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Olympics and Red Cross Push for Special Rights with New TLDs
GAC backs move by groups to get names added to reserved names lists for new TLDs. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) continues to pester ICANN about giving it special privileges for new top level domain names, and now the American Red Cross is...
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Olympics and Red Cross Push for Special Rights with New TLDs
GAC backs move by groups to get names added to reserved names lists for new TLDs. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) continues to pester ICANN about giving it special privileges for new top level domain names, and now the American Red Cross is...
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May 13, 2011, 8:37 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy Starts Featuring Auctions in Registration Path
More exposure for domains listed on Go Daddy Auctions. Go Daddy has started to show domain names that are listed on its auction platform to users searching for available domain names. For example, if you try to register Branson365.com, you’ll s...
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Go Daddy Starts Featuring Auctions in Registration Path
More exposure for domains listed on Go Daddy Auctions. Go Daddy has started to show domain names that are listed on its auction platform to users searching for available domain names. For example, if you try to register Branson365.com, you’ll s...
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May 12, 2011, 9:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
Priced Domains Can Sell in Go Daddy Auctions, Too
Premium Listings can also sell within Go Daddy Auctions — and at a lower commission. I recently received a sale notice for one of the domains I listed at Go Daddy as a Premium Listing. I assumed it was a standard sale through Go Daddy’s r...
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Priced Domains Can Sell in Go Daddy Auctions, Too
Premium Listings can also sell within Go Daddy Auctions — and at a lower commission. I recently received a sale notice for one of the domains I listed at Go Daddy as a Premium Listing. I assumed it was a standard sale through Go Daddy’s r...
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May 12, 2011, 2:31 pm
Domain Name Wire
Tucows Handicaps the Chances of New TLDs Kicking Off In Singapore
Will the new TLD application process finally get approved next month? For a while it looked assured that the new top level domain name applicant guidebook would get the green light at ICANN’s meeting in Singapore this June. But then Lawrence St...
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Tucows Handicaps the Chances of New TLDs Kicking Off In Singapore
Will the new TLD application process finally get approved next month? For a while it looked assured that the new top level domain name applicant guidebook would get the green light at ICANN’s meeting in Singapore this June. But then Lawrence St...
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May 12, 2011, 10:19 am
Domain Name Wire
Job Boards Launch Another Attacked on .Jobs Registry
Monster, CareerBuilder, and others write open letter to ICANN. The .Jobs Charter Compliance Coalition, whose membership consists of online job boards, has sent an “open letter” to ICANN regarding Employ Media’s request for arbitrati...
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Job Boards Launch Another Attacked on .Jobs Registry
Monster, CareerBuilder, and others write open letter to ICANN. The .Jobs Charter Compliance Coalition, whose membership consists of online job boards, has sent an “open letter” to ICANN regarding Employ Media’s request for arbitrati...
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May 12, 2011, 9:56 am
Domain Name Wire
VeriSign Monopoly Case Fizzles, No Break for Domainers
CFIT settles with VeriSign for $0. Hopes by domainers that .com prices would fall thanks to an antitrust lawsuit have officially been dashed. VeriSign just released a press release stating that Coalition for ICANN Transparency has agreed to drop a ca...
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VeriSign Monopoly Case Fizzles, No Break for Domainers
CFIT settles with VeriSign for $0. Hopes by domainers that .com prices would fall thanks to an antitrust lawsuit have officially been dashed. VeriSign just released a press release stating that Coalition for ICANN Transparency has agreed to drop a ca...
Discussion
May 11, 2011, 5:51 pm
Domain Name Wire
Sedo Domain Revenue Falls Thanks to Domain Parking
Revenue down as domain parking continues to slide. Sedo Holding’s revenue from its domain name segment fell 6.3% in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same quarter in 2010, the company disclosed in a financial report (pdf) today. As with...
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Sedo Domain Revenue Falls Thanks to Domain Parking
Revenue down as domain parking continues to slide. Sedo Holding’s revenue from its domain name segment fell 6.3% in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same quarter in 2010, the company disclosed in a financial report (pdf) today. As with...
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May 11, 2011, 5:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Teen Domainer Wins $10,000 Go Daddy Scholarship
Domain blogger wins $10,000 scholarship from Go Daddy. Brian Diener, who writes the domain blog TeenDomainer.com, has been selected as one of the winners of the Go Daddy .Me Scholarship Program. Go Daddy will pay $10,000 toward Diener’s educati...
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Teen Domainer Wins $10,000 Go Daddy Scholarship
Domain blogger wins $10,000 scholarship from Go Daddy. Brian Diener, who writes the domain blog TeenDomainer.com, has been selected as one of the winners of the Go Daddy .Me Scholarship Program. Go Daddy will pay $10,000 toward Diener’s educati...
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May 11, 2011, 4:17 pm
Domain Name Wire
Prominent UDRP Defense Attorneys Also Opposed to UDRP Reform
If it ain’t completely broke, don’t risk breaking it. Yesterday I wrote about how World Intellectual Property Forum and National Arbitration Forum are opposed to initiating a UDRP reform effort at WIPO. They aren’t the only ones in ...
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Prominent UDRP Defense Attorneys Also Opposed to UDRP Reform
If it ain’t completely broke, don’t risk breaking it. Yesterday I wrote about how World Intellectual Property Forum and National Arbitration Forum are opposed to initiating a UDRP reform effort at WIPO. They aren’t the only ones in ...
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May 11, 2011, 12:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
HootSuite Adds .Li Shorteners But Defends Use of .Ly
Service adds back up URLs but says people need not worry about .ly. That’s wrong. Social networking platform HootSuite has added alternatives to shorteners that use Libya’s country code domain name .ly after users expressed concerns about...
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HootSuite Adds .Li Shorteners But Defends Use of .Ly
Service adds back up URLs but says people need not worry about .ly. That’s wrong. Social networking platform HootSuite has added alternatives to shorteners that use Libya’s country code domain name .ly after users expressed concerns about...
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May 11, 2011, 10:21 am
