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WIPO Awards Twitter The Domain Name Twitter.org
Twitter has won the rights to the domain name Twitter.org The UDRP complaint was decided by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The domain name was held under privacy at Moniker.com The domain name has an original registration date o...
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WIPO Awards Twitter The Domain Name Twitter.org
Twitter has won the rights to the domain name Twitter.org The UDRP complaint was decided by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The domain name was held under privacy at Moniker.com The domain name has an original registration date o...
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April 8, 2013, 9:56 am

The Domains
Verisign: 2012 Ends With 252 Million Domain Names: 121 Million .com/.net
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) just published it quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. announcing that more than 6 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to m...
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Verisign: 2012 Ends With 252 Million Domain Names: 121 Million .com/.net
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) just published it quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief. announcing that more than 6 million domain names were added to the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to m...
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April 8, 2013, 9:03 am

The Domains
ICANN: All New gTLD Initial Evaluations Should Be Completed By End Of August
ICANN now says they will be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from the ICANN Beijing meeting, entitled “New gTLD Program Status ICANN releas...
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ICANN: All New gTLD Initial Evaluations Should Be Completed By End Of August
ICANN now says they will be done with the Initial Evaluation for new all new gTLD applications by the end of August 2013 The statements came in a session from the ICANN Beijing meeting, entitled “New gTLD Program Status ICANN releas...
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April 8, 2013, 1:58 am

The Domains
Internet In China By The Numbers
Some pretty interesting numbers coming out of the ICANN meeting’s Opening Session in Beijing today. China has 564 Million Internet users, which represents over 42% of their population and almost double the population of th...
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Internet In China By The Numbers
Some pretty interesting numbers coming out of the ICANN meeting’s Opening Session in Beijing today. China has 564 Million Internet users, which represents over 42% of their population and almost double the population of th...
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April 7, 2013, 10:23 pm

The Domains
Following On Success of .Tk, .ML To Offer Free Domains
Following on its highly successful management of the .TK registry Freedom Registry announced today its going to ‘Power” the Dot ML, the Mali domain name, .Ml .ML domain names will be operated as ” generic, unrestricted, ...
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Following On Success of .Tk, .ML To Offer Free Domains
Following on its highly successful management of the .TK registry Freedom Registry announced today its going to ‘Power” the Dot ML, the Mali domain name, .Ml .ML domain names will be operated as ” generic, unrestricted, ...
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April 7, 2013, 9:55 pm

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Escrow.com Re-Designs & Launches New Updated Site
Escrow.com just launched its re-designed site. Its not only the design that has changed but more information and features are now available. Andee Hill of Escrow.com, shared some of the new features with us: The big upgrade to our services is our Mil...
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Escrow.com Re-Designs & Launches New Updated Site
Escrow.com just launched its re-designed site. Its not only the design that has changed but more information and features are now available. Andee Hill of Escrow.com, shared some of the new features with us: The big upgrade to our services is our Mil...
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April 6, 2013, 4:04 pm

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Hollywood Reporter: “Godaddy Alleges ‘The Oscars’ Aren’t That Famous”
A story in the Hollywood Reporter of all places has landed domain name registrar Godaddy.com on the front pages The story talks about the lawsuit that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has against GoDaddy.com for “allegedly traffi...
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Hollywood Reporter: “Godaddy Alleges ‘The Oscars’ Aren’t That Famous”
A story in the Hollywood Reporter of all places has landed domain name registrar Godaddy.com on the front pages The story talks about the lawsuit that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has against GoDaddy.com for “allegedly traffi...
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April 6, 2013, 1:19 pm

The Domains
Guest Post By Bill Sweetman “Why I Support The ICA”
This is a guest Post by Bill Sweetman who is General Manager of YummyNames, a service from Tucows.com, a top 5 domain name registrar, that allows marketers, entrepreneurs, and startups to buy premium domain names for their business. Bill is als...
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Guest Post By Bill Sweetman “Why I Support The ICA”
This is a guest Post by Bill Sweetman who is General Manager of YummyNames, a service from Tucows.com, a top 5 domain name registrar, that allows marketers, entrepreneurs, and startups to buy premium domain names for their business. Bill is als...
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April 6, 2013, 9:08 am

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66 More Objections To New gTLD: .Shop, .Search, .Book, .Music, .Cloud ++
66 More Community Objection to New gTLD applications have hit the official site of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Objectors include Ralph Lauren which objected to .polo; TD Ameritrade which objected to .MutualFunds, .IRA, .Broker and .Retire...
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66 More Objections To New gTLD: .Shop, .Search, .Book, .Music, .Cloud ++
66 More Community Objection to New gTLD applications have hit the official site of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Objectors include Ralph Lauren which objected to .polo; TD Ameritrade which objected to .MutualFunds, .IRA, .Broker and .Retire...
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April 5, 2013, 4:59 pm

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39 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evaluation As ICANN Gets Through The IDN’s
39 more new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and more importantly ICANN has now gotten through all the IDN applications, meaning that next week non-IDN domain names for the first time will pass initial Evaluation. All applicati...
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39 More New gTLD Pass Initial Evaluation As ICANN Gets Through The IDN’s
39 more new gTLD’s passed ICANN Initial Evaluation (IE) today and more importantly ICANN has now gotten through all the IDN applications, meaning that next week non-IDN domain names for the first time will pass initial Evaluation. All applicati...
Discussion
April 5, 2013, 2:47 pm