrote about this patent application when it was published last year. It describes...
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April 10, 2012, 11:42 am
