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Domain Name Wire
Google bats .740 against YouTube typosquatter
Google wins 37 of 50 typo domain names. Google has won rights to 37 typo domain names of its YouTube brand, but it won’t be happy with the results. That’s because the National Arbitration Forum panelist who decided the case also determine...
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Google bats .740 against YouTube typosquatter
Google wins 37 of 50 typo domain names. Google has won rights to 37 typo domain names of its YouTube brand, but it won’t be happy with the results. That’s because the National Arbitration Forum panelist who decided the case also determine...
Discussion
December 29, 2011, 8:51 am
Domain Name Wire
DOMAINfest discount ends Saturday
Ticket price increases $100 on January 1. The price of admission to Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest conference next month increases on Sunday. Tickets are currently $1,195 and the price increases to $1,295 Sunday. DOMAINfest kicks off January 31, 2012...
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DOMAINfest discount ends Saturday
Ticket price increases $100 on January 1. The price of admission to Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest conference next month increases on Sunday. Tickets are currently $1,195 and the price increases to $1,295 Sunday. DOMAINfest kicks off January 31, 2012...
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December 28, 2011, 11:56 am
Domain Name Wire
Top 10 Domain Name Wire stories of 2011
What a year in domaining. Here’s a look back. Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire for all of 2011. These are ranked by number of pageviews. 1. Apple gets control over porn domain names – apparently Apple + Porn...
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Top 10 Domain Name Wire stories of 2011
What a year in domaining. Here’s a look back. Here’s a look back at the top stories on Domain Name Wire for all of 2011. These are ranked by number of pageviews. 1. Apple gets control over porn domain names – apparently Apple + Porn...
Discussion
December 28, 2011, 11:09 am
Domain Name Wire
Bidding for Righthaven.com domain up to $1,850 with 10 days to go
Domain already attracted attention with a long way to go. Domain auctions usually don’t attract much attention until the final hours. But bidding for the domain name RightHaven.com, which is being auctioned off to help settle a legal judgement,...
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Bidding for Righthaven.com domain up to $1,850 with 10 days to go
Domain already attracted attention with a long way to go. Domain auctions usually don’t attract much attention until the final hours. But bidding for the domain name RightHaven.com, which is being auctioned off to help settle a legal judgement,...
Discussion
December 28, 2011, 8:42 am
Domain Name Wire
2011 Domain Dunce: ICANN complains about hotel (and then takes it back)
It’s the end of year, and that means it’s time for Domain Name Wire’s annual Domain Dunce awards. Let’s kick things off with a smelly situation. By all accounts the Hotel des Almadies, which housed attendees of ICANN’s m...
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2011 Domain Dunce: ICANN complains about hotel (and then takes it back)
It’s the end of year, and that means it’s time for Domain Name Wire’s annual Domain Dunce awards. Let’s kick things off with a smelly situation. By all accounts the Hotel des Almadies, which housed attendees of ICANN’s m...
Discussion
December 27, 2011, 3:55 pm
Domain Name Wire
Accepting nominations for 2012 Domain Name Wire Survey
Please help with this year’s domain name survey. I’m pulling together then seventh annual Domain Name Wire survey and need your help. Each year new domain businesses come on the scene, and I want to make sure they’re included in the...
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Accepting nominations for 2012 Domain Name Wire Survey
Please help with this year’s domain name survey. I’m pulling together then seventh annual Domain Name Wire survey and need your help. Each year new domain businesses come on the scene, and I want to make sure they’re included in the...
Discussion
December 27, 2011, 3:33 pm
Domain Name Wire
Customers use GoDaddy to register anti-SOPA domains
At least some of them were registered after GoDaddy changed its mind. Oh, the irony. A Houston, Texas man registered the domain name SopaBoycott.com on December 20 and promptly started creating a web site about the ills of the Stop Online Piracy Act....
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Customers use GoDaddy to register anti-SOPA domains
At least some of them were registered after GoDaddy changed its mind. Oh, the irony. A Houston, Texas man registered the domain name SopaBoycott.com on December 20 and promptly started creating a web site about the ills of the Stop Online Piracy Act....
Discussion
December 27, 2011, 2:40 pm
Domain Name Wire
How Lamar Smith will respond to your SOPA complaint
The form response Lamar Smith sends to opponents of SOPA. As I mentioned in a previous post, I live in Lamar Smith’s district in Texas. His office is literally a couple miles from mine. Smith is the sponsor of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). I w...
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How Lamar Smith will respond to your SOPA complaint
The form response Lamar Smith sends to opponents of SOPA. As I mentioned in a previous post, I live in Lamar Smith’s district in Texas. His office is literally a couple miles from mine. Smith is the sponsor of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). I w...
Discussion
December 27, 2011, 10:13 am
Domain Name Wire
Do people know what SOPA really is?
You can hate SOPA, but at least take a few minutes to educate yourself about it. Let me start off by saying I’m opposed to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). My House representative, Lamar Smith, is the sponsor of the bill and he offices just down ...
Discussion
Do people know what SOPA really is?
You can hate SOPA, but at least take a few minutes to educate yourself about it. Let me start off by saying I’m opposed to Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). My House representative, Lamar Smith, is the sponsor of the bill and he offices just down ...
Discussion
December 27, 2011, 9:46 am
Domain Name Wire
DailyChanges.com data is widely misunderstood
Don’t look to DailyChanges.com to see how many domains GoDaddy has lost. Ever since GoDaddy faced a boycott of its services over its (since changed) position on SOPA, people have been trying to quantify domain losses for the company. A typical ...
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DailyChanges.com data is widely misunderstood
Don’t look to DailyChanges.com to see how many domains GoDaddy has lost. Ever since GoDaddy faced a boycott of its services over its (since changed) position on SOPA, people have been trying to quantify domain losses for the company. A typical ...
Discussion
December 26, 2011, 10:22 pm
