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Domain privacy isn’t free, Thursday edition
Responding to lawsuits is expensive. I keep preaching about how providing whois privacy services isn’t free for domain registrars, and here’s another example. Timothy Sykes has just sued Moniker (pdf) in federal district court to find out...
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Domain privacy isn’t free, Thursday edition
Responding to lawsuits is expensive. I keep preaching about how providing whois privacy services isn’t free for domain registrars, and here’s another example. Timothy Sykes has just sued Moniker (pdf) in federal district court to find out...
Discussion
March 22, 2012, 10:28 am
Domain Name Wire
New TLD registrations now up to at least 329
329 people have registered for ICANN’s new TLD system. ICANN has updated its new top level domain program statistics to show that it has 329 registrants for its TLD Application System (TAS). Each registrant can apply for up to 50 top level doma...
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New TLD registrations now up to at least 329
329 people have registered for ICANN’s new TLD system. ICANN has updated its new top level domain program statistics to show that it has 329 registrants for its TLD Application System (TAS). Each registrant can apply for up to 50 top level doma...
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March 22, 2012, 10:12 am
Domain Name Wire
Facebook registers a bunch of domains but the strategy makes no sense
Company appears to be registering previously expired domains, but isn’t picking up some obvious domains. Facebook registered at least 22 domain names yesterday, many of them typos of Facebook. But the strategy is perplexing. Here’s the li...
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Facebook registers a bunch of domains but the strategy makes no sense
Company appears to be registering previously expired domains, but isn’t picking up some obvious domains. Facebook registered at least 22 domain names yesterday, many of them typos of Facebook. But the strategy is perplexing. Here’s the li...
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March 22, 2012, 10:06 am
Domain Name Wire
Hot gossip: media company demands GossipGirl.com domain name
Alloy Entertainment wants the GossipGirl.com domain name. Alloy Entertainment, the company behind the Gossip Girl books and TV show on CW, has filed a complaint to get the domain name GossipGirl.com. The complaint was filed with World Intellectual Pr...
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Hot gossip: media company demands GossipGirl.com domain name
Alloy Entertainment wants the GossipGirl.com domain name. Alloy Entertainment, the company behind the Gossip Girl books and TV show on CW, has filed a complaint to get the domain name GossipGirl.com. The complaint was filed with World Intellectual Pr...
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March 21, 2012, 1:53 pm
Domain Name Wire
Abbott Labs registers over 500 domains for AbbVie spinoff, hand registers brand domain
Abbott Labs paid the normal registration fee for its new brand domain, but gets defensive with hundreds of registrations. How much did Abbott Labs, a $95 billion market cap company, pay to get the domain name for its spinoff pharmaceuticals unit? Abo...
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Abbott Labs registers over 500 domains for AbbVie spinoff, hand registers brand domain
Abbott Labs paid the normal registration fee for its new brand domain, but gets defensive with hundreds of registrations. How much did Abbott Labs, a $95 billion market cap company, pay to get the domain name for its spinoff pharmaceuticals unit? Abo...
Discussion
March 21, 2012, 10:54 am
Domain Name Wire
Company files class action lawsuit against GoDaddy over “Free” privacy service rebilling
Company says it should not have been charged to renew whois privacy services that were initially free. A Florida company has initiated a lawsuit seeking class action status against domain name registrar GoDaddy for its practice of rebilling for whois...
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Company files class action lawsuit against GoDaddy over “Free” privacy service rebilling
Company says it should not have been charged to renew whois privacy services that were initially free. A Florida company has initiated a lawsuit seeking class action status against domain name registrar GoDaddy for its practice of rebilling for whois...
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March 21, 2012, 10:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Matt Cutts publishes video about new top level domains and Google search results
Likely to be a “transition period” where Google figures out how to index new top level domains. Today’s Google webmaster video is about new top level domains. Google engineer Matt Cutts already grabbed some headlines when talking ab...
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Matt Cutts publishes video about new top level domains and Google search results
Likely to be a “transition period” where Google figures out how to index new top level domains. Today’s Google webmaster video is about new top level domains. Google engineer Matt Cutts already grabbed some headlines when talking ab...
Discussion
March 20, 2012, 5:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
5 new top level domain pricing models
How should registries price their new domain registrations? We’ve seen many new top level domains (and some commercialized country code domains) hit the market over the past decade. They’ve taken various pricing strategies — from se...
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5 new top level domain pricing models
How should registries price their new domain registrations? We’ve seen many new top level domains (and some commercialized country code domains) hit the market over the past decade. They’ve taken various pricing strategies — from se...
Discussion
March 20, 2012, 4:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Escrow.com taps in to DomainTools API
Escrow.com uses DomainTools’ API for faster and better escrow processing. Escrow.com has integrated DomainTools into its security and process systems using its API, the two companies announced today. DomainTools announced the formal release its...
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Escrow.com taps in to DomainTools API
Escrow.com uses DomainTools’ API for faster and better escrow processing. Escrow.com has integrated DomainTools into its security and process systems using its API, the two companies announced today. DomainTools announced the formal release its...
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March 20, 2012, 11:59 am
Domain Name Wire
Tucows stock is on a tear
Stock up over 40% in past month. Shares of Tucows (TCX) have been on a tear over the past month. After trading in a fairly narrow band since August, shares have popped 41% since February 16. Shares opened February 16 at $.76 and closed at $.88. The s...
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Tucows stock is on a tear
Stock up over 40% in past month. Shares of Tucows (TCX) have been on a tear over the past month. After trading in a fairly narrow band since August, shares have popped 41% since February 16. Shares opened February 16 at $.76 and closed at $.88. The s...
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March 20, 2012, 10:09 am
