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GoDaddy rocks on with Kid Rock (video)
GoDaddy party transforms Chase Field into amusement park. Every year Go Daddy spends millions of dollars on a holiday party for its employees at Chase Field in Phoenix. This year it expanded with a road show in Iowa and Colorado, but the big show in ...
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GoDaddy rocks on with Kid Rock (video)
GoDaddy party transforms Chase Field into amusement park. Every year Go Daddy spends millions of dollars on a holiday party for its employees at Chase Field in Phoenix. This year it expanded with a road show in Iowa and Colorado, but the big show in ...
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December 13, 2011, 10:04 am
Domain Name Wire
Want to be ICANN’s next CEO?
Non-profit publishes profile of desired CEO. Want to be the CEO of an organization launching a highly controversial expansion of the internet namespace and seeing its budget double or triple your first year on the job? ICANN has a job for you. Today ...
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Want to be ICANN’s next CEO?
Non-profit publishes profile of desired CEO. Want to be the CEO of an organization launching a highly controversial expansion of the internet namespace and seeing its budget double or triple your first year on the job? ICANN has a job for you. Today ...
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December 12, 2011, 11:03 am
Domain Name Wire
Company manages to get .secure trademark
Company going after .bank and .secure domain names gets a (weak) trademark. A company hoping to offer .bank and .secure domain names has managed to get a trademark for .secure from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — albeit on the supplement...
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Company manages to get .secure trademark
Company going after .bank and .secure domain names gets a (weak) trademark. A company hoping to offer .bank and .secure domain names has managed to get a trademark for .secure from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — albeit on the supplement...
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December 12, 2011, 10:53 am
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Huffington Post Gets Sexsquatted
California man registers HuffingtonPost.xxx. .XXX domain names opened up for registration last week, but it looks like one big brand may have missed the message. HuffingtonPost.xxx was registered by a California man shortly after the registry opened ...
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Huffington Post Gets Sexsquatted
California man registers HuffingtonPost.xxx. .XXX domain names opened up for registration last week, but it looks like one big brand may have missed the message. HuffingtonPost.xxx was registered by a California man shortly after the registry opened ...
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December 12, 2011, 9:11 am
Domain Name Wire
With 1 month to go, new TLD program still full of uncertainties
New TLD investors face a big challenge: uncertainty. The application window for new top level domain names opens one month from today. It’s kind of funny to think about it. The internet community has been working on new TLDs for so many years, ...
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With 1 month to go, new TLD program still full of uncertainties
New TLD investors face a big challenge: uncertainty. The application window for new top level domain names opens one month from today. It’s kind of funny to think about it. The internet community has been working on new TLDs for so many years, ...
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December 12, 2011, 8:51 am
Domain Name Wire
Amazon.com buys SmartIsBeautiful.com — a new brand?
What does company plan to do with domain? Is being smart beautiful? And if so, are you smart enough to figure out why Amazon.com just bought SmartIsBeautiful.com? The domain name was owned by BuyDomains until July 21, 2011, according to historical wh...
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Amazon.com buys SmartIsBeautiful.com — a new brand?
What does company plan to do with domain? Is being smart beautiful? And if so, are you smart enough to figure out why Amazon.com just bought SmartIsBeautiful.com? The domain name was owned by BuyDomains until July 21, 2011, according to historical wh...
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December 9, 2011, 9:15 am
Domain Name Wire
8 possible headlines for yesterday’s New TLD hearing
How do you describe an uneventful congressional hearing? Yesterday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about the introduction of new top level domains. The session, lightly attended by senators, was a bit bland. But here are 8 possible headl...
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8 possible headlines for yesterday’s New TLD hearing
How do you describe an uneventful congressional hearing? Yesterday the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing about the introduction of new top level domains. The session, lightly attended by senators, was a bit bland. But here are 8 possible headl...
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December 9, 2011, 8:59 am
Domain Name Wire
How Hall.com picked its name and bought it for $20,000
Company founder has great message about the importance of (domain) names. Brett Hellman of chat and collaboration company Hall.com today posted an intriguing insight into the company’s naming process. It explains how the company’s initial...
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How Hall.com picked its name and bought it for $20,000
Company founder has great message about the importance of (domain) names. Brett Hellman of chat and collaboration company Hall.com today posted an intriguing insight into the company’s naming process. It explains how the company’s initial...
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December 8, 2011, 9:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign releases DomainCountdown for expired domains
.Com and .net registry released more data on expiring domain names. VeriSign has just released a beta of DomainCountdown, a source of data on expiring domain names. DomainCountdown provides a wealth of information about domain names in pending delete...
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VeriSign releases DomainCountdown for expired domains
.Com and .net registry released more data on expiring domain names. VeriSign has just released a beta of DomainCountdown, a source of data on expiring domain names. DomainCountdown provides a wealth of information about domain names in pending delete...
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December 8, 2011, 4:16 pm
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New software will connect dots between “rogue web sites”
Company says it will help legal efforts against counterfeit goods sales. As congress debates the Stop Online Piracy Act (STOP) and companies file dozens of lawsuits against counterfeiters, a New York company claims to be developing software to aid in...
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New software will connect dots between “rogue web sites”
Company says it will help legal efforts against counterfeit goods sales. As congress debates the Stop Online Piracy Act (STOP) and companies file dozens of lawsuits against counterfeiters, a New York company claims to be developing software to aid in...
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December 8, 2011, 3:01 pm
