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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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
Domain Name Wire
Company sues over stolen domains after losing UDRP
Austin Rare Coins asks court to hand over allegedly stolen domain names. An Austin company has filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit in an effort to get control over eight domain names it says were stolen from its possession. Austin Rare Coins, Inc....
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Company sues over stolen domains after losing UDRP
Austin Rare Coins asks court to hand over allegedly stolen domain names. An Austin company has filed an in rem cybersquatting lawsuit in an effort to get control over eight domain names it says were stolen from its possession. Austin Rare Coins, Inc....
Discussion
June 24, 2012, 2:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Did a digital archery company put the final nail in the coffin of doomed scheme?
Company claims it reported issue to ICANN earlier this week. So ICANN has “suspended” digital archery, a way to divide up new top level domain applicants into batches. This was the right move, albeit a couple weeks late. Now 20% of applic...
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Did a digital archery company put the final nail in the coffin of doomed scheme?
Company claims it reported issue to ICANN earlier this week. So ICANN has “suspended” digital archery, a way to divide up new top level domain applicants into batches. This was the right move, albeit a couple weeks late. Now 20% of applic...
Discussion
June 23, 2012, 11:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé doesn’t have his own name as domain name
FadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO. ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October. Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web. Here’s...
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New ICANN CEO Fadi Chehadé doesn’t have his own name as domain name
FadiChehade.com registered today, but not by new ICANN CEO. ICANN announced this morning that software executive Fadi Chehadé would be its new CEO come October. Naturally, the first thing I did was look up his presence on the web. Here’s...
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June 22, 2012, 11:45 am
Domain Name Wire
Verisign working to fix Hebrew IDN error
Company wants to fix error in one of its new top level domain applications. Verisign has responded to Domain Name Wire’s inquiry regarding an error in its application for a Hebrew internationalized domain name (IDN) for a transliteration of .co...
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Verisign working to fix Hebrew IDN error
Company wants to fix error in one of its new top level domain applications. Verisign has responded to Domain Name Wire’s inquiry regarding an error in its application for a Hebrew internationalized domain name (IDN) for a transliteration of .co...
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June 21, 2012, 11:52 am
