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Inc. Asks Do You Really Need A .Com
In a post tonight Inc.com asks Do you Really Need A .Com? “If you’ve started a business any time in the last 15 to 20 years, you’ve probably struggled with the sa...
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Inc. Asks Do You Really Need A .Com
In a post tonight Inc.com asks Do you Really Need A .Com? “If you’ve started a business any time in the last 15 to 20 years, you’ve probably struggled with the sa...
Discussion
October 14, 2013, 8:40 pm

The Domains
Demand Media CEO & Chairman Rosenblatt Resigns
Demand Media (DMD) CEO and Chairman Richard Rosenblatt resigned today. The resignation of CEO is effective October 31, 2013, and as Chairman is effective immediately The board has appointed Shawn Colo as interim President, effective immediately, and ...
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Demand Media CEO & Chairman Rosenblatt Resigns
Demand Media (DMD) CEO and Chairman Richard Rosenblatt resigned today. The resignation of CEO is effective October 31, 2013, and as Chairman is effective immediately The board has appointed Shawn Colo as interim President, effective immediately, and ...
Discussion
October 14, 2013, 4:34 pm

The Domains
Uniregistry Beats Back Google’s Objection To .Cars: Different Decisions On The Same String Is ICANN’s Problem
Uniregistry, Corp just beat back an objection from Google’s Charleston Road Registry (CRR) Inc. on the new gTLD .cars in a decision handed down by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”) CRR objected to Unregistry a...
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Uniregistry Beats Back Google’s Objection To .Cars: Different Decisions On The Same String Is ICANN’s Problem
Uniregistry, Corp just beat back an objection from Google’s Charleston Road Registry (CRR) Inc. on the new gTLD .cars in a decision handed down by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (“ICDR”) CRR objected to Unregistry a...
Discussion
October 14, 2013, 12:38 pm

The Domains
NationwideLifts.comSaved in UDRP Which Should Have Been A RDNH
S & H Enterprises, Inc. DBA Nationwide Lifts of New York, New York, just lost a UDRP on the very generic domain name nationwidelifts.com S & H’s site is at elevette.com which they registered in 2003 and which I’m sure all domain i...
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NationwideLifts.comSaved in UDRP Which Should Have Been A RDNH
S & H Enterprises, Inc. DBA Nationwide Lifts of New York, New York, just lost a UDRP on the very generic domain name nationwidelifts.com S & H’s site is at elevette.com which they registered in 2003 and which I’m sure all domain i...
Discussion
October 14, 2013, 12:14 pm

The Domains
.NYC Expects To Go Live in 1st Half of 2014
According to a mailing from the offical site of the .NYC new gTLD domain name extension, mydotnyc.com the city expects that the .NYC extension will go live in the 1st half of 2014. “The City of New York will be one of the first cities in the wo...
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.NYC Expects To Go Live in 1st Half of 2014
According to a mailing from the offical site of the .NYC new gTLD domain name extension, mydotnyc.com the city expects that the .NYC extension will go live in the 1st half of 2014. “The City of New York will be one of the first cities in the wo...
Discussion
October 14, 2013, 11:13 am

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.ORG Launches Website Makeover Contest
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced the launch of its . as part of an ongoing effort to empower nonprofit organizations and groups to effectively advance their causes online. Today through Novembe...
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.ORG Launches Website Makeover Contest
Public Interest Registry, the not-for-profit operator of the .ORG domain, today announced the launch of its . as part of an ongoing effort to empower nonprofit organizations and groups to effectively advance their causes online. Today through Novembe...
Discussion
October 14, 2013, 9:22 am

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Quick Poll: Which of The 9 Donuts New gTLD Starting Sunrise In Oct Will Have The Most Registrations?
This week we wrote a post about Donuts starting to accept Sunrise Applications on its first 9 new gTLD’s on October 29. Our poll question today is which of these new gTLD strings will have the most registrations by the end of March 2015? Why Ma...
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Quick Poll: Which of The 9 Donuts New gTLD Starting Sunrise In Oct Will Have The Most Registrations?
This week we wrote a post about Donuts starting to accept Sunrise Applications on its first 9 new gTLD’s on October 29. Our poll question today is which of these new gTLD strings will have the most registrations by the end of March 2015? Why Ma...
Discussion
October 13, 2013, 10:40 am

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ICANN Makes Domain Investor Daniel Negari The Poster Boy For The New gTLD Program In Video Released Tonight
ICANN has made Domain investor and new gTLD applicant Daniel Negari the poster boy for the new gTLD program in a video released by ICANN tonight on Twitter. Why Dan? Well at 27 years of age, he is the youngest applicant for a new gTLD with an unconte...
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ICANN Makes Domain Investor Daniel Negari The Poster Boy For The New gTLD Program In Video Released Tonight
ICANN has made Domain investor and new gTLD applicant Daniel Negari the poster boy for the new gTLD program in a video released by ICANN tonight on Twitter. Why Dan? Well at 27 years of age, he is the youngest applicant for a new gTLD with an unconte...
Discussion
October 12, 2013, 11:53 pm

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1and1.com New gTLD Pre-Registrations Top 3 Million Domain Names
It was back on September 22nd when we posted that 1and1.com, the domain name registration which has been running television commercials in heavy rotation in the...
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1and1.com New gTLD Pre-Registrations Top 3 Million Domain Names
It was back on September 22nd when we posted that 1and1.com, the domain name registration which has been running television commercials in heavy rotation in the...
Discussion
October 11, 2013, 9:45 pm

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Trademark Clearinghouse Verification Service Now Accepting Additional Abused Labels
Abused Domain Name label service for Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Verification is now available. It was created to help rights owners protect labels that have a history of being abusively used or registered in the Domain Names Space. The Abu...
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Trademark Clearinghouse Verification Service Now Accepting Additional Abused Labels
Abused Domain Name label service for Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Verification is now available. It was created to help rights owners protect labels that have a history of being abusively used or registered in the Domain Names Space. The Abu...
Discussion
October 11, 2013, 6:06 pm