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Google applies for 101 top level domains
Google looks like the largest player amongst internet brands on new top level domain names. I count 101 total applications. The company applied for the domains under a unique name — Charleston Road Registry Inc. Only three of the names are inte...
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Google applies for 101 top level domains
Google looks like the largest player amongst internet brands on new top level domain names. I count 101 total applications. The company applied for the domains under a unique name — Charleston Road Registry Inc. Only three of the names are inte...
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June 13, 2012, 8:26 am
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Amazon.com applies for 76 top level domain names including .cloud, .hot, .wow, .amazon
Amazon.com goes big with new TLDs. Amazon.com has applied for 76 top level domain names, making it one of the largest internet brands to participate in ICANN’s historic expansion of the top level domain namespace. Names range from brands such a...
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Amazon.com applies for 76 top level domain names including .cloud, .hot, .wow, .amazon
Amazon.com goes big with new TLDs. Amazon.com has applied for 76 top level domain names, making it one of the largest internet brands to participate in ICANN’s historic expansion of the top level domain namespace. Names range from brands such a...
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June 13, 2012, 8:22 am
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Here are Frank Schilling’s 54 TLD applications
54 domains include some contested domains. ICANN has just revealed the full list of new TLD applications. Here are the 54 submitted by Frank Schilling and his Uniregistry, Corp: .BlackFriday is very interesting. Clever play on .sexy, too. ART AUCTION...
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Here are Frank Schilling’s 54 TLD applications
54 domains include some contested domains. ICANN has just revealed the full list of new TLD applications. Here are the 54 submitted by Frank Schilling and his Uniregistry, Corp: .BlackFriday is very interesting. Clever play on .sexy, too. ART AUCTION...
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June 13, 2012, 8:18 am
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As many as 1,409 top level domains on the way
1,409 unique top level domain applications submitted to ICANN. It’s “reveal day”, with ICANN set to reveal the applications for new top level domains at a press conference starting at 8 am EDT today. This morning ICANN released over...
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As many as 1,409 top level domains on the way
1,409 unique top level domain applications submitted to ICANN. It’s “reveal day”, with ICANN set to reveal the applications for new top level domains at a press conference starting at 8 am EDT today. This morning ICANN released over...
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June 13, 2012, 7:54 am
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Go Daddy hires ad agency as it changes its image
Company taps Deutsch to shift its image and advertising. For the first time since 2005, Go Daddy has hired an outside ad agency to manage its advertising. The company will formally announce tomorrow that it hired the New York office of ad agency Deut...
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Go Daddy hires ad agency as it changes its image
Company taps Deutsch to shift its image and advertising. For the first time since 2005, Go Daddy has hired an outside ad agency to manage its advertising. The company will formally announce tomorrow that it hired the New York office of ad agency Deut...
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June 12, 2012, 9:38 pm
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High traffic Google typo oogle.com hit with UDRP
Complaint filed against domain that sends traffic to survey and adult sites. A complaint has been filed with National Arbitration Forum over the high traffic domain name oogle.com. National Arbitration Forum does not disclose the name of complainants...
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High traffic Google typo oogle.com hit with UDRP
Complaint filed against domain that sends traffic to survey and adult sites. A complaint has been filed with National Arbitration Forum over the high traffic domain name oogle.com. National Arbitration Forum does not disclose the name of complainants...
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June 12, 2012, 6:08 pm
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Parent company of .Co Internet applies for 13 top level domains (here’s the list)
Company releases names of 13 applications. This morning Paul Sloan broke the news that STRAAT investments, parent company of .Co Internet, applied for 13 top level domain names. The company just released the list: .APP .BOOK .CORP .DESIGN .GMBH .GROU...
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Parent company of .Co Internet applies for 13 top level domains (here’s the list)
Company releases names of 13 applications. This morning Paul Sloan broke the news that STRAAT investments, parent company of .Co Internet, applied for 13 top level domain names. The company just released the list: .APP .BOOK .CORP .DESIGN .GMBH .GROU...
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June 12, 2012, 3:56 pm
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Facebook gets FacebookOfSex.pro domain name
Social network registers two Facebook sex domains. Last year Facebook sued FriendFinder Networks over its FacebookOfSex.com web site, ultimately resulting in a transfer of the domain name to Facebook. Now the company has registered two similar domain...
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Facebook gets FacebookOfSex.pro domain name
Social network registers two Facebook sex domains. Last year Facebook sued FriendFinder Networks over its FacebookOfSex.com web site, ultimately resulting in a transfer of the domain name to Facebook. Now the company has registered two similar domain...
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June 12, 2012, 10:32 am
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Frank Schilling applies for 54 new TLDs, Juan Calle also in the mix
Schilling applies for 54 domains, reports Paul Sloan. CNET’s Paul Sloan, who has been covering the domain name industry for many years, just wrote a piece on new top level domains that teases out more details behind Frank Schilling’s plan...
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Frank Schilling applies for 54 new TLDs, Juan Calle also in the mix
Schilling applies for 54 domains, reports Paul Sloan. CNET’s Paul Sloan, who has been covering the domain name industry for many years, just wrote a piece on new top level domains that teases out more details behind Frank Schilling’s plan...
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June 12, 2012, 10:02 am
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SnapNames co-founder Ray King behind registry applying for 10 top level domains
King’s latest venture applies for ten top level domains. Raymond King, the co-founder of SnapNames (later bought by Oversee.net and then KeyDrive) and founder of AboutUs, Inc., is applying for 10 top level domain names through his new company T...
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SnapNames co-founder Ray King behind registry applying for 10 top level domains
King’s latest venture applies for ten top level domains. Raymond King, the co-founder of SnapNames (later bought by Oversee.net and then KeyDrive) and founder of AboutUs, Inc., is applying for 10 top level domain names through his new company T...
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June 11, 2012, 2:37 pm
