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Launched – Grown – Sold The Miami Herald Discusses What’s Next for .CO Founders
The Miami Herald did a piece today on the .CO Registry acquisition by Neustar. They spoke with Juan Diego Calle to find out what’s next for everyone now that the company is sold. Calle mentioned a better job and better benefits for employees. T...
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Launched – Grown – Sold The Miami Herald Discusses What’s Next for .CO Founders
The Miami Herald did a piece today on the .CO Registry acquisition by Neustar. They spoke with Juan Diego Calle to find out what’s next for everyone now that the company is sold. Calle mentioned a better job and better benefits for employees. T...
Discussion
April 21, 2014, 5:15 pm

The Domains
Facebook to Launch Mobile Ad Network
Mike Isaac wrote on Recode that Facebook will be launching their own mobile ad network. Lots of people have wanted Facebook to build an ad network for a long time. Here it comes. Facebook will take the wraps off its plans for a mobile ad network at i...
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Facebook to Launch Mobile Ad Network
Mike Isaac wrote on Recode that Facebook will be launching their own mobile ad network. Lots of people have wanted Facebook to build an ad network for a long time. Here it comes. Facebook will take the wraps off its plans for a mobile ad network at i...
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April 21, 2014, 4:16 pm

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Should Business Fear Google ?
Media company admits to being afraid of Google Olivia Solon wrote on Ars Technica that a major European media company has concerns about the growing power of Google. From the article: The chief executive of Axel Springer, one of Europe’s larges...
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Should Business Fear Google ?
Media company admits to being afraid of Google Olivia Solon wrote on Ars Technica that a major European media company has concerns about the growing power of Google. From the article: The chief executive of Axel Springer, one of Europe’s larges...
Discussion
April 21, 2014, 2:35 am

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Has the time come for mandatory two factor authentication ?
I was already thinking about the topic of mandatory two factor authentication before Heartbleed. It was actually the story about Naoki Hiroshima and his post on Medium detailing the account hack at Go Daddy and Paypal, in order to gain access t...
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Has the time come for mandatory two factor authentication ?
I was already thinking about the topic of mandatory two factor authentication before Heartbleed. It was actually the story about Naoki Hiroshima and his post on Medium detailing the account hack at Go Daddy and Paypal, in order to gain access t...
Discussion
April 20, 2014, 10:51 pm

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How Many Letters On To The Right of the Dot is Too Many To Be A Hack?
A domain name hack has traditionally used ccTLD’s to form words and made it a brandable domain. Some of the more famous hacks are bit.ly, and del.icio.us instagram.com started out as instagr.am But now with the new gTLD’s people are using...
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How Many Letters On To The Right of the Dot is Too Many To Be A Hack?
A domain name hack has traditionally used ccTLD’s to form words and made it a brandable domain. Some of the more famous hacks are bit.ly, and del.icio.us instagram.com started out as instagr.am But now with the new gTLD’s people are using...
Discussion
April 20, 2014, 12:34 pm

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Looks Like A New Domain Publication Coming in July
It looks like there will be a new domain publication coming on the scene in July. Perusing Facebook there was an ad for DomainWorldMagazine.com Ryan Colby of Outcome Brokerage looks to be the registrant of the domain. From the Facebook page With over...
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Looks Like A New Domain Publication Coming in July
It looks like there will be a new domain publication coming on the scene in July. Perusing Facebook there was an ad for DomainWorldMagazine.com Ryan Colby of Outcome Brokerage looks to be the registrant of the domain. From the Facebook page With over...
Discussion
April 19, 2014, 11:58 pm

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Turkey May Leave the World Wide Web
Turkey is looking at leaving the world wide web for its own protocol I can say I have thought for a long time we will eventually see the balkanization of the Internet. The net has become to vital in so many aspects of life that we continue to have gl...
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Turkey May Leave the World Wide Web
Turkey is looking at leaving the world wide web for its own protocol I can say I have thought for a long time we will eventually see the balkanization of the Internet. The net has become to vital in so many aspects of life that we continue to have gl...
Discussion
April 19, 2014, 7:10 pm

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KeyBiscayne Gets Creative with .Email
The people behind KeyBiscayne.org are offering residents the opportunity to get their own KeyBiscayne.email address. Posted on their website: KeyBiscayne.org was selected to manage the email address of the Island Paradise. Key Biscayne resident...
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KeyBiscayne Gets Creative with .Email
The people behind KeyBiscayne.org are offering residents the opportunity to get their own KeyBiscayne.email address. Posted on their website: KeyBiscayne.org was selected to manage the email address of the Island Paradise. Key Biscayne resident...
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April 19, 2014, 5:57 pm

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LinkedIn Tops 300 Million Members
LinkedIn reached 300 million members according to a story in USA Today. The company was founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, the company is now a publicly traded company and is currently trading at $175 a share, this equates to a mar...
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LinkedIn Tops 300 Million Members
LinkedIn reached 300 million members according to a story in USA Today. The company was founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, the company is now a publicly traded company and is currently trading at $175 a share, this equates to a mar...
Discussion
April 19, 2014, 9:20 am

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Have Your Opinions Changed or Stayed The Same on the New gTLDs ?
Back on February 6, we posted a poll that asked readers to choose their interest level in the new gtlds. Readers had a choice of strong interest, moderate interest or zero interest. The poll ran til April 1 and in total 240 readers voted. The r...
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Have Your Opinions Changed or Stayed The Same on the New gTLDs ?
Back on February 6, we posted a poll that asked readers to choose their interest level in the new gtlds. Readers had a choice of strong interest, moderate interest or zero interest. The poll ran til April 1 and in total 240 readers voted. The r...
Discussion
April 18, 2014, 8:58 pm