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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...
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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...
Discussion
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 ...
Discussion
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
Domain Name Wire
DNW Interview: GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman discusses company’s stance on SOPA
New GoDaddy CEO explains his company’s reversal of support for SOPA. GoDaddy just pulled its support of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill designed to protect intellectual property. The reversal came after a call for a boycott of GoDaddy hit...
Discussion
DNW Interview: GoDaddy CEO Warren Adelman discusses company’s stance on SOPA
New GoDaddy CEO explains his company’s reversal of support for SOPA. GoDaddy just pulled its support of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill designed to protect intellectual property. The reversal came after a call for a boycott of GoDaddy hit...
Discussion
December 23, 2011, 2:38 pm
Domain Name Wire
Activists win, GoDaddy pulls support of SOPA
A growing call for a boycott of GoDaddy over its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has achieved its goal — GoDaddy just announced it no longer supports the bill. GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones had been steadfast in her suppo...
Discussion
Activists win, GoDaddy pulls support of SOPA
A growing call for a boycott of GoDaddy over its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has achieved its goal — GoDaddy just announced it no longer supports the bill. GoDaddy general counsel Christine Jones had been steadfast in her suppo...
Discussion
December 23, 2011, 1:50 pm
Domain Name Wire
No jury trial over incentive plan in Monte Cahn v. Oversee.net
Judge says waver to jury trial in employment agreement is valid. The case of Monte Cahn v. Oversee.net, et al is scheduled to go to trial next month. Each side has listed witnesses they might want to bring to the stand, ranging from Jeff Kupietzky to...
Discussion
No jury trial over incentive plan in Monte Cahn v. Oversee.net
Judge says waver to jury trial in employment agreement is valid. The case of Monte Cahn v. Oversee.net, et al is scheduled to go to trial next month. Each side has listed witnesses they might want to bring to the stand, ranging from Jeff Kupietzky to...
Discussion
December 22, 2011, 3:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Receiver: “ICANN thumbing its nose at the Court”, asks court fo find ICANN in contempt
Them’s fightin’ words! Well this is getting interesting. Earlier this month a Texas court ordered ICANN to stay a UDRP case for FunnyGames.com. ICANN responded by saying that it had no authority to stay a UDRP proceeding and that the cour...
Discussion
Receiver: “ICANN thumbing its nose at the Court”, asks court fo find ICANN in contempt
Them’s fightin’ words! Well this is getting interesting. Earlier this month a Texas court ordered ICANN to stay a UDRP case for FunnyGames.com. ICANN responded by saying that it had no authority to stay a UDRP proceeding and that the cour...
Discussion
December 22, 2011, 10:50 am
