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Uniregistry Launches 5 New gTLD’s Today
Uniregistry is launching 5 new gTLD’s today the 25th of November 2014: .click which will have no reserved domains except for the 100 domains registered by the registry and domain names on the ICANN collision list .Click is priced at $5.99 at Go...
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Uniregistry Launches 5 New gTLD’s Today
Uniregistry is launching 5 new gTLD’s today the 25th of November 2014: .click which will have no reserved domains except for the 100 domains registered by the registry and domain names on the ICANN collision list .Click is priced at $5.99 at Go...
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November 25, 2014, 2:35 pm

The Domains
Bitcoin.com.au sells for $31,200 as owner loses the domain due to bad registrant info
DnTrade.com.au and a few others have been buzzing about Bitcoin.com.au being auctioned off on Netfleet. Cazalla at Qntra.net wrote the best explanation of what happened, this was the second time Bitcoin.com.au sold this year. Apparently it is a popul...
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Bitcoin.com.au sells for $31,200 as owner loses the domain due to bad registrant info
DnTrade.com.au and a few others have been buzzing about Bitcoin.com.au being auctioned off on Netfleet. Cazalla at Qntra.net wrote the best explanation of what happened, this was the second time Bitcoin.com.au sold this year. Apparently it is a popul...
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November 25, 2014, 1:24 pm

The Domains
Symantec Discovers “Regin” A Sophisticated Piece of Malware
Symantec has discovered a piece of malware that has been used to spy on ISP’s and telecom companies that they say was most likely by a government agency. They did not say which government. The malware looks to have been created back in 2008, pa...
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Symantec Discovers “Regin” A Sophisticated Piece of Malware
Symantec has discovered a piece of malware that has been used to spy on ISP’s and telecom companies that they say was most likely by a government agency. They did not say which government. The malware looks to have been created back in 2008, pa...
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November 25, 2014, 12:11 pm

The Domains
UDRP Panel Throws Case Out But Doesn’t Find RDNH On Domain Registered 9 Years Before TM
Jobetty LLC, dba Mudpuppy’s Tub & Scrub lost its attempt to grab the domain name mudpuppies.com The three member panel of Nathalie Dreyfus, Sandra J. Franklin and Diane Thilly Cabell basically threw the case out finding the Complainant&rsqu...
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UDRP Panel Throws Case Out But Doesn’t Find RDNH On Domain Registered 9 Years Before TM
Jobetty LLC, dba Mudpuppy’s Tub & Scrub lost its attempt to grab the domain name mudpuppies.com The three member panel of Nathalie Dreyfus, Sandra J. Franklin and Diane Thilly Cabell basically threw the case out finding the Complainant&rsqu...
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November 24, 2014, 3:50 pm

The Domains
Godaddy Is Back In The Super Bowl …..With A Puppy
GoDaddy announced today that it will be back advertising for its eleventh consecutive Super Bowl, in the 2015 Super Bowl with a thirty-second spot encouraging business owners to put their businesses online with a domain name and website. “For t...
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Godaddy Is Back In The Super Bowl …..With A Puppy
GoDaddy announced today that it will be back advertising for its eleventh consecutive Super Bowl, in the 2015 Super Bowl with a thirty-second spot encouraging business owners to put their businesses online with a domain name and website. “For t...
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November 24, 2014, 2:17 pm

The Domains
Looks Like Craigslist Got Hacked
In trying to get to Craigslist it looks like the site was hacked by Digital Gangster. A You Tuber put up a video showing what happened
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Looks Like Craigslist Got Hacked
In trying to get to Craigslist it looks like the site was hacked by Digital Gangster. A You Tuber put up a video showing what happened
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November 24, 2014, 4:37 am

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A Survivor of The Dot Com Bubble – Cufflinks.com
Maria Halkias of DallasNews.com wrote a piece on a survivor of the .com bubble of the late nineties. Cufflinks.com. Halkias did a good job conveying where the company is now and how it got there from those crazy bubble days of 1999 – 2000. From...
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A Survivor of The Dot Com Bubble – Cufflinks.com
Maria Halkias of DallasNews.com wrote a piece on a survivor of the .com bubble of the late nineties. Cufflinks.com. Halkias did a good job conveying where the company is now and how it got there from those crazy bubble days of 1999 – 2000. From...
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November 24, 2014, 2:46 am

The Domains
Nearly 60% of Dot Com Domains in China Hijacked in 2014
WantChinaTimes.com published an article about the number of .Com domains that have been hijacked in China in 2014. The number is pretty big if the report is accurate, close to 60 %. The report claims close to half are controlled by overseas IP’...
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Nearly 60% of Dot Com Domains in China Hijacked in 2014
WantChinaTimes.com published an article about the number of .Com domains that have been hijacked in China in 2014. The number is pretty big if the report is accurate, close to 60 %. The report claims close to half are controlled by overseas IP’...
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November 23, 2014, 9:54 pm

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SEO-For-Lawyers on the importance of .attorney names for marketing
Luke Ciciliano did a post for Seo-for-lawyers.com on why he thinks .attorney and .lawyer will hold significance for lawyers in their marketing efforts. In the article he references a Dallas related name being used and showing in the search results, h...
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SEO-For-Lawyers on the importance of .attorney names for marketing
Luke Ciciliano did a post for Seo-for-lawyers.com on why he thinks .attorney and .lawyer will hold significance for lawyers in their marketing efforts. In the article he references a Dallas related name being used and showing in the search results, h...
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November 22, 2014, 10:39 pm

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Last Call For Domain Submission For Namescon Live Domain Name Auction
RightoftheDot.com which is running the Live and Online domain name auction at the Namescon conference on January 13th, 2015 at 4:30 PM PST in Las Vegas, is putting out its final call for domains to be submitted to the auction. The live auction will h...
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Last Call For Domain Submission For Namescon Live Domain Name Auction
RightoftheDot.com which is running the Live and Online domain name auction at the Namescon conference on January 13th, 2015 at 4:30 PM PST in Las Vegas, is putting out its final call for domains to be submitted to the auction. The live auction will h...
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November 22, 2014, 2:43 pm