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Top 10 .Mobi Registrars and What It Says About New TLDs
Half of all .mobi registrations are at one domain registrar. I was just looking through tallies of total domain names per registrar by TLD as of the end of 2010. This graph of .mobi registrations at the end of December is telling: There’s only ...
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Top 10 .Mobi Registrars and What It Says About New TLDs
Half of all .mobi registrations are at one domain registrar. I was just looking through tallies of total domain names per registrar by TLD as of the end of 2010. This graph of .mobi registrations at the end of December is telling: There’s only ...
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April 5, 2011, 3:23 pm
Domain Name Wire
ClickZ Loses Dispute for United Kingdom Domain Name
Web site’s attempt to get Clickz.co.uk rebuffed. Popular online marketing web site ClickZ.com has lost an arbitration case to get the domain name ClickZ.co.uk. Party Domain Limited registered Clickz.co.uk back in 1999. The domain points to a la...
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ClickZ Loses Dispute for United Kingdom Domain Name
Web site’s attempt to get Clickz.co.uk rebuffed. Popular online marketing web site ClickZ.com has lost an arbitration case to get the domain name ClickZ.co.uk. Party Domain Limited registered Clickz.co.uk back in 1999. The domain points to a la...
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April 5, 2011, 11:47 am
Domain Name Wire
Company Hit with UDRP for Typo of Its Own Domain Name
ShoeBuy.com registered typo of its own domain name, only to have to defends itself for cybersquatting. Imagine you’re an online shoe retailer. To protect against cybersquatting you register over 100 common typos of your domain name. Then one da...
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Company Hit with UDRP for Typo of Its Own Domain Name
ShoeBuy.com registered typo of its own domain name, only to have to defends itself for cybersquatting. Imagine you’re an online shoe retailer. To protect against cybersquatting you register over 100 common typos of your domain name. Then one da...
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April 5, 2011, 7:16 am
Domain Name Wire
Bob Parsons Updates Elephant Shooting Video
Edits shine more positive light on Bob Parsons hunting trip. Bob Parsons has defended himself in several interviews since he posted a video of him shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe. But he made a tacit admission that his video could have been less off...
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Bob Parsons Updates Elephant Shooting Video
Edits shine more positive light on Bob Parsons hunting trip. Bob Parsons has defended himself in several interviews since he posted a video of him shooting an elephant in Zimbabwe. But he made a tacit admission that his video could have been less off...
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April 4, 2011, 6:15 pm
Domain Name Wire
Hey Bit.ly, What Do you Have to Say About .ly Domains Now?
Another example of the dangers of .ly domain names. Ever since unrest broke out in Libya Bit.ly has been saying they have no worries about their domain name. They point to the .ly caches outside of Libya. (.ly is the country code domain for Libya.) B...
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Hey Bit.ly, What Do you Have to Say About .ly Domains Now?
Another example of the dangers of .ly domain names. Ever since unrest broke out in Libya Bit.ly has been saying they have no worries about their domain name. They point to the .ly caches outside of Libya. (.ly is the country code domain for Libya.) B...
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April 4, 2011, 1:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
Chicago Food Critic Finally Gets Stolen ChicagoRestaurant.com Domain Name Back
Long domain name battle has a happy ending. Chicago restaurant guru David M. Lissner of Dining Chicago used ChicagoRestaurant.com for ten years. Then one day in 2009 – poof! – it was gone. It was suddenly registered to someone in Turkey. ...
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Chicago Food Critic Finally Gets Stolen ChicagoRestaurant.com Domain Name Back
Long domain name battle has a happy ending. Chicago restaurant guru David M. Lissner of Dining Chicago used ChicagoRestaurant.com for ten years. Then one day in 2009 – poof! – it was gone. It was suddenly registered to someone in Turkey. ...
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April 4, 2011, 11:07 am
Domain Name Wire
Domainer April Fools Roundup
Plenty to laugh at on this April Fools’ Day April Fools day came early for domainers yesterday when TechCrunch posted an article titled “Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm” And Removes From Search...
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Domainer April Fools Roundup
Plenty to laugh at on this April Fools’ Day April Fools day came early for domainers yesterday when TechCrunch posted an article titled “Google Inadvertently Classifies Google Places As A “Content Farm” And Removes From Search...
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April 1, 2011, 11:40 am
Domain Name Wire
PETA Moves Domains from Go Daddy to Register.com
Animal rights group moves domain names to competitor. Making good on its promise, PETA has moved its domains (well at least peta.org) away from Go Daddy. The domain name is now registered at Register.com. This whole elephant shooting video is obvious...
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PETA Moves Domains from Go Daddy to Register.com
Animal rights group moves domain names to competitor. Making good on its promise, PETA has moved its domains (well at least peta.org) away from Go Daddy. The domain name is now registered at Register.com. This whole elephant shooting video is obvious...
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March 31, 2011, 3:54 pm
Domain Name Wire
Is Cybersquatting Up or Just Enforcement of Cybersquatting?
WIPO’s headline is misleading. Today World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO) did its annual release of how many UDRP cases it handled last year. It was a record 2,696 cases. That’s a lot of cases, and National Arbitration Forum also saw ...
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Is Cybersquatting Up or Just Enforcement of Cybersquatting?
WIPO’s headline is misleading. Today World Intellectual Property Forum (WIPO) did its annual release of how many UDRP cases it handled last year. It was a record 2,696 cases. That’s a lot of cases, and National Arbitration Forum also saw ...
Discussion
March 31, 2011, 3:10 pm
Domain Name Wire
Domain Registries Blast ICANN Over .Jobs Breach Notice
Registries ask for prior communications prior to sending a breach or termination notice. Last month ICANN sent a breach notice to .jobs registry Employ Media. This came as a surprise to Employ Media (for good reason) and probably freaked out some .jo...
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Domain Registries Blast ICANN Over .Jobs Breach Notice
Registries ask for prior communications prior to sending a breach or termination notice. Last month ICANN sent a breach notice to .jobs registry Employ Media. This came as a surprise to Employ Media (for good reason) and probably freaked out some .jo...
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March 31, 2011, 10:42 am
