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IDN community reacts to Verisign’s .com transliteration selections
The good, the bad, and the ugly of Verisign’s IDN plans. Verisign applied for 12 internationalized top level domain names as part of the new TLD program. These domain names are transliterations of .com and .net. A transliteration is different f...
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IDN community reacts to Verisign’s .com transliteration selections
The good, the bad, and the ugly of Verisign’s IDN plans. Verisign applied for 12 internationalized top level domain names as part of the new TLD program. These domain names are transliterations of .com and .net. A transliteration is different f...
Discussion
June 27, 2012, 1:26 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Nxt conference rescheduled for August
London top level domain conference moved due to program delays. Kieren McCarthy’s .Nxt conference about new top level domain names has been rescheduled for August 29-31. The event was originally scheduled for last week, but became of a victim o...
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.Nxt conference rescheduled for August
London top level domain conference moved due to program delays. Kieren McCarthy’s .Nxt conference about new top level domain names has been rescheduled for August 29-31. The event was originally scheduled for last week, but became of a victim o...
Discussion
June 27, 2012, 10:55 am
Domain Name Wire
Lawyers shoot client in foot in dothekindthing.com UDRP
Not so kind. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled that the registrant of DoTheKindThing.com can keep her domain name. The case was brought by Kind, LLC f/k/a Peaceworks Holding LLC, which sells Kind snacks. The case is notabl...
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Lawyers shoot client in foot in dothekindthing.com UDRP
Not so kind. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled that the registrant of DoTheKindThing.com can keep her domain name. The case was brought by Kind, LLC f/k/a Peaceworks Holding LLC, which sells Kind snacks. The case is notabl...
Discussion
June 27, 2012, 10:33 am
Domain Name Wire
Go Daddy says request to move Homelandsecurityus.com not about politics
Company says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts. Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web site. Do...
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Go Daddy says request to move Homelandsecurityus.com not about politics
Company says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts. Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web site. Do...
Discussion
June 26, 2012, 5:12 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN sends breach notice to Tucows
Organization sends notice of breach to third largest domain name registrar. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Tucows, the third largest domain name registrar. This breach notice is unusual in that it seems to stem from a dispute over a particular ...
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ICANN sends breach notice to Tucows
Organization sends notice of breach to third largest domain name registrar. ICANN has sent a notice of breach to Tucows, the third largest domain name registrar. This breach notice is unusual in that it seems to stem from a dispute over a particular ...
Discussion
June 26, 2012, 1:06 pm
Domain Name Wire
Intriguing domain name related trademark filings
From “Domain Sales” to .YT, some interesting filings. I checked in to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site this morning to see if there were any interesting domain name related trademark applications. Indeed, I’d say so. First ...
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Intriguing domain name related trademark filings
From “Domain Sales” to .YT, some interesting filings. I checked in to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site this morning to see if there were any interesting domain name related trademark applications. Indeed, I’d say so. First ...
Discussion
June 26, 2012, 12:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
If you play the ICANN game, expect to get burned
More wasted money and resources. Get used to it. It’s never pretty seeing the sausage get made. It hasn’t been pretty seeing the new TLD program launch. A handful of companies invested a lot of money early on as they worked to help form I...
Discussion
If you play the ICANN game, expect to get burned
More wasted money and resources. Get used to it. It’s never pretty seeing the sausage get made. It hasn’t been pretty seeing the new TLD program launch. A handful of companies invested a lot of money early on as they worked to help form I...
Discussion
June 26, 2012, 10:50 am
Domain Name Wire
.Art and .Church leading the race for public comments on top level domain applications
Public comments on new TLD applications range from boring to misinformed. Anyone with an email address (and I do mean anyone) can comment on any one of the nearly 2,000 top level domain applications. As of right now there are 161 submitted comments, ...
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.Art and .Church leading the race for public comments on top level domain applications
Public comments on new TLD applications range from boring to misinformed. Anyone with an email address (and I do mean anyone) can comment on any one of the nearly 2,000 top level domain applications. As of right now there are 161 submitted comments, ...
Discussion
June 25, 2012, 3:39 pm
Domain Name Wire
Lance Armstrong Foundation’s interesting plans for the .LiveStrong domain
An opportunity wasted and a couple hundred grand down the drain. I posted this tweet on the eve of the new top level domain reveal day: Offering a .livestrong domain seems like a good idea to me. Think of the millions of Lance Armstrong Foundation fa...
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Lance Armstrong Foundation’s interesting plans for the .LiveStrong domain
An opportunity wasted and a couple hundred grand down the drain. I posted this tweet on the eve of the new top level domain reveal day: Offering a .livestrong domain seems like a good idea to me. Think of the millions of Lance Armstrong Foundation fa...
Discussion
June 25, 2012, 12:49 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domains Major League Baseball and NBC bought last week
MLB, NBC, and 14 other end users recently purchased. I just got back from vacation in San Francisco. Since I only have one whitelisted IP address to hit Go Daddy’s servers for whois request (and that would be at my office), I’m a bit late...
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What domains Major League Baseball and NBC bought last week
MLB, NBC, and 14 other end users recently purchased. I just got back from vacation in San Francisco. Since I only have one whitelisted IP address to hit Go Daddy’s servers for whois request (and that would be at my office), I’m a bit late...
Discussion
June 25, 2012, 11:13 am
