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UnitedDomains.com Starts Taking Free Pre-Reservations For new gTLD Domains
Pool.com has been taking pre-reservations for domain names for anticipated new gTLD extensions for well over a year. Now another registrar, UnitedDomains.com started yesterday to accept the pre-reservations for some of the anticipated new gTLD ...
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UnitedDomains.com Starts Taking Free Pre-Reservations For new gTLD Domains
Pool.com has been taking pre-reservations for domain names for anticipated new gTLD extensions for well over a year. Now another registrar, UnitedDomains.com started yesterday to accept the pre-reservations for some of the anticipated new gTLD ...
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March 11, 2011, 1:59 pm
The Domains
Oversee.net Founder Lawrence Ng, Caught Up In Tokyo Earthquake
According to his Facebook page, the co-founder of Oversee.net, Lawrence Ng was in Tokyo when the 8.9 earthquake struck Japan overnight. “wow…I am sitting through a really big earthquake in Tokyo!!!” Ng wrote around 1 AM EST. In ano...
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Oversee.net Founder Lawrence Ng, Caught Up In Tokyo Earthquake
According to his Facebook page, the co-founder of Oversee.net, Lawrence Ng was in Tokyo when the 8.9 earthquake struck Japan overnight. “wow…I am sitting through a really big earthquake in Tokyo!!!” Ng wrote around 1 AM EST. In ano...
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March 11, 2011, 11:22 am
The Domains
BREAKING NEWS: A TSUNAMI Is Heading To San Francisco
BREAKING NEWS An 8.8 earthquake hit overnight in Japan causing Tsunami warnings to go up in Hawaii and along the west coast of the United States including San Francisco. According to the New York Times “Waves were projected to arrive at the Nor...
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BREAKING NEWS: A TSUNAMI Is Heading To San Francisco
BREAKING NEWS An 8.8 earthquake hit overnight in Japan causing Tsunami warnings to go up in Hawaii and along the west coast of the United States including San Francisco. According to the New York Times “Waves were projected to arrive at the Nor...
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March 11, 2011, 10:23 am
The Domains
ICANN Schedules 16 More Hours Of GAC Facetime
ICANN just announced a change in the scheduled for the ICANN meeting in San Fransisco starting on March 14th. According to the change ICANN is now planning on meeting with the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) for 16 hours over Tuesday and Thursd...
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ICANN Schedules 16 More Hours Of GAC Facetime
ICANN just announced a change in the scheduled for the ICANN meeting in San Fransisco starting on March 14th. According to the change ICANN is now planning on meeting with the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) for 16 hours over Tuesday and Thursd...
Discussion
March 10, 2011, 9:05 pm
The Domains
Google Starts Allowing Users To Block Sites: Worse For Content Farms Or Parked Pages?
In a post on its blog Google is now allowing users to block sites as they surf. “You’ll start seeing a new option to block particular domains from your future search results. ” “Now when you click a result and then return to G...
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Google Starts Allowing Users To Block Sites: Worse For Content Farms Or Parked Pages?
In a post on its blog Google is now allowing users to block sites as they surf. “You’ll start seeing a new option to block particular domains from your future search results. ” “Now when you click a result and then return to G...
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March 10, 2011, 4:52 pm
The Domains
Despite War & Internet Cutoff, Someone Steps Out & Spends $14K On 3.ly
Despite a war raging in Libya, home to the .LY domain extension (ccTLD) and a very uncertain future as to the government of the country, someone has stepped up and paid 10,000 euro’s approximately $14,000 for the domain name 3.ly. You hav...
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Despite War & Internet Cutoff, Someone Steps Out & Spends $14K On 3.ly
Despite a war raging in Libya, home to the .LY domain extension (ccTLD) and a very uncertain future as to the government of the country, someone has stepped up and paid 10,000 euro’s approximately $14,000 for the domain name 3.ly. You hav...
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March 10, 2011, 11:58 am
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Launched Days Ago WIPO’s Global Brands Database Already 560,000 Strong & Full Of Generics
WIPO announced a few days ago, that it started a “Global Brands Database” no doubt in hopes that once the concept is giving the final approval by ICANN that WIPO will be chosen to manage the Database. What is the Database and why should y...
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Launched Days Ago WIPO’s Global Brands Database Already 560,000 Strong & Full Of Generics
WIPO announced a few days ago, that it started a “Global Brands Database” no doubt in hopes that once the concept is giving the final approval by ICANN that WIPO will be chosen to manage the Database. What is the Database and why should y...
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March 10, 2011, 10:32 am
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SnapNames.com Auction Of (Mostly) Registry Reserved .TV Domains Starts Today (Including Lots of 2 Letters)
SnapNames.com is holding a Online auction of premium .TV domain names including many 2 letter .TV domains. The auction started at noon EST today and closes on March 23rd at 3:15PM EST. There are a lot of 2 letter and 2 number .TV domains and the rese...
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SnapNames.com Auction Of (Mostly) Registry Reserved .TV Domains Starts Today (Including Lots of 2 Letters)
SnapNames.com is holding a Online auction of premium .TV domain names including many 2 letter .TV domains. The auction started at noon EST today and closes on March 23rd at 3:15PM EST. There are a lot of 2 letter and 2 number .TV domains and the rese...
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March 9, 2011, 11:47 am
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Federal Court Once Again Upholds the Right Of A Competitor To Buy Kewords Under A Trademark
In another decision regarding trademark terms and keyword advertising, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled against Advanced Systems Concepts, a company which sought an injunction to prevent a competitor, Network Automation from buying ke...
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Federal Court Once Again Upholds the Right Of A Competitor To Buy Kewords Under A Trademark
In another decision regarding trademark terms and keyword advertising, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled against Advanced Systems Concepts, a company which sought an injunction to prevent a competitor, Network Automation from buying ke...
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March 9, 2011, 10:49 am
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Berryhill Wins Another As He Beats Back UDRP On Crops.com
A three member UDRP panel held for the domain holder on a pure generic term, Crops.com despite numerous trademarks held by the complainant on the word Crops The Complainant is Crop’s nv of Ooigem, Belgium. The Respondent is DigiMedia.com, L.P. ...
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Berryhill Wins Another As He Beats Back UDRP On Crops.com
A three member UDRP panel held for the domain holder on a pure generic term, Crops.com despite numerous trademarks held by the complainant on the word Crops The Complainant is Crop’s nv of Ooigem, Belgium. The Respondent is DigiMedia.com, L.P. ...
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March 9, 2011, 9:05 am
