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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, 12:19 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, 8:08 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, 3:59 pm
The Domains
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...
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April 5, 2013, 1:47 pm
The Domains
Afternic Opens Up Its Escrow Service To All Domain Transactions
Afternic Escrow Service has just opened up its service for sales that take place out outside of Afternic.com For transactions taking place outside the Platform the fee is 3% of the transaction with a $60 minimum. “” Afternic Escrow Servi...
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Afternic Opens Up Its Escrow Service To All Domain Transactions
Afternic Escrow Service has just opened up its service for sales that take place out outside of Afternic.com For transactions taking place outside the Platform the fee is 3% of the transaction with a $60 minimum. “” Afternic Escrow Servi...
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April 5, 2013, 9:13 am
The Domains
Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics Files UDRP On Beats.co Against Innovation HQ
Beats Electronics, Inc. best know for the Dr. Dre Beats Headphone products known as Beats By Dre just filed a UDRP on the domain name Beats.com The company official website is beatsbydre.com The domain name, Beats.co is owned by Innovation HQ, Inc. a...
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Dr. Dre’s Beats Electronics Files UDRP On Beats.co Against Innovation HQ
Beats Electronics, Inc. best know for the Dr. Dre Beats Headphone products known as Beats By Dre just filed a UDRP on the domain name Beats.com The company official website is beatsbydre.com The domain name, Beats.co is owned by Innovation HQ, Inc. a...
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April 5, 2013, 9:03 am
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26 More Community/Limited Public Interest Objections on New gTLD Filed With ICC
There are now a total of 54 community objections & and limited public interest objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , which is 26 more objections filed since last reported. While most of the 1st 28 objections were fil...
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26 More Community/Limited Public Interest Objections on New gTLD Filed With ICC
There are now a total of 54 community objections & and limited public interest objections filed with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) , which is 26 more objections filed since last reported. While most of the 1st 28 objections were fil...
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April 4, 2013, 12:35 pm
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Ticket-Network.com UDRP Rejected A Week After TicketNetworks.com Lost In UDRP
Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just lost a UDRP on the domain name ticket-network.com a week after another UDRP panel ordered the domain name TicketNetworks.com transferred to the same company Here the domain holder didn’t ...
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Ticket-Network.com UDRP Rejected A Week After TicketNetworks.com Lost In UDRP
Ticket Software, LLC of South Windsor, Connecticut, just lost a UDRP on the domain name ticket-network.com a week after another UDRP panel ordered the domain name TicketNetworks.com transferred to the same company Here the domain holder didn’t ...
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April 4, 2013, 11:25 am
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.EU Celebrates 7th Birthday & 3.74 Million Registration; 1.84 Million Eu Residents Own One
EURid the registry for the .Eu TLD released a study today ahead of its 7th Birthday. To date there are over 3.74 Million .Eu registrations. Over 1.84 million EU residents have registered at least one .eu domain name, with 25% of those having re...
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.EU Celebrates 7th Birthday & 3.74 Million Registration; 1.84 Million Eu Residents Own One
EURid the registry for the .Eu TLD released a study today ahead of its 7th Birthday. To date there are over 3.74 Million .Eu registrations. Over 1.84 million EU residents have registered at least one .eu domain name, with 25% of those having re...
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April 4, 2013, 10:55 am
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US Dept Of Commerce: Us Govt Doesn’t Agree With Postal Service Objections To .Mail
In a letter sent to ICANN by The US Commerce Department’s Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker, Commerce made it clear that the US Government was not backing the United States Postal Service (USPS) objections to the new gTLD applications for .M...
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US Dept Of Commerce: Us Govt Doesn’t Agree With Postal Service Objections To .Mail
In a letter sent to ICANN by The US Commerce Department’s Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker, Commerce made it clear that the US Government was not backing the United States Postal Service (USPS) objections to the new gTLD applications for .M...
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April 3, 2013, 11:06 pm
