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The Domains
Stephen Colbert Grabs Sarah Palin Domain Name
Stephen Colbert scoops up Sarah Palin Domain Time magazine wrote about Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central registering TheSarahPalinChannel.com, the channel will parody the new SarahPalinChannel.com. The Sarah Palin channel will cost you $9.95/month ...
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Stephen Colbert Grabs Sarah Palin Domain Name
Stephen Colbert scoops up Sarah Palin Domain Time magazine wrote about Stephen Colbert from Comedy Central registering TheSarahPalinChannel.com, the channel will parody the new SarahPalinChannel.com. The Sarah Palin channel will cost you $9.95/month ...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 8:39 pm
The Domains
Interlink Co., Ltd. Wins Community Priority Evaluation For The New gTLD .Osaka
Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO’s application fo...
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Interlink Co., Ltd. Wins Community Priority Evaluation For The New gTLD .Osaka
Interlink Co., Ltd. Application for The New gTLD .Osaka just won its Community Priority Evaluation .Osaka has prevailed with its Community Priority Evaluation application getting 15 of the maximum 16 points. This means that GMO’s application fo...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 6:08 pm
The Domains
How Much Would You Spent For a 30M Meeting WIth Eric Schmidt of Google? Bidding Is At $8K
Bidding is now opened for a what is described as having “Coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, at Google in New York City.” “Sit down to coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, for 30 minutes at Goo...
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How Much Would You Spent For a 30M Meeting WIth Eric Schmidt of Google? Bidding Is At $8K
Bidding is now opened for a what is described as having “Coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, at Google in New York City.” “Sit down to coffee with Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, for 30 minutes at Goo...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 5:38 pm
The Domains
More rom ICANN Court Filing: Not Only Are ccTLD’s Not Property But They Don’t Belong To The Country
Earlier we wrote about ICANN filing several motions to quash a federal court ruling that ccTLD registries could be seized to satisfy judgements against the underling country saying ccTLD’s...
Discussion
More rom ICANN Court Filing: Not Only Are ccTLD’s Not Property But They Don’t Belong To The Country
Earlier we wrote about ICANN filing several motions to quash a federal court ruling that ccTLD registries could be seized to satisfy judgements against the underling country saying ccTLD’s...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 4:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Big names buy domains: Under Armour, Mary Kay, SAP and more
Large companies snap up domain names at Sedo. This week’s Sedo end user sales list is packed with big name end user buyers. Fortune 500 companies bought domains for under $2,000. The list follows. You can view previous lists like this here. If ...
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Big names buy domains: Under Armour, Mary Kay, SAP and more
Large companies snap up domain names at Sedo. This week’s Sedo end user sales list is packed with big name end user buyers. Fortune 500 companies bought domains for under $2,000. The list follows. You can view previous lists like this here. If ...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 4:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
.London’s unique “SunPriorityRush” period ends tomorrow
Tomorrow is a key deadline for .London domain names. The .London domain name is launching, and it’s very different from previous domain name launches. I reached out to Antony Van Couvering with Minds + Machines to learn more about the .London l...
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.London’s unique “SunPriorityRush” period ends tomorrow
Tomorrow is a key deadline for .London domain names. The .London domain name is launching, and it’s very different from previous domain name launches. I reached out to Antony Van Couvering with Minds + Machines to learn more about the .London l...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 2:09 pm
Domain Name News
ICANN tells US Court that ccTLDs are not property and thus cannot be seized
Files Motion to Quash in U.S. legal action aimed at Seizing Top-Level Domains The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cann...
Discussion
ICANN tells US Court that ccTLDs are not property and thus cannot be seized
Files Motion to Quash in U.S. legal action aimed at Seizing Top-Level Domains The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has told a U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, that a country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) cann...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 2:07 pm
The Domains
ICANN Responds To Seizure Order of The .IR Registry, saying ccTLD’s Are Not Property
A couple of weeks ago we told you that the attorney for the victims of a terrorist attack got a federal court to order the seizure of the .IR domain registry which is the ccTLD for Iran t...
Discussion
ICANN Responds To Seizure Order of The .IR Registry, saying ccTLD’s Are Not Property
A couple of weeks ago we told you that the attorney for the victims of a terrorist attack got a federal court to order the seizure of the .IR domain registry which is the ccTLD for Iran t...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 1:29 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN tells court ccTLDs aren’t property, can’t be awarded to plaintiffs
Victims of terrorism want to be paid (in part) with country code top level domain names. ICANN has responded to the U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, arguing that ccTLDs (country Code top level domain names, e.g. .ca and .de) are not pr...
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ICANN tells court ccTLDs aren’t property, can’t be awarded to plaintiffs
Victims of terrorism want to be paid (in part) with country code top level domain names. ICANN has responded to the U.S. federal court in the District of Columbia, arguing that ccTLDs (country Code top level domain names, e.g. .ca and .de) are not pr...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 1:06 pm
The Domains
HardRock; BMW; Starbucks; BretMichaels & God All .Rocks; Here are the first .Rocks Registrations
.Rocks which goes live into general availability today meaning domains will be available to be registered on a first come first serve basis has a little over 200 domains which were registered in Sunrise (Trademark holders) and in the Early Acce...
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HardRock; BMW; Starbucks; BretMichaels & God All .Rocks; Here are the first .Rocks Registrations
.Rocks which goes live into general availability today meaning domains will be available to be registered on a first come first serve basis has a little over 200 domains which were registered in Sunrise (Trademark holders) and in the Early Acce...
Discussion
July 30, 2014, 12:57 pm
